Wrongly Quotes

It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That's because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters.

You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free rather than put one poor, wrongly accused accountant in prison. And so my only point on that is that it should open up an argument. It should not sort of settle one, because nobody disagrees with it.

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.

Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.

I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.