Quotes with wrong-doing

Quotes 321 till 340 of 1363.

  • Angela Merkel Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Brendon Urie Hip hop is doing the new rock thing; there are no rules. They can do anything, really. And that's inspiring.
    Brendon Urie
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1987 - )
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  • Abraham Cowley His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Santayana History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Clarence Darrow History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Clarence Darrow History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Bennett Miller Honestly, my smartest business decision was to never do anything that I didn't love doing.
    Bennett Miller
    American film director (1966 - )
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Margaret Drabble How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need or obligation to do, simply because it seems to be expected.
    The Middle Ground (2013) 41
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Bill Hicks How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again?...Seventy percent. What the fuck? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?
    Shock and Awe
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Anais Nin How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Bryan Adams I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.
    Bryan Adams
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Buchi Emecheta I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Jesse Jackson I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
    Jesse Jackson
    American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader (1941 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Angelina Grimke I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Bill Clinton I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.
    Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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