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• If you have ever said, "I didn't get anything out of worship today," you worshiped for the wrong reason. Worship isn't for you. It's for God.

  Rick Warren

  Today, Worship, Reason

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• Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.

  Tom O'Connor

  Mean, Might, Reason

  Tom O'Connor, Ahmed González-Núñez (1987). “Living With AIDS: Reaching Out”, Corwin Pub

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• I deserve to be happy and I think a lot of people stay in relationships for wrong reasons and instead of just looking at each other and just saying, 'you know, it's like sands of the hourglass, we learned our lessons, we can end in war or we can end in peace.'

  Jenny McCarthy

  Breakup, War, Thinking

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• ...surely these victims of the sea...had rushed willingly down the hills to the water, only to find themselves caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Who should judge whether they were there for the wrong reason?

  John Rousmaniere

  Sea, Water, Judging

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• Love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons.

  Charles Bukowski

  Reason, Hard

  Charles Bukowski (1978). “Women”

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• I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Reason

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.191, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• A lot of child actors keep acting for the wrong reasons.

  Nicholas Hoult

  Children, Acting, Actors

  "Nicholas Hoult: 'The paparazzi don't care about me'". Interview With Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2013.

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• There is no wrong suffering. There is imaginary, sham, feigned, simulated, pretended suffering. But the assertion that someone suffers for the right or wrong reason presupposes a divine, all-penetrating judgment able to distinguish historically obsolete forms of suffering from those in our time, instead of leaving this decision to the sufferers themselves.

  Dorothee Solle

  Decision, Leaving, Suffering

  Dorothee Sölle (1975). “Suffering”, Fortress Press

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• But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.

  Jonathan Coe

  Book, Trying, Reason

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• 'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Running, Morning, Alaska

  "Sarah Palin: A Sleight of Gender?" by Dee Dee Myers, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2008.

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• I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Birthday, Drug, Age

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• So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving.

  Lindsay Lohan

  People, Giving, Reason

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• Most people, whether bull or bear, when they are right, are right for the wrong reason, in my opinion.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  People, Investing, Bulls

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• Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect? I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to respect the wrong people for the wrong reasons.

  Melina Marchetta

  People, World, Satisfaction

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Looking for Alibrandi”, p.134, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Few beautiful women were willing to indicate in public that they belonged to someone. I had known enough women to realize this. I accepted them for what they were and love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons. One simply became tired of holding back love and let it go because it needed some place to go. Then, usually, there was trouble.

  Charles Bukowski

  Beautiful, Tired, Back Love

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• Indeed, Xcor stayed away for the wrong reason, the bad reason, an unacceptable reason—in spite of all his training, he found himself choosing Throe’s life over ambition: His anger had taken him in one direction, but his regret had led him in another. And the latter one was what won out.

  J.R. Ward

  Regret, Taken, Ambition

  J.R. Ward (2012). “Lover Reborn: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.260, Penguin

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• Few people ever kill for the right reasons, June. Most do it for the wrong reasons. I just hope you never have to be in either category.

  Marie Lu

  June, People, Reason

  Marie Lu (2011). “Legend”, p.250, Penguin

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• Hardy's either done the wrong thing for the wrong reason . . . " Another big swallow. "Or the wrong thing for the right reason.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Done, Reason, Bigs

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Blue-Eyed Devil: Number 2 in series”, p.145, Hachette UK

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• I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.

  Erich Segal

  Love, Reason, Accepted

  Erich Segal (1970). “Love Story”

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• When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ‘em. No... you had the right answer this afternoon, but the wrong reasons. Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it. Hotheadedness isn’t.

  Harper Lee

  Children, Tkam, Sake

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, July 11, 1960.

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• You would be better off having nobody than the wrong somebody. (On marrying for the wrong reasons.)

  Joyce Meyer

  Would Be, Reason, Marrying

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• If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.

  Natalia Kills

  Artist, Ideas, People

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• I'm not who you think i am. If you love me, you love me for the wrong reasons.

  Sister Souljah

  Thinking, If You Love Me, Reason

  Sister Souljah (2010). “Midnight: A Gangster Love Story”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

  Norton Juster

  Inspirational, Mistake, Long

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• Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

  Carrie Fisher

  Excess, Reason, Exciting

  "What I've Learned: Carrie Fisher". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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