Quotes tagged ‘Right And Wrong’

“Unless you have a really good reason to suggest your friend is dating the wrong person, you probably shouldn’t. Other people’s relationships are none of your business, and you may have an entirely different concept of what’s “right” for someone than they do.”

— Isabelle Kohn, melmagazine.com

“When one's young, it seems very easy to distinguish between right and wrong. But, as one gets older, it becomes more difficult. The villains and the heroes get all mixed up.”

— Paul Haggis, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, René Mathis, Giancarlo Giannini, imdb.com

“Sometimes a lie isn’t wrong if it’s for the good of someone that you love.”

— Oscar Balderrama, Wendy Mericle, Oliver Queen, Stephen Amell, imdb.com

“The first time I stole so that I wouldn’t starve, yes. I lost many assumptions about the simple nature of right and wrong. And when I traveled, I learned the fear before a crime and the thrill of success. But I never became one of them.”

— David S. Goyer, Christopher Nolan, Bruce Wayne / Batman, Christian Bale, imdb.com

“There are times when it’s possible to play both predator and prey, for his decision to neither take too much from me nor give too little.”

— Siobhan Fallon, nytimes.com

“Pain doesn’t know right and wrong. It lives with you regardless.”

— Jorge Zamacona, Owen Hall, Blair Underwood, imdb.com

“My whole career, my whole life, I’ve trusted my gut, my sense of what is right and what is wrong. And I am not about to stop now.”

— Brendan Gall, Kurt Weller, Sullivan Stapleton, imdb.com

“'Cause the thing is, if you're taught to hide what makes you different, you can end up feeling a lot of shame about who you are, and that's not ok. There's nothing wrong with you for wearing nail polish, just like there's nothing wrong with me for holding Stef's hand. What's wrong is the people out…”

— Marissa Jo Cerar, Paul Sciarrotta, Lena Adams, Sherri Saum, imdb.com

“I won't eat much and I don't know the difference between right and wrong.”

— Jonathan Collier, Bart Simpson, Nancy Cartwright, imdb.com

“This is how it works now. Look around. There is no more good, there is no more bad, right or wrong. It’s us or them, kill or be killed.”

— Brian Buckner, Chris Manawa, Lorenzo James Henrie, imdb.com

“I no longer had any idea what was right and what was wrong. Was I really seeing the real world?”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it.…So we must count on watching and striving for these trees, and should always be glad to find anything so surely good and noble to s…”

— John Muir, en.wikiquote.org

“Fortunately wrong cannot last. Soon or late it must fall back home to Hades, while some compensating good must surely follow.”

— John Muir, amazon.com

“There are no friends now; the world is a great field of battle, — each man fights the other. There is no peace, — none anywhere! The wind fights with the forests; you can hear them slashing and slaying all night long — when it is night — the long, long night! The sun fights with the sky, the light w…”

— Marie Corelli, amazon.com

“Fuck 'right.' It ain't about right, it's about money. Now you think Ronald McDonald gonna go down in that basement and say, 'Hey, Mr. Nugget, you the bomb. We sellin' chicken faster than you can tear the bone out. So I'm gonna write my clowny-ass name on this fat-ass check for you'?”

— David Simon, D'Angelo Barksdale, Lawrence Gilliard Jr, imdb.com

“A great challenge of life: Knowing enough to think you are right, but not knowing enough to know you are wrong.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com

“Stand with anybody that stands RIGHT. Stand with him while he is right and PART with him when he goes wrong.”

— Abraham Lincoln, rogerjnorton.com

“I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

“Relationships don't they don't exist in the world of right and wrong. They just you know, they work when they work, and they don't when they don't.”

— Halsted Sullivan, Emmy, Eliza Coupe, imdb.com

“In ethics the Taoist railed at the laws and the moral codes of society, for to them right and wrong were but relative terms.”

— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com