Top 1200 Wrong Words Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

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.

The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.

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

Before acting, I was always attracted to words, to literature - be they the words of Williams, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare or Moliere.

As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.

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

We all do the wrong thing. And then we have to wake up the next morning and live with the fact that we have done things that are wrong.

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.

You and I have spoken all these words, but for the way we have to go,words are no preparation. I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean

The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. Jokes could be grandly miscalculated, or stories deemed boring, and I'd learned early on that my sense of humor and ideas about what sorts of things were fascinating didn't exactly overlap with my friends.

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.

There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words. This is the world in which the artist operates and for him words can be dangerous unless they are examined in the light of the work. The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

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

Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.

Poetry is very crafted. You can't have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number of words.

It's an unnecessary burden to try to think of words and also worry at the same time whether they're the right words.

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.

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.

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

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.

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

No matter where we live, we have to use words. Once you've been looking into words, their stories, it's easy to fall in love with them.

There is a lot of fun to be had when you try and fit as many words as you can within a three-minute song, but there is also a lot of fun in trying to get that message across in three words, or better yet when the music can overpower the words and convey something really pure and perfect that affects our psycho-emotional space.

Everything goes wrong for a government which is going wrong

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

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

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

Hank Cochran was a man of very few words, but certainly the words that he chose were the right ones to use.

If children read 1 million words in a year, atl least 1,000 words will be added to their vocabulary.

For many, 'rehearsing' means going over the words in your head. That's not good enough say the words aloud.

Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows.

I've never understood why people said 'in your own words.' Who else's words would I use?

About time, what I really learned from studying English is: time is different with timing. I understand the difference of these two words so well. I understand falling in love with the right person in the wrong timing could be the greatest sadness in a person's entire life.

It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.

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.

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.

Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.

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

Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross.

I've got to learn French because I've been going there for years and still, the only words I know are the swear words.

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

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.

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

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.

You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can't understand the words. Once comprehension comes, so much else falls away. You then rely on their words, and words aren't always the most reliable thing.

Words like meditation, karma, samskaras, they're just words. You can get into the jargon, you can speak it, but that doesn't mean you'll be any freer.

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

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.

The juxtaposition of words - the color, feeling, and sound of the words together - has as much to do with the story as the narrative itself does.

They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter.

In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.

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

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.

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone.

Damn words; they're just the pots and pans of life, the pails and scrubbing-brushes. I wish I didn't have to think in words.

There are few words in Russian for the Western concept of 'law,' but there are legions of words for connections, helping people from one's neck of the woods.