Top 100 Wrong Place Quotes
#1. If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you're serving in the wrong place.
G. Campbell Morgan
#2. If you dig a hole and it's in the wrong place, digging it deeper isn't going to help.
Seymour Chwast
#3. I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing.
Sarah Palin
#4. 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
#5. Things put in the wrong place have found a new place.
Marty Rubin
#6. 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
#7. The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.
Edith Head
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.
George Sutherland
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. Right time, right place, right people equals success.
Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.
Idries Shah
#20. That's it! When you come to know men, that's how they are: too sensitive in the wrong place.
D.H. Lawrence
#21. If you are looking for happiness in this world (dunya), you're in the wrong place.
Hamza Yusuf
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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.
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.
Anthony Storr
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.
Chuck Palahniuk
#38. They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes." Leia Organa of Alderaan, Senator
George Lucas
#39. No snow flake ever falls in the wrong place
Zen
#40. 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
#41. Such...theatrics in the wrong place could be dangerous.
Kristin Hannah
#42. Falling in love often happens at the wrong time, in the wrong place, with the wrong person.
J.C. Reed
#43. Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.
Elbert Hubbard
#44. 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
#45. Murder is only killing in the wrong place.
Pat Barker
#46. 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
#47. Where are you? In the past or in the future? It doesn't matter because if you are not in today you are in the wrong place!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#48. In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.
Helen Rowland
#51. 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
#52. A weed is just a flower growing in the wrong place
Cecelia Ahern
#53. English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place.
Mark Twain
#55. I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody.
Jeremy Renner
#56. Like accidents, marriages result because those involved happen to arrive at what might be the wrong place, at the same time.
Margaret Yorke
#57. Our ignorance is such that most of us don't realize we're thirsty. Or, if we realize we're thirsty, we look for water in the wrong place. We go into fire looking for cool refreshment. And often we're confused about what our thirst actually is.
Steve Hagen
#58. Ali even told me in the ring, 'You can't beat me - I'm your Lord.' I just told him, 'Lord, you're in the wrong place tonight.'
Joe Frazier
#59. 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
#60. It felt like the wrong thing to do, standing at the wrong door in the wrong place. We did it anyway. Knowing something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will eer know why.
Lemony Snicket
#61. Waiting at the wrong place, most like.
Donna Tartt
#62. I went to the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, which was great but very different from a typical university. They sat us down in the first week and said: if you want to party, you've come to the wrong place. There was no lie-ins or skipping lectures.
Kimberley Nixon
#63. Life was short, and if it wasn't sweet you were in the wrong place with the wrong people
Vikki Wakefield
#64. Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Ani DiFranco
#65. 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
#66. The penalty for planting the wrong thing in the wrong place is death.
Cassandra Danz
#67. 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
#68. They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes
George Lucas
#69. The modern philosopher had told me again and again that I was in the right place, and I still felt depressed even in acquiescence. But I had heard that I was in the wrong place, and my soul sang for joy like a bird in spring.
G.K. Chesterton
#70. I like to be the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place. Being the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place is worth it because something interesting always happens.
Andy Warhol
#71. 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
#72. If I can't affect some change in six years, maybe I'm in the wrong place.
George Nethercutt
#73. Learning by example is valid, but when you have the information to know that turning in a certain direction can lead you to a very wrong place, most of the "blame" is on the individual.
Ellen Hopkins
#74. 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
#75. Christopher Columbus was looking for a passage to India, but he landed in America. He landed in the wrong place, and when he got back, he wasn't sure where he'd been. But most important of all, he did it on someone else's money.
Ronald Reagan
#76. For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation ... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#77. A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place, but intends to stay.
Sara Bonnett Stein
#78. To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort.
Graham Greene
#79. 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
#80. The wrong place to start is to hire familiar people who are in your comfort zone - good buddies, but not the best in their skill set. Such people are difficult to fire and hard to manage.
Henry Kressel
#81. When you dread getting up in the morning to go somewhere, you are going to the wrong place.
Karen Larson-Reuter
#82. 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
#83. What I know now is that nothing is universally boring - what's boring to you could be totally engaging to someone else. If you're bored and hating it, it's a big sign that you're most likely just in the wrong place.
Sophia Amoruso
#84. One problem we discovered, for example, was that our "create a new account" button was in the wrong place ... By simply moving it to the left side, mirroring the way people read, we saw a huge improvement in the way people used the site.
Marc Benioff
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. I think we place the wrong emphasis upon examples, that we're treading on very weak ground when we set ourselves up as examples for others to become religious. If people are going to look at me for religious guidance, then I think they're looking in the wrong place.
Charles M. Schulz
#88. If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Stephen R. Covey
#89. There's nothing like being openly stared at by an attractive member of the opposite sex to make me feel as if all of my limbs were in the wrong place.
Stephanie Perkins
#90. To keep the wrong leader in the wrong place prevents the right leader from being in the right place.
Aubrey Malphurs
#91. 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
#92. Sometimes you've got to go to the wrong place just to show that you're not afraid to go there.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#94. All the fossils that we have ever found have always been found in the appropriate place in the time sequence. There are no fossils in the wrong place.
Richard Dawkins
#95. Fruit often ends up rotting in the crisper drawer. Well, that's the wrong place to put it. Out of sight, out of mind. The kids all know where the junk-food shelf is. Make the fruit that easy to get to. Put a big huge bowl of fruit on the counter.
Tyler Florence
#96. And how funny, strange, that a thing can grow so powerful even when planted in the wrong place. Ideas too, I muttered. Ideas.
Louise Erdrich
#97. It was the wrong place at the wrong time kind of shit that had quickly turned into a catastrophe of epic proportions
Madeline Sheehan
#98. Jesus didn't tell us not to store up treasures. On the contrary, he commanded us to. He simply said, "Stop storing them up in the wrong place, and start storing them up in the right place."
Randy Alcorn
#99. The Wrong Person in the Wrong Place = Regression. The Wrong Person in the Right Place = Frustration. The Right Person in the Wrong Place = Confusion. The Right Person in the Right Place = Progression. The Right People in the Right Places = Multiplication.
John C. Maxwell
#100. No matter where you're going it's the wrong place.
Tobe Hooper
