300 Quotes on Wrong

• The public is never wrong.

  Author: Adolph Zukor

• The only one that got through was Jimmy Walker, because he plays the gas station attendant. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just that we were kind of purists at the time, and we didn't want any comedians.

  Author: David Zucker

• Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.

  Author: Xun Zi

• Dylan can do no wrong.

  Author: Warren Zevon

• I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track.

  Author: Pieter Zeeman

• Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

  Author: Henny Youngman

• I've been blessed. I have no complaints. I've been surrounded by people in radio, on stage and in motion pictures and television who love me. The things that have gone wrong have been simply physical things.

  Author: Dick York

• Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.

  Author: Brock Yates

• I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• Why stick your neck out if you don't have to? If you're right nobody will remember and if you're wrong people will ask a lot of questions.

  Author: David Wu

• I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.

  Author: Steven Wright

• No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.

  Author: Gary Wright

• Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.

  Author: Francis Wright

• Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.

  Author: Francis Wright

• Even if you do something that others might consider wrong, you should at least be willing to talk about it and tell your parents what you're doing because you believe it's right.

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.

  Author: Tiger Woods

• People often get the wrong impression of Mick. The clever businessman is just one side of Mick. The other side is the same as the rest of us, a true rocker!

  Author: Ron Wood

• Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.

  Author: Natalie Wood

• I am a conservative type of person, so sometimes when I'm chilling with myself, people always come ask me, 'What's wrong with you? What are you wondering about?'

  Author: Wayne Wonder

• If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.

  Author: James Wolfensohn

• The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

  Author: P. Wodehouse

• I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have new insights about the quantum states of black holes.

  Author: Edward Witten

• On-screen relationships are the best because you don't have to worry about saying the wrong things. And if the guy's got a girlfriend, or I'm not attracted to him, it's even better. It's just my character kissing his character.

  Author: Alicia Witt

• There are a lot of people who influenced me, nurtured me, helped me along the way. But I can just recall looking back, the first time I got my baseball glove. Put it on the wrong hand, all those kind of things.

  Author: Dave Winfield

• Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

  Author: Robert Wilson

• Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

  Author: E. Wilson

• To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.

  Author: E. Wilson

• Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again.

  Author: Walter Williams

• What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.

  Author: Robin Williams

• To be honest, I don't want No. 1's anymore. Now, don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind the odd few, but I'd also like a record going in at eight and staying around.

  Author: Robbie Williams

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

  Author: Ralph Williams

• We have an incredible national forest service, and we have an incredible child outreach program that the president has put together. I don't see anything wrong with national service for a minimum of two years. If we were to require that, we wouldn't need a draft.

  Author: Montel Williams

• I'm always open for people saying I'm wrong because most of the time I am.

  Author: Prince William

• You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong - it went really, really well and I was really pleased when she said yes.

  Author: Prince William

• I refuse to go into a fast-food outlet - to use the toilet even - in case anyone got the wrong idea and thought I was sneaking in a quick burger.

  Author: Jonny Wilkinson

• Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.

  Author: Andrew Wiles

• So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.

  Author: Gene Wilder

• An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

  Author: Billy Wilder

• Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• Everything popular is wrong.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

  Author: Elie Wiesel

• The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting.

  Author: T. White

• There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.

  Author: Ron White

• I felt that to do this drug, I had to become someone totally different than I was. I had to compromise my integrity, my value system. I knew it was so wrong.

  Author: Kelli White

• Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

  Author: Rebecca West

• She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

  Author: Mae West

• When women go wrong, men go right after them.

  Author: Mae West

• As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.

  Author: Arsene Wenger

• Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.

  Author: Arsene Wenger

• There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

  Author: H. Wells

• A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

  Author: Carolyn Wells

• A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

  Author: Orson Welles

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

  Author: Lawrence Welk

• In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.

  Author: William Weld

• If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.

  Author: Jack Welch

• If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.

  Author: Len Wein

• Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

  Author: Simone Weil

• If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?

  Author: Jenny Weber

• Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.

  Author: Warren Weaver

• I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

  Author: John Wayne

• Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.

  Author: J. Watts

• Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

  Author: Alan Watts

• I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

  Author: Maxine Waters

• It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it.

  Author: Josiah Warren

• I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.

  Author: Burt Ward

• The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'

  Author: Neale Walsch

• I just put myself in a hotel and was smoking coke for a while. Then I met up with the wrong people. I ended up getting in a hassle. I had to call the police and get myself arrested or get attacked, ripped off and got to jail. So I called the cops on them and myself.

  Author: Marc Wallice

• To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

  Author: Irving Wallace

• We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?

  Author: David Wallace

• I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong.

  Author: Alfred Wallace

• There's nothing wrong with the car except that it's on fire.

  Author: Murray Walker

• Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so.

  Author: Murray Walker

• I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.

  Author: Murray Walker

• Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

  Author: Denis Waitley

• Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.

  Author: Rick Wagoner

• If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.

  Author: Gijs Vries

• It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

  Author: Voltaire

• James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good.

  Author: Don Vliet

• If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.

  Author: Virgil

• We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.

  Author: Judith Viorst

• You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around.

  Author: Stevie Vaughan

• People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.

  Author: Bill Vaughan

• Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.

  Author: Ville Valo

• You can imagine my embarrassment when I killed the wrong guy.

  Author: Joe Valachi

• Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

  Author: Peter Ustinov

• If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.

  Author: Mo Udall

• When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going.

  Author: Cicely Tyson

• We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were willing to pass moral judgments about right and wrong.

  Author: Steven Tyler

• Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

  Author: Mark Twain

• There's nothing wrong with being fired.

  Author: Ted Turner

• An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.

  Author: John Tuley

• Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.

  Author: John Tukey

• One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.

  Author: Benjamin Tucker

• When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.

  Author: Harry Truman

• A maverick feels like he has no choice however difficult his choice of expression. In my case, it was going backwards into tonality. It seemed so wrong. The idea that progress is going into the past in a new way is very strange, even though there are precedents.

  Author: David Tredici

• If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

  Author: Alex Trebek

• I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role as President of my people. According to my conscience, I am trying to abide by the right. My vision is peace. My vision is prosperity.

  Author: Boris Trajkovski

• I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more.

  Author: Linus Torvalds

• The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.

  Author: Linus Torvalds

• There's nothing wrong with trying to reach out to new fans.

  Author: Carrot Top

• I'm still a little girl in Hawaii, I have the same friends I had when I was a kid who love me for who I am - not what I do. I never got caught up in the club scene or took wrong roads.

  Author: Kiana Tom

• The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

  Author: Leo Tolstoy

• A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it.

  Author: Glenn Tipton

• I have a lot to do with the writing, and also the production, but it would be wrong of me to say that I'm the most important member of the band, because everybody is important the way I see it.

  Author: Glenn Tipton

• There are right and wrong reasons for doing solo projects, and this album was done for the right reasons. At the time there was no Judas Priest and I certainly wasn't going to hang my hat up on my musical career.

  Author: Glenn Tipton

• There's nothing wrong with shooting for the stars.

  Author: Justin Timberlake

• Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

  Author: James Thurber

• Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

  Author: Thucydides

• I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What's wrong with that?

  Author: Billy Thornton

• Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• A blue dog, you know, is the opposite of a yellow dog. And a yellow dog was somebody who was willing to follow his party even when he knew it was wrong.

  Author: Mike Thompson

• My favorite thing to do is still to go back to Peoria, go to my cabin and hunt with the boys. This is a great lifestyle, don't get me wrong. But fun for me is going back with my buddies I grew up with.

  Author: Jim Thome

• As a leader, you're supposed to be above reproach, and what that means is you can't even give the appearance that you're going to do something wrong.

  Author: Kevin Thomas

• The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

  Author: Clarence Thomas

• I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that.

  Author: Clarence Thomas

• We were using a hand-held camera to film the scene when Morse collapses. The camera wouldn't start. Three times they said action and it still wouldn't work. To this day, they still don't know what was wrong.

  Author: John Thaw

• It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

  Author: Margaret Thatcher

• Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.

  Author: Randall Terry

• George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.

  Author: Randall Terry

• There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.

  Author: Terence

• Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

  Author: Terence

• If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.

  Author: Sachin Tendulkar

• There is no such thing as a wrong note.

  Author: Art Tatum

• There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

  Author: Allen Tate

• I got into a fight with Walt Disney: I always pick the wrong people to fight with.

  Author: Frank Tashlin

• A lot of people think I'm cynical when I talk about acting. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want someone to get some lame advice that will send them in the wrong direction.

  Author: Amber Tamblyn

• I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God.

  Author: Amber Tamblyn

• There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

  Author: Antonio Tabucchi

• A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

  Author: Thomas Szasz

• A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

  Author: Jonathan Swift

• Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn't think I could do anything wrong.

  Author: Kiefer Sutherland

• No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had.

  Author: Donald Sutherland

• It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious.

  Author: Kim Sung

• The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.

  Author: Billy Sunday

• There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!

  Author: Patricia Sun

• Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.

  Author: Larry Summers

• It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century.

  Author: Larry Summers

• The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.

  Author: Arthur Sulzberger

• If you do jot feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know.

  Author: Harry Sullivan

• It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!

  Author: Anne Sullivan

• It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.

  Author: William Strunk, Jr.

• Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?

  Author: Barbra Streisand

• I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.

  Author: Barbra Streisand

• The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.

  Author: Madeleine Stowe

• 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 inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

  Author: W. Stone

• Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong.

  Author: Sly Stone

• The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go.

  Author: Sharon Stone

• I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.

  Author: Oliver Stone

• I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I'm always a bit down. I'm not that way at all. I'm fun-loving.

  Author: Sting

• I go outside, and I'm wearing a funky T-shirt and my hair is dirty, and people say, 'What's wrong with her? She needs to invest in a hairbrush.'

  Author: Kristen Stewart

• If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

  Author: Robert Stevenson

• If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.

  Author: Parker Stevenson

• There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.

  Author: Anne Stevenson

• When assumptions were made that I was going to bail out there was a little part of my brain that thought 'I am going to do to prove them wrong'. In the end that wouldn't be coming from my heart and doing what was right.

  Author: Craig Stevens

• And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again.

  Author: Robert Sternberg

• There has been an awful lot of time and money spent looking at the president over the last four years The American people saw through those investigations. They voted for the president. And despite all of this time and attention, nothing has turned up because the president and the first lady did nothing wrong.

  Author: George Stephanopoulos

• For the president to resign now would be wrong. President Clinton may have debased himself with his behavior, but we shouldn't debase the office with an impulsive overreaction.

  Author: George Stephanopoulos

• There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.

  Author: George Steiner

• That's not a villain, that's a man whose a victim of being in love with the wrong one.

  Author: Rod Steiger

• I said in sharp language that that practice was wrong.

  Author: Ken Starr

• It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut.

  Author: Philip Stanhope

• There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive.

  Author: Richard Stallman

• The only side effect of too much training is that you get into better shape. There is nothing wrong with that.

  Author: Mark Spitz

• It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture.

  Author: Norman Spinrad

• The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.

  Author: Herbert Spencer

• So don't get me wrong, I love my songs, and I still love hearing them. That's history, baby.

  Author: Ronnie Spector

• I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.

  Author: Al Spalding

• It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

  Author: Kevin Spacey

• It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

  Author: Thomas Sowell

• If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year; for the Lord will begin with a new century; and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment.

  Author: Joanna Southcott

• Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

  Author: George Soros

• The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic.

  Author: George Soros

• It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

  Author: Sophocles

• It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.

  Author: Sophocles

• It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

  Author: Susan Sontag

• Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

  Author: Susan Sontag

• I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.

  Author: Steven Soderbergh

• When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.

  Author: Steven Soderbergh

• What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that's wrong.

  Author: DeForest Soaries

• When everything is coming your way, you're probably in the wrong lane.

  Author: Tom Snyder

• Our view is that economic isolationism is the wrong way to go. Vibrant, successful growing economies that advance the interests of their citizens engage the global economy. And, we're committed to engaging the global economy.

  Author: John Snow

• Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

  Author: Joseph Smith, Jr.

• I feel very bad about getting things wrong.

  Author: Martin Smith

• If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.

  Author: Kate Smith

• Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man.

  Author: Gerrit Smith

• Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.

  Author: George Smith

• What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?

  Author: Ed Smith

• There are lots of people in the world who do have the advantage of going to a good drama school and just decide that they want to be actors. There's nothing wrong with an untrained actor; they have to get their training somehow, they have to learn.

  Author: Erika Slezak

• That we have children coming into this world already polluted, at the same time we don't know what the effects of that pollution will be on their mental and physical development, is both bad policy and immorally wrong.

  Author: Louise Slaughter

• The crises in North Korea, Iran, the Middle East, show how quickly things can change and how they can go wrong. We must be prepared. And right now the Army is not.

  Author: Ike Skelton

• You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.

  Author: Peter Singer

• The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that.

  Author: Peter Singer

• You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that's about all you can do.

  Author: Bryan Singer

• I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.

  Author: Wallis Simpson

• The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.

  Author: Matthew Simpson

• There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

  Author: Matthew Simpson

• Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.

  Author: Matthew Simpson

• Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man.

  Author: George Simpson

• I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another?

  Author: Paul Simon

• The 1993 Social Security tax penalizes seniors who have planned for their retirement through savings, investment and hard work. That's wrong, and that's why the double tax on Social Security must end.

  Author: Rob Simmons

• Our military commanders have said over and over again that a timetable for withdrawal sends the wrong message to our troops, but more importantly to our enemy.

  Author: Bill Shuster

• But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.

  Author: Hu Shih

• Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.

  Author: Brooke Shields

• It's a play where something went wrong, 'Cause it's five hours, twelve minutes long. If you sit there, my friend, From beginning 'til end, Then your bladder better be strong!

  Author: Allan Sherman

• In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort.

  Author: Archie Shepp

• Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

  Author: Sam Shepard

• And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.

  Author: Alan Shepard

• They were involved in a firefight and felt they were surrounded. Whether they escaped from that and were fleeing and went in the wrong direction, we don't know.

  Author: Hugh Shelton

• Those are the things that, in the wrong hands - and certainly in our war on terrorism we also must attack proliferation and those nations that proliferate with chemical, biological and nuclear type devices, because that can cause the most catastrophic results.

  Author: Hugh Shelton

• War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong.

  Author: Martin Sheen

• That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

  Author: Charlie Sheen

• The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it was very upsetting; but I still couldn't bring myself to understand that the policy itself was wrong.

  Author: Neil Sheehan

• I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now.

  Author: Robert Sheckley

• If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

  Author: George Shaw

• It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.

  Author: Anna Shaw

• If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

  Author: William Shatner

• Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

  Author: Tupac Shakur

• If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

  Author: William Shakespeare

• Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

  Author: William Shakespeare

• To do a great right do a little wrong.

  Author: William Shakespeare

• Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

  Author: William Shakespeare

• Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

  Author: Peter Shaffer

• Intimacy is a wonderful thing. It's frustrating that growing up I thought it was wrong. It isn't. Exploring your sexuality is important when you're growing up.

  Author: Amanda Seyfried

• My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

  Author: Anna Sewell

• The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise.

  Author: Jose Serrano

• After the last two years of springtime gas price spikes, nearly everyone in Southeast Wisconsin understands that something is wrong with our gasoline regulation and supply system.

  Author: Jim Sensenbrenner

• She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.

  Author: David Selznick

• They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.

  Author: John Selden

• It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of the North have hitherto acquiesced in it, lest, in the endeavor to redress it in violation of the Constitution, greater evils might ensue.

  Author: Jay Sekulow

• It's not that I don't see myself as hot and sexy. Don't get me wrong. No, it's not that.

  Author: Kyra Sedgwick

• Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.

  Author: Charles Secondat

• Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

  Author: William Scranton

• Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.

  Author: Lee Scott

• I think it is wrong to spend $4 or $5 million in a campaign.

  Author: Bill Scott

• It's kind of hard to spend long hours trying to help people and then find out that the favorite game of the columnist is to sit back and second guess you and try to find something that you did wrong.

  Author: Bill Scott

• We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles.

  Author: Bill Scott

• My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.

  Author: Carl Schurz

• Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right.

  Author: Carl Schurz

• If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.

  Author: Charles Schumer

• Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

  Author: Charles Schulz

• As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.

  Author: Liev Schreiber

• Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.

  Author: Hjalmar Schacht

• My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.

  Author: John Sayles

• People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

  Author: Diane Sawyer

• For instance, when I go to the premiere on Tuesday I probably won't watch the film at all - I'll be watching the audience just to see their reaction to different moments, what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong, stuff like that.

  Author: Devon Sawa

• Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.

  Author: George Savile

• Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

  Author: Marilyn Savant

• Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

  Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

• A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.

  Author: John Sargent

• The decision he made with Usama bin Laden was a tactical decision. It wasn't a strategic decision. The strategic decision was made by President Bush to go after him. What President Obama has done on his watch, the issues that have come up while he's been president, he's gotten it wrong strategically every single time.

  Author: Rick Santorum

• I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.

  Author: Carl Sandburg

• Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

  Author: Carl Sandburg

• I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.

  Author: R. Salvatore

• If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage.

  Author: Esa-Pekka Salonen

• The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.

  Author: Bob Saget

• The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

  Author: Marquis Sade

• That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don't want to have other people read about.

  Author: Winona Ryder

• A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.

  Author: Richard Russo

• The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what you're doing.

  Author: David Russell

• I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.

  Author: Joanna Russ

• I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do.

  Author: Geoffrey Rush

• This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more.

  Author: Geoffrey Rush

• One of your tasks is to separate the "personal" from the "substantive." The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.

  Author: Helen Rowland

• Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

  Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.

  Author: Mickey Rourke

• If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it.

  Author: Leo Rosten

• Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.

  Author: Julius Rosenwald

• Napster is essentially using the music to make money for themselves and that's the part that's both morally and legally wrong. That I think is more relevant than whether or not I'm losing money.

  Author: Hilary Rosen

• Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.

  Author: Ernestine Rose

• The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything.

  Author: Elihu Root

• In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought.

  Author: Elihu Root

• 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 worst thing you can do is nothing.

  Author: Theodore Roosevelt

• The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

  Author: Andy Rooney

• Our State Department is often wrong and timid.

  Author: Dana Rohrabacher

• Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

  Author: Dana Rohrabacher

• If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

  Author: Jim Rohn

• I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.

  Author: Wayne Rogers

• When in doubt, one can rarely go wrong by going public.

  Author: James Rogers

• They think something's gone wrong, but in Don't Look Now, for instance, one scene was made by a mistake. It's the scene where Donald Sutherland goes to look for the policeman who's investigating the two women.

  Author: Nicolas Roeg

• What's wrong with sweetness and light? It's been around quite awhile.

  Author: Richard Rodgers

• It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

  Author: John Rockefeller

• No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know?

  Author: John Robinson

• I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong.

  Author: Cokie Roberts

• Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.

  Author: Tim Robbins

• It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia.

  Author: Tim Robbins

• He was making all kinds of sounds apparently with his mouth, and shaking his head and I thought, gosh, is he trying to stop the orchestra? Is it all wrong? It was just unbelievable.

  Author: Robert Ripley

• After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.

  Author: Sally Ride

• The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.

  Author: Sally Ride

• So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.

  Author: Sally Ride

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