Quotes with wrong-headed

Quotes 321 till 340 of 559.

  • Carl Sandburg Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Stephen Decatur Our country right or wrong.
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  • Stephen Decatur Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
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  • Bill Clinton Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
    First inaugural address, Washington, D.C. (January 20, 1993)
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Bill Shuster Our military commanders have said over and over again that a timetable for withdrawal sends the wrong message to our troops, but more importantly to our enemy.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Vivien Kellems Our tax law is a 1, 598-page hydra-headed monster and I'm going to attack and attack and attack until I have ironed out every fault in it.
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  • Thomas à Kempis Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Thich Nhat Hanh People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist (1926 - )
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  • Carolina Herrera People get nervous accessorising, but there is nothing wrong with adding a belt or a pair of shoes in another colour.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Bill Vaughan People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Ben Mezrich People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.
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  • Ben Simmons People say a lot of things about LeBron, but he just keeps having a good mentality and grinding. That's what I try to do, proving people wrong by what I do on the court.
    Ben Simmons
    Australian basketball player (1996 - )
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  • Adam Osborne People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
    Adam Osborne
    British-American author and publisher (1939 - 2003)
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  • Henry Jacobsen People would rather be wrong than be different.
    Henry Jacobsen
    Norwegian politician (1898 - 1964)
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  • Adrian Edmondson Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.
    Adrian Edmondson
    British actor (1957 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Andrew Wiles Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Laurence Sterne Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Heywood Broun Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
    Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
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