#wrong thing

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#need #predominantly #remote #schools #stressed

I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#occupy #occupying #place #protesters #protesting

We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents. ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#embarrass #our #parents #things #want

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. ↗

— Morrie Schwartz

#because #busy #chasing #doing #even

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#controlling #developed #effectively #eliminate #established

When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing. ↗

— Jayson Blair

#just #people #report #right #right thing

The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#become #believe #credulous #danger #enough

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#far #leave #moment #more #only

On-screen relationships are the best because you don't have to worry about saying the wrong things. And if the guy's got a girlfriend, or I'm not attracted to him, it's even better. It's just my character kissing his character. ↗

— Alicia Witt

#attracted #because #best #better #character

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#any #decision #moment #next #nothing