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I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected -- Malcolm X
When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'. -- Ronald Knox
All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way. -- Sam Walton
I thought my nose was too prominent so I had this corrected via plastic surgery in 1959. -- Marie Windsor
Gender injustice is a social impairment and therefore has to be corrected in social attitudes and behaviour. -- Mohammad Hamid Ansari
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected. -- Josh Billings
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected. -- George Henry Lewes
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled. -- Xun Zi
Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision. -- Thomas Sowell
It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected. -- John Bradshaw
While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales. -- Jonathan Dimbleby
Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles. -- Xun Zi
No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected. -- Benjamin Robbins Curtis
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established. -- John Berger
Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved. -- Giacomo Casanova
My mother is not a woman of ordinary culture. She knows literature and speaks Spanish better than I do. She even corrected my poems and gave me advice when I was studying rhetoric. -- Jose Rizal
Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of ordinary speech is usually corrected when it's transcribed into written prose. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Like any self-governing group of people, the Recording Academy has made missteps over the years. Still, it has corrected course and done more to open its arms to the future than nearly any other industry group around. -- Shawn Amos
When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway. -- Terry Bradshaw
And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake. -- Sanford I. Weill
A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. -- Thomas Reid
Even with an improperly ground mirror, the Hubble delivered extraordinary images. When the flaw was corrected, the Hubble delivered images of transcendent beauty and value for many years. So too 'Terra Nova.' Even in its flawed first season, each episode was full of marvelous moments and beautiful images. -- Stephen Lang
The best counsel for us to give young people is that they can arrive back to Heavenly Father only as they are guided and corrected by the Spirit of God. So if we are wise, we will encourage, praise, and exemplify everything which invites the companionship of the Holy Ghost. -- Henry B. Eyring
Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips on the table has more leverage than everyone else. He can eventually outbluff everyone else and outraise everyone else at the table. That's what has happened and it needs to be corrected. -- Simon Baker
Digital photography is, by definition, unfinished. You don't feel that after every 24 or 36 shots you have to change your film - you know you can go on for ever if you want. You can see the result immediately, and find out if your original idea is worth going on with or not, whether it can be corrected, whether it can be improved. -- Abbas Kiarostami
I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country. -- Jimmy Carter
Teaching others, he corrected himself. -- Dejan Stojanovic
Dissonance cannot be corrected by criticism. -- Wilford W. Andersen
A golf swing is a collection of corrected mistakes. -- Carol Mann
Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected. -- William Safire
Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected. -- David Hume
I've never once corrected someone who got my name wrong. -- Sharon Bolton
Mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity. -- Paulo Coelho
I feel like I'm wearing orthopedic shoes, because I stand corrected. -- Bill Maher
Injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad. -- Washington Allston
Scientists expect to be improved on and corrected; they hope to be -- Isaac Asimov
It reveals that people are confusing."Rovender corrected her. "Not Confusing. Complex. -- Tony DiTerlizzi
We're on the moon," Sadie murmured. "El Paso, Texas," Bast corrected. -- Rick Riordan
Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over. -- Barbara Ann Kipfer
My phone just auto-corrected my name to "Jamie unnecessary," instead of Jamie Lynn. -- Jamie Lynn Sigler
When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel' -- Ronald A. Knox
"So basically, that entire theory is blown to hell."Not basically," Win corrected. "Entirely." -- Harlan Coben
Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Evil and faults are corrected by good, by love, kindness, meekness, humility, and patience. -- John of Kronstadt
A mistaken thought may be corrected easily, but an errant affection is nearly unmanageable. -- Watchman Nee
Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered, -- Zac Posen
Simply wait upon Him. So doing, we shall be directed, supplied, protected, corrected, and rewarded. -- Vance Havner
Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought. -- Naguib Mahfouz
Hey, guys!" Grover yelled somewhere above us. "I think she's unconscious!" "Roooaaarrr!" "Maybe not," Grover corrected. -- Rick Riordan
Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves. -- Brandon Mull
If you have played "six times wrong, one time right" the problem is not quite corrected. -- William Westney
The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world...What it hasn't got is not worth having... -- Kenneth Grahame
Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected. -- Karl Popper
Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal. -- Samuel Johnson
You talk as if Bea were a trophy.''No, as if she were a blessing,' Fermin corrected. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
That which enters the mind through reason can be corrected. That which is admitted through faith, hardly ever. -- Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way? -- William Stafford
Children are best corrected to the point of their understanding, not to the extent of a parent's frustration. -- Wes Fesler
Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness. -- Vladimir Nabokov
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. -- Jean de la Bruyere
The Cross of Christ is the crux of history. Without the Cross, history cannot be defined or corrected. -- Ravi Zacharias
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If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth. -- Hans Reichenbach
I am not one of these people who instantly takes umbrage when he's corrected or - I love being corrected. -- Harlan Ellison
Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear. -- Tom Robbins
I'm tipsy." I corrected, "and it's my birthday and I want to dance. Come one, Linc, it won't kill you. -- Jessica Shirvington
Papa loves you with a dying and infernal love," the youngest girl said. "Undying," the eldest girl corrected. "And eternal. -- Martine Leavitt
The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored. -- James MacDonald
Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom. -- Ayn Rand
How was I to know? ... You didn't say anything.""I said lots of things," he corrected gently. "You just didn't hear them. -- Melissa Marr
I wanted to show the thing that had to be corrected: I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated. -- Lewis Hine
Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense. -- George Friedman
Overcrowding can be corrected only by inducing people not to crowd, and the environment will continue to deteriorate until polluting practices are abandoned. -- B. F. Skinner
I've always thought having a kid that played soccer would be the worst punishment. After watching 3 min of water polo I stand corrected. -- Daniel Tosh
Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague. -- Freeman Dyson
Keep practicing," he told her."Until I get it right?" she said. But he corrected her."No. Until you don't get it wrong. -- John Flanagan
Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late. -- G. Edward Griffin
How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever. -- David Norris
When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled. -- Xun Zi
He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink. -- Virginia Woolf
If we knew a person was going to die, we'd hold harder to the memories." Fire corrected him, in a whisper. "The good memories. -- Kristin Cashore
You're really cute, Midori," I corrected myself. "What do you mean really cute?" "So cute the mountains crumble and the oceans dry up. -- Haruki Murakami
It felt like an oversight to me, something that needed to be corrected. They [women who hid Jewish children] deserved to be understood and remembered. -- Megan Chance
...When this map was made, there was only empty forest in the south," Gran told Birle."Not empty," Granda corrected her. "The forest is never empty. -- Cynthia Voigt
We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected. -- Anatole France
Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited. -- Robert Kennedy
Too much damned TV. Thinks he's Sherlock Holmes." "That's professor Moriarty," corrected Foaly. "Holmes, Moriarty, they both look the same with the flesh scorched off their skulls. -- Eoin Colfer
No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities. -- John Tillotson
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To concede that there are social problems that cannot be corrected without the state is to give up the entire argument over the future of liberty itself. -- Llewellyn Rockwell
When I see something that needs to be corrected, I may talk to a store manager. I don't want to demoralize people when it's beyond their control. -- Gregory Wasson
And you work for that demon, right? The one who looks like Matthew Broderick?" "John Cusack," I corrected. "He looks like John Cusack." "Whatever. -- Richelle Mead
We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures - our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
There is no escape from the vast imbalances in international trade and finance. They will be corrected, sooner or later, by the inexorable principles that govern human action. -- Hans F. Sennholz
But I get frightened sometimes," she admitted."I know. Fear is only fear, though.""And somehow you live without it.""No," he corrected her. "You live with it. -- Nicole Mones
As we do not see squares in nature, I thought that it is man-made. But I have corrected myself. Because squares exist in salt crystals, our daily salt. -- Josef Albers
Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite process of good housekeeping and the personal ingenuity-here constitute the life of a free society. -- Winston Churchill
So, to add to a momentous day, I corrected a misconception that my family had held for at least fifteen years and came out to them as straight. -- Graeme Simsion
Kortchnoi's heritage is many-faceted - over the decades he has several times corrected and changed his style. But the main thing has invariably remained his search for chess truth. -- Garry Kasparov
The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil. -- Norbert Wiener
Your former friend Luke " Poseidon corrected. "He once promised things like that. He was Hermes's pride and joy. Just bear that in mind Percy. Even the bravest can fall. -- Rick Riordan
I have made mistakes and I have hurt people, I do not deny that fact. But I have corrected those mistakes vigorously once I understood the error of my ways. -- Garth Stein
The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction. -- Mark Twain
But my hands are in the right place." "Heart," I corrected. "Your heart's in the right place." "Yeah, but my hands are in an even better place." And so they were. -- Rachel Vincent
Cordelia: I personally don't think it's possible to come up with a crazier plan. Oz: We attack the Mayor with hummus. Cordelia: I stand corrected. Oz: Just keeping things in perspective. -- Joss Whedon
Cordelia: I personally don't think it's possible to come up with a crazier plan. Oz: We attack the Mayor with hummus. Cordelia: I stand corrected. Oz: Just keeping things in perspective. -- Joss Whedon
Maura whirled towards Blue. "Blue, if you ever see that man again, you just walk the other way." "No," Calla corrected. "Kick him in the nuts. Then run the other way. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Actually Gabrielâ??s an archangel,â? I corrected. â??But otherwise, yes.â? â??Well, that explains why heâ??s so hard to impress,â? said Xavier flippantly -- Alexandra Adornetto
Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places. -- C. S. Lewis
In the Italian kitchen, ingredients are not treated as promising but untutored elements that need to be corrected through long and intricate manipulation and refined by the ultimate polish of a sauce. -- Marcella Hazan
And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They dont like to be corrected in company. Dont send messages to em, send candy. -- Will Rogers
The movements of a great nation are connected in all their parts. If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected; if the policy is sound it ought to be supported. -- James Monroe
That's a stupid question,' said Malachi. 'Because he didn't warn him. He didn't warn anyone.' 'No, it's a philosophical question,' Kearns corrected him. 'Which makes it useless, not stupid. -- Rick Yancey
Two days prior to the Herrick operation I repaired a double cleft lip, resected a recurrent cancer of the mouth, corrected lop ears in a child, and closed a burn of the buttocks. -- Joe Murray
When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared. -- Margaret Mahy
We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized. -- Elliot W. Eisner
It's only through honesty and courage that science can work at all. The Ptolemaic understanding of the solar system was undermined and corrected by the constant pressure of more and more honest reporting. -- Philip Pullman

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