Quotes with wrong-headed

Quotes 401 till 420 of 559.

  • Antiphanes The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.
    Antiphanes
    Ancient Greek poet (408 - 334)
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  • Albert J. Nock The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Dorothy Nevill The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
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  • Jeremy Bentham The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
    Jeremy Bentham
    English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748 - 1832)
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  • Barbara Boxer The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Carl Schurz The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My country, right or wrong. In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.
    Carl Schurz
    American statesman, journalist, and reformer (1829 - 1906)
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  • Barry Ritholtz The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Aleister Crowley The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Thornton Wilder The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, ''Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.'' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wish
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Antony Jay The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
    Antony Jay
    English writer, broadcaster, and director (1930 - 2016)
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Ben Wheatley The whole idea of genre and categorising films is a critic's construct. For me, I just try and make stories and see where they go, but there's nothing wrong with horror; there's nothing wrong with romantic comedies.
    Ben Wheatley
    English filmmaker and screenwriter (1972 - )
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  • Billy Sunday The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Wilson Mizner The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • Ben Okri The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Addison Mizner The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.
    Addison Mizner
    American architect (1872 - 1933)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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