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Wrong Place Quotes

I like to be the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place. Being the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place is worth it because something interesting always happens.
- Andy Warhol

I'm not sure if there's one right place I'm supposed to be, he said, but I know a couple of wrong places I'd give a second try in a heartbeat.
- Brian Andreas

But he's looking for love in all the wrong places. Like fancy under catalogs
At least he knows enough not to date while he's campaigning
- Meg Cabot

Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo

I think we place the wrong emphasis upon examples, that we're treading on very weak ground when we set ourselves up as examples for others to become religious. If people are going to look at me for religious guidance, then I think they're looking in the wrong place.
- Charles M Schulz

When I finished bathing after dinner, Kumiko was sitting in the living room with the lights out. Hunched down in the dark with her gray shirt on, she looked like a piece of luggage that had been left in the wrong place.
- Haruki Murakami

There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place.
- Bono

Oakbridge did his work with dramatics and prophecies that all would go horribly awry. Having dealt with him over midwinter, Kel wondered why the man hadn't died of a heart attack. Instead he seemed to thrive on disaster and finding people seated in the wrong places.
- Tamora Pierce

The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.
- Chuck Palahniuk

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

There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.
- Gilbert K Chesterton

You think wars get started because some duke gets shot, or someone cuts off one's ear, or someone's sited their missiles in the wrong place. It's not like that. That's just well, just reasons, which haven't got anything to do with it. What really causes wars is two sides that can't stand the sight of one another and the pressure builds up and up and then anything will cause it. Anything at all.
- Terry Pratchett

The English intellect is sound, so far as it goes,but it has one grave defect--it is always cautious in the wrong place.
- Wilkie Collins

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
- Stephen Covey

A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.
- Chuck D

To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort.
- Graham Greene

Love is a piano dropped from a four story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
-Two Little Girls (Little Plastic Castle)
- Ani Difranco

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
- Ani Difranco

There was a peculiar fascination for Dorothea in this division of property intended for herself, and always regarded by her as excessive. She was blind, you see, to many things obvious to others - likely to tread in the wrong places, as Celia had warned her; yet her blindness to whatever did not lie in her own pure purpose carried her safely by the side of precipices where vision would have been perilous with fear.
- George Eliot

I can't be anything but what I am, Elle. If you want a man who is going to treat you like a broken doll, you sure as hell come to the wrong place. And if you expect me to step aside and let you make decisions that are ultimately going to harm you, then baby, you definitely have the wrong man because I protect my woman. Right or wrong, politically correct or not, I stand in front of her when there's need.
- Christine Feehan

One blob of red in the wrong place and the audience isn't looking at the hero, they're looking at a patch of curtain (or something similar) and your whole effect is lost.
- Terence Fisher

Fruit often ends up rotting in the crisper drawer. Well, that's the wrong place to put it. Out of sight, out of mind. The kids all know where the junk-food shelf is. Make the fruit that easy to get to. Put a big huge bowl of fruit on the counter.
- Tyler Florence

No matter where you're going it's the wrong place.
- Tobe Hooper

If you feel unwanted or unappreciated where you are or by those you're with, it only means you're in the wrong place or with the wrong people. Hang in there. Someone else will see you for the true gift you are.
- Lk Hunsaker

I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody.
- Jeremy Renner

They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes
- George Lucas

We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity - that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.
- Angela Merkel

The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place.
- John Stuart Mill

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
- A A Milne

If I can't affect some change in six years, maybe I'm in the wrong place.
- George Nethercutt

I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing.
- Sarah Palin

If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.
- Richard Peck

I had refused Emerson's well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take.
- Elizabeth Peters

Things are in the wrong place. Religion is in the box where science used to be. Politics is on the shelf where you thought you left science the previous afternoon. Entertainment seems to have knocked over and spilled on everything.
- Charles P Pierce

I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.
- Nora Roberts

In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.
- Helen Rowland

Right time, right place, right people equals success.
Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.
- Idries Shah

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.
- Anthony Storr

There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.
- Shashi Tharoor

I've always been a word guy, I like weird words and I like American slang and all that and words that are no longer being used... I like to drag them out of the box and wave them around... this is an interesting one, it's amazing how in addition to punctuation just a little pause in the wrong place can just completely transform the meaning of something.
- Tom Waits

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.
- Lawrence Welk

No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.
- Charles E Wilson

It's hard to deny life's little ironies. Wrong place, wrong roles, but united in our commitment to life's young dream. And yet, our bodies were already tarnished and our minds beyond yelp.
- Weihui Zhou

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