Wrong Thing Quotes

207 quotes by 185 authors

Chandler's the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing. — Matthew Perry
Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within. — Brad Pitt
To a degree, the Greek and Roman mythological heroes are just the first superheroes. They appeal to children for much the same reason. These gods… — Rick Riordan
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the… — Theodore Roosevelt
Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing. — Maurice Sendak
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong… — W. Clement Stone
I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.' — Taylor Swift
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… — Lee Westwood
When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing. — Dean Koontz
The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing and so she won't commit to anything. — Chuck Palahniuk
The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice… — Aldous Huxley
I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go… — Philip Pullman
some wishes come true. some wishes dont. sometimes you find out you were wishing for the completely wrong thing. — Kate Klise
What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing. — George Orwell
There is no right way to do a wrong thing. — Harold S. Kushner
Failure is hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can… — Po Bronson
So the Dark did a simple thing. They showed the maker of the sword his own uncertainty and fear. Fear of having done the wrong… — Susan Cooper
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. — Barbara Kingsolver
I like to be the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place. Being the right thing in the… — Andy Warhol

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