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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Virginia Woolf

Beauty, Beautiful, Seems

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
Sophocles

Speak, Terrible

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.
Sophocles

Speak, Terrible

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?
Mary Wollstonecraft

Women, Power, Another

If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.
Virgil

God, Human, Remember

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.
Avril Lavigne

War, Respect, Made

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
Josh Billings

Best, Fool, Him

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Technology, Humanity, Reasons

To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.
Barbara Cartland

Beautiful, Sleep, Woman

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
David Herbert Lawrence

Religion, Great, True

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Nature, Men, Human

I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.
Nicole Kidman

Mother, Children, Woman

There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Good, Nothing, Loser

You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.
Jennifer Lopez

Love, Birthday, Time

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
Edward de Bono

Business, School, Mind

The problem with the designated driver programme, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At then end of the night drop them off at the wrong house.
Jeff Bridges

A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it.
Garrison Keillor

Girl, Nothing, Hard

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
Irving Wallace

Self, Easy, Whether

There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.
Rush Limbaugh

Business, Media, Customer

Even when I think I'm wrong I'm right. I am all-knowing.
Rush Limbaugh

Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.
Josh Billings

Forget, Remember, Nobody

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
Aldo Leopold

Beauty, Integrity, Community

When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.
Iain Duncan Smith

Life, Family, Positive

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
Paul McCartney

Important, Nothing, Writing

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.
James Allen

God, Him, Thoughts

Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.
Ted Allen

Life, Nothing, Creative

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.
John Ciardi

Nothing, Sobriety, Moderation

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.
Terry Pratchett

Mind, Might, Exercise

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
William E. Gladstone

Nothing, Morally

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing, you're always right.' No, they tell me when I'm wrong, and that's why I've been able to stay who I am and stay humble.
LeBron James

Family, Humble, Friends

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