Wrong Quotes

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.

If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong.

What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching.

I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theory and practice, theory is wrong. As far as I'm concerned, we make theories for what people have done.

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.

Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win.

I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.

Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

The more I love the character, the harder it is to get it wrong. I have to get to a point that I can speak for them.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do.

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

We made too many wrong mistakes.

There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Usually writer's block arises when something is wrong internally with the story.

Running with the wrong crowd will never help you.

The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

The dirty little secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong.

We need responsible regulations, not regulations that have gone wild. For example, the EPA has a rule that is going to be implemented Jan. 1, 2012, where they're going to begin to regulate dust. That's right, dust. It's called PM 2.5. That is focusing on the wrong thing.

There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.

The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the story right, if late.

We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong.

Not having an administrator sends the wrong message to the airline industry.

I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.

Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.

If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.

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?

The main reason I write the daily observations is because I want to know where I'm wrong. So lots of times if somebody points something out it helps me, and I want to have a diversified bet of uncorrelated bets.

I hope 'The Voice' has a fifteen-year run, don't get me wrong. But I come from nothing, and maybe it's the Irish in me, but my attitude is always like, 'They'll figure me out soon.'

Well, I have a farm in Vermont that's my main residence, where I do lots of digging and mowing, and ride tractors - just so you don't get the wrong idea that I'm too girlie!

There are some movie stars in Hollywood that are so scared, they also tell the reporter that they are recording them, in case there is something wrong with what they wrote about them in the papers.

We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.

I think the Democratic Party has picked a lot of the wrong candidates, the kind that Middle America, or people who are more down the middle and more rational, can't side with. I think that's been the problem.

If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

Now, America is a land of second chances, and I gather you have room for the estimated 6 million of us who know we got it wrong in 2008 and who want to fix it.

The Democratic Party has gotten narrower and it's gotten smaller and it's fundamentally wrong on all the key questions involving the economic future of this country and our hopes of prosperity. And many Americans are beginning to realize that.

I know people are pretty well embarrassed just at the mention of colon cancer. Sticking a tube in you to find out what's wrong is not a nice thing. But I can tell them, a 30- or 40-minute test is worth it. We have to make them feel more comfortable about getting screened.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

The NHS is a bit iffy when you sprain an ankle, but when it's a high-priority issue, it's fantastic. They don't mess about. They're incredibly efficient when things go wrong.

The youth are very important to me, they're the next generation, but I want to instill in kids, even in playing, that it's never too late and there's no right or wrong way to do anything.

Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so.

If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.

I wasn't ever advised by Scott Sullivan of anything ever being wrong.

I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me wrong.

You lose some, you win some. Nothing wrong with that at all.

You know what, I've always been a smarty-pants, and the only thing that goes wrong now is that people know that I play a doctor on TV and so they quickly call me out on the fact that I really think I am a doctor.