Top 1200 Wrong Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Everything goes wrong for a government which is going wrong

Spiritual joy is what you experience when you choose to give thanks to God no matter what happens-even when things go wrong.

For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.

Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.

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

The Dalai Lama would say that meditation is something that can help everyone. But he's aware that it can be misused or things can go wrong.

I do work a lot on arguing that things which people assume are always wrong are not necessarily so and, indeed, can often be right.

I'm really happy that YouTube is as complete and successful as it is, to the point where, when things do go wrong, they'll hear about it from every direction.

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

I'm proud, and Islam did it. And after these things that I heard in church, a preacher and watching this and that, I knew something was wrong but I couldn't pinpoint it.

I've learned I can't change every opinion or have everyone's approval. If I get caught up in that, I'm worried about the wrong things.

Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

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

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

When I was ambushed by global warming advocates recently - no, they haven't given up - they asked me the same questions they always ask: "What if you're wrong?" and "If you're wrong will you apologize to future generations?" I always answer, "What if you're wrong? Will you apologize to my twenty kids and grandkids for the largest tax increase in American history?" They usually don't have anything to say after that.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Leaders get things wrong. Of course they do. They have imperfect information. They face competing political pressures. Ultimately they are human.

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.

We've got so much in this life that all we know how to do is want more. So we concentrate on the wrong things-things we can see-as being the measure of a person. We think if we win something big or buy something snazzy it'll make us more than we are. Our hearts know that's not true, but the eyes are powerful.

I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just have to get the frustration out.

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.

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.

I knew a man once who told me that I smiled at the wrong things." "Do you? "Only by the light of those who smile at nothing.

What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right.

There’s nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It’s when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew.

I don't do things which are wrong according to Jesus. Like don't make 'bad' relations with anyone except your husband.

There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It's when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew.

It's important to know people grow up differently than you, and they believe different things. It's not about who's right or wrong.

I get a lot of e-mail messages from people who say thanks for giving them a place to vent, an outlet to say what they can't say in real life with friends and work colleagues - things that they know are wrong, but they still want to say. Is it right? No, of course not. People say some disgusting, vile things.

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

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

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

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

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.

In Cleveland, I was a young rookie. I was trying to be like the veterans when I wasn't a veteran. That was definitely the wrong way to go about things.

The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong.

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

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

Moral of the story: try to get things right, figure out what's going wrong with the scenario, and don't give up.

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

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.

What's wrong with Singapore is the idea that things need to be done in a certain way or not at all. Black or white. No room for alternative discussion.

Most trouble is unnecessary. Between the indignity of being born and the agony of dying enough bad things must of necessity happen to people. But we can't be satisfied with that. We have to go to work and see how much additional trouble we can create. Misunderstanding, turmoil, effort put on all the wrong things, and then more misunderstanding.

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

What's important is that people never give up that fight to be happy, because when you do that, that's when things really start to go wrong.

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.

Three things never anger or you'll not live for long; A wolf with cubs, A man with power, And a woman's sense of wrong.