Wrong Quotes

I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something is wrong with me.

Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.

You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people are beginning to feel more responsible for the world.

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.

I thought, If I'm so afraid of a bikini, there's something wrong. And so I had to get back into one!

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.

I mean, making simulations of what you're going to build is tremendously useful if you can get feedback from them that will tell you where you've gone wrong and what you can do about it.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't.

After you do a joke a few times, you have material that you know works. Although sometimes I have a joke that has worked a bunch of times and then one night it'll flop. And that's when I really take a hard look at myself and say: 'Well, that crowd is obviously wrong. That crowd has absolutely no idea what it's talking about.'

It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting.

What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.

Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.

There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats.

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.

Why stick your neck out if you don't have to? If you're right nobody will remember and if you're wrong people will ask a lot of questions.

I've been working in Haiti 28 years - I thought I'd sort of seen it... I've gone through a number of coups, the storms of 2008, I thought, you know, that I'd seen things as bad as they were going to get, and I was wrong.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

Our State Department is often wrong and timid.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.

I've always been pretty tough in that way, where if you tell me I can't do something, I will prove you wrong.

Who owns the assets of our Nation? Increasingly, foreign interests own our assets, and we owe them money. No wonder people think our country is headed in the wrong direction. It is.

It's wrong for a guy to have no personality, no heart. Because I don't care about style or money.

I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.

Now I worry. If people ended up liking me, did I do the job wrong? So I decided they didn't end up liking me - they ended up being able to deal with me.

They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.