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Wrong Quotes

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Charles M. Blow
“There is no wrong time to do the right thing.”
Charles M. Blow

Terry Pratchett
“I'VE NEVER BEEN VERY SURE ABOUT WHAT IS RIGHT, said Bill Door. I AM NOT SURE THERE IS SUCH A THING AS RIGHT. OR WRONG. JUST PLACES TO STAND.”
Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

James Agee
“And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this should remain as it is, is a human being by definition only, having much more in common with the bedbug, the tapeworm, the cancer, and the scavengers of the deep sea.”
James Agee, Cotton Tenants: Three Families

Criss Jami
“Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience.”
Criss Jami, Killosophy

Lucy Grealy
“This singularity of meaning--I was my face, I was ugliness--though sometimes unbearable, also offered a possible point of escape. It became the launching pad from which to lift off, the one immediately recognizable place to point to when asked what was wrong with my life. Everything led to it, everything receded from it--my face as personal vanishing point.”
Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face

Dejan Stojanovic
“Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.”
Dejan Stojanovic

Julie Anne Long
“I don't know,' he said irritably. 'Is it meant to improve you?'

She swiveled toward him, eyes wide with shock.

'Because nothing could,' he added.
Her mouth dropped in astonishment. Blotchy scarlet rushed her complexion. One would have thought he'd shot her.

Oh dear God!

He realized belatedly how wrong it had sounded.

'No! God... that is to say.. nothing is necessary to improve you. Nothing could possibly make you better... than you already are.”
Julie Anne Long, How the Marquess Was Won

William Ewart Gladstone
“Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.”
William Ewart Gladstone

Anna Godbersen
“Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop.”
Anna Godbersen, Envy

“When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.”
Albert Guinon

“Sometimes it's right to do the wrong thing.”
Finian Whish

Gloria Whelan
“I thought I understood what was best. I knew too little and believed too soon.”
Gloria Whelan, Angel on the Square

Barbara Else
“I'm too old to figure out the rights and wrongs of everything.”
Barbara Else, The Travelling Restaurant: Jasper's Voyage in Three Parts

Tony Judt
“in a constitutionally ordered state, where laws are derived from broad principles of right and wrong and where those principles are enshrined and protected by agreed upon procedures and practices, it can never be in the long-term interest of the state or its citizens to flout those procedures at home or associate too closely overseas with the enemies of your founding ideals.”
Tony Judt, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century

“What can go wrong, will go wrong. ”
Murphey
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Santosh Kalwar
“Everybody is right when there are no wrongs.”
Santosh Kalwar

Anita R. Sneed-Carter
“Doing what is right will always keep you moving forward toward your destiny, but choosing the wrong way will keep you stuck in the same spot:No Where!

-Anita R. Sneed-Carter”
Anita R. Sneed-Carter

Criss Jami
“Some people's theologies come across as blatantly wrong when weighed against what is revealed in Scripture. However God has mercy on those who may be wrong but genuinely seek understanding before seeking themselves.”
Criss Jami, Killosophy

Jim George
“Spiritual joy is what you experience when you choose to give thanks to God no matter what happens—even when things go wrong.”
Jim George, A Dad After God's Own Heart: Becoming the Father Your Kids Need

Iain Pears
“Olivier took a deep breath, then turned and bowed in farewell. Gersonides nodded in return, then thought of something.
"The manuscript you brought me, by that bishop. It argues that understanding is more important than movement. That action is virtuous only if it reflects pure comprehension, and that virtue comes from the comprehension, not the action."
Olivier frowned. "So?"
"Dear boy, I must tell you a secret."
"What?"
"I do believe it is wrong.”
Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio

Amit Abraham
“Sensible men are all of the same religion. Religious sentiments cannot be stirred up within righteous people of any religion for instigating them to do wrong to their own or fellow brethrens�.”
Dr. Amit Abraham, The Great Game

Colson Whitehead
“Cora blamed the people who wrote it down. People always got things wrong, on purpose as much as by accident.”
Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
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“Even if there is a small lie in the truth you telling. It will make the truth questionable.”
De_philosopher_DJKyos

“उसका मेरे लि� प्या� बस एक भ्रम था, जबकि मेरा प्या� सच्च� और स्पष्ट था� मै� हर संभव कोशि� करती रही, लेकि� उसके संदेहपूर्ण नज़रों ने मुझे हमेश� ये सोचन� पर मजबू� कर दिया कि मै� कहाँ कमी कर रही हूँ। अस� मे�, इसका मतलब सिर्� इतना था कि आप कभी भी उस व्यक्त� के लि� पर्याप्त नही� हो सकते, जो आपको चाहत� ही नहीं।”
Malar

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Someone willfully caused a Fight in which one Person had no Chance � was it the wrong or the right Enemy/Opponent/Victim?”
Sino Melo

“I realized I loved him after everything went wrong so I wallowed in self-pity and prayed I could wake up.”
Dominic Riccitello

“Love will take you where you don’t belong.”
Jordan Hoechlin

Mark Twain
“We ought never do wrong when anyone is looking”
Mark Twain

“People don’t want the truth, they want a version of morality that always puts them on the right side, even when they are wrong.”
Marc Kandalaft