Quotes About Being Wronged

#1. As years pass, and the abundance of the future is depleted, the crux of old mistakes and the cost of old choices are ever recalibrated. Resentment, the interest in umbrage derived from being wronged, is computed minute by minute, savagely, however you try to ignore it.

Gregory Maguire

#2. Two's company and three's a crowd, but seven can be an uprising. And the seven can become 70 or 700 or 7000 very quickly if the sense of being wronged is felt broadly and truly enough.

Michael Leunig

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

Dan Groat

#4. It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region.

Ali Khamenei

#5. While great art makes you wonder, great design makes things clear.

John Maeda

#6. I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. There's a reason girls yell 'fire' instead of 'rape', why we lie and say we have boyfriends instead of just saying 'no' when we're not interested. Because a lot of men respect another man's property more than they respect a woman's right to her own body. So

J.M. Darhower

#8. I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.

Gertrude Stein

#9. The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

James Allen

#10. 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

#11. Fortuna, that vicious slut.

John Kennedy Toole

#12. People often tell me I could be a great man. I'd rather be a good man.

John F. Kennedy Jr.

#13. You just have to find a lawyer that won't let you sign certain things - and I mean the fine print, because I was gone from Phil Spector and signed with Gamble and Huff in Philadelphia, and Phil bought my record contract back from them.

Darlene Love

#14. Underworld butt.

Rick Riordan

#15. The Use of the Understanding, in endeavouring to find out the Meaning of any Proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature and Evidence for or against it, and in judging of it according to the seeming Force or Weakness of the Evidence.

Anthony Collins

#16. Be a great artist especially when you draw your life's picture.

Debasish Mridha

#17. A lot of cinematic influences on 'Descender' - Kubrick for sure. '2001: A Space Odyssey' is my favorite movie. It has been since I was 12. I just love that film.

Jeff Lemire

#18. Time heals many wounds but this loss becomes the defining sadness of your life.

Claire Cook

#19. We are children of water, and water is death's close companion. The two cannot be separated from us, for we are made of the versatility of water and the closeness of death. They go together always, in the world and in us, and the time will come when our water runs dry.

Emmi Itaranta