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Quotes About Wrong

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
If your goal in life is to become fearless, then I believe you're already on the wrong path, because the only truly fearless people I've ever met were straight-up sociopaths and a few exceptionally reckless three-year-olds—and those aren't good role models for anyone.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Well, trials are the portion of mankind, and gardeners have their share, and in any case it is better to be tried by plants than persons, seeing that with plants you know that it is you who are in the wrong, and with persons it is always the other way about—and who is there among us who has not felt the pangs of injured innocence, and known them to be grievous?
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
There has many a man gone through that gate without a safe-conduct, who will reach heaven ahead of some who were escorted through with absolution and ceremony, and had their affairs in order. Kings and princes of the church may find shepherds and serfs preferred before them, and some who claim they have done great good may have to give place to poor wretches who have done wrong and acknowledge it, and have tried to make amends.
~ Ellis Peters
Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.
~ Alice Childress
Love is one of the true mysteries,' he said at last. 'The truest and the deepest of all. One thing, Maerad: to love is never wrong. It may be disastrous; it may never be possible; it may be the deepest agony. But it is never wrong.
~ Alison Croggon
When things have gone wrong it is no consolation to hear that your friends expected it all along and could have told you so if they hadn't been so polite.
~ Alison Lurie
His hands are off," Gabrielle pointed out. "Posture's wrong," Kat said. "He's still ... hot," Gabrielle said, as if it were the greatest insult in the world. "I feel so objectified. So ... cheap," Hale told them.
~ Ally Carter
I didn't know what was more disturbing—the fact that something was obviously wrong, or that three faculty members of the world's premiere spy school had forgotten to lock the door.
~ Ally Carter
Logan had thought he couldn't get any wetter or any colder, but he'd been wrong. So very, very wrong. Like the kind of wrong he was when he had bet Maddie that he could eat all the ice cream in the White House deep freeze and then found out they were preparing for a state dinner and had a hundred gallons. He made it through half of one huge tub before she took pity on him and made him stop.
~ Ally Carter
What was her idea?" I ask, my voice like ice. "For Amelia's heir to marry the prince. Your mother was the one who first thought of this solution... The only problem is... well... we got the heir wrong.
~ Ally Carter
Life is a civil right. Abortion is a civil wrong.
~ Alveda C. King
Well, what I've said is that the war in Iraq will always be clouded by how it began, which was a wrong premise, that there were in fact no weapons of nuclear - weapons of mass destruction.
~ Robert M. Gates
There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
~ Basmah bint Saud
I'm setting the record straight - Chuck Schumer is nothing but a political animal who symbolizes all that's wrong with American politics.
~ Trish Regan
My father had no influence on my political beliefs, and to imply otherwise is wrong and irresponsible.
~ M.I.A.
Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
~ Don Marquis
You ask politicians a question, and they have an answer. It's almost like the more articulate the answer, the more something feels wrong because that question takes thought.
~ Ken Leung
You can see it with social media and things like that, back in the day it was harder to convince people that the police are wrong, which sounds crazy, but that's how it was back then.
~ DeAndre Yedlin
I am not afraid if the criticism concerns what I do wrong, because then I know. Because if you say the King cannot be criticized, it means that the King is not human.
~ Bhumibol Adulyadej
I think people throw the term 'sociopath' around a lot without knowing what it means - but people who don't understand that what they're doing is mean and wrong and cruel, they need to be made to understand that.
~ Max Joseph
There's nothing wrong in our dam management and such allegations are baseless.
~ Pinarayi Vijayan
Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame wrong. It's time to stop the madness.
~ Tim Bray
Creating systems where people feel like they're being punished for things they didn't do wrong breaks all kinds of trust and makes people feel like they're not being treated with dignity.
~ Zephyr Teachout