Correct Quotes

In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.

Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social hierarchy is not always correct.

Live every day as if it is your last, and you'll be correct sooner than you otherwise would be.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

We meet before the movie and she gives you charts with sounds on them and makes a tape of examples. While they are setting up the scene, I go with her to the trailer and we go through the scene and correct the speech.

Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.

If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

Well, your premise is correct, that we have to first guard against those who have an affiliation with terrorists and a connection, and so we have watch lists and systems that can make that connection.

If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.

The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.

It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life. I remember once refusing to get on a bus with her because she was wearing a mink, and I thought we should be taking a taxi. She just said, 'Who cares what people think?' and I remember sitting on that bus, being utterly embarrassed, but knowing somehow that she was totally correct.

So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.

I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.

I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.

Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody.

mean when I was a young kid, you know, I tried to do, you know, what they called reversion therapy back then and that is, you know, read the 'Playboy' magazines or read whatever it is and try to sort of correct yourself into it. And then you try to manage it badly. But you get married because you think that's what your church asks you.

Shakespeare would never have gone far in today's politically correct world.

We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.