Top 100 Go Wrong Quotes
#1. All good things ... must come to a beginning. What goes up ... may just go higher. Anything that can go wrong ... probably won't if you immerse within it.
Tom Althouse
#3. Three things my daddy tried to learn me. 'Son', he always said, 'remember these three precepts and you can't go wrong. One, never eat at a place called Mom's. Two, never play cards with a man named Doc.'
'That's only two.'
'I can never recollect the third, and that's what worries me.
Edward Abbey
#4. Alas, he himself was a man too easily encouraged, too completely seduced by hope, only to be devastated by disappointment. He'd been born to privilege, conditioned to expect things would go well, and pathetically unable to cope once they started to go wrong.
Richard Russo
#5. no strategy ever survived contact with the enemy. Or, in the vernacular, Things Will Go Wrong. Be Prepared.
Genevieve Cogman
#6. I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.
John Le Carre
#7. One can never go wrong with a crisp white shirt to dress up any look. Styled with rolled sleeves and a front tuck creating a chic look for day and night.
George Kotsiopoulos
#8. The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if it's the classic Hitchcock shot of two people talking and a bomb being under the table. Part of the pleasure of it is seeing where people go wrong, and the irony of situations.
Richard Ayoade
#9. Things are going to go wrong, and I think we are false to life if we don't portray it. But there is also the hope that some lucky clown is going to come along and stumble into the gold mine. And I think you are also entitled to hold out that hope.
James A. Michener
#10. Incredible shame is associated with mental illness. People will confide the most intimate details of their love life before they'll mention a relative who had a serious mental breakdown. But the brain is just another organ. It's just a machine, and a machine can go wrong.
Candace B. Pert
#11. I've got this image in my head of how I want my life to look, and I have absolutely no idea how to get there. And I'm so scared that I'll make some wrong decision - just one - and everything will get messed up and go wrong -for good.
Lisa Ann Sandell
#12. Nothing is so good it lasts eternally. Perfect situations must go wrong. But this has never yet prevented me wanting far too much for far too long.
Tim Rice
#13. Every relationship has its problems, but what makes it perfect is if you still want to be together when things go wrong.
Isabelle Peterson
#14. A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong.
Alton Brown
#15. Stick with your passion, and keep moving forward. You can't go wrong.
Tohoru Masamune
#16. I forget how many thousand eggs go wrong for one codfish that gets hatched. But as Berkeley said long ago, it is idle to censure the creation as wasteful if you believe in a creator who has unlimited stuff to play with.
Frederick Pollock
#17. The only way to understand yourself or your life is to start with God. And right at the very beginning the Bible takes us there. If you are not clear about this, you will go wrong everywhere else.
Martin Lloyd-Jones
#18. Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.
Angie Thomas
#19. The best way of dealing with the press, customers, and critics is to come clean when things go wrong and admit when you make a mistake. We are humans, and no one expects us to be perfect.
Vivek Wadhwa
#20. Oh God, if the mechanism of the consciousness itself was going to go wrong, then what was one to do? Hang it all, one did one's bit! Was one to be let down absolutely?
D.H. Lawrence
#21. To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
Olivier Megaton
#22. Nothing ever comes out the way I hope it will. That first vision, that initial vision you have of a book, what it's going to be like when it's done, it begins to go wrong the second you start to write.
Michael Chabon
#23. Organic' ... means that the work is an extension of your blood and body: it has the rhythm of nature. There exists a state of feeling that when you reach it, when you hit it, you can't go wrong. The work carries a body rhythm. You can't do the slick ... the gimmicky or dishonest.
Nell Blaine
#24. Spiritual joy is what you experience when you choose to give thanks to God no matter what happens - even when things go wrong.
Jim George
#25. The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix things in the real world when they go wrong. They feign ignorance, blame others, and make another eloquent speech.
Kathleen Troia McFarland
#26. If you focus on all the things that could go wrong, you miss the things that could go right.
Jillian Michaels
#27. Our great struggle in medicine these days is not just with ignorance and uncertainty. It's also with complexity: how much you have to make sure you have in your head and think about. There are a thousand ways things can go wrong.
Atul Gawande
#28. They say it is hard to raise children. They say I would understand it
when I have children of my own. They say I would understand it when I go through the experience myself.
It is not easy to raise children into adults. There are so many things that could go wrong.
Marcella Purnama
#29. You can never, never, ever go wrong eating more fruit.
Nancy S. Mure
#30. Stop Being Afraid Of What Can Go Wrong In Your Life & Start Putting Your Positive Energy Towards All That Can Go Right!
Timothy Pina
#31. MINDS ARE UNIQUE. They go wrong in unique ways. My mind went wrong in a slightly different way to how other minds go wrong. Our experience overlaps with other people's, but it is never exactly the same experience.
Matt Haig
#32. It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don't do well.
Nick Jonas
#33. Because if something does go wrong, you'll need what you're feeling to matter, to someone somewhere, anyway.
Kij Johnson
#34. We're professional worriers. You're constantly imagining things that could go wrong and then writing about them.
John Green
#35. I love pizza; you can't really go wrong with pizza.
Nick Jonas
#36. Things go wrong all the time; you can't be precious about it.
Tori Amos
#37. As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.
Douglas Coupland
#38. The urgent finds you; you have to find the important. Importance is not fast. It is slow. It is not superficial. It is deep. And as a result, it's extremely powerful. When important matters go wrong, they undermine everything. When they go right, they sustain everything.
Stewart Brand
#39. The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.
Carla Hall
#40. Customers don't expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong.
Don Porter
#41. All children are born with stars in their eyes, and they are curious. It is important for teachers to be careful not to kill this curiosity. A lot can go wrong. Children can be teased, even by teachers.
May-Britt Moser
#42. FURTHER NOTE: This plan can ONLY go wrong in the event of ants. Ants do NOT like being pissed on.
Caitlin Moran
#43. Blame yourself when things go wrong, and give credit to others when things go right. The process of giving other people credit is what it takes to build a team. Sandberg, one of America's great team builders, knows exactly what it takes to win.
Frank Luntz
#44. If you're interested in expanding your network, you can't go wrong with Twitter. You don't need to be a celebrity to have fun and grow your network with Twitter.
Raymond Arroyo
#45. I think no matter what the occasion may be, you can never go wrong by showing up at the dinner table with a hot plate of fried chicken.
Paula Deen
#46. But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.
George Eliot
#47. Stop looking for things that could go wrong instead of finding things that will go right." I
Amanda Bouchet
#48. For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine.
Robert Fulghum
#49. 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.
Alan Shepard
#50. Self-abuse is shockingly common, especially among people who have been conditioned to believe that they are to blame when things go wrong.
Anna J. Michener
#52. One thing is certain in life. Just when things are going well, soon afterward they are certain to go wrong. It's just the way things are meant to be.
Bryce Courtenay
#53. It's simple. Listen to your heart. With everything you do, listen to your heart. If your heart feels right, you can't go wrong.
Jim Devitt
#54. Solitude gives me a chance to read and think, and now that the memories are coming through again - to rediscover my past, to find out who and what I really am. If anything should go wrong, I'll have at least that.
Daniel Keyes
#55. Where neither go wrong, the naive only see the world as a victim of bad doctrine; the cynic only sees good doctrine as a victim of the world.
Criss Jami
#56. Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.
Piers Anthony
#57. Authenticity is the seed of your identity and you can't go wrong with it in life.
Euginia Herlihy
#58. Readers regularly ask what can go wrong but almost never what could positively surprise.
Kenneth Fisher
#59. Sometimes I wish I never had to sleep. Sometimes I think that if I stay very, very still, if I never move at all, things will change. I think if I freeze myself I can freeze the pain. Sometimes I won't move for hours. I will not move an inch. If time stands still nothing can go wrong.
Tahereh Mafi
#60. Once you're on stage you can't go back, even when things go wrong people expect you to stay there and entertain them. When all else fails, you've got to try tap dancing.
Angus Young
#61. What is it about business that makes us laugh - when things go wrong, which they do all the time (why, I still wish I knew) then we need to laugh.
Ronnie Apteker
#62. When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.
Brett Ratner
#63. If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.
Will Harvey
#64. Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong ... But it might.
Terry Pratchett
#65. When things go right, I read. When things go wrong, I read more.
Sara Nelson
#66. If I see a live show and it doesn't have the aspect of danger where it could potentially go wrong, it's not that interesting to me.
Andrew Wyatt
#67. The dynamic between two individuals starts off with everything warm and nice and fabulous and good. Working and living together can serve you quite well, but when it starts to go wrong - oh, boy!
Annie Lennox
#68. To move to a new place
that's the greatest excitement. For a while you believe you carry nothing with you
all is canceled from before, or cauterized, and you begin again and nothing will go wrong this time.
Margaret Laurence
#69. How are you going to forget him if you keep talking about him? Darling, when things go wrong in life, this is what you do. You lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a little cocktail ... and out you go.
Sophie Kinsella
#70. A leader or mentor gives credit to others when things go right, and accepts the blame when things go wrong.
Bill Courtney
#71. I'm as religious as the next man - which is to say I'll keep in with the local parson for form's sake and read the lessons on feast-days because my tenants expect it, but I've never been fool enough to confuse religion with belief in God. That's where so many clergymen ... go wrong
George MacDonald Fraser
#73. From this moment on I'd dedicate my life to rock and roll and take as many drugs as possible. What could possibly go wrong?
Craig Ferguson
#74. If you start with respect for others you can never go wrong. Ultimately when you understand there is no difference between you and others, this rule will take on added significance.
G. Tyler Wright
#75. Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, a kiss too long And there follows a mist and a weeping rain And life is never the same again
George MacDonald
#76. Also, I'm drawn to moments of ambiguity, when things could go right or they could go wrong. I'm interested in discomfort. Discomfort is a place where we're still close enough to comfort to understand our unhappiness. Most of the things we desire are things that can destroy us.
Laurel Nakadate
#77. If one is destined to go wrong, he will not believe the truth but will believe something else altogether.
Dada Bhagwan
#78. You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.
Josephine Baker
#79. Things go wrong for a purpose. Just know the purpose, and just understand how to distinctively use the purpose for a great purpose!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#80. When she was pregnant with her second child, a midwife asked if Catherine had any unspoken fears about anything that could go wrong with the baby - such as genetic defects or complications during the birth. My sister said, 'My only fear is that he might grow up to become a Republican.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#81. People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
Karen Carpenter
#82. I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure ... Like, why did Paris Commune go wrong? Trotskyites. Why did the October Revolution go wrong? And so on ... OK, we screwed it up, but we can give the best theory why it had to happen.
Slavoj Zizek
#83. Sure," she said, and hugged the laptop bag closer. "What could go wrong?"
Michael's eyes flashed to meet hers in the rearview mirror.
Besides everything, I mean," she said.
Rachel Caine
#84. I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of the British press, but when things go wrong and there has been outright illegality, there should be proper accountability.
Nick Clegg
#85. Maybe that was the moment when things started to go wrong, the moment when I imagined us no longer a couple, but a family; and after that, once I had that picture in my head, just the two of us could never be enough.
Paula Hawkins
#86. We are bound to meet wrong things for wrong things are bound to meet us but, when things go wrong, don't be wrong, let things be wrong
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#87. Every person you meet introduces the accident of that person to you. What can go right and what can go wrong. There is no intimacy without consequence. Which
Elan Mastai
#88. If you do things right, NOTHING will go wrong. Conversely if you do things wrong, NOTHING will be right.
Anthony Pan
#89. People change, things go wrong. shit happens, but life goes on
Anonymous
#90. I had a lovely childhood in Ireland, riding, hunting, and a great big, bare, draughty house with lots and lots of sun in it. If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you, can they? It was afterwards - when I grew up - that things seemed always to go wrong.
Agatha Christie
#91. If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go wrong. Like a human parent, God will help us when we ask for help, but in a way that will make us more mature, more real, not in a way that will diminish us.
Madeleine L'Engle
#92. I need to depend on Someone who is bigger, stronger and wiser than I am. I don't do it on my own. God is my strength. He gave me a good body and some talent and the freedom to develop it. He helps me when things go wrong. He forgives me when I fall on my face. He lights the way.
Hank Aaron
#93. In film schools of the future, professors will teach 'Tammy' as an object lesson in Making Everything Go Wrong.
Richard Corliss
#94. How can you go wrong with playing around on a superhero show? Just the way that they do things and watching them do their thing was amazing to me. Also, superheroes are awesome!
Bex Taylor-Klaus
#95. High-consequence risks have a distinctive quality. The more calamitous the hazards they involve, the less we have any real experience of what we risk: for if things 'go wrong', it is already too late.
Anthony Giddens
#96. Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.
Terry Pratchett
#98. YOUR OPINION OF YOURSELF BECOMES YOUR REALITY. IF YOU HAVE ALL THESE DOUBTS, THEN NO ONE WILL BELIEVE IN YOU AND EVERYTHING WILL GO WRONG. IF YOU THINK THE OPPOSITE, THE OPPOSITE WILL HAPPEN. IT'S THAT SIMPLE. - 50 Cent When you were born, you entered this world with no identity or ego. You were
Anonymous
#99. I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
Samantha Bond
#100. The French revolution, he concluded, had not produced any new principles of truths, merely a mass of examples of how things could go wrong.
Mike Jay
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