Top 1200 When Things Go Wrong Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I've never been satisfied or even pleased with a film that I've done. I make them, I'm finished, I've never looked at one after. I don't like them because there's a big gap between what you conceive in your mind when you're writing and you don't have to meet the test of reality. You're home, you write and it's funny and beautiful and romantic and dramatic, and then you have to show up on a cold morning, and you don't have enough of this and this goes wrong and you make the wrong choice on something and you screwed up and you can't go back.

We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.

It's devastating when that happens, when someone just ups and leaves for no reason, but love does sometimes go wrong.

Freedom to me can be so many things; freedom to be myself, to express myself and do the things I want to do, freedom to go in any direction I want to go in order to accomplish my goals.

Recognize that dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong, and go out of your way to reward them.

A story demanded to be written, and that is why I have not answered your letter before: a wrong-headed story, that would come blundering like a moth on my window, and stare in with small red eyes, and I the last writer in the world to manage such a subject. One should have more self-control. One should be able to say, Go away. You have come to the wrong inkstand, there is nothing for you here. But I am so weakminded that I cannot even say, Come next week.

The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.

Football and gambling - two great American addictions working together. What could possibly go wrong?

I was so tired of being told reasonable, practical things whenever something went wrong with my life.

they thought I had guts they were wrong I was only frightened of more important things

We've been lucky. Even as a young, local-level band, we were able to rise out of the local scene without having any debt, without having signed the wrong deal with the wrong manager or the wrong booker or a small label.

I do not regard it as wrong to take my life, because I simply change my place of residence and go where my wife and baby are.

Here are the things I know for sure: When you think you're right, you are most likely wrong. Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole. And, in spite of what I said, you can miss a person you've never known. I learn this over and over again.

We do many things we shouldn't in the course of a life. It doesn't make them right or wrong, just a part of who we are.

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

Allow yourself to go and do it wrong. Don't expect to always get it right. It will prevent you from doing anything.

What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.

There are a lot of things wrong with the country, and that doesn't mean America sucks. It means we should improve it.

The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.

So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away, to the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong.

Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals.

If somebody says my ideas aren't good in the afternoon, I can go to a club that night and try to prove them wrong.

I'm constantly running to meetings outside of the office, and I think that you can't go wrong with a great pair of Lanvin pumps.

Avoiding where others go wrong is an important step in achieving investment success. In fact, it almost assures it.

so the story goes but theres something you should know before i walk away and i blow the ending i never want to be without you oh no here i go now you know what i feel about you theres no running must have been wrong to doubt you oh there i go no control and i'm fallen so now you know

I want to spend my life with someone and do nice things and go on adventures, read books and have nice food and celebrate things. I don't want to spend the rest of my life in the bedroom like some people who just go to bed and never get out again.

You cannot go wrong with Bugs Bunny. He's the coolest cartoon character ever. I quote him all the time.

One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

I don't like to watch my work after I do it because it just - I'll always look at the wrong things.

Since 2005, a majority of Americans, according to the Gallup poll, have said it was wrong and a mistake to go into Iraq.

Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.

There's nothing wrong with wanting a partner and doing the things to have one. To protect ourselves, we have to say, 'I don't need one.'

Pick a destination, go there, be open-minded and talk to the locals. Eat the things they eat and go where they go. You don't need to be fluent, just as long as you've got a smile on your face- people will be jumping over themselves to show you the stuff they're proud of.

If I hurt somebody's feelings, I go right to them and talk to them and explain what happens. Sometimes I'm mad at myself because I left a pitch in the middle. It's big when you leave a pitch in the middle. When I make that mistake, it's frustrating for me. I have to think about what I did wrong and go to the next step.

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.

Those who say they dislike dogma, or 'certainty', tend to be liars, hypocrites, or simply wrong. What they really dislike is the dogma of those they disagree with. A society that was certain, certain beyond all certainty, that putting its citizens in death camps was wrong, would never put people in death camps. Such things are only possible when you're open to new ideas.

Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is there left but repetition and diminishment? Who wants to go on living? The eccentric, the religious, the artistic (sometimes); those with a false sense of their own worth. Soft cheeses collapse; firm cheeses endurate. Both go mouldy.

There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.

Don't judge my dad on the one thing he did wrong and not on all the things he did right. For such a long time, he was such a huge role model for kids and such a positive thing. That's the one thing about this business is you get tormented for the one thing that is negative versus all the great things you have done.

I do a lot of things wrong. I lose my temper, and I hate waiting in line, but do I take drugs? No.

Eddie had the perfect template of what not to do. His big brother did all the wrong things.

You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.

Whenever I hear an American say Aussies drive on the 'wrong side of the road,' I just lose it. You ever think about how those people grew up driving on the 'wrong side of the road,' watched a lot of people get hurt on the 'wrong side of the road,' die on the 'wrong side of the road,' while other people cheered from the 'right side of the road'? Australia has a thing called Highway Fights, so it's touchy.

The voting public is not very good at attributing credit and blame to presidents. They get too much credit when things go well and too much blame when things go badly. The same applies to coaches, C.E.O.'s, parents, and anyone else in charge.

Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.

The whole point of science is that most of it is uncertain. That's why science is exciting--because we don't know. Science is all about things we don't understand. The public, of course, imagines science is just a set of facts. But it's not. Science is a process of exploring, which is always partial. We explore, and we find out things that we understand. We find out things we thought we understood were wrong. That's how it makes progress.

Maybe I was just one of those people who couldn't rest easy unless things went catastrophically wrong.

Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right? I want it that way.

Be comfortable; be you. What's most important is to understand what suits your body type and personality. Stick to that, and you can't go wrong!

I reserve the right to think many different things and to change my mind and to even be wrong.

So often has my judgment deceived me in my life, that I always suspect it, right or wrong,--at least I am seldom hot upon cold subjects. For all this, I reverence truth as much as any body; andif a man will but take me by the hand, and go quietly and search for itI'll go to the world's end with him:MBut I hate disputes.

...you have to have faith that you are doing God's will. Sometimes you will not understand. Sometimes you will doubt. But if you are doing God's will, you can't be wrong, you can't go wrong.

To let go of the illusion that I'm in control is an important lesson, because I tend to be a person who likes to be in control, not only of my art but of my life and things around me, and it can be healthy up to a certain point, but at the end of the day, we have to go on faith and learn to let go and ride the wave.

I have friends who have lost husbands and have gone off and tried different things. Nothing wrong with that.

At least half of every city is wrong. From latitude 30 degrees to latitude 60, say, you've got to have the long axis of the house facing the sun. If the land is cut up into squares, that makes half of all houses wrong if they face the road. Even houses way in the country, and way off the road, face the bloody road. And from there, you just go wronger all the way.

I was a mess... It's like 'Rock Me Tonite' is an MBA course on how a video can go really wrong.

Hollywood infected my brain and I really valued the wrong things in life, but I changed dramatically.

I'd be in the wrong job if I had to stand in front of the mirror and push myself to go to work every day.

I've always had confidence issues; I just get scared of doing things wrong.