#wrong thing

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

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#i #ironies #life #moment #right

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

The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time. ↗

— Bill Murray

#definitely #foster #good #good writing #interested

I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring and it's not about the wedding. It's a grave thing, getting married. And it's easy to get swept up in the wrong things. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#easy #engaged #friends #get #getting

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

Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason. ↗

— James Carville

#gets #reason #right #right reason #right thing

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#into #person #pours #puritan #righteous

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#keep #make #never #thing #wrong