#wrong thing

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

If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#get #involved #living #make #mind

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#constantly #counteract #education #generations #inexorable

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#into #person #pours #puritan #righteous

Unfortunately, a lot of people are stupid. They take drugs. They get drunk and do all the wrong things in life. I just played it straight. ↗

— Bobby Vinton

#get #i #just #life #lot

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

Chandler's the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing. ↗

— Matthew Perry

#everybody #guy #much #says #thing

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

— Paul Prudhomme

#embarrass #our #parents #things #want

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