Quotes with wrong-headed

Quotes 121 till 140 of 559.

  • Christian Nevell Bovee Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Benjamin Watson Guys are playing fantasy football; some guys I think even play fantasy baseball. I don't get involved with it. I have five kids; I just don't have time. Not that anything's wrong with the fantasy, but I just don't have time for it with my lifestyle.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Elizabeth Barret Browning He said true things, but called them by wrong names.
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  • Benjamin Disraeli He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Jeremy Bentham He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.
    Jeremy Bentham
    English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748 - 1832)
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  • Bayard Taylor Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Abraham Cowley His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Santayana History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Clarence Darrow History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Clarence Darrow History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Anais Nin How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Angelina Grimke I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Bill Clinton I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.
    Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Ogden Nash I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Ben Folds I don't get
    Many things right the first time
    In fact, I am told that a lot
    Now I know all the wrong turns
    And stumbles and falls
    Brought me here.
    Lyrics The Luckiest, Rockin the Suburbs (2001)
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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