Top 100 Quotes About The Wrong Time
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
Adam Ant
#4. Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.
Oscar Wilde
#5. My death will probably be caused by being sarcastic at the wrong time. - TRUE FACT
Darynda Jones
#6. Investors ... can't pick stocks that are better than average. Stocks are a good thing to own over time. There's only two things you can do wrong: You can buy the wrong ones, and you can buy or sell them at the wrong time. And the truth is you never need to sell them.
Warren Buffett
#7. Someone can have the best intentions,' Markov said, 'but offering the wrong advice, the wrong help at the wrong time, can be worse than not helping at all.
Tonya Hurley
#8. If you're going to go increase taxes on small businesses, you're going to slow down the extent to which we're able to reduce unemployment. So I think it's a serious mistake; the wrong time to raise taxes.
Dick Cheney
#9. Perhaps we all said the right things at the wrong time; perhaps we couldn't help it. Perhaps words became too heavy to haul, and the moment we let them loose was always the wrong one, but they needed to be free.
Mackenzi Lee
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. I finally meet a guy who's interesting and who seems to have a half-interest in me and it is TOTALLY the wrong time and place.
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#13. It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for some people somewhere there is no such thing as an insurmountable obstacle, an unplayable course, the wrong time of the day or year.
Alistair Cooke
#14. Many jocular comments followed, as did another onslaught of Heil Hitlering. You know, it actually makes me wonder if anyone ever lost an eye or injured a hand or wrist with all of that. You'd only need to be facing the wrong way at the wrong time, or stand marginally too close to another person.
Markus Zusak
#15. In the midst of escaping from Imperial warriors was definitely the wrong time to be mentally undressing flying women.
Michelle M. Pillow
#16. The wrong action done at the wrong time spells disaster The right action done at the wrong time spells resistance The wrong action done at the right time spells mistake but The right action done at the right time spells a miracle
John C. Maxwell
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. It's scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time.
Guillaume Musso
#20. So now would probably be the wrong time to tell you I rented that boxing movie with the hot guys, planning to watch it on mute?" Ashlyn asked.
"Well, as long as I'm invited to watch it with you, I see nothing wrong with that.
Cindi Madsen
#21. 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
#22. Technology creates the context for persuasion, but content persuades. Technology helps get content to the right people at the right time. The content still has to influence. Delivering the wrong content at the right time is as bad as delivering the right content at the wrong time.
Colleen Jones
#23. Time, time, time. It's always the wrong time. When is now the time?
Anne McCaffrey
#24. When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.
George Polya
#25. I always seemed to be in the right place at the wrong time.
Dr. John
#26. Criticism at the wrong time, even if it's legitimate criticism, can be seriously damaging and make the writer lose faith in what he's doing. It's the timing that's all-important.
Donna Tartt
#27. Sometimes, the right person comes along at the wrong time, and you have to just trust fate and hope it leads you in the right direction and it all evens out.
Carian Cole
#28. Life is simply too short for the wrong books, or even the right books at the wrong time.
Tim Parks
#29. Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#30. A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#31. How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
Lois McMaster Bujold
#32. A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.
Alain De Botton
#33. I knew that not all lives are equal, that the time we live in affects the person we are, more than I had ever thought. Some have a harder chance. Some get no chance at all. With great sadness, I saw so many people born in the wrong time to be happy.
Andrew Sean Greer
#34. I was born at the wrong time," she said. "And in the wrong climate. It should be 1983, and I should be sitting outside Mann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California.
Rainbow Rowell
#35. The right thing at the wrong time will lead to failure.
T.D. Jakes
#37. I've seen people, where if they have to wait around the set for three hours, and they call you at the wrong time, and they're not ready for you, some people don't like that.
Paul Dano
#38. Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.
Wentworth Miller
#39. 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
#40. Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.
Judith McNaught
#41. Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
Brendan Behan
#42. Suicide is the #1 killer of a person who is in a boat and happens to be passing under a bridge at the wrong time.
Demetri Martin
#43. It's never the wrong time to call on Toad. Early or late he's always the same fellow. Always good-tempered, always glad to see you, always sorry when you go!
Kenneth Grahame
#44. A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
Carolyn Wells
#45. A government decision that slashes spending at the wrong time and sends a weak economy into a tailspin can be just as undisciplined as one that unleashes a wasteful spending spree in an overheated environment.
Peter Blair Henry
#46. You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.
Jennifer Lopez
#47. It was the wrong place at the wrong time kind of shit that had quickly turned into a catastrophe of epic proportions
Madeline Sheehan
#48. Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.
David Dreman
#49. Sometimes it's the right guy, but the wrong time. God may need you and Him to go through a process first before He can bring you two into a successful relationship together.
Stephan Labossiere
#50. Every so often you get to play wonderful characters maybe at the wrong time in your life. Sometimes, you get to play terrible characters at a really great time in your life. Sometimes, the right character comes along at the right time.
Jude Law
#51. When Paul announced himself in a rather formal way to the secretary, he said simply, "I am Watzlawick." She suspected he was a new psychiatric patient showing up for an appointment at the wrong time, and she interpreted his introduction as, "I am not Slavic.
Paul Watzlawick
#52. 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
#53. In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood.
Willem Dafoe
#54. But that's the problem, everyone always starts to care at the wrong time.
Laine Zabukovic
#55. Unleash in the right time and place before you explode at the wrong time and
place.
Oli Anderson
#56. I ... was impulsive and skinny, and wished that I could be more like a character in a novel, so I would finally stop blurting out the wrong things at the wrong time.
Yvonne Woon
#57. Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.
Howard Dean
#58. It's the wrong time for us to be pulling the rug out from under American exporters.
Rob Portman
#59. 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
#60. I can't stop watching black and white movies. I live in a world of Warner Brothers movies and all of that stuff from an older era, and I love them. I still love them. When I look at them, I sometimes think I was born in the wrong time.
William Forsythe
#61. 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
#62. I was too unsettled. Too full. Full of dark thoughts, dark musing, as if I'd eaten them for dinner instead of the roasted duck, and they were sitting undigested in my stomach, waiting to be vomited back up at the wrong time. The threat of it hung over my mind like nausea.
Kate Avery Ellison
#63. 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
#64. Unlooked-for kindness can cut deep as cruelties if they come at the wrong time.
Lindsay Faye
#65. 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
#66. Tamani?" she asked, even though she knew this was the wrong time. "How is a plant supposed to beat a superstrong troll?
Aprilynne Pike
#67. Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.
Lukas Foss
#68. A lot of people got in at the wrong time. A lot of people did very well and some people said, "This is it. I'll never get back in again." And they maybe meant it, but they probably got back in again anyway.
Peter Lynch
#69. In terms of representation, television is reflecting an era that has passed. It's the wrong time; it's the wrong period. In all sorts of television, it doesn't feel like the 21st century.
Benedict Wong
#70. 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
#71. She had been impulsive all her life, made decisions without thought for the future, and regretted none of them, however dotty. Looking back, all she regretted were the opportunities missed, either because they had come along at the wrong time or because she had been too timid to grasp them.
Rosamunde Pilcher
#72. Insider trading tells everybody at precisely the wrong time that everything is rigged, and only people who have a billion dollars and have access to and are best friends with people who are on boards of directors of major companies - they're the only ones who can make a true buck.
Preet Bharara
#74. Making an effort at the wrong time or place dissipates our energy.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#75. Get over jet-lag quickly. I think a lot of people waste the first few days sleeping in the wrong time zone. Sometimes I take melatonin but at other times a glass of wine will do it.
Jane Seymour
#76. It is often said that a wrong decision taken at the right time is better than a right decision taken at the wrong time.
Pearl Zhu
#78. I wish I could give you everything you wanted. But even a good gift is a bad gift if given at the wrong time.
Tiffany Reisz
#79. 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
#80. What if you find your soul mate ... at the wrong time?
Lauren Kate
#81. 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.
#82. Child, that is why all the rest are now a horror to her. That is what happens to those who pluck and eat fruits at the wrong time and in the wrong way. Oh, the fruit is good, but they loath it ever after.
C.S. Lewis
#83. Boys have penises and girls have vaginas. If they touch at the wrong time, you can make a baby or die.
Eugene Mirman
#84. SOME PEOPLE ARE JUST born unlucky - so unlucky in fact that they do just the opposite of what they should at exactly the wrong time. Suckers? Maybe. But in the business of investing, those people have a name: retail investors.
Simon Constable
#85. It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.
Lee Westwood
#86. Just because something is good doesn't mean we should pursue it right now. We have to remember that the right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.
Joshua Harris
#87. I have a habit of leaving places at the wrong time, just when something big may have happened for me.
Nico
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. A guy and a girl can just be friends, but at one point or another they will fall for each other, maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever.
Becky Wicks
#91. If you want to know the value of a second, ask the person who just crossed the road at the wrong time and barely escaped being hit by a speeding car.
Sunday Adelaja
#92. A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don't feel great about, and it'll make you feel so bad it'll destroy you and kill you.
Iggy Pop
#93. But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.
Jonathan Coe
#94. She was right. Peace was the way.
She was right. But at the wrong time.
James Blish
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine.
Marilynne Robinson
#99. My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.
Marcus Aurelius
#100. Boring is the right thought at the wrong time.
Jack Gardner
