Top 1200 Being Wrong Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing.

But isn't it wrong to be motivated by reward? No, it isn't. If it were wrong, Christ wouldn't offer it to us a motivation.

No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?

When you see stuff that's wrong... it's just wrong, man. You gotta point that out.

You can't be wrong in journalism. Take a wrong turn in journalism, and you are writing fiction. You can take a wrong turn in poetry, and something wonderful can happen.

I love being challenged and defending my positions and, when I'm wrong, learning from the exchange. It makes me smarter and better as a businessperson.

Don't do anything wrong, but more important is don't allow anyone else to do wrong through you.

I'm a really smart player. If you tell me something, I get it quickly. If there is something wrong with my hitting, tell me what's wrong and I'll pick it up right away. That's the best thing I have going for me, my ability to listen to a coach and fix what I'm doing wrong.

And if there's anything I do it's change and grow. I'm just a living being. Every year of my life I seem to learn that everything I know is wrong.

Successful contrarian investing requires us to live with discomfort, for being "wrong" and alone. But bargains do not exist in the absence of fear.

In my mind, everything is too sanitised on television - what is wrong with things going wrong?

The streets lie, the sidewalks lie, everything lies You can try and read it but you're gonna get it wrong...all wrong The summer evenings burn and melt and the nights glitter but you're gonna get it wrong And it's gonna sink its teeth into your flesh and pull you to the bottom.

Sometimes it feels like everything is going wrong. Even with the things that are wrong already.

Being on stage, it's like, "Ooo-kay, now I remember why all this is going wrong or right!" It's very much my element.

There is nothing wrong with being a declared liberal or conservative and conducting a sympathetic interview with a political figure who shares your views.

You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise Bog! I'm cured!

To persist in doing wrong extenuates not the wrong, but makes it much more heavy.

When wrong people leave your life, wrong things stop happening

There are countless fantastic actors out there who are being denied the opportunity to play Broadway because they're not a name, and I think that's kind of wrong.

Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as it should. There are no mistakes anywhere, at any time. What appears to be wrong is simply your own false imagination. That's all. But we live in a universe of Brahman, of Absolute Reality, self -contained Consciousness, where there's perfection, perfect life, perfect bliss, perfect being. That perfection knows nothing about wrong and right, good and bad, happy and sad. It knows only itself as Perfection. And you are That.

Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.

Look, there's nothing wrong with people being happy, but there's more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel's Bolero.

There's nothing wrong with a woman being proud of an element of her life that's talked about in rap music all the time!

What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.

We almost always see only what's wrong with other people and not what's wrong with us.

You can do anything you put your mind to. I believe in all of you. Never doubt yourself, even if everyone around you is doubting you. Stand tall. Prove them all wrong.Each and every one of you have something amazingly special about you and don’t let anyone tell you any different. Thank you for being my fans.. and my friends. Thank you for giving me a reason to sing. Thank you for being you.

I've gotten involved in producing now, so the kinds of things that are more my own choice are more possible in that field because I don't have to be castable. I can actually get involved in getting stories off the ground that no one would ask me to be in because I'm the wrong age, the wrong sex, the wrong nationality, or whatever.

I was used to being the only woman in everything... I didn't even think about it. Men were my role models - there's nothing wrong with that.

In the U.K. - correct me if I'm wrong - there is a legal definition of 'not being in possession of yourself' aka 'not being a person.' That's the fun thing: someone such as a lawyer needs to define, using some empirical signal, something supposedly transcendental like 'person,' something lawyers argue and argue about regarding, say, chimps in zoos.

If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society, then the reverse was wrong, too.

When you make mistakes, when you're wrong, you should admit you're wrong and ask people to forgive you.

Something has gone wrong with Ronnie... He wasn't like that before. I don't know what went wrong with him.

A fool is a person who knows the difference between right and wrong, and chooses to do wrong.

A lot of comedies, I think, make the wrong choice of having the straight man being this bland emotional conduit for the audience.

The Tamagotchi, I have realized, is everything that is wrong with our smartphone era. Is this what went wrong with millennials?

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background.

What if you're practicing wrong? Then you get very good at doing something wrong.

No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its being right; and when he sees it is not so, the prejudice will be gone.

The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity to which others are trying to prove him wrong.

Being schooled is the same thing as learning, and you can never be too old to have your coattail pulled when you're wrong about something.

Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

Billionaire investors know they're going to be wrong, so they have a plan to protect against wrong.

Let's say loudly and clearly, Right to Work is wrong for workers and wrong for America.

My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it means I was wrong to have them published.

Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

There's nothing wrong with being happy somewhere, even if it's the little pond you grew up in, as long as you are in fact comfortable vs. bored.

When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong.

We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong. Nature will survive us, we've been wrong after all. We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong. Wouldn't it be great to heal the world with only a song?

Consistency can be a trap, especially if it leads to being consistently wrong rather than to stopping, admitting your mistake, and changing course.

The place where you're from defines who you are. You put yourself in the wrong situation, the wrong things happen.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.