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Quotes About Wrong

I believe morality is universal. Circumstances may alter the degree of blame, but not that an act is wrong.
~ Anne Perry
Love does forgive, but can it forgive everything? Should it? Which loyalties came first—family, or belief in right and wrong?
~ Anne Perry
You think I'm defeated. You think you've passed your judgement and that's the end of it. Oh, you think it's as simple as that. Well you are wrong. I shall never have vengeance for this moment, but you will see me again. You will see me again.
~ Anne Rice
LOVE ALL, TRUST A FEW, DO WRONG TO NONE.
~ Anne Rice
Your soul is your inner being, your thinking, reasoning, loving, choosing inner being. Your capacity to stand up for what is right. Your capacity to fight against what is wrong. Your capacity to choose even to die for what you believe is right. That's your soul.
~ Anne Rice
I'm afraid it's not the knowledge that makes me hit wrong notes, it's the level of skill," she managed to say sweetly, pulling herself together. "People say I play with great abandon." "Yes. Abandoned to all sense of musicality.
~ Anne Stuart
narrowly missed connections. They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong; they pass each other and keep running. It had all amounted to nothing, in the end.
~ Anne Tyler
It's wrong to live in nature, unless you want to live like an animal.
~ Scott Westerfeld
One last note on this illness. I said that it was terrible, yet that in some ways very little seemed to be wrong. Imagine a ship leaving West Africa for the New World. If the compass was set only one degree out – just one tiny degree out of three hundred and sixty – it could end up not in New York but in Mexico. That is what I mean by a tiny flaw and a catastrophic result.
~ Sebastian Faulks
The typical factory-centric organization places a premium on not-wrong, and spends no time at all weeding out those who don't start. In the networked economy, the innovation-focused organization has no choice but to obsess about those who don't start. Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.
~ Seth Godin
Why, the wrong is but a wrong i'th'world; and having the world for your labour, 'tis a wrong in your own world, and you might quickly make it a right.
~ Shakespeare, William
One of the lessons you learn from history is that history sometimes teaches the wrong lessons.
~ Shashi Tharoor
And yet, when to act on that belief causes deep hurt to innocents who had nothing to do with the original wrong -- if there was one -- do we not have a greater responsibility to the present than to the past?
~ Shashi Tharoor
if a being has sufficient sense of justice and civility to know it has done wrong, knowing it has done wrong is often sufficient punishment. If the being has no remorse, punishment will only increase its anger.
~ Sheri S. Tepper
Bofusdiaga says past wrongs cannot be righted because past wrongs are past and time only runs one way. Bofusdiaga says all you independent creatures suffer great wrongs sometime in the past, which is normal, but you stay always living in the past so you can continue wronged forever! Forever miserable, forever tragical! Bofusdiaga says so long as you go chewing yesterday's pains, you cannot eat today's pleasures, so it is no help!
~ Sheri S. Tepper
Hello," my doctor said. "Are you there?" "Yes," I said. "So, what's going on?" "There are irregularities in your head." "My head's always been wrong
~ Sherman Alexie
You had every right to be afraid. But your bastard bitches were wrong. It won't be my son who destroys this pantheon. It is I! (Apollymi)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You don't want the Simi to watch over the bitch-goddess, do you? 'Cause no offense, akri, that would just be wrong, and I love you, but that's more love than the Simi has for anything. Even Diamonique. (Simi)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm sure he just wanted to touch a piece of home. Hell, whatever artifact he took probably belonged to him or some member of his family. I'm not going to kill anyone because he was homesick, Artie – kind of like killing someone when he's on the can. It's just wrong. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
It was hopeless, life, really. It was set up all wrong.
~ Nick Hornby
Someone's looking for a lead, in his duty to a king or creed. Protecting what he feels is right, fights against wrong with his life.
~ Robert Palmer
Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing, Read you not the wrong you're doing In my cheek's pale hue? All my life with sorrow strewing; Wed or cease to woo.
~ Thomas Campbell
Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong.
~ Tucker Max
Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.
~ John G. Riefenbaker