Some Wrongs Quotes

#1. We'll have music, such sweet music, and wine, heh, the red will run, and we'll put some wrongs aright.

George R R Martin

#2. I have the opportunity, once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful songs.

William Arthur Ward

#3. I wasn't letting go of this; this mindless moment where everything felt like it had shifted back into place and all of the wrongs were right again.

R.K. Lilley

#4. As a dad I'm emotionally dedicated but I'm not 'figuring out their life plans'. But of course as I'm telling them about the rights of wrongs I'm thinking back to what I was like at their age.

Peter Mullan

#5. What do you think spies are: priests, saints, and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists, and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives. Do you think they sit like monks in London balancing the rights and wrongs?

John Le Carre

#6. If you cannot free people from their wrongs and see them as the needy people they are, you enslave yourself to your own painful past and by fastening yourself to the past, you let your hate become your future.

Lewis B. Smedes

#7. You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.

George R R Martin

#8. The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

Publilius Syrus

#9. There was a fine line of making love and fucking but this was love-fucking. This was cruel but sweet. Angry but happy. It was a thousand words in one timeless action - righting the wrongs of our past and hopefully repairing a future we both didn't think we'd ever find.

Pepper Winters

#10. Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?

Leo Buscaglia

#11. We have nothing left. Orphans. Castaways." She turns to me. "Childless. That is what we are. The unwanted or the un-killed. We
are together only by the wrongs done to us. There is no-one else to worry about us, to fear for our safety, or to give us comfort.

Bill Blais

#12. We may not be able to stop and undo the hard old wrongs of the great world outside, but through you and me no evil shall come either in the unknown where you are going, or in this imperfect and haunted dimension of awareness through which I move.

Laurens Van Der Post

#13. I strongly believe in my own rights and wrongs and impose them on myself and my family.

Nita Ambani

#14. Yossarian left money in the old woman's lap - it was odd how many wrongs leaving money seemed to right - and

Joseph Heller

#15. We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.

Theodore Roosevelt

#16. I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world; but I do think that it is charged with the duty of preventing and redressing all wrongs which are wrongs to itself.

Abraham Lincoln

#17. Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won ..

George R R Martin

#18. Maybe Larry was wrong about the word friend, maybe he'd been shoved away from everybody for so long all he was was a sponge for the wrongs other people did.

Tom Franklin

#19. Hypocrisy is wretched because the hypocrite says with his tongue what is not in his heart. He wrongs his tongue and oppresses his heart. But if the heart is sound, the condition of the tongue follows suit. We are commanded to be upright in speech, which is a gauge of the heart's state.

Hamza Yusuf

#20. All the tut-tutters out there will say: She should have just left, bundled up what remained of her dignity. Take the high road! Two wrongs don't make a right! All those things that spineless women say, confusing their weakness with morality.

Gillian Flynn

#21. Two wrongs don't make a right, but neither does one. Revenge may seem petty by day, but on some nights she becomes Justice.

Ashly Lorenzana

#22. And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its chastisement. They should remember their pleasures with gratitude, as they would the harvest of a summer.

Khalil Gibran

#23. In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#24. Some were Charter Mages, and there would not be time to argue rights and wrongs, so any aggressive magic he used would be countered or negated by these others, as was the nature of Charter Magic.

Garth Nix

#25. Every star knows you step on some toes to get where you're going - and some more after you get there. Nobody means to hurt anybody else, it just happens. You always keep saying in the back of your mind that one day you will be able to right all the wrongs. That someday almost never comes.

Jayne Mansfield

#26. Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#27. It's a difficult truth to face that some people choose to define themselves by the pain they feel or the wrongs they've suffered. They're not going through hard times so much as making all times hard.

Dani Harper

#28. Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.

John Green

#29. If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.

Oliver Herford

#30. I'm passionate about gay rights, but I think we need admit that there are some gay wrongs as well.

Dov Davidoff

#31. I know some teachers say that you shouldn't display the psychic powers and other powers referred to as the siddhas, but as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't really matter. There are no absolute rights or wrongs in spiritual practice

Frederick Lenz

#32. It is a common enough mid-career urge: having taken care of life's immediate needs, some of us yearn to chase villains, right wrongs, fight on the side of the angels.

Tim Wu

#33. The wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#34. If two wrongs don't make a right, then what do three wrongs make? What about four?

Buzz Osborne

#35. You of all people would know people who commit suicide... can't go to the paradise of the stars. Even if you did commit a horrible crime... you have to live! You can't just give up and die! You have to live and atone for your wrongs!

Noriko Ogiwara

#36. Intuition without reason is the fertile mother of blunders and wrongs.

Arthur Alfred Lynch

#37. Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.

Emile Souvestre

#38. It is not possible to debate the balance between privacy and security, including the rights and wrongs of intrusive powers, without also understanding the threats.

Theresa May

#39. Jafaa. In Persian, this very poetic word refers to all the wrongs you do to those who love you.

Maziar Bahari

#40. We will not "forget" so as to be able to rejoice; we will rejoice and therefore let those memories (of wrongs suffered) slip out of our minds!

Miroslav Volf

#41. Notwithstanding all the wrongs that slavery heaped upon me, I can bless it for one thing-youth's important lesson of self-reliance.

Elizabeth Keckley

#42. One way of surviving heartache is to stay busy. Making something right in at least one tiny corner of the vast house of wrongs...

Barbara Kingsolver

#43. It is easy to be pessimistic. These are extraordinarily difficult times, and the collective psyche is teetering. But we are closer to righting the wrongs that got us into this economic mess than most of us believe.

Mark Zandi

#44. If you tried to right all the wrongs in the world you'd exhaust yourself in under an hour.

Alice Hoffman

#45. Mama always reminded me that love keeps no record of wrongs. I didn't know until now that true love, pure love, the right love, doesn't keep that record because it can't. I can't. I have to forgive Rhyson because I have to be with him. I just want it to be right. I want us to be right. To

Kennedy Ryan

#46. Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#47. Anger at injustice has righted more wrongs than most other things, and it is one of the great creative forces in a civilized society.

Anne Perry

#48. This wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred. this monstrous product of former wrongs and shame.

Winston Churchill

#49. If you love someone, you will forgive him or her all the wrongs. You can make it right
and love again.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#50. It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what we call the rights of men become turbulent and dangerous.

James Russell Lowell

#51. Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.

Mark Twain

#52. I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs.

Morley Safer

#53. There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.

Douglas Hurd

#54. Christ was willing to suffer wrongs and to be despised, and do you dare to complain of anything?.

Thomas A Kempis

#55. Fascism was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national renaissance by people who felt themselves threatened with decline into decadence and death and were determined to live, and live greatly.

Oswald Mosley

#56. Two wrongs don't make anything right, but maybe they make things more equal.

S.J. Watson

#57. The wrongs of the past are not less significant, they're just harder to fix. And the longer you ignore them in favor of more pressing issues, the worse the harm, until the problems of the past actually create the problems of the future.

Erika Johansen

#58. My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.

Democritus

#59. Praise, Praise, Praise a child for the good they commit and the wrongs they rectify.

Asa Don Brown

#60. When someone does
The wrong thing
Observe them as truth
Questions their actions ...
Those whom carry a selfish
Persona will never own their truthful faults,
But the one's of light will fight
To make their wrongs; right.

Nikki Rowe

#61. Some of the worst wrongs, were caused by people who tried to change things.

Gregory David Roberts

#62. Sometimes great rights must be stitched from little wrongs.

Joe Abercrombie