Quotes with wrong-headed

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  • Alva Myrdal Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Barbra Streisand Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Henry S. Haskins Normal is the wrong name often used for average.
    Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 135
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Anthony Holden Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Blaise Pascal Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Adam McKay Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
    Adam McKay
    American filmmaker (1968 - )
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  • William E. Gladstone Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • Gerald Kersh Now, you mummy's darlings, get a rift on them boots. Definitely shine em, my little curly-headed lambs, for in our mob, war or no war, you die with clean boots on.
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  • Terence Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • C. S. Lewis Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently He thought it worth the risk.
    Mere Christianity (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Anne Perry Of course there will be disappointments and the way will not always be as I expected it. But if it seemed easy, then that would be the time to worry that I am on the wrong path.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Carlo Collodi Once upon a time there was... A king! my young readers will instantly exclaim. No, children, you are wrong. Once upon a time there was a piece of wood.
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • John Foster Dulles Once, many, many years ago, I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong.
    John Foster Dulles
    American diplomat (1888 - 1959)
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  • John Ruskin One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Adrian Cronauer One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.
    Adrian Cronauer
    American air force radio personality during Vietnam War (1938 - 2018)
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  • Benjamin Tucker One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Robert Browning One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Caroline Leavitt Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody.
    Caroline Leavitt
    American novelist
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  • Booker T. Washington Opportunity is like a bald-headed man with only a patch of hair right in front. You have to grab that hair, grasp the opportunity while it's confronting you, else you'll be grasping a slick bald head.
    Speech at the Carrie Tuggle Institute, Birmingham (date unknown) [6]
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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