Quotes About Wrong

Part of the satisfaction of tattling surely comes from showing oneself to adults as a good moral agent, a responsible being who is sensitive to right and wrong. But I would bet that children would tattle even if they could do so only anonymously. They would do it just to have justice done.

Jack had some kind of idea that it was all wrong for a car to have a house.

Memory's only like justice, because it is another wrong idea that makes people feel right.

It's not an unusual American story. Just as there's no right way to plan a life and no right way to live one—only plenty of wrong ways.

His wings - she's never seen them fully spread, massive and strong. She wants to tell him that this is how he was meant to be - as wrong as it was for her to do this to him, as wrong as it feels, he is this person in this moment, and there's nothing more beautiful.

The wrong man could have brought it all crashing down," she told him. "A different man might have collapsed under the weight of the responsibility.

So the studies don't back me up. There'll always be more studies. We'll change our minds and I'll have been right all along until we change our minds again, send me back to being wrong.

You were wrong," she told Paul, because he had been a pedantic asshole who thought he was right about everything. "You said I would be dead in a gutter by now. You said I was worthless. You said that no one would believe me because I didn't matter.

She knew that there came a point when your mind told you everything was wrong, but your body betrayed you anyway, reaching out for whatever comfort was offered.

It's possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way.

Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.

Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.

The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.

Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing.

I told the ambulance men the wrong blood type for my ex, so he knows what rejection feels like.

Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful.

I happen to think we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.

The whole Constitution has been erected upon the assumption that the King not only is capable of doing wrong but is more likely to do wrong than other men if he is given the chance.

Homer was wrong in saying, "Would that strife might pass away from among gods and men!" He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe.

May my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if its sunday may i be wrong for whenever men are right they are not young

For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right

What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

For those that think men make progress collectively, I warn you, history teaches: You couldn't be more wrong.

Three things never anger or you'll not live for long; A wolf with cubs, A man with power, And a woman's sense of wrong.