Quotes About The Wrong Place At The Wrong Time

#1. In 1986, I was attacked in the street as I helped Neil Mullarkey from the Comedy Store Players to put up posters. We were in the wrong place at the wrong time - midnight - and we were English. I got kicked in the head.

Paul Merton

#2. Should I become President ... I will not risk American lives ... by permitting any other nation to drag us into the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time through an unwise commitment that is unwise militarily, unnecessary to our security and unsupported by our allies.

John F. Kennedy

#3. Certain money is not always good money. It could be just being at the wrong place at the wrong time. I mean, if you have your priorities in check then for the most part it's easy.

LeBron James

#4. I thought it was a good question. I mean I didn't lock myself in the Chaos Compound. I didn't do a drive-by on my house. I just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and unfortunately that place was my own house.

Kristen Ashley

#5. He who acquired all his wealth by *being at the right place at the right time* is hypocritical by being angry for losing all his wealth because of his *being at the wrong place at the wrong time.*

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#6. It was the wrong place at the wrong time kind of shit that had quickly turned into a catastrophe of epic proportions

Madeline Sheehan

#7. If people believe they can be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and they have no control over outside circumstances, those thoughts of fear, separation, and powerlessness, if persistent, can attract them to being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Rhonda Byrne

#8. To the family of a victim of a fatal accident, the deceased was at the wrong place at the wrong time. To the family of the morgue owner, the deceased was at the right place at the right time.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#9. The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy ... Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world.

Omar N. Bradley

#10. Victims, he thought, were birds and animals and people who arrived at the wrong place at the wrong time, usually in too big a hurry.

John D. MacDonald

#11. They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes

George Lucas

#12. It's maddening in my travels to watch children dying simply because they were born in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Nicholas Kristof

#13. It was frustrating because I didn't do anything, ... I was at the wrong place at the wrong time, and he decided to punish me. I couldn't do anything about it.

Eddie Griffin

#14. Love is a piano dropped from a four story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
-Two Little Girls (Little Plastic Castle)

Ani DiFranco

#15. Some people think prayer stops bullets or rockets or land mines. It doesn't. That's magic, that's not God. Sometimes, you're just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

John Shelby Spong

#16. Surely these victims of the sea ... had rushed willingly down the hills to the water, only to find themselves caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Who should judge whether they were there for the wrong reason?

John Rousmaniere

#17. You are yet another nincompoop, who, by being at the wrong place at the wrong time," he said, "was able to set humanitarianism back a full century! Begone!" Strong stuff.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#18. Somentimes you're in the wrong place at the wrong time and what happens is nobody's fault.You just want to feel bad so you'll feel better.

Rick Yancey

#19. They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes." Leia Organa of Alderaan, Senator

George Lucas

#20. 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.

Charles E. Wilson

#21. Even those who die in terrorist attacks, and have thus had the bad luck to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, are described as "heroes", though given a choice most of them would no doubt have preferred to be somewhere else when the blow was struck.

Michael Korda

#22. Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Ani DiFranco

#23. In the first place you can be so absolutely honest and so absolutely wrong at the same time that I think it is better to be a combination of cautious and polite

Flannery O'Connor

#24. But the past has a way of taking you to the right place at the wrong time, and that can be a storm inside.

Gregory David Roberts

#25. I grew up weird - very sensitive and highly inhibited. I felt like I was born in the wrong time zone to the wrong people at the wrong place.

Marla Gibbs

#26. Why do you need street smarts? Shrewdness? Toughness? It's to protect something soft that is going to be in danger if it's exposed at the wrong time and place. It's to protect a soul. But to protect your soul, you have to have one to start with.

Peter Schjeldahl

#27. When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.

George Polya

#28. I always seemed to be in the right place at the wrong time.

Dr. John

#29. It's not about being in the right place at the right time; it's about being the right person, even if you find yourself in the wrong circumstances.

Mark Batterson

#30. Unleash in the right time and place before you explode at the wrong time and
place.

Oli Anderson

#31. I think anybody can take a good picture. My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous. It's being in the right place at the wrong time.

Andy Warhol

#32. And I didn't mean to eavesdrop. I was in the right place-okay," I amended when he raised his eyebrows. "The wrong place at the right time." More head shaking.

Myra McEntire

#33. When a dead man knocks on the car window, I think fainting is a reasonable response.

Marjorie F. Baldwin

#34. Miracle workers learn to keep their own counsel. Something that's important to know about spiritual wisdom is that, when spoken at the wrong time, in the wrong place, or to the wrong person, the one who speaks sounds more like a fool than a wise one.

Marianne Williamson

#35. To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort.

Graham Greene

#36. There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.

Shashi Tharoor

#37. Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and meanness and profanity and wrong information screamed at me as gospel, I'll get in a time machine and spend Christmas with my family in 1977.

J.R. Moehringer

#38. Like accidents, marriages result because those involved happen to arrive at what might be the wrong place, at the same time.

Margaret Yorke

#39. Falling in love often happens at the wrong time, in the wrong place, with the wrong person.

J.C. Reed

#40. Making an effort at the wrong time or place dissipates our energy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#41. It is good to be busy. Being busy takes our mind off being in love at the wrong time, in the wrong place and with the wrong guy.

Melissa De La Cruz

#42. The thing with love is, you cannot choose who you fall for. Falling in love often happens at the wrong time, in the wrong place, with the wrong person. Just as much as you cannot stop growing feelings for a certain man, there's no switch to turn off your heart.

J.C. Reed

#43. Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong place, it is as empty and shapeless as a dress on a hook.

Robert Grudin