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1 " Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out on themselves. Whoever survives the country wins. That would be much simpler and more than just this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting "
― Erich Maria Remarque , All Quiet on the Western Front
2 " Sometimes we place faith in the wrong people for the right reasons. We're too blind to their faults, and they're too blind to appreciate us.—Brighton Hayes "
― Kelli McCracken , Heartstrings (Heart & Soul, #1)
3 " When you lack self-esteem it’s easy to keep attracting the wrong people into your life. "
― Sam Owen , 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
4 " If you don't get the wrong people out of your life, you will never be able to get the right people in it! "
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5 " It is funny how we hurt ourselves, isn’t it? We’re the reason of what happens to us, we’re the reason of our suffering, we choose the wrong people to hang with, to date and to love. The mind blames the heart, the heart blames the lover and that's how the cycle of life and love goes. Sometimes, we’re so afraid to lose people and end up alone. Despite of their hurting, we think that if we chase them away we’ll never be able to fill their places, we fear feeling empty and alone and most of all we fear the fact that they may move on before us. "
6 " Of course I do know it is the French who are so wicked; but there are all these people who keep coming and going - the Austrians, the Spaniards, the Russians. Pray, are the Russians good now? It would be very shocking - treason no doubt - to put the wrong people in my prayers. "
― Patrick O'Brian , H. M. S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin #3)
7 " Old-fashioned dating still exists. You’re either dating the wrong people or you are the problem. "
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8 " The biggest mistake is trusting the wrong people who generally are also the dumbest. "
― Marino Baccarini
9 " You never get it right, you people, do you? Either we've got Fudge, pretending everything's lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or we've got you, chucking the wrong people into jail and trying to pretend you've got 'The Chosen One' working for you! "
― J.K. Rowling , Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
10 " Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect?I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to respect the wrong people for the wrong reasons. "
― Melina Marchetta , Looking for Alibrandi
11 " I am most anxious to give my own children enough love and understanding so that they won't grow up with an aching void in them--like you and I and Harold and Martha. That can never be filled, and one goes around all one's life trying, trying to make up for what one didn't get that was one's birthright, asking the wrong people for it. "
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh
12 " Sharing pillow talk with the wrong people can make a hard bed to lie on, and will surely lead to nightmares in your relationship. "
― Carlos Wallace , The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
13 " It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain. "
