Wrong Quotes
11807 Wrong quotes by 6005 unique authors
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Most playwrights go wrong on the fifth word. When you start a play and you type 'Act one, scene one,' your writing is every bit…
— Meredith Willson
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All in the dark we grope along, And if we go amiss We learn at least which path is wrong, And there is gain in…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly…
— Carolyn Heilbrun
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.
— Samuel Johnson
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We've been looking outside us for our own peace. We've been looking in the wrong direction.
— Byron Katie
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Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.
— H. L. Mencken
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There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice
— Grover Cleveland
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Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy
— Michel de Montaigne
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It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
— Mark Twain
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A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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If you wish to educate a child who has gone wrong, then you must, above all, keep your attention fixed on the intersection of two…
— Alfred Adler
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Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong
— Tryon Edwards
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They wrong opportunity who say she knocks but once
— Pete du Pont
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There's a widespread notion that children are open, that the truth about their inner selves just seeps out of them. That's all wrong. No one…
— Peter Høeg
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Your job isn't to judge. - Your job isn't to figure out if someone deserves something or decide who is right or wrong. - Your…
— Joel Osteen
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Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.
— Larry Page
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If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you…
— Roland Joffe
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The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which…
— Alan Watts
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The problem comes up because we ask the question in the wrong way. We supposed that solids were one thing and space quite another, or…
— Alan Watts
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Many modern (so-called) Reformers are just as dangerous as the physician who makes a wrong diagnosis of a disease. They see the trouble from without…
— William J. H. Boetcker
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I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.
— Faye Dunaway
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People feel poorly because they are nourished by foods you wouldn't feed to your dog and cat. The rich western diet is full of fat,…
— John A. McDougall
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For me, anything goes when I pick up a mike. I'm not trying to hurt people - I try not to get too personal but…
— Chris Rock
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My optimism and confidence come not from feeling I'm luckier than other mortals, and they sure don't come from visualizing victory. They're the result of…
— Chris Hadfield
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