Rights And Wrongs Quotes

• We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

  Philip Pullman

  Book, Rights, Silence

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.

  Philip Pullman

  Forever, Once Upon A Time, Forgotten

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• Once upon a time' lasts forever.

  Philip Pullman

  Forever, Once Upon A Time, Lasts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Rights, Done, Politics

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• Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs.

  John Green

  Hipster, Tonight, Paper

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.30, A&C Black

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• Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men.

  Philip James Bailey

  Sympathy, Heart, Men

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.40

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• I knew, even at eight, that the confusion of values thrust upon me by parents, teachers, other children, nannies, camp counselors, and others would only worsen as I grew up. The years would add complications and steer me into more and more impenetrable tangles of rights and wrongs, desirables and undesirables. I had already seen enough to know that.

  Jean Liedloff

  Teacher, Children, Years

  Jean Liedloff (1985). “The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully”, p.5, Da Capo Press

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• Everything that I think that I need to do, is all in order to propel me to some place, that when I get there I think I will be happier. So, everything that I am doing, no matter what it is, all of my lists of rights and wrongs, are all about me getting to a manifestation, that I believe I will then be happier... So why don't I just take the short cut and just be happy?

  Esther Hicks

  Happiness, Believe, Cutting

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• I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to such a degree that the average man has turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized, where it should be his humiliation.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Rights, Average

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.407, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  War, Rights, Agreement

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

  Nita Ambani

  Believe, Rights, My Family

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