being wrong Quotes

“People need to be wrong as fast as they can.”

“I was sure, going back to my cave, that he wouldn’t follow. They never did. But I was wrong; he was a new kind of Scylding.”

“You’re wrong. And that’s why you must be put to rest.”

“Allow yourself to go and do it wrong. Don’t expect to always get it right. It will prevent you from doing anything.”

“Perhaps the main task of the minister is to prevent people from suffering for the wrong reasons.”

“In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I never will be guilty of that again – as I know now that some white people are truly sincere, that some truly are capable of being brotherly toward a black man. The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites made blanket indictments against blacks.”

“But, sir, sirs, I see that it’s wrong. It’s wrong because it’s against like society, it’s wrong because every veck on earth has the right to live and be happy without being beaten and tolchocked and knifed. I’ve learned a lot, oh really I have.”

“She was finally counting clave. Lito was wrong. She didn’t have to be in Havana to hear it. To feel it. She had brought Cuba with her to Miami.”

“People who care more about being right than ending right prove just how wrong they were all along.”

“The file was marked: ‘Error - no such appears on map - must mean Albany.‘”

“Wilson felt the pleasure of amusement. Whoever spoke was wrong, of course - as would be established soon enough when the engine was examined and they checked his wound more closely. Then they’d realize that he’d saved them all.”

″ He ran around puffing and snorting, butting, and pawing the ground as if he were crazy. The five men saw him and they all shouted with joy. Here was the largest and fiercest bull of all. Just the one for the bull fights in Madrid!”

“He was filthy and pale and dried out and I thought he was dead. I couldn’t have been more wrong.”

“She hung a sign on the front door of the house that said, ‘Mean wind, you took the wrong road. Buy yourself a map.’ ”

“Oh, you get so many hunches that you don’t know ever quite if the right hunch is a wrong hunch! Then the wrong hunch might be right!

“When Frog got up one morning, he realised at once that something was wrong with the world. Something had changed.”

“When I passed back by the pen, his friends would stare at me with pleading faces. They moaned and squealed, and pressed their snouts to the earth. We are sorry, we are sorry. Sorry you were caught, I said. Sorry that you thought I was weak, but you were wrong.”

“You will never fully convince someone that he is wrong; only reality can.”

“Poirot was silent. But it was not a modest silence. His eyes seemed to be saying: ‘You are wrong. They didn’t allow for Hercule Poirot.‘”

“Here! and here!” replied Catherine, striking one hand on her forehead, and the other on her breast: “in whichever place the soul lives. In my soul and in my heart, I’m convinced I’m wrong!”