Wrongs Quotes (page 20)

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• psychology
• believe yourself
• serious

the psychological need to believe that others take you as seriously as you take yourself. There is nothing particularly wrong with it, as psychological needs go, but yet of course we should always remember that a deep need for anything from other people makes us easy pickings. David Foster Wallace

• navy
• design
• genius

The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are mistakes. Learn to quash them. Constantly ask yourself, "How would I do this if I were a fool?" Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you will never go wrong. Herman Wouk

• moving
• jokes
• old

Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went. No, why? You moved. Just don't move. Margaret Atwood

• world
• right
• things

Mi'ija, in a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is to make things as right as we can. Barbara Kingsolver

• together
• foolishly
• takes

It was foolish, it was wrong, to take so active a part in bringing any two people together. Jane Austen

• nice
• fairy
• only

The people who wrote the mediaeval ballads knew more about fairies than you do. It isn't only nice things that happen in fairyland. .…I never said it was wrong to enter fairyland. I only said it was dangerous. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• wrongly
• noting
• harmonic

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note. Aristotle

• personality
• kiss
• wind

Everyone winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight. Andy Warhol

• world
• sacrifice
• end

Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children's lives to settle its differences. You can spin it any way you like... But in the end, who does it benefit? No one. The truth is, it benefits no one to live in a world where these things happen Suzanne Collins

• may
• consider
• mays

Consider That Ye May Be Wrong. Oliver Cromwell

• feeling
• thing
• doing the right thing

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you. Jodi Picoult

• tree
• helpful
• giving

You will find yourself among people. There is no help for this nor should you want it otherwise. The passages where no one waits are dark and hard to navigate. The wet walls touch your shoulders on each side. When the trees were there I cared that they were there. And now they are gone, does it matter? The passages where no one waits go on and give no promise of an end. You will find yourself among people, Faces, clothing, teeth and hair and words, and many words When there was life, I said... Paul Bowles

• freedom
• religious
• evil

But the forces of evil have not abdicated. The malevolent ghosts of hatred are resurgent with a fury and a boldness that are as astounding as they are nauseating: ethnic conflicts, religious riots, anti-Semitic incidents here, there, and everywhere. What is wrong with these morally degenerate people that they abuse their freedom, so recently won? Elie Wiesel

• learning
• dead
• may

Some day, Utterson, after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you. ~Landon Robert Louis Stevenson

• mother
• mother death
• death

You think whatever is wrong with you is contagious, then?' She laughed again. 'Yes, but you have it already. You caught it from your mother. Death. Gene Wolfe