Wrong Place Quotes

#1. Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism
which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place.

Hunter S. Thompson

#2. If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you're serving in the wrong place.

G. Campbell Morgan

#3. 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

#4. Whenever you see confusion, you can be sure that something is wrong. Disorder in the world implies that something is out of place. Usually, at the heart of all disorder you will find man in rebellion against God. It began in the Garden of Eden and continues to this day.

A.W. Tozer

#5. If you do something wrong, it's going to be all over the place. Not only does that go for me, but anyone in here. You just really have to be aware of it.

Patrick Kane

#6. If you dig a hole and it's in the wrong place, digging it deeper isn't going to help.

Seymour Chwast

#7. Meanwhile we arrived at our lane and the sight of the olive tree rubbed me the wrong way. I began to see that no spot is less habitable than a place where one has been happy.

Cesare Pavese

#8. I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing.

Sarah Palin

#9. 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

#10. Things put in the wrong place have found a new place.

Marty Rubin

#11. the focus one finds in the grammar books is on the wrong forms, on forms detached from the underlying (or overarching) form that must be in place before any technical terms can be meaningful or alive

Stanley Fish

#12. I'm not sure if there's one right place I'm supposed to be, he said, but I know a couple of wrong places I'd give a second try in a heartbeat.

Brian Andreas

#13. Because I'm not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb - one of the reasons I slice my arm in the first place is that I'm coked to the gills on something utterly wrong for what I have.

Marya Hornbacher

#14. I suppose it's natural to some people to please without trying, and others to always say and do the wrong thing in the wrong place.

Louisa May Alcott

#15. I used to exist in a simple world of right and wrong, positive and negative. I grew out of an ordered world. Everything had its place, before I came along and belonged nowhere.

Vi Hart

#16. I think the media plays into the hands of false induction, genuine seduction taking place, wrong deductions, and the inevitable reductions. That's the way and the path of the visual.

Ravi Zacharias

#17. It was good of you to look for Quentin." "Good!" she exclaimed. "Good! O Anthony!" "Well, so it was," he answered. "Or good in you. How accurate one has to be with one's prepositions! Perhaps it was a preposition wrong that set the whole world awry." CHARLES WILLIAMS The Place of the Lion

John Piper

#18. The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.

Edith Head

#19. It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.

Ben Jonson

#20. We have to find a place that is ours. The doctors keep trying to make us fit into this world, but they're wrong. We need a world that fits us.

Brian James

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.

Jodi Picoult

#25. As I've gotten older, I've wanted to represent Las Vegas more. Represent the Southwest. It's a magical place. The desert. I do understand people's criticisms, but it's a magical place and a beautiful city, even though there are a lot of things that are wrong with it.

Brandon Flowers

#26. 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

#27. A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.

George Sutherland

#28. Even in making objects, as soon as you start to get the feeling that some form of craft is coming into place, you realize that everything is wrong. Because craft is really just a fetish. It is wasted energy. It's about the object, some space which has nothing to do with the human.

Jeff Koons

#29. Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place.

Larry Wall

#30. You're wrong,darlin', I got wild in me. And I'll never lose it. It's just that my wild is a safe place for you and it will always be. - Brock

Kristen Ashley

#31. 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

#32. We were heading into the clumsy territory of my mother's funeral, stretched-out silences, wrong smiles, the place where words didn't work.

Donna Tartt

#33. My order of priorities reflects the level of my commitment to Christ. Whoever or whatever is in first place, if it isn't the Lord Jesus, is in the wrong place.

Charles R. Swindoll

#34. 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

#35. Will had been ruined by fluke circumstances - wrong place, wrong time. And he wasn't only being robbed of his future, but also his past; all of his hard work, the respect of his family, his fiancee, career, and friends ...

Shane Stadler

#36. Gender is used as a control mechanism that's just wrong. Gender is never anything to struggle with; gender is something to play with. Once you're free of the rules that all these hierarchical, oppressive systems place on gender, that's the tricky part.

Kate Bornstein

#37. I do not believe I ever would have the courage to fight a duel. If any man should wrong me to the extent of my being willing to kill him, I would not be willing to give him the choice of weapons with which it should be done, and of the time, place and distance separating us, when I executed him.

Ulysses S. Grant

#38. Right time, right place, right people equals success.
Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

Idries Shah

#39. That's it! When you come to know men, that's how they are: too sensitive in the wrong place.

D.H. Lawrence

#40. There's no right or wrong way to seek truth, and as the old axiom states, all paths lead to the same place.

Skye Alexander

#41. The geometry of the place was all wrong. One could not be sure that the sea and the ground were horizontal,

H.P. Lovecraft

#42. If you are looking for happiness in this world (dunya), you're in the wrong place.

Hamza Yusuf

#43. It's because you're looking in the wrong place," Lassiter said.
"You can go now."
"Every time you say that, it brings a tear to my eye."
"Funny, mine too."

-Lassiter & Tohr

J.R. Ward

#44. The worst place anyone can start on is "wrong expectations

Ngina Otiende

#45. We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity - that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.

Angela Merkel

#46. Long before our words go wrong, our hearts are the place in which they fester and brew.

Anonymous

#47. Things are in the wrong place. Religion is in the box where science used to be. Politics is on the shelf where you thought you left science the previous afternoon. Entertainment seems to have knocked over and spilled on everything.

Charles P. Pierce

#48. 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.

#49. If you feel unwanted or unappreciated where you are or by those you're with, it only means you're in the wrong place or with the wrong people. Hang in there. Someone else will see you for the true gift you are.

LK Hunsaker

#50. 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

#51. I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

Anthony Storr

#52. Sometimes people make objectively wrong decisions, you can see them do it, and you aren't sure you wouldn't make the same wrong decision in their place.

Hugh Dodwell

#53. Do not, brethren, put your trust in man though he be a bishop, an apostle, or a president. If you do, they will fail you at some time or place; they will do wrong or seem to, and your support be gone;

George Q. Cannon

#54. It's awfully hard to convey a sense of credibility to allies when you [the Congress] voted for the war and then you declared: Wrong war, wrong place, wrong time.

Dick Cheney

#55. We are not lost because we are going to wind up in the wrong place. We are going to wind up in the wrong place because we are lost.

John Ortberg

#56. Because if it's really true that there's no order, then anything can happen to us. Anything at all. There's no real natural law, no right and wrong that's immutable, and the world is suddenly a savage place where any number of things can go wrong.

Anne Rice

#57. To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.

Thomas Hobbes

#58. Somebody has said that woman's place is in the wrong. That's fine. What the wrong needs is a woman's presence and a woman's touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.

James Thurber

#59. Somewhere deep down in us is stored the secret, and when we are digging in the wrong place, we know it. The secret wants to be discovered and will not let us go in peace a way that is not ours.

Elizabeth O'Conner

#60. It's not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the word go. It's a nutty notion that we can have a place where nothing but learning happens, cut off from the rest of life.

John Holt

#61. The world is a fine place. The only thing wrong with it is us. How little justice and humility there is in us, how poorly we understand patriotism!

Anton Chekhov

#62. I'd Begin to imagine my life in a foreign country, some faraway land where, if things went wrong, i could always blame somebody else, saying I'd never wanted to live there in the first place.

David Sedaris

#63. 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

#64. When I finished bathing after dinner, Kumiko was sitting in the living room with the lights out. Hunched down in the dark with her gray shirt on, she looked like a piece of luggage that had been left in the wrong place.

Haruki Murakami

#65. Half of what's wrong with people today is that they ain't got no place to go that makes them peaceful. I don't reckon you got no place like that.

Ayana Mathis

#66. The world couldn't heal as long as human beings were so determined to place gain over virtue, so determined to lead others to ruin down the wrong path.

Rosslyn Elliott

#67. 15You shall not give up to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you. 16He shall dwell with you, in your midst, in the place that he shall choose within one of your towns, wherever it suits him. You shall not wrong him.

Anonymous

#68. If certain places you came to in life felt right, then how many others were just as clearly the wrong place to be?

Paul Russell

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

Thich Nhat Hanh

#70. Somehow I got a place at Bristol University. I'm still waiting for the phone call to say that they made a mistake and got the wrong person.

Will Poulter

#71. For me, taking photographs is such a tortured process. I'm always feeling like I'm not getting enough: I'm in the wrong place, the light isn't good, the subject's not comfortable.

Lynsey Addario

#72. If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.

Peter Kreeft

#73. A lost person or article is still what it is, still valuable in itself, but in the wrong place, disconnected from its purpose and unable to be or do whatever it is intended to be or do.

David Winter

#74. The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.

Chuck Palahniuk

#75. In Soviet thinking the concept of economy of force has little place. Whereas to an Englishman the taking of a sledgehammer to crack a nut is a wrong decision and a sign of mental immaturity ... in Russian eyes the cracking of nuts is clearly what sledgehammers are for.

Max Hastings

#76. I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place.

Barry McGuire

#77. the overriding thought in my mind is that I didn't have the foresight to say goodbye or thank you to the people I love. That sounds corny, I know, but what's wrong with corny? It has its place.

Colin Cotterill

#78. I do not admit ... that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia ... by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race ... has come in and taken its place.

Winston Churchill

#79. I just wanted to be a human being. I just wanted to be whoever I saw in the mirror, without a race or a place in life. What is so wrong with that?

Walter Dean Myers

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

George Lucas

#81. If a law does not work even in one place where it ought to, it is just wrong.

Richard Feynman

#82. No snow flake ever falls in the wrong place

Zen

#83. The English intellect is sound, so far as it goes,but it has one grave defect
it is always cautious in the wrong place.

Wilkie Collins

#84. I believe in energy like dark energies. I believe that when a family moves into a house where six murders took place, there's going to be some bad juju in that house. But then again what the hell is wrong with you to be moving in that house to begin with?

Ryan Reynolds

#85. Such...theatrics in the wrong place could be dangerous.

Kristin Hannah

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

J.C. Reed

#87. Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.

Elbert Hubbard

#88. 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

#89. When I met Jimmy Burke in 1964, he practically owned New York's Kennedy Airport. If you ask me, they named the place after the wrong Irishman.

Henry Hill

#90. I wonder if you can ever be at home anywhere, because home is not a place
it's a state of mind. Really being at home is feeling at home in your own skin ... Perhaps you have been searching for home in the wrong place all your life.

Irvin D. Yalom

#91. Because prayer is the best way to set a wrong thing right again. Admitting I don't have the answers. Asking the One who does for a bit of clarity. Putting myself back in my proper place in the universe.

Rachel Heffington

#92. Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let my mind travel to another place and time.

Rachel Nichols

#93. The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,
efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.

Arthur Helps

#94. Murder is only killing in the wrong place.

Pat Barker

#95. They took the wrong ones! Mistake was made! Everything is unfair! Who do we complain to, in this shitty place? Who is in charge here?]

Donna Tartt

#96. Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Benjamin Franklin

#97. Caelfel squared her shoulders. "I'm not afraid."
Geri turned away. "Good, because if you were, you are definitely in the wrong place.

Kelly R. Michaels

#98. Almost everything wrong with our health care system comes from government interference with the free market. If the health care system is broken, then fix it. Don't try to invent a new one premised on all the bad ideas that are causing problems in the first place.

Ann Coulter

#99. That's why you can destroy them, win an argument, prove the other person wrong, and still they believe what they did in the first place." He

Iain M. Banks

#100. George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.

Randall Terry