These wrong way quotes will inspire you. Wrong way to cause (someone) to be angry or annoyed; to irritate.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging wrong way quotes, wrong way sayings, and wrong way proverbs.
Best Wrong Way Quotes
- “I see light at the end of the tunnel.” ~ Walt Whitman Rostow
- “The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.” ~ George A. Moore
- “I’ve realized that being happy is a choice.” ~ Angelina Jolie
- “If the road is easy, you’re likely going the wrong way.” ~ Terry Goodkind
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“People say that you’re going the wrong way when it’s simply a way of your own.” ~ Angelina Jolie
- “It’s always difficult to tell someone when they’re still in love with someone that I think they’re going in the wrong way.” ~ Pascal Chaumeil , Going the wrong way quotes
- “How can we say nobody’s perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?” ~ A.S. King
- “Whether it’s in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.” ~ Amelie Mauresmo
- “History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.” ~ Lawrence Durrell
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“If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.” ~ Edward A. Murphy, Jr.
- “There is no wrong way to have a body.” ~ Hanne Blank
- “Words are like knives… If you use it the wrong way it transforms into a bad weapon.” ~ Gosho Aoyama
- “We’re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven’t, you need to do things the wrong way. Initiate a failure by doing something that’s very silly, unthinkable, naughty, dangerous. Watching why that fails can take you on a completely different path. It’s exciting, actually. To me, solving problems is a bit like a drug. You’re on it, and you can’t get off.” ~ James Dyson
- “A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way” ~ Vernon Howard
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“I have a good team around me. I have people I trust around me. If I go the wrong way, they will yell at me. Just as they have in the past.” ~ Bubba Watson
- “If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were covered with fur.” ~ Erwin Chargaff
- “I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents. This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.” ~ Tennessee Williams
- “Don’t think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.” ~ Agatha Christie
- “I enjoy money. You got to know how to enjoy it, though. A lot of people enjoy it the wrong way: They spend it all.” ~ Moses Malone
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“Not that anyone cares, but there’s a right and wrong way to clean a house.” ~ Joan Crawford
- “Some of us learn to control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.” ~ B. F. Skinner
- “Even if you tell yourself “Today I’m going to drink coffee the wrong way … from a dirty boot.” Even that would be right, because you chose to drink coffee from that boot. Because you can do nothing wrong. You are always right. Even when you say, “I’m such an idiot, I’m so wrong…” you’re right. You’re right about being wrong. You’re right even when you’re an idiot. No matter how stupid your idea, you’re doomed to be right because it’s yours.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk
- “That’s because you’re interpreting it the wrong way. I didn’t mean it as a wistful, overdramatic declaration. I mean that the love I felt for him was huge and real, and, while painful, it forever changed me as a person, in the same way that being your brother reflects and changes how I evolve, and vice versa. The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There’s no getting over that.” ~ Rachel Cohn
- “The optimist in me wants to believe sexuality will eventually become like handwriting: there’s no right way and wrong way to do it. We’re all just wired differently. It’s also worth noting that when you meet someone, you never bother to ask if he’s right or left-handed. After all: does it really matter to anyone other than the person holding the pen?” ~ Jodi Picoult
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“There was something missing inside me I was trying to fill up, but I went about doing it the wrong way. But there sure isn’t anything missing inside me now, because you’re there.” ~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
- “What interest, zest, or excitement can there be in achieving the right way, unless we are enabled to feel that the wrong way is also a possible and a natural way, nay, more, a menacing and an imminent way? And what sense can there be in condemning ourselves for taking the wrong way, unless we need have done nothing of the sort, unless the right way was open to us as well? I cannot understand the willingness to act, no matter how we feel, without the belief that acts are really good and bad.” ~ William James , Taking things wrong way quotes
- “It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.” ~ George Orwell
- “I never liked that ending either. More love streaming out the wrong way, and I don’t want to be the kind that says the wrong way. But it doesn’t work, these erasures, this constant refolding of the pleats. There were some nice parts, sure, all Lemondrop and melon ball, laughing in silk pajamas and the grain of sugar on the toast, love or whatever, take a number. I’m sorry it’s such a lousy story.” ~ Richard Siken
- “Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.” ~ C. S. Lewis
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“When you’re taking care of the customer, you can never do too much. And there is no wrong way… if it comes from the heart.” ~ Debbi Fields
- “Some thoughts went through my head about recording some stuff that had influenced me earlier in my career like blues and early rock. But it didn’t seem to really make sense at that point – it might have been taken the wrong way. A lot of people already had been into that trip.” ~ Van Morrison
- “Sure, I rose the wrong way today, I have had such damn’d ill luck every way.” ~ Aphra Behn
- “You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.” ~ John F. Kennedy
- “[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness.” ~ Alain de Botton
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“If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.” ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
- “I think it’s the wrong way around to say when you get older move to the country. I think when you get older you move to New York. If you’re a nice broad they’ll look after you.” ~ Elaine Stritch
- “Women have come a long way over the past 20 years, but in substance abuse and addiction, women have come the wrong way.” ~ Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
- “You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.” ~ Michael Jordan
- “We went back on a very similar manifesto to things I believe in. The difference is that after eighteen months to two years he did the biggest U-turn on policy of all time and started to go the wrong way. In the end, that cost us the next election.” ~ Margaret Thatcher
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“Wrong way down a one-way, women don’t get saved ’round me even on a Sunday.” ~ Drake
- “Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction. But be prepared for a lot of folks to wave you down and tell you you’re headed the wrong way. I guess in all my years, what I heard more often than anything was: a town of less than 50,000 population cannot support a discount store for very long.” ~ Sam Walton
- “I miss that moment when you’re about to go through the tube turn-style but you put your ticket in the wrong way and then as you’re trying to figure out how exactly to get in the damn station you hear a collective sigh of 40 people behind you pissed that you’re slowing down the herd.” ~ Dan Mangan
- “What critics might call eclectic, and Eastern folks quirky, we Southerners call cussedness-and it’s the cornerstone of the American genius. As in: ‘There’s a right way, a wrong way, and my way.’ You want to see how that looks on the page, pick up any of Craig McDonald’s novels. He’s built him a nice little shack out there way off all the reg’lar roads, and he’s brewing some fine, heady stuff. Leave your money under the rock and come back in an hour.” ~ James Sallis
- “A joke is a joke, and people put too much meaning behind it. They react to it in the wrong way. I mean, you can boo or laugh, and that’s pretty much what you’re supposed to do with jokes. You’re not supposed to take it any further than that.” ~ Dave Attell
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“My wife drives the wrong way on a one-way street. The cop pulled her over and asked, “Where are you going?” My wife said, “I must be late, everyone is all coming back!”” ~ Henny Youngman
- “[Music] business can drive you to do that if you don’t have it here. If you’re not strong-minded here, it could steer you the wrong way and when it steers you the wrong way, then it might take forever to get back.” ~ Bow Wow
- “Much to my chagrin, I think that cinema has gone the wrong way in America because in many ways, I pioneered the use of video which eventually became digital video. Everyone can do it; it’s Pop Art time: “Everything is art, why should you take it so seriously, after all it’s kind of like a clambake.” I don’t buy that.” ~ Rob Nilsson
- “Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs your vanities the wrong way.” ~ Corra May Harris
- “While there may be no “right” way to value a forest or a river, there is a wrong way, which is to give it no value at all. How do we decide the value of a 700-year-old tree? We need only to ask how much it would cost to make a new one, or a new river, or even a new atmosphere.” ~ Paul Hawken
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“If a child goes the wrong way, it is not the child who is to be blamed; it is the parents who are responsible.” ~ Shiv Khera
- “You have a certain objectivity, as a member of the audience, and you can come away maybe being provoked into a certain discourse or a certain arena of questioning, regarding how you would deal with things that your character has to deal with. Whereas when you’re doing a film, once you start asking, “What would I do?,” you’re getting the distance greater between yourself and the character, or you’re bringing the character to you, which I think is self-serving, in the wrong way. The idea is to bring yourself to the character.” ~ Colin Farrell
- “I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never take anything the wrong way that they know to stem from good, honest and loyal hearts.” ~ Francois Rabelais
- “Poets are immersed in process, and I mean process not as an amorphous blur but as a discipline. The hard work of writing has taught me that in matters of the heart, such as writing, or faith, there is no right or wrong way to do it, but only the way of your life. Just paying attention will teach you what bears fruit and what doesn’t. But it will be necessary to revise–to doodle, scratch out, erase, even make a mess of things–in order to make it come out right.” ~ Kathleen Norris
- “It’s absurd. We would all like to see Cuba move toward civil society and free markets and greater respect for human rights. But the U.S. policy is exactly the wrong way to go about it.” ~ Wayne Smith
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“Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- “I’m not like a politician that goes around talking about family values. And I can’t get fired from being a funny person because I did something that most people are disapproving of. I think people are just obsessed with this morality that people perceive as being the right and wrong way of doing stuff.” ~ Steve Coogan
- “There’s no right time to have kids and no perfect formula. The good news is there isn’t a wrong way, either.” ~ Natalie Massenet
- “I have definitely noticed that I care less about certain things. Other actors are like: “You can’t do that”, or “You can’t do this. This will position you in the wrong way.” That’s not my thing. And obviously so, because you can see I don’t craft or cultivate my career.” ~ Ben Affleck
- “As human, we all have the same human potential, unless there is some sort of retarded brain function. The wonderful human brain is the source of our strength and the source of our future, provided we utilize it in the right direction. If we use the brilliant human mind in the wrong way, it is really a disaster.” ~ Dalai Lama
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“My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature – the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
- “There’s a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you’ve made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don’t suppose I can stop you, but I really don’t think it’s very considerate.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “Sometimes just being an immigrant, I read things the wrong way, and that can be funny. Or I’ll put the emphasis on the wrong word, and that can be funny. I have an affinity for comedy because I like to watch them. It’s an honor to make comedies because I love being able to pop something into the DVD player and laugh. I love doing it.” ~ John Cho
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“It won’t do you any good to run if you’re running the wrong way. I’ve developed a new philosophy…I only dread one day at a time.” ~ Charles M. Schulz
- “If I was ever to ask advice, it could be from any actor or showrunner or writer. I wouldn’t necessarily ask an animate. I don’t want to say that the wrong way, but animation’s not really my world.” ~ Steve Dildarian
- “I did the Justice League thing the wrong way. I read too much on the Internet. You cant do that. The Internet is the devil. Or the Internet is not the devil – the comment boards are the devil.” ~ D. J. Cotrona
