Wrong Quotes
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Even when you are right, there are costs and taxes associated with being tactical. When you are wrong, there are opportunity costs.
Barry Ritholtz -
What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
George Bernard Shaw
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A lot of rumours on the Internet are wrong and horrible.
Carine Roitfeld -
If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original
Ken Robinson -
Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.
Oscar Wilde -
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
Pablo Picasso -
People don't talk to me the way they would other people. They kind of look at me, but they never come over. It makes me feel like there's something wrong with me.
Fairuza Balk
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We made too many wrong mistakes.
Yogi Berra -
What the hell-you might be right, you might be wrong...but don't just avoid.
Katharine Hepburn -
If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.
Laura Mvula -
We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.
Nate Silver -
Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong.
Oswald Chambers
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If you look at them the wrong way, they'll pull a gun on you. So now is the time to stay cool.
John Holt -
It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim only at the good of the rulers are wrong.
Aristotle -
We wanted to do a pick-and-roll and kick it out and it just didn't happen. We had a girl in the wrong spot. We wanted Hattie and Katie on the same side and set a pick-and-roll, but we just didn't get there.
Marc Nelson Boyz II Men -
Watch human nature; we are so built that if we do not get thrilled in the right way, we will get thrilled in the wrong. If we are without the thrill of communion with God, we will try to get thrilled by the devil, or by some concoction of human ingenuity.
Oswald Chambers -
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just have to get the frustration out.
Victoria Pendleton
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I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.
Abraham Lincoln -
James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong – he's good.
Captain Beefheart -
I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.
Harlan Ellison -
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
Moliere