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Quotes About Wrong

Sometimes you have to swallow your pride and just admit you're wrong. It's not called giving in, it's called growing up.
~ Unknown
Forgiving someone that hurt or betrayed you does not justify the wrong they did, you can forgive that person without excusing the act, you have two choices, you can either hold onto anger and resentment or you embrace forgiveness and move forward.
~ Unknown
I loved his certainty, his world that was an easy place of right action divided sharply from wrong, of mistake and consequence, of monsters defeated. It was no world I knew, but I would live in it as long as he would let me" - circe, chapter XIX
~ Madeline Miller
What I'm trying to explain to my sulky little cousin is that we are doing things backwards. We are going from the end of the river to the start of the river. And endings are always sad. We are doing the sad bit first, which is wrong. Strange.
~ Mal Peet
Acknowledgment of error is not error. A person who sincerely tells the spirit that he did something wrong cannot be punished anymore. The wrong itself is its own punishment. Power
~ Malidoma Patrice Some
They are no longer human beings. I don't know any other way to describe them. There is something about them that causes an instinctive reaction of "wrong!" in normal people—
~ Marc MacYoung
It was true that Odette played vilely, but often the most memorable impression of a piece of music is one that has arisen out of a jumble of wrong notes struck by unskilful fingers upon a tuneless piano.
~ Marcel Proust
There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.
~ John Ruskin
I'm a monster. You're a monster. We're all fucking inhuman monsters, and we don't see a damned thing wrong with it.
~ John Scalzi
The diagnostic said there was nothing wrong with the threep, which may have meant there was something wrong with the diagnostic.
~ John Scalzi
There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.
~ John Steinbeck
No matter how cheerful and blameless the day's activities have been, when you wake in the middle of the night there is guilt in the air, a gnawing feeling of everything being slightly off, wrong — you in the wrong, and the world too, as if darkness is a kind of light that shows us the depth we are about to fall into.
~ John Updike
There is right and there is wrong, I have NEVER been wrong.
~ John Waters
Results matter. They matter a great deal. But if this is an organization's singular purpose, then the people who sign on are often doing it for the wrong reasons.
~ John Wooden
Any idiot, any stockbroker can get out there and live out a fantasy and pretend like he's playing music. And I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
~ Mike Patton
Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.
~ Philip K. Dick, Valis
He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
The right kind of fear will keep us from doing wrong. The rough is only mental - it is rough only because your think it is.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.
~ Russell Baker
Our enemies believed America was weak and materialistic, that we would splinter in fear and selfishness. They were as wrong as they are evil.
~ George W. Bush
ThereÂ's a fear that grasps each individual and what they think is right and what they think is wrong.
~ Heather Matarazzo
When fear seizes change what you are doing. You are doing something wrong.
~ Jean Craighead George
To be filled with fear is to open to the wrong way
~ Sunday Adelaja
Never say 'that won't happen to me'. Life has a funny way of proving us wrong.
~ Unknown