The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
George Bernard Shaw
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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare
I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it.
Clifford Stoll
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
Oscar Wilde
One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.
Benjamin Disraeli
I think there is a law of equity in these disputes. When one party is clearly wrong, it will eventually give way... They had no business putting those missiles in and lying to me about it. They were in the wrong and knew it. So, when we stood firm, they had to back down. But this doesn't mean at all that they would back down when they felt they were in the right and had vital interests involved.
John F. Kennedy
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson
'Wrong' is one of those concepts that depends on witnesses.
Scott Adams
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
Martin Luther King Jr.
I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest, for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.
William Shakespeare
The appearance of right oft leads us wrong.
Horace Mann
A stone thrown at the right time is better than gold given at the wrong time.
Persian Proverb
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
T. S. Eliot
What if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.
Matt Groening
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, right or wrong - is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore Roosevelt
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore Roosevelt
Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
Theodore Roosevelt
A just war is in the long run far better for a nation's soul than the most prosperous peace obtained by acquiescence in wrong or injustice.
Theodore Roosevelt
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
Benjamin Franklin
The absent are always in the wrong.
English Proverb
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Benjamin Franklin
A man who works beyond the surface of things,though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.
Edmund Burke
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'
Charles M. Schulz
I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.
Charles M. Schulz
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Warren Buffett
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
Douglas Adams
No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
Woodrow Wilson
There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
Wayne Dyer
...people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
J. K. Rowling
It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.
Steve Jobs
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
Bill Clinton
'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
G. K. Chesterton
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
G. K. Chesterton
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
The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense.
Randy K. Milholland
There's nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.
Jason Fried
We are thrilled that we have been able to make some small dent in all that is wrong down here.
Arlo Guthrie
The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.
Robert J. Sawyer
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.
Robert Louis Stevenson
If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Thomas A. Edison
There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
James Madison
When things go wrong don't go with them.
Elvis Presley
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
Tupac Shakur
What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?
Richard J. Daley
Whenever you find a man who says he doesn't believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later.
C. S. Lewis
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
The thing that's wrong with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur.
George W. Bush
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand Russell
Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move.
Real Live Preacher
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
Josh Billings
The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.
L. Ron Hubbard
Right now is the wrong time to disrupt any part of FEMA's operation, ... I'd like to know who's going to take responsibility for this move.
Carolyn Maloney
The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
Agnes De Mille
Things do go wrong, ... We had sent all these books to Nepal, but then we did an evaluation with local teachers.
John Wooden
If my theory of relativity proves to be correct, Germany will claim me a German, and France will claim me a citizen of the world. However, if it proves wrong, France will say I'm a German, and Germany will say that I'm a jew.
Albert Einstein
It's an equal playing field now. You'll only be responsible for your percentage of the liability. What they did before was always wrong. You may be 90 percent liable, and I'm 10 percent, but because I've got the deeper pockets, I end up being 100 percent. It just doesn't work.
Carol Dover
It does make a difference to finish off with a win. It's been a disappointing year for us. I don't think it was just one thing that went wrong, but the bottom line is a lot of us didn't play up to our potential.
Markus Naslund
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein
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
I understand that laws like this are necessarily broad to prevent future loopholes, but this bill would seem to cover things as innocent as the Linux operating system and many legitimate security diagnostic tools, which in the wrong hands could be used for criminal purposes.
Tom Newton
It is disappointing that there is so much posturing taking place. It would be wrong for management to attack all employees because it is having a problem with one employee group. Even during strikes, the plants have stayed open.
Charles Bofferding
I refuse to go into a fast-food outlet - to use the toilet even - in case anyone got the wrong idea and thought I was sneaking in a quick burger.
Jonny Wilkinson
In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.
Sir Philip Sidney
Heed the still, small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.
Marquise Du Deffand
They're a good team, don't get me wrong, but it's not what they did, it's what we didn't do.
Randy Shuman
I just think they're flat out wrong. We literally have thousands of people working every day to improve not only the education of African-American kids, but other kids as well.
Clayton Wilcox
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
Henry David Thoreau
[Whether you're planning a wedding or another big party,] you need to make a conscious choice about whether it's more important to you to spend tens of thousands on the event or save the money for some future financial need, ... There isn't necessarily a right or wrong answer, but the decision ought to be intentional.
Ross Levin
Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these.
Dr. Robert H. Goddard
Once we settled down we were good value for the win. He got trapped on the wrong side of the ruck, and there was a pretty long queue to give him a kicking I suppose.
Paul Grayson
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
Henry David Thoreau
I might be wrong to do what I did. [But] I did it because I knew he'd be credible and accountable.
Larry Blakeney
To what one person is cheap, to another is being prudent ... and I know people who'd rather not have bubbles in the soda. No one is right and no one is wrong, unless their actions end up hurting themselves or others.
Benjamin Tobias
Couples need to let go of the notion that something's wrong if you're not enraptured with each other all the time. After the early enchantment stage, it takes proactive behavior to keep your love alive.
Nina Atwood
Don't get me wrong, it's not something that's upsetting me. The jokes keep coming.
Michael Mayer
It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
John Cheever
We hear a lot of about the impending economic recession, but that does not imply an ad recession. In the last 20 economic downturns, only in one year has there been a decline, and that was 1.3 percent. So the doomsayers might be wrong again if we do have a downturn.
Lowry Mays
We want to go out and prove those people wrong.
Darius Washington Jr
We came to the point where we have differences of opinion we just can't get past, ... I just feel she's taking the town in the wrong direction.
Thomas Farmer
If there was an innocent bystander being in the wrong place at the wrong time, it was her.
Tony Lawrence
In 1999, my association realized something was wrong. More and more schools were eliminating recess.
Rhonda Clements
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Thomas S. Szasz
I had to rush to get ready, then I got on the wrong bus. It was a crazy morning. I kept wondering what else could happen, but when I heard my name, it was all worth it. I felt much better.
Tamara James
I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.
Al Spalding
[In a comment entitled] To say we must stay in Iraq to save it from chaos is a lie ... They told you Britain must invade Iraq because of its weapons of mass destruction. They were wrong. Now they say British troops must stay in Iraq because otherwise it will collapse into chaos.
Simon Jenkins
There is absolutely nothing wrong with honoring her. It's a big church.
Jerome Hames
The impressive thing ... was that he was pretty poised. At times, it gets a little hectic in there and he starts making audible checks and he gets hit and you start going in the wrong direction — in domes in particular, where it's real noisy. I thought he really handled it beautifully.
Mike Holmgren
We've got to get some W's, that's the most important thing. We've got to get two wins in the next two days. We've got to patch up what we're doing wrong to get ready for league next week.
Justin Sparks
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
William Lloyd Garrison
Absolutely not. It's wrong, end of story.
Greg Mitchell
There's so many variables in our sport. We try to minimize the likelihood of something going wrong.
Alex Izykowski
I have recently moved away but I am glad to hear the proposals were withdrawn. It was just the wrong site for a caravan park of that scale and the roads around it were entirely unsuitable.
David Sheldon
This account is wrong. The Federal Intelligence Service and, therefore, also the government, had until now no knowledge of such a plan.
Ulrich Wilhelm
We had some people in the wrong spot at the wrong time. We knew Mayo was going to be the toughest team we've played so far.
John Cassellius
If the side effects of an antidepressant drug are hallucinations telling you to kill yourself, there is something wrong with that pill or drug.
Randolph Gordon
When things go wrong, most teams flip into another mode, where Old Dominion is always the same. I don't think other teams in this league are that bad; I just don't think they're as steady. Teams in this league can be really good and they can be really bad. Old Dominion is never bad.
Debbie Taylor
There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.
Dennis Miller
Eighteen years we kept our baby out of trouble. He didn't do nothing wrong.
Jackie Evans
This has been way more special today. My biggest worry was that I might lead them the wrong way, but the truth is, they are better than me now and didn't give me a thing to worry about.
Todd Bethea
There was no indication that anything was wrong.
Margaret Gallardo
Everything just started to slowly go wrong. After halftime, the lead went back and forth. Our defense didn't really step up. I don't think we were attacking enough in the second half.
Amanda Simmons
The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.
Victor Davis Hanson
Four things were wrong with the way we played. Too many stupid penalties (16 for 51 minutes), too many turnovers by the defense, too many odd-man breaks and too many missed opportunities.
Nick Pollos
Life is very short and there's no time, for fussing and fighting my friend. I have always thought that it's a crime, so I will ask you once again: try to see it my way, only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong. While you see it your way, there's a chance that we might fall apart before too long. We can work it out.
The Beatles
Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
Alexander Pope
Here I am trying to build a life and I have nothing to build it with. It's wrong, just wrong.
Alan Crotzer
We don't want to let our supporters down in Crystal Lake by letting this go without further investigation. It would be wrong for us who live in areas that are more progressive to let our supporters down who live in Crystal Lake right now.
Tracy Baim
I just went over a jump without enough momentum to carry myself over it. I landed wrong and hit the ground. I rode all my life and never had a broken bone. I knew it wasn't life-threatening, just life-messing-up. I knew right away that I messed up and that life was never going to be the same.
Dan Hendricks
Just because he is Stu Jackson and all that, maybe I am supposed to be scared and not speak my mind. But if I see something that is wrong, and I feel wronged, I am going to speak my mind. As simple as that.
Danny Fortson
I'm going to use my 10 minutes to explain what's wrong with the contract.
Doug Wilcox
Birds are extremely valued as indicators of overall environmental health. If there's a problem in a wild bird population, it's indicative that something went wrong.
Jim Elliott
The movie is crap. It's not good. It is wrong.
Melanie Morgan
We're trying to establish a program at Clemson. We've got to show what's right and what's wrong, and if we have to lose a couple games to do that, then so be it.
Christy Mckinney
It got kinda quiet then I just heard her scream real loud. I just knew something was wrong by the way that she screamed.
Jessy Larson
We were doing nothing wrong at all. But we all felt intimidated by these men.
Joe Morrison
The guy had no clue, ... But that was irrelevant. If (UC president Nancy Zimpher) didn't like what she saw, it's her prerogative to change it. Whether she's right or wrong doesn't matter. That's something in coaching you have to understand.
Bob Knight
I don't think there's anything wrong with playing poker for entertainment. I think it can consume some people who take it too far, like drugs or alcohol or anything else. I think that's something you see more with online poker, which you can play anytime without ever having to stop, so it doesn't feel real.
Mark Cole
It's a community effort. We're trying to take a very negative subject and make it a positive one to show it's not wrong to talk about (domestic violence).
Cindy Winstead
With what Doncaster offer and the way they attack, we feel Jon is a stronger defensive option than Dave. It's all about timing as well - Jon wants to go out and prove a few critics wrong, but he knows he still has a few things to work on.
Mike Umaga
It's difficult to find anything wrong with these numbers. All three regions are growing.
Bruno Paulson
No. 1 is dealing with their teachers; they feel like say a teacher is wrong - no one wants to believe them or that the teacher is always right. We teach them that the teacher might not always be right, but that isn't a battle that you can win by getting up and acting out in class.
Kareem Evans
Tom DeLay did nothing wrong, ... What this is, is a political smear campaign made by an organization, a political party, that is void of ideas.
Todd Tiahrt
We've had scouts virtually every single day who show up and watch practice. You sneeze wrong, and they're watching. Every move he makes, people are watching. But the second he gets on the field and starts playing, he's just locked in. He has that maturity level.
Mark Tyler
I don't think he feels like he did anything wrong.
Karen Dove
We played the best 29 minutes of basketball we played all season collectively, then we did everything wrong collectively in the last three minutes. We missed free throws, had quite a few turnovers. It was bad. But we were happy to respond so well against Pickerington North. The kids bounced back and showed some poise.
Larry Eberst
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
I mean you looked at me, and you could tell something was wrong. But I also lied through my teeth. Because you don't want to say the wrong thing, or the bad thing -- the thing that's going to make your life more complicated. You just want to say everything is fine.
Jamie Silverstein
Vanderbilt has some great doctors, and they're really working hard trying to find out what's wrong. We're not worried about him playing football. We're worried about him having a healthy life.
Robbie Caldwell
We recognize we could be dead wrong. But when we look at the fundamentals of supply and demand, we see an awful lot that points to the supply side.
Gregg Laskoski
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Baltasar Gracian
I can see wrong-headed but well-intentioned people saying bad data will just reinforce stereotypes. But I think if you want to change the stereotype, you shine a big light on the truth and you deal with it, which seems the far more courageous way. You have to have the courage to say 'we're in big trouble' and on an annual basis back that up with objective information.
Peter Cowley
Whoever doesn't get this company is going to be the lucky one. If I were Boston Scientific, I'd certainly find something wrong in my due diligence to walk away from this.
John Putnam
She clearly did not know her action was wrong and that's unfortunate. We will try this again.
David Haynes
(The wind) was pretty tricky for me today. On my first nine holes, I put myself in some situations I shouldn't have been in -- a combination of pulling the wrong club or hitting a bad shot.
Laura Coble
Had we sat down and said, 'Let's start a photo application,' we would have failed. We would have done all this research and done all the wrong things.
Caterina Fake
A society like Canada's, with its four centuries of give-and-take, compromise and acceptance, wrong-doing and redress, is basically a forgiving society.
Adrienne Clarkson
Things always went wrong when I was associated with people. I didn't actually kill anyone, but it's possible I could be killed by the state.
Clyde Smith
When one gets into the predicting the future business. One gets into a situation where you are mostly wrong.
John Gagnon
Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard M. Baruch
This past weekend we didn't play well and we haven't been playing our best. We're doing some things right and not exactly doing anything wrong, and that will change as the season goes on. Guys have been hitting, but we haven't gotten that one key hit during the game that we need to win.
Arman Sidhu
Almost every family I meet with is unaware of all the sources of college money that may be available to them. They've either incorrectly filed the FAFSA form, or relied on the wrong person for college funding advice and planning.
Phil Goldstein
My initial reaction, and it's still what I believe today, is that if the allegations were true about him stealing from people that he simply stole from the wrong person or people. I was not shocked.
Howard Graber
I think I slept on it wrong. It's not that bad.
Damaso Marte
With such a substantial increase in our budget, I think that it is a mistake to add [the World Language program] in. This sends the wrong message because we should be looking for more cuts, not ways to add programs in.
Tom Fiorentino
The biggest thing I can give my mom credit for is she taught me, and now I know, right from wrong.
Shameka Christon
I was the best book-cooker in the athletic department. I was the go-to man, ... Everybody knew it. But I wasn't the only person doing wrong.
Alex Brown
How could I get up there and say, 'People, we've got to do better,' when I was the poster child for everything that was wrong? I've always believed leaders don't ask others to do what they're unwilling to do.
Mike Huckabee
The wrong way is to open a Linux company that acts as a wall between the developer and the user.
Larry Augustin
It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.
Richard Feynman
I believed that the government would protect the children being abused. I believed they would act quickly. I was wrong.
Justin Berry
We constantly have to fight off allegations, when we've done nothing wrong. When frankly, it's the rest of the world.
John Lydon
The customer is never wrong.
Cesar Ritz
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.
Dr. David M. Burns
Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be.
Norman Foster
If you think about investing as owning piece of a business, obviously a lower price is better than a higher price, as long as nothing is fundamentally wrong with the company.
Pat Dorsey
No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
We don't think there's anything fundamentally wrong with the business. I think that longer term we remain very optimistic about the business, but it has been challenging recently.
Thomas Mcinerney
Jesus Christ - his weed is NUTS! I'm not much of a weed guy - I'll take whatever pills you have - but the weed, man, always hits me wrong. But you try and say no to Willie Nelson when he goes [pretends to take a toke and waves it in my direction], man, you CAN'T do it!
Johnny Knoxville
Shell has saved money so it has a responsibility to help right the wrong of leaving individual holders with a large tax bill.
Angela Knight
Not even the hiring of a celebrity like Jesse Ventura, former Governor of Minnesota, can keep the lid on a rogue sports book wrong doings.
Roberto Castiglioni
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
Marquis De Sade
We must do something. We have a moral imperative. This is wrong to let this go on.
Ranelle Lang
No one wants to withhold relief funding for survivors of Katrina, ... the red flag to show there's something wrong going on here.
Will Adams
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
R. Buckminster Fuller
He became incredibly violent. You saw it in his plans for vengeance after the war, when he wanted to kill six million Germans by poisoning the water of German cities. To an extent everyone involved had a little bit of Isser Schmidt in them -- Abba and the others learned it in the woods. Right or wrong, they said that the war remade them in its image.
Rich Cohen
It's not the way we're trained, ... It's just wrong. ... My job is to put out fires, not to watch them burn.
Jerry Jensen
The movie examines the role of dreams and ambitions in American culture. It's about what's wrong with America and how close it is to what's right with America.
Paul Weitz
We learn how other schools accomplish their things. It's a way for us to pick up on trends that are happening and what's going wrong or right for each government. They've taken cues from us as well.
Roger Ludy
"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.
Robert Townsend
Senator Seward thinks it's particularly wrong for consumers to be paying so much tax on gas when they're already paying record profits to the big oil companies.
Duncan Davie
It is better too be wrong to soon than right too late.
Yuri A. Gagarin
Fate is kind, and the prize is yours when you get the question right. But, get the question wrong, and fate will deal a crushing blow to some poor, blameless soul - live on camera! It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt, or ratings slip too low.
Joan Nevitt
After Slicker Than Your Average , if I didn't have a break, I would have been making a record for the wrong reason.
Craig David
He's on my suit game, ... He thinks they're terrible. There's nothing wrong with my suits. He said he was going to buy me some suits. I said, 'Shaq said they're all right.'
Brandon Wright
This isn't about personalities. This is a business deal. Anyone reading anything else into it is wrong.
Jim Cleamons
David's done a great job with this horse ... I was skeptical and I've had many years of experience with different trainers but he proved me wrong again.
Craig Williams
What she said indicates a certain level of ignorance that is not appropriate for a foreign minister. All these people, whether they are trying to attack soldiers at a bus stop or civilians in a shopping mall, are all members of terrorist organizations that attack where they see fit. It's wrong to differentiate members of the same terrorist organizations, whether they kill a soldier or a child.
Moshe Arens
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