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She’s the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. Mae West
If we’d followed the Pentagon’s advise, nobody would be around the tell the generals they were wrong. John F Kennedy, cited JFK: Destiny Betrayed II, Sky Documentaries 2021
The process was new to me. I felt like I’d discovered something no-one else had ever discovered, and I was in a certain arena artistically that no-one else had ever been in before. Ever. Although, I might have been wrong about that. Bob Dylan, No Direction Home I, 2005
So much wrong could religion induce. Lucretius c.94-55 B.C. Roman Poet
I suspect that religion is simply a parasite on a much older moral sense ... But it is surely far more moral to do good things for their own sake rather than as a way of sucking up to God. Our true sense of right and wrong has nothing to do with religion. I believe there is kindness, charity and generosity in human nature. And I think there is a Darwinian explanation for this. Richard Dawkins, The Root of All Evil? The Virus of Faith, Channel 4 2006
Well, what if I’m wrong? I mean, anybody could be wrong; we could all be wrong about the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the Pink Unicorn and the Flying Teapot. Richard Dawkins
You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untanklike as you can be, sans cannon and machine guns and steel plating half a foot thick; you come at them unmenacingly on your own ten toes instead of tearing up the turf with your caterpillar treads, take them on with an open mind, as equals, man to man, as we used to say, and yet you never fail to get them wrong. You might as well have the brain of a tank. You get them wrong before you meet them, while you’re anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong while you’re with them; and then you go home to tell somebody else about the meeting and you get them all wrong again. Since the same generally goes for them with you, the whole thing is really a dazzling illusion ... The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It’s getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That’s how we know we’re alive: we’re wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that – well, lucky you. Philip Roth, American Pastoral
Despiteful and intolerable wrongs!
Shall I endure this monstrous villainy? William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus IV iv 50-51, Saturnius to Clown
To do a great right, do a little wrong. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice IV i 213, Bassiano to Portia and Shylock
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well I i
Science doesn’t always go forward ... Sometimes you discover the picture you thought you had, that everybody thought we had, actually turns out to be wrong. Beautiful Minds: Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe. Philip K Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress. Richard P Feynman
So we’re never right; we can only be sure we’re wrong. Richard Feynman, lecture cited Horizon: No Ordinary Genius 1993
People are forever finding something wrong with you. Brigitte Bardot
You can never know everything. Part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of knowledge lies in going on anyway. (Knowledge & Wrong & Wisdom) Robert Jordan
Why are things going wrong like they are? Lord of the Flies 1963 starring James Aubrey & Tom Chapin & Hugh Edwards & Roger elwin & Tom Gaman & David Surtees & Simon Surtees & Nicholas Hammond et al, director Peter Brook, Ralph to Piggy
I don’t know. What’s wrong with me? Mona Lisa 1986 starring Bob Hoskins & Michael Caine & Robbie Coltrane & Cathy Tyson & Clarke Peters & Kate Hardie & Zoe Nathenson & Sammi Davis & Rod Bedall & Joe Brown & Pauline Melville et al, director Neil Jordan, him to her
I have never done anything wrong. I’ve been going around with my head in the sink for years. Rebel Without a Cause 1955 starring James Dean & Natalie Wood & Sal Mineo & Jim Backus & Ann Doran & Corey Allen & William Hopper & Rochelle Hudson & Edward Platt & Nick Adams et al, director Nicholas Ray
Everything’s gone wrong that can go wrong. Ambush in Leopard Street 1962 starring James Kenney & Jean Harvey & Michael Brennan & Norman Rodway & Bruce Seton & Pauline Delaney & Marie Conmee & Charles Mitchell & Lawrence Crain et al, director J Henry Piperno, kid gangsta to old gangsta
What can possibly go wrong now? The Ladykillers 1955 starring Alec Guinness & Peter Sellers & Cecil Parker & Herbert Lom & Danny Green & Jack Warner & Frankie Howerd & Katie Johnson et al, director Alexander Mackendrick, Alec Guinness
Yeah, there is something wrong with me. All Good Things 2010 starring Ryan Gosling & Kirsten Dunst & Frank Langella & Kristen Wiig & Philip Baker Hall & Lily Rabe & John Cullum & Liz Stauber et al, director Andrew Jarecki, him to her
It’s all gone Pete Tong. Sacrifice 2011 starring Cuba Gooding junior & Christian Slater & Devon Bostick & Lara Daans & Kim Coates et al, director Damian Lee, rozzer
Luke, what went wrong? Cool Hand Luke 1967 starring Paul Newman & George Kennedy & Strother Martin & Jo van Fleet & Joy Harmon & Morgan Woodward & Luke Askew & Robert Donner & Clifton James et al, director Stuart Rosenberg, Aunt to Luke
What if something goes wrong? Gun the Man Down 1956 starring James Arness & Emile Meyer & Robert Wilke & Harry Carey junior & Don Megowan & Michael Emmet & Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez & Angie Dickinson et al, director Andrew V McLaglen, her to him
Something went wrong, Seth. The Fly 1986 starring Jeff Goldblum & Geena Davis & John Getz & Joy Boushel & Leslie Carlson & George Chuvalo & David Crronenberg et al, director David Cronenberg, her to him
I can’t understand why it always gives you pleasure to see me wrong. Star Trek s1e22: Space Seed, Spock to Kirk
If there’s nothing wrong with me ... maybe there’s something wrong with the universe. Star Trek: The Next Generation s4e5: Remember Me, Dr Crusher
Commander, I think something might be wrong with some of us. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s1e18: Dramatis Personae, Odo to Sisko
Everything that goes wrong here is your fault – it says so in your contract. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s3e14: Heart of Stone, Quark to Rom
Kira: Well, now that you have another pip on your collar, does that mean I can’t disagree with you any more?
Sisko: No. It just means I’m never wrong. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s3e26: The Adversary
At least she had the conscience to stand up and realise what she’d done wrong. Which is more than I can say for you. Star Trek: Voyager s3e6: Remember, B’Elanna