Top 1200 Barking Up The Wrong Tree Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I think the reason people are propping up drag queens is because it's popular with the fans that identify with them, so we're great for marketing. We're not allowed to be the Christmas tree, we're just allowed to be the decorations, and I still think we're looked at as clowns by a majority of the society.

But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.

Even with the right political climate, would the wrong people refrain from doing the wrong thing?

We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.

Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

There is such a thing as fanaticism, it is always wrong, and if you disagree, you're wrong too.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.

Here's one thing the media and all of us should learn: Trump is not wrong nearly as much as everybody says he's wrong.

That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior....I think Obama gets up every morning with a worldview that is fundamentally wrong about reality...If you look at the continuous denial of reality, there has got to be a point where someone stands up and says that this is just factually insane.

When you say, 'When you're wrong, you're wrong,' I would 100 percent agree. I've always handled my punishments head on.

The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My country, right or wrong. In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.

When I was younger, I used to just want to please everybody and not want to be an issue or not be considered a diva. I've just grown up and realized you have to look out for yourself and stick up for yourself, and there's nothing wrong with that.

There's nothing wrong with being help. But it's very wrong that we presume people of colour are in a subservient position. That's problematic.

Nobody is wired wrong, because there's no wrong and right in the way we are.

So much could go wrong on a date. What if he turns out to be a jerk? [You need] A back-up plan, just in case he doesn't work out, you can move on to the back-up plan.

If I think something is right, I'll fight for it - always have. If it's wrong or I've been proved wrong, I'll walk away, and I'll apologise.

There's nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as you get right back up.

In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.

What is wrong with keeping guns out of the hands of the wrong people?

I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort.

I see no reason why I should be consciously wrong today because I was unconsciously wrong yesterday.

Everything goes wrong for a government which is going wrong

Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.

The only thing to do when a man is wrong is to be right by ceasing to be wrong.

It's up to comedians to shine the light on what's wrong in the world, and we don't want things swept under the rug.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

The penalty for planting the wrong thing in the wrong place is death.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.

Being wrong is acceptable, but staying wrong is totally unacceptable.

I don't want to offend nobody, and I don't rub anybody the wrong way. That's a part of growing up.

My childhood was elegant homes, tree lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry trees. Middle America as it’s supposed to be. But on the cherry tree there’s this pitch oozing out – some black, some yellow – and millions of red ants crawling all over it. I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.

This doesn't show that there is anything wrong with our theoretical understanding, any more than the intuition that the Earth is at rest shows that there must be something theoretically wrong with Copernicanism, or the intuition that time is moving shows that there is something theoretically wrong with the block universe 'B series' view of change.

Too many companies are happy to have workers to dread working. They have the wrong attitude because they have the wrong leadership.

We should never present flesh as somehow morally distinguishable from dairy. To the extent it is morally wrong to eat flesh, it is as morally wrong - and possibly more morally wrong - to consume dairy

And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.

I've never been a guy who is really wound up and out to prove people wrong.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, 'Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn't understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn't fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn't want it to get any worse. You're the mother of my kids - I don't want to hate you.'

Qhuinn: "What is wrong with you, that you care so much about me?" Blay: "What is wrong with you, that you can't see why I would?

There ain't a wrong time or a wrong place to flaunt. If you feel good, then go on and show it off!

Wrong is wrong; no fallacy can hide it, no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All-Seeing One will discover and punish it.

Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.

It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.

If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.

You would be better off having nobody than the wrong somebody. (On marrying for the wrong reasons.)

Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

Nothing wrong with changing your mind. That's a very unwaffling thing to say: "Nothing wrong..." Who am I to say that there's nothing wrong with it? Maybe something is wrong with changing your mind. Anyway, love is very, very difficult. I love. But probably because I hate myself on some deep, sick level, it makes loving difficult. But I do try.

If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving for sympathy and love. Such a wrong is not easily forgotten. Never again did she expose herself without due consideration and precaution against rebuff. And such a wrong may react disastrously upon the soul.

There's nothing wrong or evil about having a bad day. There's everything wrong with making others have to have it... with you.

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I'm writing a book called 'The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus' about the maths of Christmas: how to set up a secret Santa so it's totally fair; how to decorate your tree mathematically; how to win at Monopoly.

Recorded history is wrong. It’s wrong because the voiceless have no voice in it.

When we need a policeman, God bless 'em, they're there. But, if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, everything seems suspicious.