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• I can't. At least not for a while. I need time to get past this and I can't guarantee that I won't hurt him again. God knows, Nick has a true gift for saying the wrong thing in any given situation. (Acheron) You know he loves you, right? (Amanda) Yeah, but emotions don't have brains. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Love You, Past

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• The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would be of any real use. One would say it was there for trivialities only, since in a crisis they are usually dense, fatally doing the wrong thing. It is hardly too much to say that most domestic tragedies are caused by the feminine intuition of men and the want of it in women.

  Ada Leverson

  Real, Men, Intuition

  Ada Leverson (1962). “The little Ottleys: Love's shadow. Tenterhooks. Love at second sight”

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• It only takes one mistake,' the Dan Banyan guy says, 'and nothing else you ever do will matter.' With his empty hand, he takes one of my hands. His fingers feel hot, fever-hot, and pounding with his heartbeats. He turns my hand palm-up saying, 'No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.' He sets the blue pill on my palm, saying, 'Do that one wrong thing- and you'll be dead for the rest of your life.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mistake, Smart, Blue

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• Have you watched it? A man who is too greedy about money, by and by starts having the qualities of money. He becomes just money. He loses spirituality, he is no more a spirit. He is reduced to a thing. If you love money, you will become like money. If you love your house, by and by you will become material. Whatsoever you love, you become. Love is alchemical. Never love the wrong thing, because it will transform you. Nothing is so transforming as love. Love something which can raise you higher, to higher altitudes. Love something beyond you.

  Rajneesh

  Money, Love You, Love Is

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• Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get the wrong results.

  Gordon Bethune

  Want, Failing, Results

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• People love America. Sometimes they don't like the decisions made by America, but I don't think you want a president who tries to become popular and does the wrong thing.

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, America, People

  "Candidates tackle Iraq". Debate at Washington University, edition.cnn.com. October 8, 2004.

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• If you don't know how to look, you'll end up putting down the wrong things, which only dilutes or cancels the power of your artwork.

  George L. Carlson

  Looks, Ends, Artwork

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• Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?

  Mary Balogh

  Past, Motive, Prove

  Mary Balogh (2007). “The Devil's Web”, p.153, Dell

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• Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.

  Aldo Leopold

  Behavior, Ethical, Doing The Right Thing

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• Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.

  Ford Madox Ford

  People, Want

  Ford Madox Ford (2015). “The Good Soldier”, p.190, Booklassic

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• God is the creator of all things, right? He is the force that dictates the laws of the universe, and is therefore the ultimate source of ethics. He is absolute morality... We claim to be doing good. But the Lord Ruler - as God - defines what is good. So by opposing him we're actually evil. But since he's doing the wrong thing, does evil actually count as good in this case?

  Brandon Sanderson

  Law, Evil, Doe

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.192, Tor Books

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• He’d spent his life being a perfect gentleman. He’d never been a flirt. He’d never been a rogue. He hated being the center of attention, but by God, he wanted to be the center of her attention. He wanted to do the wrong thing, the bad thing. He wanted to pull her into his arms and carry her to her bed. He wanted to peel every last inch of her clothing from her body, and then he wanted to worship her. He wanted to show her all the things he wasn’t sure he knew how to say.

  Julia Quinn

  Flirting, Perfect, Gentleman

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• Once you capitulate to one dictator, does that mean that the next dictator or the next terrorist that says you're not going to make a comedy about - or a film at all about ISIS. All of us in public life have a responsibility right now to speak out and to say, 'No, Sony, you did the wrong thing' and to say to Hollywood, come behind - the other studios should come behind Sony and offer their support.

  Ed Royce

  Life, Mean, Responsibility

  "Washington outraged over Sony decision" by Jeremy Diamond, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2014.

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• There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even be more than one legitimate right reason. But there is never a right reason to do the wrong thing. Not ever.

  Donita K. Paul

  Stars, Sky, Might

  Donita K. Paul (2008). “DragonKnight: A Novel”, p.44, WaterBrook

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• But it's not enough to know right from wrong. You need the strength to do what's right, even when what you want most in the world is the wrong thing.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Life, Needs, World

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• A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.

  Henry Ford

  Pride, Men, Proud

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• Welcome to the free world. We give people the power to choose. They can even choose the wrong thing. Beautiful, isn't it?

  Lauren Oliver

  Beautiful, People, Giving

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.686, Hachette UK

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• I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Done, Shame, Feels

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• Nobody wants to hear that you will try your best. It is the wrong thing to say. It is like saying 'I probably won't hit you with a shovel.' Suddenly everyone is afraid you will do the opposite.

  Daniel Handler

  Opposites, Trying, Want

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• If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, thatit is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Life, Disappointment, Real

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing.

  Francis Joseph Sheed

  Communication, Way, Language

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• One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Religion, Atheism

  "Why I Am Not a Christian" (1927)

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• Once you are enlightened, you don't do wrong things. You don't take to wrong things. Then you start understanding all these prophets, all these great incarnations, you start understanding what they were. Then you understand that all these religions have come out of one Tree of Life, which is spirituality.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• So cry if you need to but I can't stay to watch you It's the wrong thing to do

  Drake

  Broken Heart, Breakup, Watches

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• Its not possible to do the wrong thing. You do what you do and you experience the consequences of what you do. If you do not experience this before you doe, your soul creates a new life so that you can. This is reincarnation. Eventually, you treat people as you would like to be treated.

  Gary Zukav

  People, Soul, Doe

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