Wrong Things Quotes - Page 9

• We always worry about the wrong things, don't we?

  Michael Cunningham

  Worry

  Michael Cunningham (2010). “By Nightfall: A Novel”, p.17, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we are going to be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we'll be doing the wrong thing, and we will just be part of the disease, and not a part of the cure.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Success, Integrity, Soul

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• When you do something because you're angry, you almost always do the wrong thing.

  Christopher Pike

  Angry

  Christopher Pike (2001). “Witch”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe I've been wanting the wrong things.

  Adam Gidwitz

  Adam Gidwitz (2012). “In a Glass Grimmly”, p.87, Penguin

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• I knew a man once who told me that I smiled at the wrong things." "Do you? "Only by the light of those who smile at nothing.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Light

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.994, Bantam

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• Just because something is good doesn't mean we should pursue it right now. We have to remember that the right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.

  Joshua Harris

  Christian, Mean, Remember

  Joshua Harris (2012). “I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance”, p.82, Multnomah

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• I'd swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was terrific, I'd hate it. I wouldn't even want them to clap for me. People always clap for the wrong things. If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.

  J. D. Salinger

  Hate, Player, Dope

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• His gaze travelled down me, then zipped back to my face. "Sorry." "Focus, Rafe." "I am. Just on the wrong thing.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Sorry, Focus, Faces

  Kelley Armstrong (2014). “Darkness Rising Trilogy, 3-book bundle: The Gathering, The Calling, The Rising”, p.302, Penguin

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• It seems to me, that if people only knew how hard it was for me to endure life, they would find it easier to forgive me for all the wrong things I’ve done and all the good things that I have failed to do. And they would still find a little compassion within them to pity me.

  Ivo Andric

  Compassion, People, Forgive Me

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• People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right.

  James O'Barr

  Sadness, Land, People

  "The Crow". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that's nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid.

  Brad Meltzer

  Pain, World, Harm

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• One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one’s regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different.

  Daniel Handler

  Regret, Thinking, Years

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• It isn't necessarily easier if you know what it is you're meant to do-- but at least you don't waste time in questioning or doubting. If you're honest--well, that isn't necessarily easier, either. Though I suppose if you're honest with yourself and know what you are, at least you're less likely to feel that you've wasted your life, doing the wrong thing.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Doubt, Waste, Wasting Time

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1529, Dell

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• But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

  Jim Butcher

  Way, Cowardice, Inaction

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1714, Penguin

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• Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

  Brad Pitt

  Beast, Emphasis, Get Away

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• Chandler's the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing.

  Matthew Perry

  Thinking, Guy, Too Much

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• Hollywood infected my brain and I really valued the wrong things in life, but I changed dramatically.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Things In Life, Brain, Hollywood

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• Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

  Robert E. Lee

  Inspirational, Friendship, Bullying

  John Esten Cooke, Robert E. Lee (2017). “General Robert E. Lee: The True Story of the Infamous “Marble Man”: The Life & Legacy of Robert E. Lee, Including & Personal Writings, Speeches and Orders”, p.42, Madison & Adams

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• Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don't really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It's really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Artist, Giving, Hip Hop

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

  Garrett Hardin

  Generations, Natural, Tendencies

  Garrett James Hardin (1976). “Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle”

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• I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

  Pope Francis

  Thought Provoking, Decision, Waiting

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.22, A&C Black

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• You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football season. Everything's not going to go perfect.

  Tony Dungy

  Football, Mean, Kids

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• If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Mind, Expecting, Get Involved

  "Jarvis Cocker answers your questions: 'Go on, then, give us the horrible ones'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2011.

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• The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Believe, Inquiring, Enough

  William Kingdon Clifford (1884). “The Scientific Basis of Morals: And Other Essays, Viz. : Right and Wrong, the Ethics of Belief, the Ethics of Religion”

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• A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Puritan, Righteous, Persons

  The New York Times, November 21, 1930.

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