Been Wronged Quotes

#1. The universe takes care of iniquities, of people who have been wronged, of injustices that the world can't right.

Courtney Cole

#2. I believe the Israelis have been wronged, but they also have a lot to apologize for. And I believe the Palestinians have been wronged, but they have a lot to apologize for, as well.

Marianne Williamson

#3. For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.

Shirley Hazzard

#4. I bored myself to tears with the daytime television drama of confrontation (I've been wronged!). I winced at sluggish morning half-memories of wearing wrongness like a lampshade on my head (I'm mentally ill!).

Merri Lisa Johnson

#5. If someone figured out a way to bottle woman-been-wronged, they'd make a fortune.

Catherine McKenzie

#6. Don't get bitter and twisted and nasty by life. You may have been wronged or cheated on; two wrongs never make a right. Instead learn your mistakes and learn your lessons. Remain strong with your head held high.

Angela Merkel

#7. But it kind of feels nice to nurture her resentment, to foster it. It's something she can savor and control, this feeling of having been wronged by the world.

Christina Baker Kline

#8. When two words are identical, you must not take undue offence or think you have been wronged in terms of choice. Simplicity is a fine patience of meaning.

Nicole Brossard

#9. I have been wronged by so many men that I find it hard to trust anyone and see only greed and malice in every heart. [Sylvian]

Karen Maitland

#10. Forgiveness is the key that can unshackle us from a past that will not rest in the grave of things over and done with. As long as our minds are captive to the memory of having been wronged, they are not free to wish for reconciliation with the one who wronged us.

Lewis B. Smedes

#11. My mother can certainly be rough around the edges at times, but she also taught me to have compassion for people who have been wronged. She taught me to empathize with those who have made mistakes.

LZ Granderson

#12. Perry does not love the cost of this adventure, but his investor brain is going to run the numbers. The brain always insists on being the last committee member to cave. The brain likes to make speeches that usually begin with a familiar opening:Ladies and gentlemen, I have been wronged.

Edmond Manning

#13. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

G.K. Chesterton

#14. My heart gets very tender when it comes to playing someone who has wronged someone else. I almost feel like it's easier for me to play having been wronged than it is to actually feel like you had an active part in hurting someone.

Jessica Capshaw

#15. A bruise is how the body remembers it's been wronged.

Jodi Picoult

#16. The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.

W. H. Auden

#17. In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible
such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?

Maxim Gorky

#18. It's nice to work with Hollywood because there is never any question of resources put at your disposal to make a film as long as it is the right thing to do.

Neil Jordan

#19. How can the Church be received as a trustworthy guide in the invisible, which falls into so many errors in the visible?

John William Draper

#20. It's OK to be down in the dumps - just don't stay there too long.

Catherine DeVrye

#21. I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.

Geronimo

#22. We are made up of nothing. There is no self. We are whatever we decide we are.

Frederick Lenz

#23. Statesmen exhibit five key commitments: 1) A commitment to principles above politics; 2) An ability to compromise without abandoning principle; 3) A commitment to truth over spin; 4) A commitment to courage over cowardice; and 5) A commitment, or willingness, to give up power.

Tom Coburn

#24. He never looks away, searching my eyes for truth. His reaction has left my heart pounding, shocked at how quick he was to dismiss any fault I may have had. I wish he was just as quick to dismiss his own faults, but he isn't.

Colleen Hoover

#25. When we have been badly injured and clearly wronged, we make an instant caricature of the person who did it to us. We define him totally by the one wrong he did.

Lewis B. Smedes

#26. Laugh-and-the-whole-world-laughs-with-you type of thing.

Stephen King

#27. Eyes watching always
Shadows in shadows they wait
A black feather falls
First accepted, loved
Then betrayed-spit in the face
Vengeance sweet like dots.

Kristin Cast

#28. Men who have been in war have a different attitude about being wronged.

Dan Groat

#29. We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.

Jane Hamilton