Quotes of: Wrong-reasons Keyword

Will it be possible to solve these problems? It is certain that nobody has thus far observed the transformation of dead into living matter, and for this reason we cannot form a definite plan for the solution of this problem of transformation. But we ...

Jacques Loeb

McChrystal's defenders at the Pentagon were making the case Tuesday that the president and his men—(the McChrystal snipers spared Hillary)—must put aside their hurt feelings about being painted as weak sisters. Obama should not fire the serially ...

Maureen Dowd

Sidonie, I know you don't remember it, but you once promised to trust me beyond all reason. And I swear to you that all that I am, all that I possess, including this gem-stone, is yours. I need you. I can't do this alone. Forget your memories. Look i...

Kushiel's Mercy

Reason and justice grip the remotest and the loneliest star. Look at those stars. Don’t they look as if they were single diamonds and sapphires? Well, you can imagine any mad botany or geology you please. Think of forests of adamant with leaves of ...

G.K. Chesterton

My dear cousin means the world to me. He is my only ally and I lost him. Deep in my heart I know he didn’t want to blame me but his heart is set on that training and I had been beginning to think that took priority over family. I hope he would see ...

Celia Mcmahon

Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him kno...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Religion should be subject to commonsense appraisal and rational review, as openly discussible as, say, politics, art and the weather. The First Amendment, we should recall, forbids Congress both from establishing laws designating a state religion an...

Jeffrey Tayler

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in the second, it is concerned with v...

D.H. Lawrence

[first title cards] Title card: People give up their lives for many reasons. Title card: For friendship, for love, for an ideal Title card: And people kill for the same reasons... Title card: Before China was one great country, it was divided into se...

Hero

The Bride: [English] I've kept you alive for two reasons. And the first reason is information. Sofie Fatale: [French] Burn in hell, blonde bitch! I'll tell you nothing! The Bride: [English] But I am gonna ask you questions. And every time you don't g...

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

We stand, when we are young, on the sunny slope among the pines, and look across an unknown country to the mountains. There are clouds, but they are edged with light. We do not fear as we dip into the valley; we do not fear the clouds. Thank God for ...

Amy Carmichael

In a world where the most consequential things happen by chance, or from unfathomable causes, you don't look to reason for help. You consort with mysteries... They have been killed in place of you - in your place. You don't think it out, not at the t...

Tobias Wolff

I scream for everything that has gone wrong. I scream for everything broken in our lives.

Champion

The Society wants us to be afraid of dying. But I'm not. I'm only afraid of dying wrong.

Crossed

Never tell her that something is impossible, because she'll kill herself proving you wrong.

Dare to Dream

Wrong thinking limits and hinders God.

Divine (Godhead) Principles: Christ Alive in You

What is the true cost of a purchasing decision that goes wrong?

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.

Emily Climbs

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.

Gargoyles

If it were necessary either to do wrong or to suffer it, I should choose to suffer rather than do it.

Gorgias