Quotes with wrong-doing

Quotes 581 till 600 of 1363.

  • Gertrude Stein It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse It is good rule in life to never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
    Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
    English author and humorists (1881 - 1975)
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  • Bill Flores It is indefensible that IRS Commissioner Koskinen has not been held accountable for failing to meet his legal obligations. This is exactly what the American people are tired of when they say that our government is on the wrong track.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Winston Churchill It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Susan Sontag It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    American author, feminist and intellectual (1844 - 1911)
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  • Salman Rushdie It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Alfred Adler It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • C. P. Snow It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.
    Public Affairs (1971)
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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  • Clive James It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
    Clive James
    Australian author, poet, translator and memoirist (1939 - 2019)
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  • Bipasha Basu It is said that anyone who does commercial cinema is not acting, and anyone who does an art film is acting. I don't believe it. I feel whenever you are doing a film, you are acting. So you need to be applauded for that. I won't do art house cinemas. I want to make commercial films. I want my films to make money.
    Bipasha Basu
    Indian film actress and model (1979 - )
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  • George Eliot It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Sophocles It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • William E. Gladstone It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • Abraham Lincoln It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, ''You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.''
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Eric Hoffer It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites - opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity - where energies flow smoothly in one direction - there will be much doing but no music.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • A. N. Wilson It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Sir Walter Scott It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • William James It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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