Top 100 Gone Wrong Quotes
#1. People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix.
Sarah Palin
#2. She sits down at the end of my bed again. "Who were you with? Do you have a boyfriend now or something?"
I can't help but laugh. If I have a boyfriend, his name is Death. And I'm pretty sure Roman is in love with him too. It's a love triangle gone wrong.
Jasmine Warga
#3. Goods gone bad, but right is wrong, and I don't know which side I'm on lately.
Ray Davies
#4. Disintegrated.
Like something had gone wrong beaming her onto the Starship Enterprise.
If you've ever wondered what that feels like, it's a lot like melting but more violent
Rainbow Rowell
#5. The situation in Greece just goes from bad to worse. We've now got a situation where there was the big suicide a few weeks ago, where a 77-year-old man shot himself in the head outside the Greek Parliament. That was the public face of what's gone wrong.
Nigel Farage
#6. The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.
Mason Cooley
#7. It does not matter how far we have gone in the wrong direction, it does not matter how many golden opportunities we have allowed to slip by us; what counts now is that we have woken up from our deep slumber and with this awakening comes our next line of action.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#8. I believe America has gone a long way down the wrong road. If we ever needed God's help, it is now.
Billy Graham
#9. The natural world had gone badly wrong. Everything that mankind is doing on the planet had upset the delicate balance of nature. The pollution, the rampant industrialization, the loss of habitat-when animals were squeezed and cornered, they behave viciously, in a desperate effort to survive.
Michael Crichton
#10. Our poor world aspires simply to point out where Christians have gone wrong, and that is pretty much where it goes wrong. It is as though many of us, when of the world, are actually all the more judgmental: for we are stuck on a bad Christian while the Christian is pinned to a good Christ.
Criss Jami
#11. Young sir," he said, "you speak like an expert. And an expert, I can assure you, from a long association with them, is someone who has gone to considerable pains to be absolutely wrong.
Leonard Holton
#12. Fleetingly he wondered what the man's life had been like, where it had gone so desperately wrong. No one tried to end up like this, alone and defenseless and poor, eking a living from the harsh Arizona desert.
Kristin Hannah
#13. Our fate and destiny is in our hands. Blaming others for our failures is wrong because we can independently choose our circumstances. Wake up, smell the coffee and roll up your sleeves.
Boniface Kamau Zablon
#14. Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong'.
Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.
Charles M. Schulz
#15. I recently published a new book. It's a Christian urban fantasy about mad science gone wrong. And then after I'd written that in a blurb I thought to myself - when does mad science ever go right?!
Greg Curtis
#16. Since the end of the 1970s, something has gone profoundly wrong in America. Inequality has soared. Educational progress slowed. Incarceration rates quintupled. Family breakdown accelerated. Median household income stagnated.
Nicholas Kristof
#17. Finally, Charlie gave up the hunt and placed (the puppy) back on the floor, dispatching fleas was not his idea of a romantic evening, unless you happened to be a twisted exterminator, he thought.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#18. Are we going somewhere?" "To the river." "But why?" "To see what we can see." "I really d-don't think . . ." We were going to end up as newspaper headlines: Pensioner and Homosexual Found Dead in River - Coincidence, Tragedy, or Satanic Ritual Gone Wrong?
Alexis Hall
#19. If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.
George Osborne
#20. It's an image that the media has given me as a bad girl, and the only reason they gave me that image is just because of the few things that have gone wrong in my life, and also because I grew up living in a trailer.
Tonya Harding
#21. Information. What's wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world's gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?
Thomas Pynchon
#22. For a dream to die, something so tragic would have definitely gone wrong! Be careful you don't kill your own dreams.
Israelmore Ayivor
#23. I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone.
Judge Mills Lane
#24. Calculus was not math. It was a fucking science experiment gone wrong.
Abbi Glines
#25. Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that's wrong,
Charles Ferguson
#26. None of his friend's parents were still together, and in every case that seemed like the number one thing that had gone wrong with her friends' lives.
Rainbow Rowell
#27. Had not enough gone wrong?
Brom
#28. No matter how far wrong you've gone you can always turn around
Bill Callahan
#29. And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again.
Rachel Ward
#30. The acid test for any theology is this: Is the God presented one that can be loved, heart, soul, mind, and strength? ... If it fails to set a lovable God
a radiant, happy, friendly, accessible, and totally competent being
before ordinary people, we have gone wrong
Dallas Willard
#31. Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong.
Umberto Eco
#32. I've had a very strange life. Whenever I've married, I've married for life. But things have gone desperately wrong.
Dinah Sheridan
#33. I'm not blaming men, I'm not blaming women. What's gone by has already gone by. It's history. It's done. There is no right or wrong in higher spirituality.
Frederick Lenz
#34. Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.
Ian Hart
#35. I'll win the way
I always do
by being gone
when they come.
When they look, they'll see
nothing of me
and where I am
they'll not know.
This, I thought, is my way
and right or wrong
it's me. Being dead, then,
I'll have won completely.
Robert Creeley
#36. Having an adventure shows that someone is incompetent, that something has gone wrong. An adventure is interesting enough - in retrospect. Especially to the person who didn't have it.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
#37. A riveting and realistic portrayal of space travel gone wrong, and of a crew who must fight for their survival. Bones Burnt Black is exciting, and expertly told. A must-listen.
J. C. Hutchins
#38. A human body is a conversation going on, both within the cells and between the cells, and they're telling each other to grow and to die; when you're sick, something's gone wrong with that conversation.
W. Daniel Hillis
#39. Do not, brethren, put your trust in man though he be a bishop, an apostle, or a president. If you do, they will fail you at some time or place; they will do wrong or seem to, and your support be gone;
George Q. Cannon
#40. Something had gone horribly wrong at my birth, so my father would never have his little soldier, Mom would never have her home filled with tiny scampering joy, and we each clutched our guilt very privately.
Edward Fahey
#42. I would love to be like Justin Bieber or Selena Gomez. They were catapulted into stardom when they were so young - like I was - and they still haven't gone down the wrong path and I hope neither or them will. I find that really inspiring.
Rebecca Black
#43. In country music, one of the ways we may have gone wrong in the past is trying to be politically correct all the time.
Blake Shelton
#44. Always remember that the only riches we possess are the dreams we have as children. They are the fuel of our lives, the only force that pushes us to keep on going even when things have gone all wrong.
Fausto Brizzi
#45. It's not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the word go. It's a nutty notion that we can have a place where nothing but learning happens, cut off from the rest of life.
John Holt
#46. When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#47. RBG has never been very interested in drawing attention to herself without a good reason. That's how you know that when she does send up smoke signals, something has gone very wrong.
Irin Carmon
#48. Democracy is like a tamborine - not everyone can be trusted with it.
John Oliver
#49. An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.
Terry Pratchett
#50. Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups intelligent - independence, diversity, private judgement-disappear.
James Surowiecki
#51. When I saw music as a means to an end - more fame, more money, dating celebrities - that's when things have gone terribly wrong. Now my life is focused on just trying to keep making music. Because when it's really good, it's just the most remarkable feeling on the planet.
Moby
#52. Egoism has arisen due to circumstances and circumstances have survived due to egoism. The one whose egoism is gone, for him circumstances are gone. Everything has come into existence because of wrong belief.
Dada Bhagwan
#53. You know,' she said, 'it's a good thing, now and again, to take stock of oneself in life. To see where one has gone wrong. I
Daphne Du Maurier
#54. The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are 'accept responsibility.'
Billie Jean King
#55. George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
#56. The next few rooms held a severed hand that was trying to grow itself a new body; a Time Agent whose latest regeneration had gone terribly wrong, turning him inside out; and a sorry-looking werewolf with mange.
Simon R. Green
#57. An evangelical minister has had to resign after pictures surfaced showing him in a hot tub with two women. He claimed it was just a baptism gone terribly wrong.
Jay Leno
#58. And, he added with a laugh, you don't ever notice your oxygen until it's gone: something goes wrong with the HVAC, even for fifteen minutes, and people are ready to riot.
Teju Cole
#59. Ana." Elliot's voice is clipped and quiet, and my scalp prickles ominously. "What's wrong?" "It's Christian. He's not back from Portland." "What? What do you mean?" "His helicopter has gone missing." "Charlie Tango?" I whisper as all the breath leaves my body. "No!
E.L. James
#60. Before I left the 'Star' last year to write books full-time, I welcomed catastrophe. It was material. Missed planes, broken pipes, dead lawns, digestive disorders, you name it, if it was something that had gone horribly wrong, it was worth banging out 600 words about.
Linwood Barclay
#61. We need responsible regulations, not regulations that have gone wild. For example, the EPA has a rule that is going to be implemented Jan. 1, 2012, where they're going to begin to regulate dust. That's right, dust. It's called PM 2.5. That is focusing on the wrong thing.
Herman Cain
#63. It;s all gone. My life is all gone and I can't work out why. I keep looking back over my life ... and I can't work out where it all went so wrong. What I did to make this happen.
Dorothy Koomson
#64. On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used as a manufacturing process.
Roger Ebert
#65. There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
Mae West
#66. Some of the best friendships have been the result of a romantic love gone wrong but the love itself remains strong.
Sanjo Jendayi
#67. Brittney, it was wrong to murder even before Moses brought down the commandments. Right and wrong doesn't come from God. It's inside us. And we know it. And even if God appears right in front of us, and tells us to our faces to murder, it's still wrong.
Michael Grant
#68. I've seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it's all gone wrong. That's when we define ourselves.
Bear Grylls
#69. Much of what has gone wrong in the pursuit of Arab-Israeli peace is due to a lack of strong leadership, primarily among the Palestinians.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
#70. And in the middle of the lake the woman I'd spoken with floated on her back, eyes closed, as if nothing in her many years had ever gone wrong.
Anthony Marra
#71. 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.
Dick York
#72. To me, movies are valuable as an art form and as a wonderful means of popular entertainment. But I think movies have gone terribly wrong.
Woody Allen
#73. I know that relationships can be a winding, sometimes unpredictable road ... it just seems to me that, if you ever find yourself backed into a corner, and the only way out is a box, that you have sex in, on stage, on live TV ... something has gone terribly wrong.
Matt Walsh
#74. It was quite a sad thing,
the way I watched you sleep like nothing could go wrong and I did not want to harm it, I did not want to blur it, but how could I not
when everything I've ever known has slowly gone away.
Charlotte Eriksson
#75. Dogs are never in a bad mood over something you said at breakfast. Dogs never sniff at the husks of old conversations, or conduct autopsies on weekends gone wrong. An unexamined life may not be worth living, but the overexamined life is hell. We talk too much.
Abigail Thomas
#76. I was 9 when I wrote 'Fate Stay with Me.' It was this fictional song about romance gone wrong.
Alanis Morissette
#77. Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.
Alice Childress
#78. Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault.
George Ayittey
#79. But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I'm nestled in his arms, this will leave another scar. No one will see it. No one will know. But it will be there. And eventually all of the scars will have scars, and that's all I'll be
one big scar of a love gone wrong.
Amanda Grace
#80. By thinking mostly about everything that has gone wrong, is going wrong, and can possibly go wrong, the thinker is bound to end up in a lousy mental and emotional state.
Gudjon Bergmann
#81. Modernity gone wrong has isolated humanity and made human reason autonomous of (and dismissive toward) revelation.
John Mark Reynolds
#82. For him, she was the evil one; the antagonist to his life story. The reason he was married at an early age.
And to her, he would always be her infatuation gone horribly wrong.
Alyssa Urbano
#83. The Khanum?" Arland coughed. The last sip of tea must've gone wrong.
"Are you unwell?" Dagorkun inquired.
"Healthy as a krahr," Arland said.
"That's such a relief. I would hate for some illness to interfere and spoil the grand celebration I planned when I send you to your afterlife.
Ilona Andrews
#84. Because you don't walk away from someone when things get tough, you find a way to stick it out and figure out what's gone wrong. - Zac Greeley, The Boyfriend Thief
Shana Norris
#85. Rachel snatched her hand back. Sorry, I forgot the rules. Everything's a joke until it's not, and words don't mean anything until you want them to.
Kit Rocha
#87. He just rubs people up the wrong way in a short space of time and, after he'd gone, one of the South African coaches there said to me in a thick Bok accent 'You see, Richard, what we have to put up with?'
Richard Loe
#88. What was she to say? The prodigal has returned? The mutineer wishes to be reinstated? The subordinate, having gone to a great deal of trouble to prove her commander wrong, has come back and promises to be a good little subordinate hereafter, or at least until next time?
Robin McKinley
#89. Clearly something had gone wrong, badly, only I wasn't quite sure what - apart from knowing that I was responsible somehow, in the generalized miasma of shame and unworthiness and being-a-burden that never quite left me.
Donna Tartt
#90. Although Hermione is right about a great many things, she was wrong about the nature of things gone by. this is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as moving on. but there is this telling and there is such a thing as passing through.
Tayari Jones
#91. But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.
John Lanchester
#92. Maybe this won't last very long but you feel so right and I could be wrong. Maybe I've been hoping too hard. I've gone this far and it's more than I hope for.
Billy Joel
#93. I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance.
Kevin O'Leary
#94. the Christian view that this is a good world that has gone wrong, but still retains the memory of what it ought to have been.
C.S. Lewis
#95. If you're a beast in the pulpit but a coward in your neighborhood, something has gone wrong.
Matt Chandler
#96. Watch your Karma, for your karma is always watching you..Profound lesson that has never gone wrong..!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#97. I feel sorry for generations of Labour voters and supporters who must look and wonder what on earth has gone wrong and what Labour is for.
Nicola Sturgeon
#98. Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you When you think everything's okay and everything's going right And life has a funny way of helping you out when You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up In your face
Alanis Morissette
#99. All parts of his body, the circuit and flesh, required rest. Not that anything had gone wrong.
J.M.K. Walkow
#100. What on earth were you trying to do, make yourself look handsome or something? You look like someone's grandmother gone wrong!
Roald Dahl
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