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  • If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry. -- Carly Fiorina
  • I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on. -- Rose McGowan
  • It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry. -- Nikolai Gogol
  • When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry. -- Don Bluth
  • Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry. -- Walter Ulbricht
  • Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions. So they're essentially the victims of a marketing and capitalist machine gone awry. -- Douglas Rushkoff
  • When it is perceived that a show has gone awry, the pressure is staggering, and as a writer caught in that storm, it feels like you are being attacked by jackals. -- Steven Bochco
  • It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences. -- Moby
  • If banks anticipate government will come to the rescue should the credit market go badly awry, they may make loans that would otherwise be imprudent, e.g. subprime loans with little prospect of repayment. -- Eric Maskin
  • A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded. -- Bruce Dickinson
  • Menstruation not only carries with it the connotation of a productive system that has failed to produce; it also carries the idea of production gone awry, making products of no use, not to specification, unsalable, wasted, scrap. -- Emily Martin
  • I'm not one of those critics that believes U.S. foreign policy is confused, or stupid, or misinformed, or well-intentioned but it goes awry. I think it's a brilliant policy filled with many brilliant, terrible, horrible victories. -- Michael Parenti
  • It's hard for me to be happy because I'm always worried about something going awry or what could happen to screw it up. It's hard for me to sit and look around, going, 'Ah, I'm really happy.' I'm not that kind of person. -- Lisa Marie Presley
  • I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I had a series of personal losses. My mother died. A relationship that I was in came to end, and a variety of other things went awry. -- Andrew Solomon
  • Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them. -- Nancy Meyers
  • The best plans of men and mice often go awry. -- Robert Burns
  • The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry. -- Robert Burns
  • So why did you get shot? One of your witticisms go awry? (Nekoda) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • When things go awry, trust powers the generators until the problem is fixed. -- Max de Pree
  • More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined. -- Fred Brooks
  • The true faith discovered was When painted panel, statuary, Glass-mosaic, window-glass, Amended what was told awry By some peasant gospeler. -- William Butler Yeats
  • A lot of people have a dissatisfaction or an anger in them, so as soon as something goes awry, they flip out. -- Brigid Brannagh
  • My plans often went awry. Much like my thoughts. Hold the phones. Maybe Saan had ADD, too. It would explain a lot. -- Darynda Jones
  • In your efforts to dazzle us your reasoning has gone awry. You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself. -- Jean Anouilh
  • A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out. -- Wallis Simpson
  • Of persons I will say this: it is difficult to tell when they are running aright but easy to see when something has gone awry. -- Neal Stephenson
  • If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children who go awry. -- Warren Farrell
  • Ah, youth!It was a beautiful night...The moon was out of orbit.The stars were awry.But everything else was exactlyas it should have been. -- Roman Payne
  • what if a much of a which of a wind gives the truth to summer's lie; bloodies with dizzying leaves the sun and yanks immortal stars awry? -- e. e. cummings
  • I'm slightly controlling. I'm an Aries and I like things to have an order. I get slightly disturbed and I get slightly distressed and flustered if things go awry. -- Mandy Moore
  • We do not have an ecological crisis. The ecosphere has a human crisis. Our 'story' about our place in the scheme of things has somehow gone awry in the industrial age... -- William E. Rees
  • One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed. -- Julia Child
  • The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action. -- William Shakespeare
  • The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action." -- William Shakespeare
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