Gone Awry Quotes

#1. We do not have an ecological crisis. The ecosphere has a human crisis. Our 'story' about our place in the scheme of things has somehow gone awry in the industrial age ...

William E. Rees

#2. I think Donald Trump's history has shown that this was a very problematic thing. There were so many ways Iraq could have gone awry once we started, and I don't think most of us spend enough time considering the dangers.

Jeff Sessions

#3. Menstruation not only carries with it the connotation of a productive system that has failed to produce; it also carries the idea of production gone awry, making products of no use, not to specification, unsalable, wasted, scrap.

Emily Martin

#4. This concept could easily have gone awry. Stories about love tend to go that way sometimes. They wander into the realm of cheese and never return, which I think is a shame, because there is a way to write about romantic love without breaking out the Velveeta.

Veronica Roth

#5. When it is perceived that a show has gone awry, the pressure is staggering, and as a writer caught in that storm, it feels like you are being attacked by jackals.

Steven Bochco

#6. More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined.

Fred Brooks

#7. text of deaths in exorcisms gone awry in the United

Tracy Wilkinson

#8. So, if the zombies are coming to town, why exactly are we coming back here?"
"Don't call them that."
"But they are - "
"No, they're not. They're mutants or science gone awry or
something. Anything but zombies." "How would that be better?

Daniel Younger

#9. Dove had next to no coping mechanisms when it came to social interactions gone awry. When all else failed - the running, the hiding, the dying - all that was left was the giggling.
The moment she thought about trying not to laugh, it became one hundred times worse.

Debra Anastasia

#10. The summer night sky over the Hindu Kush, domed by the Milky Way's mage light, was infinitely splendid. Strewn against this craggy luminosity, millions of tiny stars shone, a diamond heist gone awry.

Sherry Thomas

#11. Of persons I will say this: it is difficult to tell when they are running aright but easy to see when something has gone awry.

Neal Stephenson

#12. Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions. So they're essentially the victims of a marketing and capitalist machine gone awry.

Douglas Rushkoff

#13. The best plans of men and mice often go awry.

Robert Burns

#14. If our forefathers make the world awry, must our children be the ones who pay to right it?

Geraldine Brooks

#15. If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.

Carly Fiorina

#16. The world is getting weirder. Darker every single day. Things are spinning around faster and faster, and threatening to go completely awry. Falcons and falconers. The center cannot hold.

Jim Butcher

#17. It's hard for me to be happy because I'm always worried about something going awry or what could happen to screw it up. It's hard for me to sit and look around, going, 'Ah, I'm really happy.' I'm not that kind of person.

Lisa Marie Presley

#18. If it's not clear enough in the piece, I love it when people things to me they know and I'm interested in but don't yet know. It's when they explain things to me I know and they don't that the conversation goes awry.

Rebecca Solnit

#19. Bootstrapping goes awry when entrepreneurs focus on saving pennies to the detriment of the Big Picture.

Guy Kawasaki

#20. This leads me to ask how it came to be that Pluto is Mickey's dog, but Mickey is not Pluto's mouse. Something is awry in the taxonomic class of mammals in the Disney universe. I

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#21. When a pastor continually makes light of the character of our Lord by speaking in scatological tones about the Son of Man's bodily functions in incarnation or wearing T-Shirts that rather mock the King of Righteousness rather than glorify Him, then something is terribly awry.

Steve Camp

#22. The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever.

Haruki Murakami

#23. We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.

Henry Ward Beecher

#24. Heather Awry (The Archers of Avalon, #2)
Okay, if my B-F-F goes rogue and starts trying to chop me into pieces, I fully expect your immortal hotness to protect me, got it?

Chelsea Fine

#25. Expert tutors often do not help very much. They hang back letting the student manage as much as possible. And when things go awry, rather than help directly they raise questions: 'Could you explain this step again? How did you ... ?

Mark Lepper

#26. Had she been broken and healed all awry, like a bone that had not been properly set?

Kate Forsyth

#27. asks as I turn. "A bow to your betters won't go awry, doncha

Pierce Brown

#28. Sean is permanently damaged; something is awry in that boy.

Maggie Mitchell

#29. Life is haphazard. We plan, and then we deal when the plans go awry. Control is an illusion; best intentions are the best we can do.

Anna Quindlen

#30. The variety within Mann's fiction is impressive and fascinating. But Joyce is even more various and many-sided. He begins his career with a wonderful sequence of bleak studies about the ways in which human lives can go awry - in my view, Dubliners is underrated.

Philip Kitcher

#31. Frown not, old ghosts, if I be one of those
Who make you utter things you did not say,
And mould you all awry and mar your work;
For whatsoever knows us truly knows
That none can truly write his single day,
And none can write it for him upon earth.

Alfred Tennyson

#32. People can go very badly awry in this individual quest. But when the quest is fortunate, there comes a lifetime of creative innovative action.

Joseph Campbell

#33. It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

Nikolai Gogol

#34. There are good and bad times in a relationship. You start to understand more about how a relationship can go awry when two people spend too much time together. They tend to overlook all of the red flags that pop up early because they want to make it work and they want to believe it's right.

Michael Ealy

#35. Fear of failure held me back from being a DIYer for many years, especially after a few early attempts at home improvement projects went awry.

Mark Frauenfelder

#36. I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I had a series of personal losses. My mother died. A relationship that I was in came to end, and a variety of other things went awry.

Andrew Solomon

#37. Step-parents, those fairy tale villains,
Have been given a bad name.
They're easy targets.
When the family goes awry
How easy to blame them.
I was blessed by the right steps ...

Eileen Granfors

#38. For even in the triviality of a single playing card missing from a deck, the world's order is inevitably turned awry.

Yukio Mishima

#39. It was good of you to look for Quentin." "Good!" she exclaimed. "Good! O Anthony!" "Well, so it was," he answered. "Or good in you. How accurate one has to be with one's prepositions! Perhaps it was a preposition wrong that set the whole world awry." CHARLES WILLIAMS The Place of the Lion

John Piper

#40. My plans often went awry. Much like my thoughts. Hold the phones. Maybe Saan had ADD, too. It would explain a lot.

Darynda Jones

#41. If banks anticipate government will come to the rescue should the credit market go badly awry, they may make loans that would otherwise be imprudent, e.g. subprime loans with little prospect of repayment.

Eric Maskin

#42. Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.

Marcel Proust

#43. That my plans have lately gone somewhat awry is the sort of risk one must take if life is to be superb.

Gore Vidal

#44. Something is not right,' Weavyr announced. She crouched lower over one spot in the Wyrd and tugged, redirecting the threads. In the moments that followed, throughout the world, hearts were broken, brilliant careers were launched and dreams were dashed. A volleyball serve also went awry.

Maurissa Guibord

#45. The true faith discovered was When painted panel, statuary, Glass-mosaic, window-glass, Amended what was told awry By some peasant gospeler.

William Butler Yeats

#46. Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes. A few bear fruit in happiness; the others go awry. But he who garners day by day the good life, he is happiest.

Gilbert Murray

#47. When things go awry, if they are mostly an inconvenience to you or a threat to your ego, instead of getting furious, can you laugh?
Sometimes the even the best-laid plans, the most carefully planned events can turn out quite differently than planned.

James Martin

#48. So why did you get shot? One of your witticisms go awry? (Nekoda)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#49. We never look back. We have no time for regrets or second thoughts. If a plan goes awry we make another, if one weapon breaks in our hands we find a second. If the steps fall down before us we overleap them and go up.

Philippa Gregory

#50. The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.

William Shakespeare

#51. We are literally children of the earth, and removed from her our spirits wither or run to various forms of insanity. Unless we can refresh ourselves at least by intermittent contact with nature, we grow awry.

G. M. Trevelyan

#52. If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children who go awry.

Warren Farrell

#53. When things are going awry, it's time to put the blinders on and do your job. Just do your job. Don't worry about the other guy, don't worry about the wins and losses, just worry about what the very next play is.

John Riggins

#54. A lot of people have a dissatisfaction or an anger in them, so as soon as something goes awry, they flip out.

Brigid Brannagh

#55. Oakbridge did his work with dramatics and prophecies that all would go horribly awry. Having dealt with him over midwinter, Kel wondered why the man hadn't died of a heart attack. Instead he seemed to thrive on disaster and finding people seated in the wrong places.

Tamora Pierce

#56. The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

Robert Burns

#57. It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.

Moby

#58. I'm not one of those critics that believes U.S. foreign policy is confused, or stupid, or misinformed, or well-intentioned but it goes awry. I think it's a brilliant policy filled with many brilliant, terrible, horrible victories.

Michael Parenti

#59. A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded.

Bruce Dickinson

#60. I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.

Rose McGowan