Wrong Time Quotes - Page 5

• If you're going to go increase taxes on small businesses, you're going to slow down the extent to which we're able to reduce unemployment. So I think it's a serious mistake; the wrong time to raise taxes.

  Dick Cheney

  Mistake, Thinking, Unemployment

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. September 14, 2003.

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• Get over jet-lag quickly. I think a lot of people waste the first few days sleeping in the wrong time zone. Sometimes I take melatonin but at other times a glass of wine will do it.

  Jane Seymour

  Wine, Sleep, Thinking

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If people believe they can be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and they have no control over outside circumstances, those thoughts of fear, separation, and powerlessness, if persistent, can attract them to being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Believe, People, Separation

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Secret”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm stranded in the wrong time where love is just a lyric in a children's rhyme

  Bil Keane

  Children, Love Is, Feelings

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• Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.

  Ambeth R. Ocampo

  Ideas, Shots, Right Ideas

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• In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood.

  Willem Dafoe

  Misunderstood, Sometimes, Representation

  " Willem Dafoe Still Baffled By Failure Of ‘John Carter’; New Pixar Stamps Introduc ed" by Drew Taylor, www.indiewire.com. June 5, 2012.

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• The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Media, Tools, Social Transformation

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• It is good to be busy. Being busy takes our mind off being in love at the wrong time, in the wrong place and with the wrong guy.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Being In Love, Guy, Mind

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• Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.

  Wentworth Miller

  Night, Car, Meals

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• It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.

  Lee Westwood

  Success, Golf, Games

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• When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.

  George Polya

  Teaching, Math, Science

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• How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? . . . Twelve white men say a black man must die, and another white man sets the date and time without consulting one black person. . . . They sentence you to death because you were at the wrong place at the wrong time, with no proof that you had anything at all to do with the crime . . . . Yet six months later they come and unlock your cage and tell you, We, us, white folks all, have decided it's time for you to die, because this is the convenient date and time.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Men, White Man, People

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• It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for some people somewhere there is no such thing as an insurmountable obstacle, an unplayable course, the wrong time of the day or year.

  Alistair Cooke

  Golf, Years, Games

  Alistair Cooke (2015). “Fun & Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.79, Open Road Media

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• ...surely these victims of the sea...had rushed willingly down the hills to the water, only to find themselves caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Who should judge whether they were there for the wrong reason?

  John Rousmaniere

  Sea, Water, Judging

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• Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, Mistake, Parent

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.441, Oxford University Press

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• Boys have penises and girls have vaginas. If they touch at the wrong time, you can make a baby or die.

  Eugene Mirman

  Girl, Baby, Sex

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• In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.

  Aristotle

  Time, Facts, Action

  "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle. Book II, 1107a.15,

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• I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period. I felt like I should've been born in the mid-to-late '40s.

  Emilie de Ravin

  Born, Should, Periods

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• A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.

  Alain de Botton

  Travel, Information, Useless

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• It's scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time.

  Guillaume Musso

  Scary, Balance, Life Is

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• A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don’t feel great about, and it’ll make you feel so bad it’ll destroy you and kill you.

  Iggy Pop

  Musician, Young, Feels

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• Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Soul, Weakness, Weak

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• God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time. A sense of destiny is our birthright as followers of Christ. God is awfully good at getting us where He wants us to go. But here’s the catch: The right place often seems like the wrong place, and the right time often seems like the wrong time.

  Mark Batterson

  Destiny, Followers, Want

  Mark Batterson (2008). “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars”, p.16, Multnomah

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• Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

  Price Pritchett

  Time, Stronger, Ethical

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• I think anybody can take a good picture. My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous. It's being in the right place at the wrong time.

  Andy Warhol

  Thinking, Ideas, Focus

  Andy Warhol, Christoph Heinrich, Candice Breitz (1999). “Andy Warhol photography : the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Hamburg Kunsthalle”

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