Wrong Quotes

A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.

You learn more when things go wrong.

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.

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong.

There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.

But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.

The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what you're doing.

It's not that I don't see myself as hot and sexy. Don't get me wrong. No, it's not that.

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.

Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings.

Putting the budget ahead of the policy is the wrong way to do it. It's too often the way it's done in Washington.

I like to go with the energy because when you ignore it that's when you start doing things wrong.

The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic.

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.

I think that you really don't have a choice, when you see that things are wrong the only choice you really have is to just do what you can to make it better.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked I didn't think it would be a hit. I was wrong every time!

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand.

If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.

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

The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.

Don't get me wrong: I would love to be president.

I wasn't prepared to get a mammogram until I was 40 years old, like I'd been told. I never in my wildest dreams expected anything to be wrong.

I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.