There Is Something Wrong Quotes

#1. I have learnt from the politics of my great country, Nigeria that there is nothing wrong with the heads of states, but there is something wrong with the state of the heads.

Ogwo David Emenike

#2. If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful vim and vigor, then there is something wrong with our colleges. The more riots that come on college campuses, the better world for tomorrow.

William Allen White

#3. It's unfortunate that school is so often regarded as a one-size-fits-all kind of deal. And if it doesn't fit, you're treated as if there is something wrong with you; so it is you, not the system, which is failing.

Sophia Amoruso

#4. I play because I have fun, if I don't have fun on the court, there is something wrong. I am just a 19 year old boy that likes to do what he likes, nothing else.

Rafael Nadal

#5. People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater, and even a newspaperman, but if a man does not drive, there is something wrong with him.

Art Buchwald

#6. It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!

Leo Tolstoy

#7. There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but men will never make the changes. They have too much to lose.

Victoria Woodhull

#8. There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.

Herman Melville

#9. A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.

Criss Jami

#10. If you require force to promote your ideal, there is something wrong with your ideal.

J.S.B. Morse

#11. After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.

Monica Bellucci

#12. Because anyone who thinks there is something wrong with being gay is like those people you read about in History who believed it segregation.

Michael Barakiva

#13. If you are not comortable to deal with an opponent 50 lbs heavier than you, there is something wrong with your Jiu Jitsu ...

Rickson Gracie

#14. But if there's nothing wrong with me, he thought, then there is something wrong with the world. And if there is nothing wrong with the world, then I have wasted my life and that is the worst mistake of all.

Walker Percy

#15. Where is the bane of my existence?"
"In the shower, freshening up."
Damn it all to hell. "Oh God, who did Ascanio screw now?"
"No, no, he's covered in blood."
"Oh good." Wait a minute. "The kid is covered in blood and we're relieved. There is something wrong with us.

Ilona Andrews

#16. I hate society's notion that there is something wrong with sex. Something wrong with a woman who loves sex.

Alessandra Torre

#17. Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

Viktor Korchnoi

#18. Did you know your dancing is atrocious? I seriously think there is something wrong with your inner ear. No other human moves so unnaturally to music.

Ashlan Thomas

#19. You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not.

Cheri Huber

#20. The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.

Bjorn Lomborg

#21. If you will investigate all the Indian troubles, you will find that there is something wrong of this nature at the bottom of all of them, something relating to the supplies, or else a tardy and broken faith on the part of the general government.

George Crook

#22. It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us.

Alcoholics Anonymous

#23. There is something wrong with any spirituality that does not inspire selfless concern for others

Karen Armstrong

#24. There is something wrong when you wait in line thirty minutes to get a hamburger that was cooked for ninety seconds an hour ago.

Lewis Grizzard

#25. War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to death. But there is something wrong, not nice, about bombing that city.

Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

#26. I'm a really smart player. If you tell me something, I get it quickly. If there is something wrong with my hitting, tell me what's wrong and I'll pick it up right away. That's the best thing I have going for me, my ability to listen to a coach and fix what I'm doing wrong.

Albert Pujols

#27. Good memory skill is the offspring of good focus. If you find yourself becoming a little forgetful, it is probably not because there is something wrong with your brain. Rather, it is simply because your mind is too cluttered to allow things to stick.

Ilchi Lee

#28. There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

Patrick Kavanagh

#29. Guilt says I've done something wrong; ... shame says there is something wrong with me. Guilt says I've made a mistake; ... shame says I am a mistake. Guilt says what did was not good; ... shame says I am no good.

John Bradshaw

#30. The trouble with playing a trick on a highly intelligent man like Mr. Teller is that the time it takes him to figure out from the moment that he sees there is something wrong till he understands exactly what happened is too damn small to give you any pleasure!

Richard Feynman

#31. Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes. It is well to have learned that.

Oscar Wilde

#32. Ultimately abortion takes place because there is something wrong within the culture, within the system, and not simply because this or that particular woman is seeking to end an unwanted pregnancy.

Ronald Rolheiser

#33. Usually bullies have severe mothers and bad fathers, and they are usually frightened of them. That is why they are bullies, I think. There is something wrong at home. I have found that with children in general and this applies to men as well.

Alexander McCall Smith

#34. Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.

James D. Watson

#35. I think there is something wrong with the human race. It undermines everything one would like to believe in, don't you think?

Kate Atkinson

#36. There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, east a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#37. There is nothing wrong with having a good job, there is nothing wrong with having a nice house, there is nothing wrong with that. There is something wrong when that is your goal.

Nouman Ali Khan

#38. When I feel ashamed, it means I feel there isn't just something wrong with what I've done, there is something wrong with who I am. Shame is often a hidden emotion and it can be paralyzing in its power.

Desmond Tutu

#39. Conviction says, 'My behavior was wrong.' Satan, on the other hand, floods our hearts with shame. Shame says, 'There is something wrong with me.

Dale Forehand

#40. The test of a man's conversion is whether he has enough Christianity to get it to other people. If he hasn't, there is something wrong.

Sam Shoemaker

#41. It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.

Samuel Johnson

#42. There is a yearning in you to set things right, little malfetto - you are smarter than the others, because you know there is something wrong with you. It tears at your conscience, doesn't it? You have hatred for yourself, and I admire that.

Marie Lu

#43. Sacred Sibyl!" I cried. "Madam, there is something wrong with your midsection!"
The woman stopped, mystified, and looked down at her hugely swollen belly. "Well, I'm seven months pregnant.

Rick Riordan

#44. In this dirty minded world, you are either someone's wife or someone's whore. And if you're not either people think there is something wrong with you ... but there is nothing wrong with me

John Irving

#45. If you have problems in your life, don't assume there is something wrong with you.

Bruce C. Hafen

#46. I'm very proud that some people think that I'm a danger for the intellectual health of students. When people start thinking of health in intellectual activities, I think there is something wrong. In their opinion I am a dangerous man, since I am a crypto-Marxist, an irrationalist, a nihilist.

Michel Foucault

#47. There is nothing wrong with our country, there is something wrong with our politics ... When this country is operating off a common ground, nobody can stop us. But when we're divided, then we end up having a whole lot of self-inflicted problems.

Barack Obama

#48. No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.

Al Alvarez

#49. I don't believe in naming clients to get press. I hated it when I was a couture client. If the dresses don't sell themselves, there is something wrong.

Carolina Herrera

#50. There is something wrong when a brother or sister becomes alienated from the rest of their family, so there is something wrong when Christians refuse to have anything to do with their fellow Christians. God wants us to live this Christian life together.

Billy Graham

#51. There's nothing wrong with talking out loud in public, but there is something wrong with the government sucking up all those utter instances in a database just in case they maybe want to bust you in five years.

Clive Thompson

#52. I think, immediately, that there is something wrong with us, perhaps unfixable, if my husband wouldn't think to tell me this. Sometimes I feel it's his personal game, that he's in some sort of undeclared contest for impenetrability.

Gillian Flynn

#53. The tattoo is there not because I believe there is something wrong with me. It's there to remind me that our flaws are our strengths

Cecelia Ahern

#54. Svanaja includes in itself the whole subject, officials and ministers. If there is something wrong in the conduct of these people, it would be damaging the state. An administrator should strictly deal with it.

Chanakya

#55. I live, eat, spend, travel, support a family, entertain.....but I do not go to work. There is something wrong. My nest egg just keeps growing.

Manoj Arora

#56. If a person acts out of character, then there's one thing you can be sure of: there is something wrong. I have seen this so many times I have lost count.

Alexander McCall Smith

#57. Profit margins are probably the most mean-reverting series in finance, and if profit margins do not mean-revert, then something has gone badly wrong with capitalism. If high profits do not attract competition, there is something wrong with the system and it is not functioning properly.

Jeremy Grantham

#58. If you don't like music, there is something wrong with your face

Christian Coma

#59. There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.

Gary Bauer

#60. Poor little lambs,' says one, eyeing us constantly, as if there is something wrong with us; as if we have a condition that can't be named." Pastel Orphans

Gemma Liviero

#61. There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.

Nigella Lawson

#62. There is something wrong with the world if I'm writing a book outside and people think I'm planning an attack due to my skin color.

Daniel Marques

#63. Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong.

Francis Schaeffer

#64. Stress means there is something wrong, and you are not aligned with life.

Eckhart Tolle

#65. A number of Guru's feel that there is something wrong or sick about being gay. I think it really doesn't matter what your sexual preference is; what matters is the quality of your love.

Frederick Lenz

#66. Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them.

Katherine Dunn

#67. I think someone who would watch this would think there is something wrong with me and something wrong with my friends.

Chris Kaman

#68. People think there is something wrong with Mike(Milbury). But there's method in his madness.

Scott Lachance

#69. I must tell you that I should really like to think there's something wrong with me- Because, if there isn't, then there's something wrong with the world itself-and that's much more frightening! That would be terrible. So I'd rather believe there is something wrong with me, that could be put right.

T. S. Eliot

#70. If God does not enter your kitchen, there is something wrong with your kitchen. If you can't take God into your recreation, there is something wrong with your play. We all believe in the God of the heroic. What we need most these days is the God of the humdrum, the commonplace, the everyday.

Peter Marshall

#71. If you have strongly held opinions, you are opinionated; if you don't, you lack conviction: either way, there is something wrong with you.

Thomas Szasz

#72. There is something wrong with this world." She stood like she was making a speech. "Something very wrong when it's the twenty-first century and this type of elitist travesty is still being perpetuated.

Alex Flinn

#73. When God lays His finger on your heart it cannot help but be filled with love for others; if that doesn't happen there is nothing wrong with God's finger there is something wrong with your heart

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#74. One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by a rhetoric that implies that there is something wrong with religious devotion.

Stephen L. Carter

#75. There are some movie stars in Hollywood that are so scared, they also tell the reporter that they are recording them, in case there is something wrong with what they wrote about them in the papers.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

#76. I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

Oscar Wilde

#77. The term "cognitive disorder" implies there is something wrong with the way I think or the way I perceive reality. I perceive reality just fine. Sometimes I perceive more of reality than others.

Francisco X Stork

#78. To you wives who are constantly complaining and see only the dark side of life, and feel that you are unloved and unwanted, look into your own hearts and minds. If there is something wrong, turn about. Put a smile on your faces. Make yourselves more attractive. Brighten your outlook.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#79. If I have to take police protection in my own country from my own people, then there is something wrong with me, I'm fighting within the framework of the Indian constitution and it is not against anyone, but for everyone.

Narendra Dabholkar

#80. I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.

John Osborne

#81. Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God. If we are bored with life there is something wrong with our concept of God and His involvement in our daily lives. Even the most dull and tedious days of our lives are ordained by God and ought to be used by us to glorify Him.

Jerry Bridges

#82. When a man gets up so high (spiritual mountaintop) that he cannot reach down and save poor sinners, there is something wrong.

Dwight L. Moody

#83. We all know there is something wrong with our culture, the state of our world, and with ourselves.

Bryant McGill

#84. You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.

Damon Hill

#85. I'm sure that a U.S. citizen, if I try to sing in English, he can feel that I'm not really sincere, there is something wrong. And I'm sure that even in French, they could feel the sincerity more than in English.

Stromae

#86. There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#87. There is something wrong with you if you don't get angry about something.

Elvis Costello

#88. If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#89. 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

#90. There is something within our biological structure that screams out and says it is morally wrong for the old to outlive the young. This is one of the times when God doesn't seem to make sense. This is the worst that life gets.

Rick Atkinson

#91. There is simply something wrong with my conscience. I do try to wrestle with the devil as I ought, but, like Eve, even when tempted by the Forbidden Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, I succumb. Good as they are, how could my parents have bred a daughter like me?

Miriam Brenaman

#92. It's important to avoid mirrors if one is unprepared to accept their daily news, and I think, in something as insignificantly devastating as appearance, denial is more socially constructive than despondency. Not that there's anything especially wrong with me
just the usual.

Rivka Galchen

#93. There's something wrong with your back" ...
"There is?"
Griffin grinned at him. "My welts aren't on it.

Tiffany Reisz

#94. It is not wrong to change in order to achieve certain goals in life. If you want a happy relationship, for example, you can't expect luck to bring it. You can't have something that implies you without being yourself there.

Robin Sacredfire

#95. There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to private gain amid defensive war while another is fighting, sacrificing, or dying for national preservation.

Warren G. Harding

#96. I'm just another guy who sits there day to day in the office, watching what's happening, and goes, 'This is something that's not our place to decide.' The public needs to decide whether these programs or policies are right or wrong,

Edward Snowden

#97. Stage fright is not a thing about 'Am I any good?' It's about 'Am I gonna be good tonight?' It's a right-now thing. It helps me. If I went out there thinkin', 'Eh, we'll go slaughter 'em,' I'm positive something would go seriously wrong.

Gregg Allman

#98. If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

Roger A. Caras

#99. If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#100. If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if.

Duff Goldman