I have this drive to prove people wrong - people who thought I should give up or assumed I'd never get anywhere.
Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.
The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any where; not even on board the slave ship. Toleration of a wrong is not law.
I don't look for signs. But when things happen, I say, 'OK, something must be right.' Or 'OK, something must be wrong.'
The most gratifying action plan that one can conceive is one that others deem unattainable only to be proven wrong.
I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.
A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful.
All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it.
Blair worshipped Thatcherism, could see little or no wrong in it, believed that that was what the country needed, thought that there was no alternative, regarded it as a legacy that had to be built on rather than rejected.
I think the players win the championship, and the organization has something to do with it, don't get me wrong. But don't try to put the organization above the players.
Why should every single character be an honor student who goes around helping others and never doing anything wrong? Is that like the rule or something?
If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a little extra meat on there. If you like them thin-boned, then that's okay, too.
Performance-enhancing drugs are an illusion. I wish I had never gotten involved with steroids. It was wrong. It was stupid.
When there's no one you can point to, or when something goes wrong, it's your fault - that level of responsibility and accountability is pretty interesting.
All children are born with stars in their eyes, and they are curious. It is important for teachers to be careful not to kill this curiosity. A lot can go wrong. Children can be teased, even by teachers.
From the first day we have been fighting the wrong enemy; our common enemy is religion which dictates upon us division and partition.
Half of my life passed searching for the evil that makes me to do wrong things, until I found innocent evils trapped in me.
Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
The 'anchor baby' thing needs to be fixed... Anchor babies are an unconstitutional declaration of citizenship to those born of non-Americans. It's wrong, and it's immoral.
