Wrong Way Quotes

• I see light at the end of the tunnel.

  Walt Whitman Rostow

  Positive, Humor, Vegas

  Walt Whitman Rostow (1955). “Russia and China Under Communism”

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• I've realized that being happy is a choice.

  Angelina Jolie

  Happiness, Choices

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• If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.

  Terry Goodkind

  Truth, Adversity, Survival

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Soul Of The Fire”, p.277, Head of Zeus

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• Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Sports, Life Lesson, Lessons

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

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• How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?

  A.S. King

  Perfect, Way, Moral

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• People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.

  Angelina Jolie

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

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• It's always difficult to tell someone when they're still in love with someone that I think they're going in the wrong way.

  Pascal Chaumeil

  Thinking, Way, Still In Love

  Source: collider.com

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• History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

  Lawrence Durrell

  History, Historical, Way

  1978 In The Listener, 20 Apr.

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• The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

  George A. Moore

  Way, Reasonable, Seems

  "The Bending of the Bough". book by George A. Moore, Act IV, 1900.

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• Words are like knives... If you use it the wrong way it transforms into a bad weapon.

  Gosho Aoyama

  Knives, Use, Weapons

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• There is no wrong way to have a body.

  Hanne Blank

  Body, Way

  Hanne Blank (2012). “The Unapologetic Fat Girl's Guide to Exercise and Other Incendiary Acts”, p.48, Ten Speed Press

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• I have a good team around me. I have people I trust around me. If I go the wrong way, they will yell at me. Just as they have in the past.

  Bubba Watson

  Team, Past, People

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• If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.

  Edward A. Murphy, Jr.

  Science, Way, Ifs

  "Murphy Lives!" by Robert L. Forward, Science magazine, p. 78, January-February 1983.

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• We’re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven’t, you need to do things the wrong way. Initiate a failure by doing something that’s very silly, unthinkable, naughty, dangerous. Watching why that fails can take you on a completely different path. It’s exciting, actually. To me, solving problems is a bit like a drug. You’re on it, and you can’t get off.

  James Dyson

  Silly, Naughty, People

  "Failure Doesn’t Suck". Interview with Chuck Salter, www.fastcompany.com. May 1, 2007.

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• A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way

  Vernon Howard

  Passion, Way, Problem

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• If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were covered with fur.

  Erwin Chargaff

  Science, Men, Fur

  Erwin Chargaff (1978). “Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature”, p.6, Paul & Company Pub Consortium

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• I enjoy money. You got to know how to enjoy it, though. A lot of people enjoy it the wrong way: They spend it all.

  Moses Malone

  People, Way, Enjoy

  Source: business.highbeam.com

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• I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents. This is so simple I'm ashamed to say it, but I'm sure it's true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that's why I don't understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.

  Tennessee Williams

  Hate, Hero, Believe

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.85, New Directions Publishing

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• Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

  Agatha Christie

  Thinking, Mind, Let It Go

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Funerals are Fatal”

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• Not that anyone cares, but there's a right and wrong way to clean a house.

  Joan Crawford

  House, Care, Way

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

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• Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.

  B. F. Skinner

  Education, Understanding, Way

  B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.99, Hackett Publishing

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• Even if you tell yourself "Today I'm going to drink coffee the wrong way ... from a dirty boot." Even that would be right, because you chose to drink coffee from that boot. Because you can do nothing wrong. You are always right. Even when you say, "I'm such an idiot, I'm so wrong..." you're right. You're right about being wrong. You're right even when you're an idiot. No matter how stupid your idea, you're doomed to be right because it's yours.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Stupid, Coffee, Dirty

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• That's because you're interpreting it the wrong way. I didn't mean it as a wistful, overdramatic declaration. I mean that the love I felt for him was huge and real, and, while painful, it forever changed me as a person, in the same way that being your brother reflects and changes how I evolve, and vice versa. The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's no getting over that.

  Rachel Cohn

  Brother, Real, Heart

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• People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  People, Hypocrisy, Unhappy

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• God does not have a fixed plan that he must carry out; on the contrary, he has many different ways of finding man and even of turning his wrong ways into right ways...The feast of Christ the King is therefore not a feast of those who are subjugated, but a feast of those who know that they are in the hands of the one who writes straight on crooked lines.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Kings, Writing, Men

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