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Wrong Quotes (page 64)

In Soviet thinking the concept of economy of force has little place. Whereas to an Englishman the taking of a sledgehammer to crack a nut is a wrong decision and a sign of mental immaturity...in Russian eyes the cracking of nuts is clearly what sledgehammers are for. Max Hastings
Helen Fielding quote: "Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?"
Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out? Helen Fielding
Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through children, wrongs were avenged. To have a child was to set loose a force in the world. Margaret Atwood
Joseph Campbell quote: "There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the..."
There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall. Joseph Campbell
Val," said Mother, "goodness trumps greatness any day."Not in the history books," said Valentine."Then the wrong people are writing history, aren't they?" said Father. Orson Scott Card
What does a scanner see? he asked himself. I mean, really see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does a passive infrared scanner like they used to use or a cube-type holo-scanner like they use these days, the latest thing, see into me - into us - clearly or darkly? I hope it does, he thought, see clearly, because I can't any longer these days see into myself. I see only murk. Murk outside; murk inside. I hope, for everyone's sake, the scanners do better. Because, he thought, if the scanner... Philip K. Dick
She had smiled her way through the births and had offered the new mothers the support and the medical care that they needed, but the moment she’d sent them on their way, cutting that last umbilical cord between hospital and home, Lacy knew she was giving them the wrong advice. Instead of easy platitudes like Let them eat when they want to eat and You can’t hold a baby too much, she should have been telling them the truth: This child you’ve been waiting for is not who you imagine him to be.... Jodi Picoult
Don't get me wrong - I was not a Nazi, and in my eyes Hitler seemed like some absurd character in an operetta. But, it would have been almost impossible not to be infected by the optimism about the future, which was rife among ordinary people in Hamburg. - Henrik Vanger Steig Larsson
Keep your vocabulary as wide as you can. I have some difficulty with the word ‘cool’, and I’m not too bothered about the word ‘awesome’. People like me are looking to people like you guys of the next generation to deal with this shit. It’s like seeing a rock guitarist pick up a Fender Stratocaster and hold it the wrong way. Terry Prachett
Wolfgang Pauli quote: "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong."
This isn't right. This isn't even wrong. Wolfgang Pauli
Later, I went back and looked at it and realized that the walrus was the bad guy in the story and the carpenter was the good guy. I thought, Oh, shit, I picked the wrong guy. I should have said, ‘I am the carpenter.’ But that wouldn’t have been the same, would it? ‘I am the carpenter…. John Lennon
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Do you feel better?' he asked. 'I feel fine,' she said...."
Do you feel better?' he asked. 'I feel fine,' she said. 'There's nothing wrong with me. I feel fine. Ernest Hemingway
Lewis Carroll quote: "It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar..."
It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and there was silence for some minutes. Lewis Carroll
Ivy Compton-Burnett quote: "The wrong is never the only thing a wrong-doer has done."
The wrong is never the only thing a wrong-doer has done. Ivy Compton-Burnett
A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us... What I am saying is that if we apply our minds directly and competently to the needs of the earth, then we will have begun to make fundamental and necessary changes in our minds. We will begin to understand and to mistrust and to change our wasteful economy, which markets not just the produce of earth, but also... Wendell Berry

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