Quotes About Wrong

Information got abolished sometime in the twentieth century, can't say just when; stands to reason, that's part of the information that got abolish, abolished. Since then we've been living in a fairy-story. Got me? Everything happens by magic. Us fairies haven't a fucking notion what's going on. So how do we know if it's right or wrong? We don't even know what it is.

These are the days for strong men to courageously expose wrong.

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.

How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it's not the right way but wrong's what I do best.

It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.

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

One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it.

The count came back to young Morcerf. 'Don't you think,' he said, 'on reflection that you were wrong to speak in that way about your mother-in-law in front of Debray?' 'Please, Count,' Morcerf said. 'I beg you, don't use that word in anticipation.

There is every reason why the standards in our civilization are so low, because we have poisoned, in a literal sense of the word, our minds with the physico-chemical effects of wrong ideas.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Was I right? she asked him. Was I right to make a stand against what I believed to be wrong? Even though many ills have come from it? I have been asking myself this a lot lately. I must be quiet in my conscience.

optimism, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with disproof - an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.

Folk she'd known to be big on religion had tended to use it as an excuse for doing wrong rather'n a reason not to.

He searched the ground floor and found only shadow and stillness, which should've reassured him but didn't. It was the wrong kind of stillness, the shocked stillness that follows the bang of a cherry bomb.

Sometimes he felt as if he had stepped into an alternate universe where the old laws of nature and what was right and wrong did not apply.

The pain caused by life going wrong can trigger a response that is "so powerful that [the brain] tends to stay there [in a pained response] for a while, until something pushes it out of that corner, into a more flexible place." And if the world keeps causing you deep pain, of course you'll stay trapped there for a long time, with the snowball growing.

If, indeed, anyone should think that, in the communistic society, man must still remain under some form of compulsion in order to, do what is right, and leave off what is wrong, he had better give up communism at once and abandon all hope for the human race.

Misunderstandings and lethargy perhaps produce more wrong in the world than deceit and malice do.

Wouldn't it be nice if everything balanced in the world? If right came out on top and wrong was punished. It sure would be simple.

So such is life that it writes itself, trying to right itself, but there's nothing wrong with it.

I smile when I'm angry , I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But I know what is wrong and I know what is right , and I'd die for the truth in my secret life .

I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.

In the life of a nation, few ideas are more dangerous than good solutions to the wrong problems.