Wrongs Quotes

(about his first marriage) I guess I have very traditional kinds of sensibilities about that kind of stuff - you know, a man and a woman sharing their life together and having a baby, whatever - and I think for a while I was trying to right the wrongs of my parents because they split up when I was a kid, so I thought I could do it differently - make things work. I had the right intentions, but the wrong timing - and the wrong person. But I don`t regret it; I had fun and I learned a lot.

"Do you really want to know why I`m doing all this goodwill, and why I`m an ambassador for Habitat for Humanity and why I gave a million to (relief efforts for Hurricane) Katrina? It`s because I feel guilty about the huge hole in the ozone layer my haircuts created. It`s my responsibility to right the wrongs of the Eighties."

"All my characters have characteristics I don`t know anything about and that`s the joy. Being able to justify their actions, and find sympathy in their wrongs, and understand their accomplishments. After Life as a House I took a while off and tried to remember who I was at the beginning of the film. You obsess, and it`s exhausting, to lose your sense of self."

The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I`m trying to rectify my wrongs.

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.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves.

I am not in this business as a calling. I don`t do what I do to right any wrongs.

I think God`s justice is making wrongs right.

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.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can`t change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don`t fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don`t fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.

For many years, our Messianic Jewish brothers and sisters have paid a great price. Other Jews have rejected them, and the Christian church would require they walk away from their traditions to fit into the Gentile culture. We must face these past wrongs.

The belief in some being who can be the judge of all human matters is a very comfortable one - all wrongs will be righted and all rights will be rewarded.

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.

As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs.

Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.

Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.

If two wrongs don`t make a right, try three.

The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word `love.` It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Wrongs are often forgiven; contempt never