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Quotes About Wrongs

Taxes — wealth and waste laws and loopholes dollars and deficits rights and wrongs security and wars ceilings and floors
~ Terri Guillemets
The pathway to hell was paved with good intentions, but what about the wrongs committed for the right reasons? Were they included as well? Life had taught him that anything that starts wrong, ends wrong. In this case, he supposed that only time and its unpredictable mercies would tell. - Percy
~ Leila Meacham
Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away; Plucking up the weeds of sin, Letting heaven's warm sunshine in.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Inside, she vibrated with a passion to discover life's secrets, a passion to right wrongs, a passion to unfold the petals of the heart. But even I didn't know that then. Rebellious, she accepted his offer to accompany him to the Moulin Rouge. 
~ Parris Afton Bonds
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs
~ Leonardo da Vinci
ME, THAT'S WHO! I'm the victim here! Someone should be all heroically trying to help ME right all the wrongs! Where's my rotten cavalry of loyal idiots?
~ Tui T. Sutherland
pay her back for imaginary wrongs, or real wrongs she had not personally done him but had done representatively because she was of her race and of her colour, and he could not in his simple rage any longer distinguish between individual and crowd.
~ Paul Scott
Then if thou hast A heart of wreak in thee, that wilt revenge Thine own particular wrongs and stop those maims Of shame seen through thy country, speed thee straight, And make my misery serve thy turn: so use it That my revengeful services may prove As benefits to thee, for I will fight Against my canker'd country with the spleen Of all the under fiends.
~ William Shakespeare
I guess we are back to you. Know your rights?" "Yes, but it is the wrongs that keep getting me into trouble, Officer.
~ Craig Johnson
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Please do not be offended if I tell you the truth. No man [e] on earth who conscientiously opposes either you or any other organized democracy, and flatly prevents a great many wrongs and illegalities from taking place in the state to which he belongs, can possibly escape with his life.
~ Plato
Life is full of happy and sad moments, smiling and moody faces ,rights and wrongs, loves and hates. But what a wonderful LIFE it is.
~ Unknown
Intuition without reason is the fertile mother of blunders and wrongs.
~ Unknown
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
~ Lyndon Johnson
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's wrongs his own.
~ John Dryden
Myself my sepulcher, a moving grave, Buried, yet not exempt By privilege of death and burial From worst of other evils, pains and wrongs, But made hereby obnoxious To all the miseries of life.
~ John Milton
The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
~ John Muir
Wrongs are often forgiven; but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.
~ Lord Chesterfield
They say communication save relations I can tell, but I can never right my wrongs unless I write them down for real.
~ Drake
In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom
~ Mary Ritter Beard
I am Sailor Moon, champion of justice! On behalf of the moon, I will right wrongs and triumph over evil, and that means you! - sailor moon
~ Naoko Takeuchi
A society that has no wrongs will soon have no rights.
~ Orrin Woodward
Our blessings are never payment for the good we've done, and our trials are never punishment for the wrongs we've done. This cause-and-effect equation is always bad spiritual math.
~ Paul David Tripp