Wrong Quotes

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.

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a certain point we'll find out who was right and who was wrong. But we have to go with the best information right now, which I would claim to be the IPCC reports.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.

You can imagine my embarrassment when I killed the wrong guy.

I knew what could happen to my son if he was sent to the wrong school and got in with the wrong crowd.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.

Scotland is a much lighter and more fun place than I thought it was. I was miserable when I was there. But it wasn't Scotland's fault. It was my circumstances. I was - I hate to say the word humbled - but that's what it felt like. I was wrong about this place. This is a great place full of very fun people.

Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.

The poor child was the drudge of the household, and was always in the wrong. He was, however, the most bright and discreet of all the brothers; and if he spoke little, he heard and thought the more.

I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong.

If I could wear any label forever it would be Burberry. It covers a huge span of stuff. You can't go wrong with a classic trench and a pair of jeans.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong".

I think that something is fundamentally wrong if a person of his great wealth is only paying 13.9 percent effective tax rate and most of Americans are paying 28, 30 percent and they make far less.

Nothing wrong with making money or doing what you need to do to sell, but I think it shows when you're writing something to pay the bills and when you're writing something because it's really your version of the world.

If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.

Well, you know I have an office, my film offices. So I know that syndrome. I fancy offices, so there must be something wrong with me. Even the window cleaner intrigues me. It's a very sexy environment.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

If I've still got my pants on in the second scene, I think they've sent me the wrong script.