Top 100 Wrong When Quotes
#1. But because they didn't see each other very often, their relationship had more ups and downs than either of them had experienced before. Since everything felt right when they were together, everything felt wrong when they weren't.
Nicholas Sparks
#2. It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.
Thomas Sowell
#3. I think everybody heard it wrong. When people were saying I was born again, it was actually that I've got back into porn again . . .
Billy Idol
#4. So I'm not wrong when I said you are a puppet? That you have no voice or choice in deciding?
Sergio Martinez
#5. Am I always in contact with Reality, or do I only pray when things have gone wrong, when there is a disturbance in the moments of my life?
Oswald Chambers
#7. My doctors asked what was wrong when they found me pale faced and lifeless. I told them I spent an immense amount of time stuDYING.
Karen Quan
#8. General George S. Patton may have been uncouth, but he wasn't wrong when he bellowed, Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser.
Victor Davis Hanson
#9. I usually find that my gut doesn't steer me wrong when it comes to my money!
Michelle Singletary
#10. Whenever I get the sort of fancy pants idea that I'm doing anything other than pure expression things start to go wrong. When I get too premeditated, things start to go wrong. I just shut that part of my brain off.
Lev Yilmaz
#11. The INFP possesses strong principles, especially when it comes to morals and what he thinks is right and wrong. When his inner values are in harmony with the values of the company, then he can become a very useful member of the team.
Louise Gladstone
#12. Sometimes people with strong ideology, whether left-wing or right-wing, refuse to do something simply because they believe it is wrong, when doing it actually benefits them. For some people, it's not just about money and political power.
Ha-Joon Chang
#13. Some people's theologies come across as blatantly wrong when weighed against what is revealed in Scripture. However God has mercy on those who may be wrong but genuinely seek understanding before seeking themselves.
Criss Jami
#14. I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.
Jim Henson
#15. Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.
Anna Godbersen
#16. We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value.
Jonathan Sacks
#17. I think Hollywood is cleverer than you think. I'm not sure they will do it. I don't think so, but maybe I'm wrong. When we were doing the preparation of the movie, we didn't have all the money so we were looking for all the solutions possible, and 3D was one option.
Michel Hazanavicius
#18. Historically, people move west more than east. People go east only when invited. When opportunity knocks.
People go west when all bets are off: a reputation in ruins, a love gone wrong. When they need to save their sorry souls, folks head for the frontier.
Karen Hines
#19. How easy it is to do wrong when there is someone else to blame.
Jenny Lloyd
#20. I believe that in your heart you already know something is profoundly wrong. When bartenders are responsible for drunk drivers' acts, and gunmakers are responsible for criminals' acts, and nobody is responsible for O. J. Simpson's acts, something is wrong.
Charlton Heston
#21. It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
Moliere
#22. Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.
Francis Chan
#23. They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice ... That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#24. And what went wrong when other alchemists tried to make gold and were unable to do so?"
"They were looking only for gold his companion answered. They were seeking the treasure of their personal legend, without wanting actually to live out the personal legend.
Paulo Coelho
#25. Well, normally I'm against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. Too many things can go wrong when they get big. - Pete Seeger (on how he felt about attending his big 90th birthday bash last year)
Pete Seeger
#26. There's no 'right or wrong' when we describe what is beautiful and what is not.
Fennel Hudson
#27. In my life nothing goes wrong. When things seem to not meet my expectations, I let go of how I think things should be. It's a matter of not having any attachment to any fixed outcome.
Deepak Chopra
#28. People get it wrong when they talk about innocence: they think it's something to do with ignorance about the facts of sex and all the nasty things that happen in the world. But facts don't change people: it's understanding how the facts feel that does.
Alexia Casale
#29. Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.
Joel Osteen
#30. We live in an upside-down world. People hate when they should love, quarrel when they should be friendly, fight when they should be peaceful, wound when they should heal, steal when they should share,
do wrong when they should do right.
Billy Graham
#32. 'Big Little Lies' is the story of a school trivia night that goes horrifically wrong, when one parent ends up dead, possibly murdered. I have never attended a school trivia night where a parent ended up dead. In fact, I've never been to a school trivia night at all.
Liane Moriarty
#33. Whether we deserve this or not, whether these turn out to be the darkest days of our lives or the brightest happiness, we've been guided by love. How can we go wrong when we're guided by love, Olivia.
Morgan Parker
#34. Hate is not wrong when you hate what is wrong.
Nick Cole
#35. 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
#36. Pessimists are only pessimists when they're wrong. When we're right, the world calls us prophets.
Karen Marie Moning
#37. We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.
Philibert Joseph Roux
#38. Restaurants are like having children: it's fun to make them, maybe, but then you have them for good and bad. You are going to have to raise them and if something goes wrong when they are 30 years old, they will still be your little boy.
Wolfgang Puck
#39. When one has made his demands upon the Universal, he must be ready for surprises. Everything may seem to be going wrong, when in reality, it is going right.
Florence Scovel Shinn
#40. Sometimes I like to list the strongest arguments I can find to support a point of view I think is wrong. When I have them before me, I am up against a real opponent rather than a hypothetical one that is an easy target for me to hit.
Lewis B. Smedes
#41. Logan had infiltrated enemy strongholds with less effort than he was expending to get this family tell him the complete truth ... Something was very wrong when war seemed so much simpler than his home life.
Cat Johnson
#42. You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#43. Mother, with her upbringing in the primitive Baptist church, believed that converting to Roman Catholicism was a step upward in the social order. Of course she was wrong; when I grew up in the South, a Roman Catholic was the weirdest thing you could be.
Pat Conroy
#44. What difference did it make whether they were hurt or happy, right or wrong, when the sun rose and the moon waned just the same, with or without them?
Elif Shafak
#45. There's something wrong when there's nothing wrong.
David Levithan
#46. Chaos erupted, but Magnus's darkest imaginings had been proved wrong. When the fight was joined, there were Shadowhunters on his side, fighting with him against Shadowunters, fighting for Downworlders and the Accords of peace they had all agreed to.
Cassandra Clare
#47. It's not who was right or who was wrong when a mistake was made. It's about who learned from it.
Robert Kiyosaki
#48. Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to perserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
Aldo Leopold
#49. There is something sadly wrong when it is more important to us whether others are a part of our denomination, rather than whether they repent of sin, believe on Christ and live holy lives.
J.C. Ryle
#50. People ask, "Are you important enough for me to love you?" But they've got it all wrong. When you love someone, you make them important. And the same thing happens to you. You don't love them because they're important; they become important because you love them.
C. JoyBell C.
#51. Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers ... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.
Tom Stoppard
#52. And you know that voice in your head that tells you not to do wrong? I have one of those, but it doesn't give a shit about right and wrong when someone upsets her.
Suzanne Wright
#53. God is never in the wrong when He and one of His children are separated; yet He devises ways so that the banished person may not remain estranged from Him. Never underestimate the significance of timing when it comes to mending. You may not get another chance.
Beth Moore
#54. When you say something in a wrong group - it will never be right, so you can not say anything wrong, when you don't belong to a group.
Gloria Steinem
#55. Someone said it's not wrong to have things. It's wrong when your things have you.
Craig Groeschel
#56. When someone does wrong, when we make mistakes, we don't say we're sorry. We promise to make amends.
Leigh Bardugo
#57. Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.
Lee Iacocca
#58. If Clausewitz is right, no one should develop a strategy without taking into account the effects of organizational friction. Yet we continue to be surprised and frustrated when it manifests itself. We tend to think everything has gone wrong when in fact everything has gone normally.
Stephen Bungay
#59. I'm finished with something, but I'm not beginning anything. That's wrong. When you finish something, you ought always to begin something new.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#60. Of course, one of the main legitimate functions of thought has always been to help provide security, guaranteeing shelter and food for instance. However, this function went wrong when the principle source of insecurity came to be the operation of thought itself.
David
#61. But when someone does wrong, when we make mistakes, we don't say we're sorry. We promise to make amends."
"I will."
"Mati en sheva yelu. This action will have no echo. It means we won't repeat the same mistakes, that we won't continue to do harm.
Leigh Bardugo
#63. It's Annie and me they're all sitting around here like cardboard people judging; It's Annie and me. And what we did that they think is wrong, when you pare it all down, was fall in love.
Nancy Garden
#64. She stumbled then and Geryon caught her other arm, it was like a handful of autumn. He felt huge and wrong. When is it polite to let go someone's arm after you grab it?
Anne Carson
#65. The public is never wrong. When people don't respond to what you do, they're telling you something loud and clear. You're just not listening.
50 Cent
#67. You'll never go wrong when you work with someone smarter than you.
Tibor Kalman
#68. I had been wrong when I said Liza McCullen wasn't beautiful: when she smiled she was stunning.
Joanna Noelle Levesque
#69. Progressives know there is something very wrong when a nation divided politically has one major network operating as a propaganda arm of the Republican Party and 90 percent of talk radio is dominated by right-wing extremists.
Bernie Sanders
#70. 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
#71. Segmentation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
Coretta Scott King
#72. It's ok sometimes, to let go the rule of who is right and who is wrong, when it comes to bringing a smile back on the face of a loved one.
Arti Honrao
#73. Founders go wrong when they start to believe their business plan will materialize as written. I advise entrepreneurs to burn their business plan - it's simply too dangerous to the health of your business.
Alexander Osterwalder
#74. It's hard to answer the question "what's wrong?" when nothing is right.
Anonymous
#75. Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.
Guy Kawasaki
#76. They got it wrong when they called it "the closet." This was a prison. Solitary confinement. I was locked inside, inside myself, dark and afraid and alone. (Chapter. 23)
Julie Anne Peters
#77. There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#78. Marxists are more right than wrong when they argue that the problems scientists take up,. the way they go about solving them, and even the solutions they arc inclined to accept, arc conditioned by the intellectual, social, and economic environments in which they live and work.
Theodosius Dobzhansky
#79. it requires deep love to coax effective treatment from our mental healthcare system for a partner who is convinced that nothing can improve or, worse, that nothing is wrong, when it obviously is.
Gina Pera
#81. You are never wrong when you have voted because you've acted in accordance with your conscience and your beliefs, and you've exercised your democratic right, which is, you know, perfectly legitimate in our democracies.
Christine Lagarde
#82. The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.
Terry Pratchett
#83. Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.
Terry Pratchett
#84. Things go wrong when the people who control that world stop listening to their own instincts and start catering to their fan base.
DJ Shadow
#85. People are wrong when they say that everything should be more diverse, even, say, rock bands. It's an error, an overgeneralization.
Jonathan Haidt
#86. I'm convinced people are wrong when they say it's work that wears one; it's responsibility.
Virginia Woolf
#87. He [the prince] holds to what is right when he can but knows how to do wrong when he must.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#89. I began to see how everything was so wrong. When growers can have an intricate watering system to irrigate their crops but they can't have running water inside the houses of workers.
Studs Terkel
#90. So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.
Gene Wilder
#91. Whenever something went wrong when I was young - if I had a pimple or if my hair broke - my mom would say, 'Sister mine, I'm going to make you some soup.' And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.
Maya Angelou
#92. We shall act with good intentions, but at times we will be wrong. When we are, let us admit it and try to right the situation.
Joe Paterno
#93. And nothing's wrong when nothing's true
But I live in a hologram with you.
Lorde
#94. Maybe one day I will meet her in real life. Her tears were my rain, her angry was thunder and lighting. I knew when it rained. I was doing something wrong, when It thundered I knew I had to write about her to make her happy. The Diary
Jeremy Limn
#95. There's something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers
Lindsey Graham
#96. Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
Michel De Montaigne
#97. I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.
F. Murray Abraham
#99. Oftentimes people get it wrong when they say we need to educate voters first and then give them power. I tend to favor giving them power first.
Zephyr Teachout
#100. Children always think they did something wrong when their parents disappear.
Madonna Ciccone
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