Quotes with wrong-headed

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  • Carl Hiaasen They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • John Selden They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Antonio Porchia They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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  • Alan Watts Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Alfred Whitney Griswold Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.
    Alfred Whitney Griswold
    American historian and educator (1906 - 1963)
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  • Ben Carson Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Florence King Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories... but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted déjà vu.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Joseph Chilton Pearce To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
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  • Albert Maltz To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand.
    Albert Maltz
    American playwright and fiction writer (1908 - 1985)
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  • Bill Haslam To say that because of someone's heritage or their ethnicity that they are unable to provide fair judgement is just wrong. It's just not how the judicial system works in our country and not how it ever can work.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Wayne Dyer To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Barbara Cartland To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Bill Shorten To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the - my predecessors in the union had detected wrong activities, activities which aren't in the best traditions of the AWU or, indeed, trade unionism.
    Bill Shorten
    Australian politician (1967 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Beth Grant Tone is so important because you can have a great script just be ruined with the wrong director - if they shtick it up or something. With 'Little Miss Sunshine,' I was so concerned they weren't going to play the pageant official realistically because you don't have to wink to play those kinds of characters.
    Beth Grant
    American actress (1949 - )
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  • Brooke Shields Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • James Russell Lowell Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Bobby Vinton Unfortunately, a lot of people are stupid. They take drugs. They get drunk and do all the wrong things in life. I just played it straight.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Billy Gibbons Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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  • Bayard Rustin War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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