Right Thing Quotes - Page 23

• One misunderstandin g is that if you do the right thing, then life's storms will stop. If you do the right thing, the storms actually get bigger. This is because they know they can't blow you down like they used to, and now it's going to take a lot more energy to find out if you are conscious.

  David Deida

  Blow, Storm, Energy

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• It’s probably the most unpopular policy I’m responsible for. I know it is very unpopular, culling badgers. But I believe it is the right thing to do. You have to make choices as a politician. Sometimes it means doing something you know people don’t like.

  David Cameron

  Believe, Mean, People

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• Any one man, woman, or child can be what they want to be;
  but be the right thing.

  Burning Spear

  Children, Men, Want

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• Behavior precedes belief - that is, most people must engage in a behavior before they accept that it is beneficial; then they see the results, and then they believe that it is the right thing to do....implementation precedes buy-in; it does not follow it.

  Douglas B. Reeves

  Believe, People, Doe

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• I never know the right thing to say, especially during sex. After my first time, I said to the girl, 'That's it, I'm afraid'

  Tom Deacon

  Girl, Sex, Firsts

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• We are eating too much of the wrong thing, and not enough of the right thing

  David Wolfe

  Too Much, Eating, Enough

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• My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hands, Obligation

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• I am telling you now: I might be young, but I am good. I work hard, and I'm a good person. I know what's right. I know what's wrong. And if you give me this chance-- if you just give me one shot to show you how good I can be, how hard I work, how much I believe in doing the right thing -- I won't let you down. I promise.

  Matt Fraction

  Believe, Hard Work, Giving

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• Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.

  Hannah More

  Praise, Substitutes

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.534

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• Sometimes, being a feminist artist, there are times where I'm in a position where I just want to feel like I'm saying all the right things politically, or I feel like I have to mention my own project over other people's projects.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Artist, People, Feminist

  "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

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• If I've operated on 8,000 brain tumours, if 7,999 patients were satisfied, if I'd done the right thing, if I have funded research like I have, if I've raised millions of dollars like I have, and yet there was one patient out there who was unhappy, I think it's a price that you pay. The good would overcome that one bit of bad.

  Charles Teo

  Thinking, Brain, Having Fun

  "Dr Charlie Teo, neurosurgeon". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. February 20, 2011.

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• Even if you make a mistake, you can go back and do the right thing.

  Will Arnett

  Mistake, Ifs

  Source: collider.com

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• I dress up with a conscience when I think you'll be watching. I say all the right things, I don't know what I mean.

  Sheryl Crow

  Mean, Thinking, Dresses

  Song: Am I Getting Through, Album: The Globe Sessions, 1998

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• What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me.

  Dennis Farina

  Might, Things To Do, Policemen

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• I know it is said repeatedly that I was in support of the American invasion in Iraq. It is simply not true. I was in favor of helping the Iraqis, and most specifically Ahmad Chelebi and the Kurdish leadership to set up an independent government of free Iraq. I think that would have been the right thing to do.

  Bernard Lewis

  Independent, Thinking, Support

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• When I came into office, I could have kicked the can down the road for a little while, or I could do the right thing.

  Luis Fortuno

  Office, Littles, Down The Road

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• There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.

  Eve Hewson

  Auditions, Study, Could Have Been

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• Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to take action, to evacuate. No more. With Irene, you had mass evacuations - mandatory ones - issued days ahead of time. That was the right thing to do.

  Russel Honore

  Country, Waiting, Political

  "A general talks storm lessons since Katrina". Interview with Ashley Fantz, www.cnn.com. August 29, 2011.

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• It's nice to work with Hollywood because there is never any question of resources put at your disposal to make a film as long as it is the right thing to do.

  Neil Jordan

  Nice, Long, Hollywood

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• I'm interested in people that don't always do the right thing, its much more akin to what I know about life.

  Thomas Jane

  People, Knows

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• Antarctica is a very alien environment, and you can't survive here more than minutes if you're not equipped properly and doing the right thing all the time.

  Jon Krakauer

  Aliens, Environment, Minutes

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• While I am a Republican, I'm a conservative first and I'm a constitutional conservative, and in Washington some of the Republicans are oftentimes just as much a problem as some of the Democrats, and we need to elect more senators like Senator Rubio and others who will stand proudly as conservatives to do the right thing for our country.

  Josh Mandel

  Country, Needs, Firsts

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• All at once we see things in our skies, and we both realize it together. Well you know they were wrong, get on the right thing.

  Paul McCartney

  Philosophy, Sky, Together

  Song: Get On The Right Thing, Album: Red Rose Speedway

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• The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.

  John Redwood

  Mean, Reality, Thinking

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• To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.

  Fiona Shaw

  Hard Work, Joy, Noble

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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