Top 100 Quotes About Wrongly
#1. Men always look differently at women, even if it's not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such.
Gao Xingjian
#2. We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth.
Harold Leavitt
#3. If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.
Jacob G. Hornberger
#4. The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.
G.K. Chesterton
#5. Instead of seeking to serve one another, we wrongly believe that there's one person out there who exists solely to make us happy.
Craig Groeschel
#6. Well I wasn't really attacking the religious beliefs, I was attacking the formality of the rituals of the Catholic church; however, people took it wrongly.
Tom Lehrer
#7. Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't.
Rebecca Solnit
#8. Women, we tend to become whole people by venturing outside of the home, learning to aspire, to achieve, to deal with conflict - all these qualities that are wrongly called masculine.
Gloria Steinem
#9. I would say that each of us has only one thing to gain from the feminist movement: Our whole humanity. Because gender has wrongly told us that some things are masculine and some things are feminine ... which is bullshit.
Gloria Steinem
#10. One thing that is wrongly hyped is social media For many media organizations, they think it of it as distribution, and yes it's good for that. What's missing is the power of social media for engagement with the audience and for newsgathering.
Vivian Schiller
#11. It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also fabricated pious fraud. Most believers in a religion understand this when examining the claims of other religions.
Dan Barker
#12. The bars could not hold me. Force could not control me. They tried to keep me down, but Jah put I around. Yes, I've been accused. Wrongly abused. But through the powers of the Most High, they've got to turn me loose.
Bob Marley
#13. Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.
Gloria Steinem
#14. People wrongly believe the ugliness won't touch them if they stay silent and do nothing. But by doing that, the ugliness will eventually consume them
Felicia Denise
#15. Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or ceases to be; for nothing comes into being or is destroyed; but all is an aggregation or secretion of preexisting things; so that all becoming might more correctly be called becoming mixed, and all corruption, becoming separate.
Anaxagoras
#16. And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.
Jacqueline Carey
#17. For generations, the body of Christ has been defeated and put under a constant siege of condemnation from the accuser because they believe wrongly that the Holy Spirit convicts believers of their sins.
Joseph Prince
#18. Let evil swiftly befall those who have wrongly condemned us - God will avenge us.
Jacques De Molay
#19. Multiculturalism has seemed to imply, wrongly for me, let other cultures be allowed to express themselves but do not let the majority culture at all tell us its glories, its struggles, its joys, its pains,
John Sentamu
#20. Whilst people wholeheartedly talk wrongly about you openly, wholeheartedly talk rightly to God in silence and in faith! He knows everything! He sees everything! He hears everything! And He has the very right answer to everything!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#22. Inner joy and peace are from the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22). If I'm disappointed in my human husband, it is because I have dis - as in wrongly - appointed him to God's position in my mind. That's just all kinds of wrong.
Megan Tippy-Clansen
#23. The popular eye is not untrained; it is only wrongly trained - trained by inferior and insincere visual representations.
Ben Shahn
#24. We are all future butterflies who think, wrongly, that we are just slugs. And we are evolving, whether we admit it or not, into something else. Something with wings.
Jeffrey J. Kripal
#25. Well, if a horse refuses, you've phrased your question wrongly. It's the same with women. Don't ask them, 'Shall we go out to dinner?' Ask: 'What can I cook for you?' Can she say not to that? No, she can't.
Nina George
#26. Even the suicide desires his own good: he wrongly imagines that he would be better off dead. The moral problem is not that we love ourselves but that we love ourselves the wrong way.
J. Budziszewski
#27. I believe the word used wrongly distorts the world.
C.D. Wright
#28. Science is agnostic when it comes to God - not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly - just agnostic.
Eric Chaisson
#29. Each would collapse beneath the process. We've just wrongly assumed that it has to happen all at once, and we give up at the thought of it. We are A-to-Z thinkers, fretting about A, obsessing over Z, yet forgetting all about B through Y. We
Ryan Holiday
#30. If you live with alertness, you live rightly.
If you live in imitation, you live wrongly.
To me there is only one sin:
And that is not to be yourself.
And to me there is only one virtue:
And that is to know yourself.
Rajneesh
#31. I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.
Henry James
#32. He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time.
Publilius Syrus
#33. The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place.
John Stuart Mill
#34. Making a choice is like backing a horse - in a hundred years, they may decide you picked wrongly.
Edward Carpenter
#35. As far as prayer is concerned it is my freedom, it is my individual concern with God. If I am answerable, I am answerable to God, not to you. I am not praying to you, I am praying to God, and if I am praying wrongly, it is a matter to be settled between me and God. Who are you?
Osho
#36. Because the will renewed is the Lord's work, it is wrongly attributed to man that he obeys prevenient grace with his will as attendant.
John Calvin
#37. We wrongly but persistently expect to make different decisions tomorrow than we do today
Kelly McGonigal
#38. His eyes had something dull about them, expressionless, the bored look of a mediocre intelligence that wrongly supposes it has seen it all before.
Herman Koch
#39. Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold; when wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#40. They wrongly believe that good intentions move mountains. Bulldozers move mountains. But there are exceptions.
Peter Drucker
#41. if it happens that the soul is attached or inclined to a thing inordinately, that one should move himself, putting forth all his strength, to come to the contrary of what he is wrongly drawn to.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#42. And the associated danger for the identity of Europe cannot be ignored out of a wrongly understood sense of respect ... The Catholic side sees this clearly and says as much.
Georg Ganswein
#43. In a post-Christian era many of our friends, neighbors, and colleague will reject God for a score of reasons, but we must live and speak that they reject God for God's sake and not because of what we have said or done that has framed God wrongly.
Os Guinness
#44. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. - On Running After Ones Hat, All Things Considered, 1908
G.K. Chesterton
#45. I just immediately connect everything to the wars I have been covering overseas, and that's not the case back home. I wrongly assumed all Americans at home were as consumed with our troops in Afghanistan as I was abroad.
Lynsey Addario
#46. There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
Fulton J. Sheen
#47. I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from the charge of anti-intellectualism, which rightly or wrongly has been associated with it.
Alfred North Whitehead
#48. Let the whole world tag you wrongly, brand you with evil and create a different you, and let God give you a solemn tag of dignity and see you differently, you have no problem at all!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#49. If the first button of one's coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
Giordano Bruno
#50. I do take pride in saying that in spite of being in public life for so long, there is not a single case against me, not even for wrongly parking a scooter or driving on the wrong side.
Narendra Modi
#51. Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!50
Alex Pattakos
#52. Unfortunately, you're helpless when people interpret your work wrongly. There are simply people who can't or won't understand or accept what you're trying to do. When you take the risk of expressing yourself in public, you have to open yourself to that possibility.
Michael Haneke
#53. To become a better you, keep doing what you have been doing right and learn to correct what you have been doing wrongly.
Israelmore Ayivor
#54. God did not create us, nor did He wish us to be created. We are the work of a lesser deity, a demiurge, who wrongly believed himself to be God.
Lawrence Durrell
#55. I have been wrongly accused; and you, ma'am, and everybody else, will now think me wicked."
"We shall think you what you prove yourself to be, my child. Continue to act as a good girl, and you will satisfy us.
Charlotte Bronte
#56. Don't forget, when you refuse to make right choices, you have already chosen to live the wrong way! Indecision is a decision to live wrongly!
Israelmore Ayivor
#58. I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.
Nicholas Hoult
#59. Rightly or wrongly, most Americans look at mortgage equity withdrawal as the closest thing to a free lunch.
Paul McCulley
#60. Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position.
Leo Tolstoy
#61. Life is like a book written with lots of surprises,
Spell it wrongly and you'll be spilled otherwise.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#62. The special harm attaching to prior restraint is that the government can keep materials from reaching the public, so there can be no accountability, no judgment by the people that the power to suppress was wrongly exercised.
Randal Marlin
#63. Whatever you think rightly concerning will go well. Whatever you think wrongly concerning, will go ill.
Emmet Fox
#64. Each superfluous line, each wrongly placed line, any color placed without veneration or care, can spoil everything, that is, the spiritual.
Theo Van Doesburg
#65. Its treasures, as I love them, are imprinted in my memory; and if they are wrongly memorized
a lily where there are tulips, the boy's torn hat rakish at the wrong angle
then this only makes the pictures more mine.
Claire Messud
#66. Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating.
J.G. Ballard
#67. Access to information and freedom of access to it may seem like a fundamental right but there are many people who think, rightly or wrongly, it is for your own good that it is hidden.
Alberto Gonzales
#68. Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being.
David Packard
#69. Not that the study is not important. A Jewish rabbi I once studies with would often say, 'For us Jews studying the bible is more important than obeying it because if you don't understand it rightly you will obey it wrongly and your obedience will be disobedience.
This is also true.
Eugene H. Peterson
#70. How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#71. When you do anything from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, never shrink from being seen to do it, even though the world should misunderstand it; for if you are not acting rightly, shun the action itself; if you are, why fear those who wrongly censure you?
Epictetus
#72. The tools of the mind can be wrongly used, but the mind possesses no wrong tools.
Hugh Prather
#73. It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
Ian McKellen
#74. An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
G.K. Chesterton
#75. I must have decided wrongly, because I am not at peace.
Iyanla Vanzant
#76. I believe that a nuclear Iraq can change its fundamental dynamic, affecting how others behave - toward us and toward allies such as Israel - and emboldening Saddam Hussein to believe, rightly or wrongly, that he can attack his neighbors and, because of his nuclear capability, we will hesitate.
Sandy Berger
#77. The first part of saving your life is coming to understand how you endangered it by loving wrongly, and living under the rule of your passions.
Rod Dreher
#78. To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world, is just as base as to use force ... Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
Hypatia
#79. A man's head is not like a scallion, which will grow again if you cut it off; if you cut it off wrongly, then even if you want to correct your error, there is no way of doing it.
Mao Zedong
#80. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions" (James 4:3). Our
Francis Chan
#81. Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught.
Arthur W. Pink
#82. I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.
Tupac Shakur
#83. If I have one pride in my calling, it is that I have never judged a patron wrongly - and I have never failed to recognize a patron upon meeting.
Jacqueline Carey
#84. The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive.
Eckhart Tolle
#85. It's a dangerous thing to name yourself wrongly or to name yourself unjustly.
John O'Donohue
#86. I think people talk too much; that's the truth of the matter. I do. I don't believe in words. People use too many words and usually wrongly. I am sure that in the distant future people will talk much less and in a more essential way. If people talk a lot less, they will be happier. Don't ask me why.
Michelangelo Antonioni
#87. 35. When you do anything from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, never shun the being seen to do it, even though the world should make a wrong supposition about it; for, if you don't act right, shun the action itself; but, if you do, why are you afraid of those who censure you wrongly?
Epictetus
#88. Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed by those who think and feel wrongly.
John Maynard Keynes
#89. Idolatry is not holding on to the wrong things; it is holding on to the good things wrongly, including God," Herbert McCabe, O.P., quoted in Christian Century, August 21, 2013, 21. Any
Rev. Joseph A. Heim
#91. There was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.
Gene Stratton-Porter
#92. The time is short, and Christianity cannot afford to continue to be wrongly perceived as a sexual downer - which in reality it is not and was never intended to be - that turns everyone off who comes across its path.
M.W. Sphero
#93. Part of the problem with the discovery of the so-called breast-cancer genes was that physicians wrongly told women that had the genetic changes associated with the genes that they had a 99% chance of getting breast cancer. Turns out all women that have these genetic changes don't get breast cancer.
Craig Venter
#94. You wrongly assume that I need to hear your question in order to answer it.
John Green
#95. The more I read, {the Bible] the more Paul sounds like a stroke victim, who never taught a thing that Jesus taught, and only quotes him once, in Acts, wrongly, and the 12 are constantly chastising him for his teachings.
Glenn Hefley
#96. I, perhaps wrongly, assume that people actually read articles that interest them rather than just headlines.
John McAfee
#97. One doesn't commit evil actions in the belief that one is acting wrongly. What allows one to commit such acts is the belief that it will contribute to a greater good.
Una McCormack
#99. When you start in life, if you find you are wrongly placed, don't hesitate to change, but don't change because troubles come up and difficulties arise. You must meet and overcome and conquer them. And in meeting and overcoming and conquering them, you will make yourself stronger for the future.
Charles M. Schwab
#100. But if we love ourselves in the wrong way, we become incapable of loving anybody else. And indeed when we love ourselves wrongly we hate ourselves; if we hate ourselves we cannot help hating others.
Thomas Merton
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