Wrong With The World Quotes

#1. Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly,

G.K. Chesterton

#2. "Faith is what's wrong with the world, Aidan. Or don't you follow the news?"
"That's not faith," he says. "That's the complete lack of it. If any one of those mass-genocidal idiots had faith, they wouldn't have the insane need to prove it to others."

Cyma Rizwaan Khan

#3. British writer G. K. Chesterton's reply to an invitation by the Times to write an essay on the subject "What's Wrong with the World?" Chesterton's response: Dear Sirs, I am. Sincerely, G. K. Chesterton

Dale Carnegie

#4. People love villains almost as much as they love heroes. Nothing satisfies discontent so much as having a fiend to vilify, an embodiment of all that is wrong with the world.

Anonymous

#5. There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.

Henry Miller

#6. How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. (What's Wrong with the World)

John Eldredge

#7. We started by asking what's wrong with the world, and we ended up discovering what's right with it.

Tom Shadyac

#8. When a newspaper posed the question, "What's Wrong with the World?" the Catholic thinker G. K. Chesterton reputedly wrote a brief letter in response: "Dear Sirs: I am. Sincerely Yours, G. K. Chesterton." That is the attitude of someone who has grasped the message of Jesus.

Timothy Keller

#9. 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

#10. Q: What is wrong with the world?
A: Everybody pays attention to pictures of things. Nobody pays attention to things themselves.

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. And that's what's wrong with the world.." "Man, woman, straight, gay. There's nothing wrong with wanting someone. We're all adults.

Lindsey Kelk

#12. When your response to everything that is wrong with the world is to say, 'there ought to be a law,' you are saying that you hold freedom very cheap.

Thomas Sowell

#13. You want to know what's wrong with the world?" Dad paused. "It's this alienation that permeates every aspect of humanity.

Mark David Henderson

#14. A green girl in the woods just kissed me," he announced furiously. "What is wrong with the world?

Sarah Rees Brennan

#15. America is not what's wrong with the world

Donald Rumsfeld

#16. If there is one person on the planet who still is suffering from loneliness and from pain or despair, and we don't know about it, or we don't want to know about it, then something is wrong with the world.

Elie Wiesel

#17. Nothing wrong with the world that a juicy steak couldn't cure.

Jack Coughlin

#18. If you focus on the world's deficiencies and stop there, then you'll probably feel horrible and paralyzed. But why stop there? It's intellectually dishonest to focus on what's wrong with the world without acknowledging our rich history of overcoming incredible odds.

T.K. Coleman

#19. There is so much wrong with the world. (tanta stat praedita culpa)

Lucretius

#20. So one might cry for everything that was wrong with the world, for all the injustice and crudity and cruelty, for all the things that are stolen from people.

Alexander McCall Smith

#21. I mean everybody knows there's something wrong with the world and if you read left wing politicians or deconstructionists or thoughtful historians they will offer thoughtful critiques of our situation. But the question is, you know, the Tolstoyian question; 'What is to be done?'

Terence McKenna

#22. It is not enough just to identify a problem; there are plenty of people who were very skilled at pointing out what was wrong with the world, but they were not always so adept at working out how these things could be righted.

Alexander McCall Smith

#23. Dr. Paul Farmer said it best: "The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world." Esther helped us see the truth in that statement.

Steve Jenkins

#24. My dick didn't seem to be aware that she was there. She kept asking me what was wrong, and I was so out of it that I thought she meant what was wrong with the world, so I started talking about global poverty and shit. I'm not surprised she left. I suspect she won't be coming back.

Nikki Sixx

#25. I'm very sad about Mitch McConnell probably getting to be Senate majority leader, if only for two years. To me, he is just everything that is wrong with the world, a bullying obstructionist blowhard liar (not to put too fine a point on it).

Anne Lamott

#26. There was[is] something seriously wrong with the world for which neither God nor His absence could be blamed.

Ian McEwan

#27. There is nothing wrong with the world of physicality. There is nothing wrong with existence. It's perfect ... but it's terribly transient.

Frederick Lenz

#28. It's easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world; it is the hardest and most important work in one's life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment.

Noah Levine

#29. Along with Chesterton, I've had to take my place among those who acknowledge that we are what is wrong with the world. What is my snobbishness toward my childhood church, for instance, but an inverted form of the harsh judgment it showed me?

Philip Yancey

#30. 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

#31. There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in. And definitely get out of high school and make everyone sorry.

Chris Colfer

#32. My computer terminal whistles at me: YOU HAVE MAIL. No shit, Sherlock, I always have mail. It's an existential thing: if I don't have mail it would mean that something is very wrong with the world

Charles Stross

#33. 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

#34. Cheerleaders are simultaneously everything that is right and wrong with the world.

Dov Davidoff

#35. This was insane. What was wrong with the world? Didn't they know that ghosts and supernatural powers where little girls helped their dads and uncles solve case didn't exist?
It was books. It was television shows and movies. They had desensitized the world.
Damn writers.

Darynda Jones

#36. The constant flow of images undercuts the sense that there's actually something wrong with the world. How can there really be a shortage of whooping cranes when you've seen a thousand images of them - seen ten times more images than there are actually whooping cranes left in the wild?

Bill McKibben

#37. I can't stomach any kind of notion that serious fiction is good for us, because I don't believe that everything that's wrong with the world has a cure.

Jonathan Franzen

#38. What's wrong with the world and what can we do to change it?

Oprah Winfrey

#39. The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

Paul Farmer

#40. Being human in a world with no tolerance for humanity felt like a setup, a game I couldn't win. But instead of understanding that there might be something wrong with the world, I decided there was something wrong with me.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#41. In the Church, when we talk about 'the world', we often create an us and them situation and end up planting the seeds of all that we feel wrong with the world in the soil of our own backyard.

Steve Scott

#42. In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. And yet you must survive. It is this dilemma that makes us believe and cling to the lie that we have a soul, and that there is a God who cares about its fate.

Gregory David Roberts

#43. The future is what's wrong with the world today. There's too much future and not enough past!

Archie Bunker

#44. There's nothing wrong with sexual feelings in themselves, so long as they are straightforward and not sneaking or sly. The right sort of sex stimulus is invaluable to human daily life. Without it the world grows grey.

D.H. Lawrence

#45. 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

#46. Some may think fashion is frivolous, but the way I see it, when you dress well, you add beauty to the world. And there's nothing wrong with that, right?

Laura Harring

#47. There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure.

Mike Penner

#48. 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

#49. A woman can plan. A woman thinks she needs a man for nothing in this world but soon realizes she is wrong. The same way every black- owned business has to acquire goods from a white distributor, women have to do business with men, be it professional or personal, to achieve too many of our goals.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#50. Retailers should not be filling their minds with all the things that are wrong, with how the economy is going, or with trying to get someplace in the business world. They should enjoy being in this moment and in this day and serving the people who come in.

Wayne Dyer

#51. 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

#52. We ought to recognize that our greatest battle is not with one another but with our pain, our problems, and our flaws. To be hurt, yet forgive. To do wrong, but forgive yourself. To depart from this world leaving only love. This is the reason you walk.

Wab Kinew

#53. Can't you see? It's incredibly interesting. Aren't you struck by how much action occurred simply because something went wrong with one man's brain? It's as if the rational world, your world, was a still pond and Petter's brain was a jagged rock thrown into it, creating odd ripples everywhere." The

Jon Ronson

#54. If we realize we're undeserving, suddenly the world comes alive. Instead of whining about everything that goes wrong, we're surprised at God's many kindnesses, and our hearts overflow with thanks.

Randy Alcorn

#55. We are the third world not because the sun rises on the West and sets in the East but because we have engaged the reverse gear and we are moving with jet like speed in the wrong direction -we must change this by rolling up our sleeves and working for the growth of our country.

Patrick L.O. Lumumba

#56. Nothing wrong with making money or doing what you need to do to sell, but I think it shows when you're writing something to pay the bills and when you're writing something because it's really your version of the world.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#57. So on we tramped, three small dots on a big mountain, mere specks, beings of no importance. In creating this world, God showed that he was a great mathematician; but in creating man, he got his algebra wrong. Puffed up with self-importance, we are in fact the most dispensable of all his creatures.

Ruskin Bond

#58. Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around us, should be active with us, not less than our own experiences, for all good.

Charles Dickens

#59. Information. What's wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world's gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?

Thomas Pynchon

#60. It's just how it is. What's wrong with talking about it? Mum said if women don't learn to self-orgasm at your stage of development, they can miss out on a whole world of pleasure further down the track. There's nothing to be ashamed or guilty about, if you are healthy in your thoughts about it.

Rachael Treasure

#61. Edward had always thought that he belonged to the world of horror stories. Of course, I'd known he was dead wrong. It was obvious that he belonged here, in a fairytale, and now I was in the story with him.

Stephenie Meyer

#62. There is nothing wrong with looking one way while the world looks another. Imagine if this whole time, we've been looking at it wrong.

Travis Barker

#63. Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.

Nana Mouskouri

#64. I am one man with a laptop. When I give the world my characters, it's because I don't want to keep them for myself. You don't like what I made them do? Fucking tell me I'm wrong! Rewrite the story. Throw in a new plot twist. Make up your own ending.

J.C. Lillis

#65. It is. It's all over. The system is fucked. You can't win by doing things the right way in this world. No. There is no right and wrong. There's only what you get away with and what you don't.

C.D. Reiss

#66. T.S Elliot was wrong. My world ended with a bang the minute we entered the Compound and the silver door closed behind us.
The sound was brutal.
Final.

S.A. Bodeen

#67. I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.

Macklemore

#68. 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

#69. I have plans with my sisters on Fridays." "What kind of plans?" Shrugging, I stare at the frozen TV screen. "The kind that don't involve you." "I don't know what that means. Sounds wrong somehow for the world not to revolve around me. Are you sure this is kosher, babe?" "Don't

Bijou Hunter

#70. I so envied the world around me. Don't get me wrong, I loved my own life too, but that didn't stop me from wishing I could close my eyes and slip into someone else's life. You know, explore the world with different eyes, a different heart.

Marilyn Grey

#71. The world is not a prison house, but a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of of bewildered infants are trying to spell God with the wrong blocks.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#72. I firmly believe the world will sort itself out in the end. Believe it with me. At least none of us will be around to be proven wrong.

Stuart Wilde

#73. What you choose to do with all that anger is your business. But you can't control the world; someone will always be there to wrong you. It's your choice to let it go.

Laura Thalassa

#74. There is nothing wrong with saving the world, but it's a little boring.

John Hyams

#75. Having the right priorities in a wrong world will humble you with a journey that only love can sustain.

Bryant McGill

#76. Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you're probably watching the wrong channel.

Groucho Marx

#77. Here's the bottom line: The secret world of intelligence
at least in the United States of America
represents everything wrong with the government, the industrial era, our financial-economic system, and our ethics.

Robert David Steele

#78. The sort of formality that goes into my artwork I would not expect from everybody in the world. I'm sort of pushing that point to its limit, in my mind, but I think there's absolutely nothing wrong with using a laptop so long as we have some understanding of how it works a little bit.

Tristan Perich

#79. The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this construction today that the West and Islam are entirely separate worlds. This is wrong.

Tariq Ramadan

#80. My daughter has pointed out that there were not enough lovejobs to go around in this new world. In any event, I probably learned tolerance, maybe even literary affection for the person in the wrong historical moment, living such long, never to be mediate wars with other sufferers.

Grace Paley

#81. What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness.

Will Rogers

#82. Many people can do all the wrong in this world and get away with it. I am not one of these people. I am a friend and servant of the almighty God Jehovah and always have the highest authority to answer to. With him...integrity is everything.

Timothy Pina

#83. what's wrong with a person wanting to be more intelligent, to acquire knowledge, and understand himself and the world?" "If you'd read your Bible, Charlie, you'd know that it's not meant for man to know more than was given to him to know by the Lord

Daniel Keyes

#84. He had to comfort himself with the firm conviction that most of what he objected to in Mohawk and the world at large was not the result of people reading the wrong books, but rather of not reading any at all.

Richard Russo

#85. Well they do have drug testing at all the majors and there will be a lot of speculation about what in the world is wrong with Serena Williams and we will find out as much as we can.

Pam Shriver

#86. Sometimes, though, you make a pact with yourself. I'll pretend there's nothing wrong if you pretend there's nothing wrong. It's called denial, and it's one of the strongest pacts in the world. Just ask all those people who were still drinking champagne while the Titanic went down.

Neal Shusterman

#87. When the Christian or the church becomes popular with the unbelieving world, something is seriously wrong. Because Christ runs counter to evil and because we are Christ-owned, we must also stand against evil.

Billy Graham

#88. I'm not sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said. "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization
that is, in spiritual civilization. It may be that they will not add to the beauty of the world, nor to the life of men's souls.

Booth Tarkington

#89. When I was young and bold and strong,
The right was right, the wrong was wrong.
With plume on high and flag unfurled,
I rode away to right the world.
But now I'm old - and good and bad,
Are woven in a crazy plaid.
I sit and say the world is so,
And wise is s/he who lets it go.

Dorothy Parker

#90. But to pretend that all was right with the world, I first had to know what was wrong.

Amy Tan

#91. God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful, the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#92. When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there's either something wrong with your skills or something wrong with your world.
And there's nothing wrong with my skills.

Jonathan Maberry

#93. But a guy didn't have to be a charmer with the right girl. No, the right girl made him say the right things, feel like he could stand on top of the world. The right girl laughed at his jokes and met his eyes with a smile that said he could do no wrong.

Susan May Warren

#94. Religion means researching the true Eternal thing with Deluded world view (with wrong belief) and 'this' (akram vignan) is a science itself.

Dada Bhagwan

#95. You want to save the world."
"What's wrong with that?"
He sighed in exasperation. "You are too young to understand. People get by."
"I don't want to get by. I want to know my life's been useful.

Jane Rogers

#96. I don't know what's wrong with this world, but I do know what's right with it: Love. I have studied enough history to see that no matter how cruel the behavior of tyrants and no matter how dark the moments have been, Love has always prevailed. Always.

Steve Maraboli

#97. And what's wrong with innocence, anyway? Huh? I don't get it. I grew up with no innocence. None. From day one, I was contaminated with the 'real world' and you know what? It sucked. It royally sucked." - Harper Bailey, Callum & Harper

Fisher Amelie

#98. The world is complicated, so people seek complicated solutions. And there's nothing wrong with that because simple answers don't usually work. But sometimes the answers are simple and people still refuse to see them. - Edgar Roy

David Baldacci

#99. You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.

George Eliot

#100. Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.

Philip Sidney