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Related The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong i... DOUGLAS ADAMS The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong i... DOUGLAS ADAMS Everything is still good. We're still in it and everything else. I don't think everything's gone wro... CHAD QUALLS The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever. HERB CAEN The Only thing wrong with internet, is that you cannot touch it. MATT SMITH You get them wrong before you meet them, while you're anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong ... PHILIP ROTH The right thing at a wrong time is a wrong thing. JOSHUA HARRIS I think it is unnatural to think that there is such a thing as a blue-sky, white-clouded happy child... MAURICE SENDAK I am not someone who deserves to be dissected and analyzed like some tragic example of everything th... JOSH GORDON The right thing at the wrong tme is the wrong thing. JOSHUA HARRIS It is unbelievably frustrating. It seems like we have all the makings of a good team, but we have no... JASON DONALD It is much better to do the right thing wrong than the wrong thing right, because when errors are co... RUSSELL ACKOFF What could go wrong... Doing some stupid impulsive thing that caused the death of drowthers was prac... ORSON SCOTT CARD Why ban guns? Let's give everyone rocket launchers! What could possibly go wrong? OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY Some things will go wrong for each of us, the most important thing is your attitude in that circumst... SUNDAY ADELAJA When you're starting a company, almost anything that can go wrong will go wrong, and it will pro... LOGAN GREEN But you can't go around changing your definition of right and wrong (or smart and stupid) just becau... JIM BUTCHER When you haven't won, it isn't going to be a masterpiece when you try to get the thing back. We took... KEN HITCHCOCK You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its ... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Someone gave him a new knife. WRONG WILLIE You cannot have a society of angels except in heaven MICHELA WRONG An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution... G.K. CHESTERTON Try to exercise gentleness, kindness and humour, and you cannot go far wrong. SOPHIE WINKLEMAN The right thing to do when a wrong decision has been made is to turn the wrong decision around by do... TARY C. Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, yo... TERRY PRATCHETT It is better to be wrong (fail) in doing the right thing than to be right (successful) in doing the ... JAIME CONTRERAS You cannot go wrong with hard work in the right direction. MUHAMMED HAIDER Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never ... DOROTHY PARKER Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never g... DOROTHY PARKER You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without unreal expec... PHILIP ROTH You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear. KIESZA But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is... EZRA POUND “The road of life is often filled with dead ends and wrong turns, fortunately we are allowed to th... STEPHANI MCLELLAN Mad can even doubt something that is wrong but fools never doubt the same wrong thing. ANUJ SOMANY It seems to be that a lot of the focus is on what can go wrong, not what can go right. JEFF TJORNEHOJ Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ... PHILIP ROTH You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible! EZRA TAFT BENSON I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER ... common sense is the one thing that will certainly be wrong. GEORGE FRIEDMAN Mentality is the key,once our mentality goes wrong every other thing becomes wrong in our lives. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The unfortunate thing about experts is that they are afraid to be wrong. RODNEY LOVELL What can go wrong, will go wrong. MURPHEY I believe that abortion is morally wrong. WILLIAM H. PRYOR It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time... LEE WESTWOOD Things will absolutely go wrong. In a healthy team, as soon as things go wrong, that information sho... STEVEN SINOFSKY Pride is pride not because it hates being wrong, but because it loves being wrong: To hate being wro... CRISS JAMI The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distres... ALDOUS HUXLEY What happened to these young men, it had nothing to do with religion. It was a random thing. They ju... JAMES RUSSELL They just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, doing the right thing. JAMES RUSSELL You never run out of things that can go wrong. CHARLES M. SCHULZ Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is thing that can n... DOROTHY PARKER Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can... DOROTHY PARKER Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that c... DOROTHY PARKER It will be wrong to conclude that what cannot be measured is not important. NEIL JAIN I wasn’t able to be that person for you, and I did a terrible thing. I feel awful about it. But th... HARUKI MURAKAMI A bull doesn’t go wrong in predicting an upswing in a falling market. He goes wrong when he predic... VIJAY KEDIA Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can b... WALT DISNEY Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don... PHILIP PULLMAN We lost, and that's the main thing that went wrong, MIKE KRZYZEWSKI Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. ROBERT E. LEE You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may... TONY DUNGY When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit ... W. CLEMENT STONE Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gamb... JOANNA RUSS The secret of being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The s... SETH GODIN I'm not a great positive thinker. By that I mean I prepare for things that can go wrong. In golf, if... BOB KNIGHT It has to be fluid -- unless we are completely brilliant or in a market that is completely stagnant.... HOWARD DRESNER Wrong, wrong, wrong, stupid. Taking the money out is absolutely the worst thing to do. You see peopl... RICHARD APPLEGATE Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think th... J. C. WATTS Things go wrong for anybody that doesn’t have a workaholic lifestyle SUNDAY ADELAJA Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that... J.C. WATTS JR. Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that ... J.C. WATTS In America access is always about architecture and never about human beings. Among Israelis and Pale... JOHN HOCKENBERRY It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. CLIVE JAMES You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough not to think about all the things that migh... SARAH GILBERT Don't assume that because everyone believes a thing, that it is right or wrong. Reason things ou... AVI There's a few nervous people, to be sure. There's a lot of things that could go wrong. DONALD YEOMANS The right thing at the wrong time is never the right thing. PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY Thought is a dangerous thing; it makes one see that the popular notions of society are wrong. JON R. SIME Roger Hughes was defamed and had his privacy infringed upon. It's one thing for this union to go out... CHARLES COCHRAN Roger Hughes was defamed and had his privacy infringed upon. It's one thing for this union to go out... CHARLES COCHRAN Bonta's law: Everything that could go wrong, doesn't. VANNA BONTA Guilts are bothersome and nagging emotions that don’t go away that easily. Shame is a painful feel... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA It turns out we were all wrong, and that is most disturbing. DAVID KAY When a woman turns to scholarship there is usually something wrong with her sexual opportunities FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We should never present flesh as somehow morally distinguishable from dairy. To the extent it is mor... GARY L. FRANCIONE There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might ... DONITA K. PAUL It feels like we've had about anything that can go wrong happen at Richmond, KURT BUSCH Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE Never do a wrong thing to make a friend--or to keep one. ROBERT E. LEE Never do a wrong thing to make a friend--or to keep one. ROBERT E. LEE But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as ... JOHN LANCHESTER I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wro... SARAH PALIN The thing that's wrong with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur GEORGE W. BUSH Previous to today, we had an attack issue, just putting the ball away shooting-wise. But [Saturday],... LAUREN BRYAN There Is a thing that every person in this world has and it is something that cannot be taken away;w... DELETE ACCOUNT When things go wrong, don't go with them. ELVIS PRESLEY When things go wrong don't go with them ELVIS PRESLEY If we can get that realistic feminine morality working for us, if we can trust ourselves and so let ... URSULA K. LEGUIN You can't step off the bench to go fight, that's wrong. That doesn't belong in the game. I think the... KEVIN CONSTANTINE (Wiggins) didn't do anything wrong, we just thought we'd go with (Taylor) to try to run a little bit... DANIEL FINN
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