Quotes with wrong

Quotes 261 till 280 of 536.

  • Bess Myerson Mama never told me, 'Bess, you did good.' She wanted the best for us and she was an incredible administrator. She ran those three kids, that house, the whole bit. But if I looked fine, she'd find something wrong - the color, the hem... I used to tell her, 'Mama, don't worry when you're not with me, because you're with me.'
    Bess Myerson
    American politician and model (1924 - 2014)
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  • William Hazlitt Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols - it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Robertson Davies Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Helen Keller Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Philip Roth Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you.
    American Pastoral (1997)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Ben Folds Maybe this is wrong, but I feel like I craft my songs carefully enough that I still find that fifteen years after having written one, it still works for me - I'm not cringing.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Millions of people miss meditation because meditation has taken on a wrong connotation. It looks very serious, looks gloomy, has something of the church in it, looks as if it is only for people who are dead, or almost dead, who are gloomy, serious, have long faces, who have lost festivity, fun, playfulness, celebration.... A really meditative person is playful: life is fun for him.... He enjoys it tremendously. He is not serious. He is relaxed.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Vauvenargues Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Albert Einstein Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Pat Barker Murder is only killing in the wrong place.
    Weg der geesten (1996) 30
    Pat Barker
    British writer (1943 - )
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  • Carl Schurz My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.
    Carl Schurz
    American statesman, journalist, and reformer (1829 - 1906)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • A. J. Foyt My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.
    A. J. Foyt
    American auto racing driver (1935 - )
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  • Anna Sewell My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
    Anna Sewell
    English novelist (1820 - 1878)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Bono My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Bob Hawke My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.
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  • George Bernard Shaw My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.
    You Never Can Tell , Act IV
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Napoleon: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. Giuseppe: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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