Top 1200 Wrong Words Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Steve Bartman was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not just individuals but governments as well.

For me, words are just words, nothing else.

It's maddening in my travels to watch children dying simply because they were born in the wrong place at the wrong time.

David what your mother did to you was wrong. Verry wrong.No child deserves to be treated like that. She's sick.

Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and dies. I lose control. I do not know exactly what words will appear on the page. I follow language. I follow the sound of the words, and I am surprised and transformed by what I record.

I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that the moment it's put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it's put into words there's an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false.

Your words and my words are the same, but not our meaning.

If as a family we must be selective listeners, then let us pay more attention to the words of the heart and less to the words of anger

If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'

Listen, I've been wrong before, and I'll be wrong again.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury of a beast acts in that way. But he who desires to inflict rational punishment does not retaliate for a past wrong, for that which is done cannot be undone, but he has regard to the future, and is desirous that the man who is punished, and he who sees him punished, may be deterred from doing wrong again.

Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don't skimp on the words. Work on the words.

Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured and corresponding with the need.

I told Gamboa he picked the wrong fighter and the wrong city, and I was right. I never felt any danger in the fight.

I put a lot of stock in the written word, and the power of it. That's what I love about acting and reading scripts. Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.

Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.

When the music created by the sounds and ordering of the words matches the thrust of the meanings of the words, then a radiant state of awareness can occur.

What lives in words is what words were needed to learn.

When you're starting a company, almost anything that can go wrong will go wrong, and it will probably look like and feel like you made the absolute wrong decision to start the company. If you're not absolutely determined to solve a problem or see something through, it might not make sense to keep going.

Why do the right wing media so assiduously scrutinize the words of a grief filled mother and ignore the words of a lying president?

Words began fights and words ended them.

Words are just words. They only bother you if you let them.

Words are only as good as the response to those words.

Most songwriting like poetry takes a careful selection of words. Sometimes you're just channeling something and a selection of words come out that you wouldn't normally say, but you come up with an assortment of words that are really special. It just makes sense even if it's normally how you wouldn't express yourself.

If it's wrong to wreck the planet, it's wrong to profit from the wreckage.

The mistake that the Bush administration should admit to is not so much that they made the wrong choices. They made the right analysis; they made the right choices. But what they did wrong was the execution of those choices. That was wrong.

Words are so lovable. How could you not love words?

The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There are your very own phrases.

You've always had a good grasp on what's right and wrong. You just have a hard time admitting that sometimes you choose the wrong.

I saw a lot of people taking the wrong routes, coming up as a kid, just doing the wrong things.

We all have to strive to learn what motivates us, learn from our experiences, and what feels right and what feels wrong. There's a strong component over the years to having formal processes that help to identify lessons that need to be learned, and actions that need to be taken. In other words, how do you find the big idea?

In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.

Always expect something to go wrong," he told him. "Believe me, if you're wrong, you're not dissapointed. If you're right, you're ready for it.

For me cinema is image, sound, and the faces and bodies and, yes, voices, of my actors, and sometimes the words that they are saying, but not only the words.

It's always wrong to hate, but it's never wrong to love.

No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

The words we use don't matter as much as the emotion behind the words. When we understand this, we have the ability to influence, inspire, persuade and affect others.

When you feel like something is really wrong, it's usually wrong

Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.

Three simple words can describe the nature of the social revolution that is talking place and what Negroes really want. They are the words "all," "now," and "here."

Now let us bandy words no more... nothing is easier than sharp words, except to wish them unspoken.

When we mistake words for reality, we are subject to the tyranny of words.

For me, words are just words, nothing else

A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We should have said we'd keep in words, because they are all we can string between us--words on a telephone line, words appearing on a screen.

What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.

I heard words and words full of holes aching.

No better words than "thank you" have yet been discovered to express the sincere gratitude of one's heart; when the two words are sincerely spoken.

Leave the wrong done by another where the wrong arose.

We [ Paverment] were definitely unafraid of playing wrong notes and singing wrong things. We could be fearlessly bad!

Just like it would be wrong to have a player referee a game, it's wrong for election officials to participate in federal campaigns.

I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the mere music of words.

Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying. Good words will not get my people a home where they can live in peace and take care of themselves. I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and broken promises.

Not a man to mince words. People, yes. But not words.

You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!

If we say yes to something we believe is wrong now, what guarantee is there that the wrong will not be further exacerbated down the line?

I think of translations as passing some scholarly smell test: you can read the words of the translation and be reasonably sure of what the words are in the original.