Top 100 I Was Wrong Quotes
#1. I once thought the three most important words in creation were 'whatever proved necessary,'" he said. "And now?" she gasped against his mouth. "Now I know I was wrong. The three most important words in creation are 'I love you
Gena Showalter
#3. I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I'd thought I'd had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
Adam Johnson
#4. I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.
Charles M. Schulz
#5. I always thought we were indefeatable. Like nothing could stop us. Maybe I was wrong. Maybe I still do.
Josiah Morgan
#6. The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, I was wrong.
Sydney J. Harris
#7. It didn't matter who you were, it only mattered what you were. I was wrong, and soon I believe you're going to see you're wrong too. It isn't about what kind of monster you are; it isn't about whether or not you're a monster at all. It's about who you are and what you represent.
M.R. Merrick
#8. I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.
Jim Henson
#9. I start thinking that maybe God's plan is I make him more of a man and less of a boy.
"I think I was wrong. Some men will always be boys."
"I start thinking that maybe God's plan is I make him more of a man and less of a boy."
"I think I was wrong. Some men will always be boys.
Dani Alexander
#10. One final thing a director needs: The ability to say 'I am wrong' or 'I was wrong.' Not as easy as it sounds. But in many situations, these 3 words, honestly spoken, will save the day.
Elia Kazan
#11. You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.
Oscar Wilde
#12. I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor - it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I don't know.
Lennart Nilsson
#13. I thought that the main problem in the gay community is the lack of funding, I was wrong. The essential quality that this movement needs is courage and an ideal; without an ideal, nothing is possible.
Nikolay Alexeyev
#14. I love you," "I was wrong," and "I apologize" are powerful words. They can save marriages, deepen friendships, and change lives. Don't be afraid to use them.
John Hawkins
#15. If a person doesn't know they're hurting, why, maybe they're not. I was wrong.
Stephen King
#18. I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong.
Katharine Graham
#19. I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.
Mickey Rourke
#20. I thought I'd saved Kayden that night at the pool house, but I was wrong. I just bought him time until the next windstorm swept through.
Jessica Sorensen
#21. I love you, Torrey Delaney. You don't have to say it back to me, but I love you. I didn't believe life was worth living until I met you. I'm so, so happy I was wrong.
Jane Harvey-Berrick
#22. When I was out in the real world, functioning in everyday society, and someone would say "Time is just a construct," I would roll my eyes and continue to check errands off my To Do list. But I was wrong, and they were right. Time means nothing. Never is that more clear than in a hospital bed.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#23. I was wrong to vote for this war. Unfortunately, I'll have to live with that forever. And the lesson I learned from it is to put more faith in my own judgment.
John Edwards
#24. Our hearts parted a long time ago, and I was wrong to think they could be brought together again.
Soseki Natsume
#25. I don't know. I was wrong. I'm sorry." Lacoste recited them slowly, lifting a finger to count them off. "I need help," the Chief said,
Anonymous
#26. I was wrong to exaggerate in statements related to my experiences in the White House and the Royal Family. I am truly sorry for misleading people and misstating the facts.
Robert Irvine
#27. How rare it is, even among Christians, for a person to say I was wrong. I sinned, and I'm fully responsible. My sinful desires motivated me, and what I did dishonored God and hurt you. Please forgive me.
Joshua Harris
#28. Quite some years ago, I started travelling the planet. I thought this would learn me something about the world we live in. I was wrong ... It learned me something about myself. It changed me. And nothing will ever again be black-and-white again.
Maarten Schafer
#29. I'm sorry. I was wrong. I need help. I don't know.
Louise Penny
#30. It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
#31. Didn't think I could trust you," I said. "I was wrong, and I regret it. It wasn't the clearest thinking I've ever done.
Patrick Rothfuss
#32. The three most difficult words to speak are, "I was wrong."
Richard M. Nixon
#33. I didn't have room inside me for any more pain. As it turned out, though, I was wrong about that.
Paula Garner
#34. Then I got the offer to play Buck Rogers, but I turned it down thinking it was a cartoon character. Well I was wrong, it wasn't at all. So I read the script and decided I liked the character, it had a good concept.
Gil Gerard
#36. In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.
Mahatma Gandhi
#37. To leave the road of continual failure, a person must first utter the three most difficult words to say: 'I was wrong.
Dale Carnegie
#38. I thought I knew what evil was, but I was wrong." "Then what is it?" she asked. "Ambivalence. Standing by and watching people suffer and die when you know you can help them.
Lincoln Cole
#39. I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.
Damian Loeb
#40. I've been working in Haiti 28 years - I thought I'd sort of seen it ... I've gone through a number of coups, the storms of 2008, I thought, you know, that I'd seen things as bad as they were going to get, and I was wrong.
Paul Farmer
#41. All that time I thought she was my future, I was wrong. She wasn't my future at all. She was the door to my future. But I'm through that door now, and ready to close it behind me.
Liz Kessler
#42. You're no better than Sharpclaw and Sparrowpelt. They look down their noses at us because we stay loyal to our housefolk as well as our Clan. I thought you were different, Leafstar, but I was wrong
Erin Hunter
#43. He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
W. H. Auden
#44. What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.
Alice Hoffman
#45. It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failures really well, and if you get to the motto and say, 'Wow, I failed, I tried, I was wrong, I learned something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world.
Sebastian Thrun
#46. Do you remember, Abelard ... Once I told you that ecstasy was better than being God."
"I remember."
"I was wrong, darling. Being God is better.
Bruce Sterling
#47. I destroyed myself because I thought no one will destroy me that way but I guess I was wrong ... they're stonger.
Marivil
#48. So there's a cloud of rage around me, but being an artist kind of changes that. No matter what you thought coming in, what ignorant thing you believed, you're in show business for two years, you're like, "OK, I was wrong." It's hard to be mad at any particular group of people when you're an artist.
Chris Rock
#49. I had the traditional print view of TV journalists: Those are pretty people who get paid a lot of money and don't do any work. It turned out I was wrong.
John King
#50. I was wrong.
Now that I think about it, if I had said those words to a now-ex back in my twenties, I would probably be married right now.
Larry Gent
#51. We have found that marriage should be made up of two forgivers. We need to learn to say, "I was wrong, I'm sorry." And we also need to say, "That's all right, I love you."
Billy Graham
#52. I held her
wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred,
centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and
sick. all the things I had learned had been wasted.
there was no creature living as foul as I
and all my poems were
false.
Charles Bukowski
#54. I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates ... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.
Clive James
#55. My dancing heart has danced itself apart and I was wrong, of course I was wrong, I am always wrong, everything is always wrong.
Kiersten White
#56. There are four statements that lead to wisdom. I want you to remember them and follow them. Are you ready?' Agent Lemieux had taken out his notebook and, pen poised, he'd listened. 'You need to learn to say: I don't know. I'm sorry. I need help and I was wrong.
Louise Penny
#57. What if I was wrong? What if there was no other side. What if, in all the eons of eternity, this was the one and only time that I would be alive. How would I live my life if that were the case?
Allen Eskens
#58. I am right. I'm always right. One time I thought I was wrong, I found out I was right.
Jerry Lee Lewis
#59. I find that I was wrong in suggesting that a Master of the Temple had a right to enter the temple of a Magus or an Ipsissimus. On the contrary, the rule that holds below, holds also above. The higher you go, the greater is the distance from one grade to another.
Aleister Crowley
#60. When I sealed the deal on Douglass, I thought I had everything I wanted. But I was wrong. You're everything thing I want. Everything I need.
Jackie Braun
#61. But I was wrong to weep and beg and try to force you by your love. Love is not a thing to be so used.
C.S. Lewis
#63. Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.
Anne Enright
#64. I don't think saying "I was wrong here, I was wrong there" absolves you of anything particularly, nor does it get you into heaven.
Bill Ayers
#65. Of course, you won't confirm or deny it, which means I'm probably right, since if I was wrong, you'd be gloating about it.
Keith R.A. DeCandido
#66. Maybe I was wrong. Maybe there really is some goodness here in our world. But if goodness existed, that must mean that darkness existed as well.
Erica Sehyun Song
#67. I didn't think it was possible to love him more than I already did, but i was wrong. His arms are the only place where I find peace and comfort. I feel safe when they're around me, like nothing can get to me.
Alison G. Bailey
#68. Love," he said, "is always a risk, isn't it? I've always thought that there were no certainties in life, but I was wrong. Love is a certainty. And love always gives more than it takes.
Patricia Briggs
#69. I wanted to make it in New York. I thought if I went out to the Midwest, I'd be burying myself. But I was wrong.
Alan Arkin
#70. There was no sound but that of his shoes and the now senseless singing of birds. Once I thought they sang because everything was right with the world, Robert Neville thought. I know now I was wrong. They sing because they're feeble minded.
Richard Matheson
#71. I can't believe you cheated! (Phobos) I can't believe you didn't know it. Man, what kind of god are you? I never knew stupidity had a divine representative. Guess I was wrong, huh? (Deimos)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#72. I thought I knew not only her habits but also her limits. This display of ferocity, of savage courage, made me realize that I was wrong. All my life I had known only a part of her.
Yann Martel
#73. I became blinded by what I thought I needed to do. I was wrong. I was stupid. But not for one minute did I ever stop loving you. And that's why I deserve to be forgiven.
C.C. Hunter
#74. I didn't just want your light, your power, your strength. I wanted all of you. I asked for it. I fought for it. But you kept it from me and you did it willingly knowing I needed it. I'm sorry, Sam, I've made my decision. I thought I could do it but I was wrong. It's all or nothing.
Kristen Ashley
#75. I thought i found the love of my life then he broke my heart i thought he was my everything i thought he cared but i guess i was wrong
Sereana Crowley
#76. Things are NEVER what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something. Old folks are forever complaining about their failing eyesight, but I think your vision gets better as you get older. Mine surely was.
Jennifer Donnelly
#77. I was wrong to try and impose something of my humanity on you, when being human never did me any good
Sara Baume
#78. I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.
Mickey Rourke
#79. Knowing the truth makes me alone. I wrote that once, but I think I was wrong. Fear of pain is what has made me alone. But today I realized that pain and love have a balance. I can feel so much of one only because I feel so much of the other.
Sharon Cameron
#80. I'm made mute by the virtue of decision
And I choose most of your life goes on without me
Oh the fear I've known
That I might reap the praise of strangers and end up on my own
All I've sown was a song
But maybe I was wrong
Emily Saliers
#81. You gave me a soul touch. A touch beyond physical. The most powerful of touch. I thought it was about you but I was wrong it was about me. In me. It took me a lifetime to realize it was me, not you. Thank you for showing me my soul.
Renae A. Sauter
#82. If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.
George Bernard Shaw
#83. I was wrong about you, Izabel," I whisper near her ear; the pain engulfing my insides. "I am the ticking time bomb. I am more unstable than I ever could have imagined. You are discipline, and I am rage. And the only way I know to control the chaos inside, is to eradicate the things that control me.
J.A. Redmerski
#84. I had believed there was no such thing as redemption. I knew now I was wrong. Redemption had not come from grand gestures of dashing bravery. It had not come from successfully completing twelve impossible labors. Instead, redemption transpired from the small, quiet places.
Brodi Ashton
#85. I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong.
Alan Dershowitz
#86. I'd always felt like it was only weak people who turned to God, but at that moment I realized maybe I was wrong: perhaps it was the other way around. Only those who were strong enough to admit their own, human limitations would know when to seek help and guidance.
Brownell Landrum
#87. Great leaders are the first to say, "I was wrong. Let's make a change.
Beth Ramsay
#88. Too often they don't realize what they have until it's gone.
... they're too stubborn to say, 'Sorry, I was wrong'
they hurt the ones closest to their hearts,
and we let the most foolish things tear us apart
Marilyn Monroe
#89. There was I thinking being a shifter had its upsides. Looks like I was wrong.
Patricia Briggs
#90. I was only the more anxious to make Jerusalem a city like the others, where several races and several beliefs could live in peace; but I was wrong to forget that in any combat between fanaticism and common sense the latter has rarely the upper hand.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#91. I used to think a wedding was a simple affair. Boy and girl meet, they fall in love, he buys a ring, she buys a dress, they say I do. I was wrong. That's getting married. A wedding is an entirely different proposition.
Steve Martin
#92. I was wrong, I thought to myself. I honestly believed it. Not because Sister Louise told me or because she made me believe I was. I knew deep down that I was wrong and I think that my emancipation began at that moment.
Melina Marchetta
#93. I used to think that forgetting was the path to healing, the path to forgiveness. But I was wrong.
Kim Askew
#94. Carving out our own place, making something out of nothing. It feels as right as it doesn't and I think maybe I was wrong. We can't have exactly everything we lost. But maybe we can come close.
Courtney Summers
#95. Miz Fitz,
If my boyfriend would just once say "I'm sorry, I was wrong," I think I would die and go to heaven.
-Hellbound, a Lass
Miz Fitz sez:
You should wish for something realistic, like world peace.
Pete Hautman
#96. I open my eyes. No, I was wrong; I didn't jump off the roof because I wanted to be like the Dauntless. I jumped off because I already was like them, and I wanted to show myself to them. I wanted to acknowledge a part of myself that Abnegation demanded that I hide.
Veronica Roth
#97. Lovely," Nellie whispered. "A double-crosser wouldn't spend all this time gardening and planting flowers, would they?"
...
Sinead Starling opened the door.
"Ah," Nellie said. "I guess I was wrong.
Jude Watson
#98. I want to confess. I thought that her story was comprised of scenes. I thought the tragedy could be glamorous and her grief could be undone by a sunnier future. I thought we could pinpoint dramatic events on a time line and call it a life.
But I was wrong.
Nina LaCour
#99. Ever since we had arrived in the United States, my classmates kept asking me about magic carpets.
- They don't exist-I always said. I was wrong. Magic carpets do exist. But they are called library cards.
Firoozeh Dumas
#100. Turns out I was wrong. Truth is I just couldn't do it any more.
Mike Gayle
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