Quotes with wrong-headed

Quotes 241 till 260 of 559.

  • Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse It is good rule in life to never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
    Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
    English author and humorists (1881 - 1975)
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  • Bill Flores It is indefensible that IRS Commissioner Koskinen has not been held accountable for failing to meet his legal obligations. This is exactly what the American people are tired of when they say that our government is on the wrong track.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Susan Sontag It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Salman Rushdie It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Clive James It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
    Clive James
    Australian author, poet, translator and memoirist (1939 - 2019)
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  • George Eliot It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Sophocles It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • William E. Gladstone It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • Abraham Lincoln It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, ''You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.''
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Carine Roitfeld It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • William James It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • John D. Rockefeller It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • Raymond Chandler It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Kahlil Gibran It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Buddha It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Benjamin Graham It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.
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    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Bob Woodward It's all over, he said to Cooke. You've got to come clean. The notes show us the story is wrong. We know it. We can show you point by point how you concocted it.
    Post Reporters Pulitzer Prize Is Withdrawn; Pulitzer Board Withdraws Post Reporters Prize (19 April 1981)
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Anne Sullivan It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!
    Anne Sullivan
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Captain Beefheart James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good.
    Captain Beefheart
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1941 - 2010)
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