It's probably the right thing to do.


Harold Gehman

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I think sometimes there is no right thing.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.
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The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.
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If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they b...
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Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
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You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
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Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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The time is always right for the right thing.
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Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the rig...
DAVID CAMERON
I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.
BILL ACKMAN
I guess it's the curse of our generation, having to put aside our lives to do the right thing.
ALLAN DARE PEARCE
Every day, I get closer to God. Every day, my will to do the right thing gets stronger.
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We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wro...
ALEX GIBNEY
I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
LOU HOLTZ
Just try to do the right thing, and that's immediate karma: 'I feel good about myself.'
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TRACY KIDDER
I want to show people what the possibilities are if you take care of yourself and do the right thing...
BEN VEREEN
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
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What is wrong is wrong and what is right is right. If it is therefore wrong to do what is wrong, the...
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Doing the right thing has power.
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When 'City Hall' (retired city of Battle Creek employee Harold Macon) comes in here, the first thing...
HAROLD EANES
To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business...
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We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do th...
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As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say t...
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That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to d...
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The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy...
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Everyone has obstacles, and you're not going to have the right answer or do the right thing ever...
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You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its ...
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Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
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I believe that in life, you have to give things your best shot, do your best. You have to focus on w...
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He'll probably kill me for talking about it, because he doesn't like to talk about that. He just lik...
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When something is the right thing for you to do some will call your action 'courage.' There is a goo...
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE
its a metephor, see: you put the killing thing right between your teeth but you dont give it the pow...
JOHN GREEN
I think right now it would probably be the smart thing to do, ... But again we don't know a thing fo...
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After you see the devastation, its pretty substantial. It is the right thing for our company to do, ...
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There's a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing.
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playin...
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Our core values and business ethics will always be paramount in all that we do, and we are always lo...
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I've never really focused on my ranking per se because it's out of my control. I try and do ...
EUGENIE BOUCHARD
The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI
We fail to open the right doors because we fail to pick the right keys!
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make...
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Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passin...
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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, t...
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I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gol...
LL COOL J
I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a ...
ICE CUBE
I think Rick will do that. His lawyers are probably saying, 'Don't do a thing right now.' But I thin...
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Now, there are so many eyes looking at Louisiana, we've got to do the right thing or we'll be left o...
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Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l...
SUSANE COLASANTI
I'd probably do the same thing.
ASSEMBLYMAN SIBLEY
I'd probably do the same thing.
ASSEMBLYMAN SCOTT SIBLEY
People don't always have to do the right thing for the right reasons—so long as they do the right ...
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Initiative is the ability to do the right thing.. efficiency is the ability to do the thing right.. ...
UNKNOWN
I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very...
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What we ought not do is play politics with those who've been afflicted by disasters. This should...
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'She's Gotta Have It' and 'School Daze,' I really didn't know what I was doi...
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Part of the beauty of the show in a way is that he's not perfect, but you can always count on hi...
STEPHEN COLLINS
I wasn't trying to fit into a thing... it was not like I was like, 'Right, I'm the Han; ...
DAISY RIDLEY
Allah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right ...
MUHAMMAD ALI
That will probably be more important for its passing than for its result.
CHARLES GABRIEL
Our event is probably at its maximum now.
DICK CATRI
This thing has been very tenacious. It's probably its last gasp.
STACY STEWART
Disappointment is the first thing that comes to mind. But everyone knows its the right thing.
LOGAN WHITMAN
This is the right thing to do. It's the right time to do it.
GORDON SMITH
When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need pe...
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In life, try your best to do the right thing. Have fun while you're alive. Take advantage of eve...
JUSTIN CHON
Despite all the dysfunction in Washington, I believe that when it comes to helping veterans and keep...
JOHN DELANEY
God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does...
STEVE HARVEY
I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's mu...
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Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
DOUGLAS COUPLAND
Sometimes altering your position is the right thing. Sometimes it's not.
LL COOL J
Do not withhold good . . . when it is in your power to do it.
RACHEL HAUCK
Doing what's right is seldom easy.
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Doing whats right is never easy ... You think you're right, but you lose track of what you were tryi...
JANICE HARDY
You can't make other people do "right." All you can do is "right" yourself, and sometimes even that'...
BILLY C LEE
I think it was the right thing to do, obviously. It was something nobody wanted to happen but everyb...
CHAN GAILEY
Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the righ...
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER
When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow-...
HAROLD J. SEYMOUR
the time is always right to do the right thing
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It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the ...
JOHN GREEN
The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.
STEVE MARABOLI
is the right thing to do.
CHARLES HYNES
Just fundamental stuff. It's the right thing to do and the safe thing to do.
GUY CONTI
I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re...
KEVIN COSTNER
Not at all. That was the right thing to do and still is the right thing.
MAURICE KIDD
right thing to do.
BRUCE HILL
I never feel pressure to be a good role model. I always try to do my best to inspire people to be go...
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Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right t...
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HAROLD BLOOM
In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
HAROLD BLOOM
Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, ev...
HAROLD BLOOM
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems t...
HAROLD BLOOM
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the...
HAROLD BLOOM
Shakespeare is universal.
HAROLD BLOOM
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profound...
HAROLD BLOOM
Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage eve...
HAROLD BLOOM
The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.
HAROLD BLOOM
Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overh...
HAROLD BLOOM
But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we h...
HAROLD BLOOM
Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
HAROLD BLOOM
So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets h...
HAROLD ACTON
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
HAROLD KUSHNER
The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and ...
HAROLD PINTER
We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites. I am sure they do...
HAROLD MACMILLAN
A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this...
HAROLD MACMILLAN
My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel...
GALE HAROLD
I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
GALE HAROLD
You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally availa...
GALE HAROLD
You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.
GALE HAROLD
Some say that Jesus is the rock, or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. ...
GALE HAROLD
My interests are not really with television, per se.
GALE HAROLD
I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
GALE HAROLD
I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in Londo...
HAROLD PINTER
At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.
HAROLD MACMILLAN
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
HAROLD GENEEN
According to the myth, Prometheus steal fire to free us; Iago steals us as fresh fodder for the fire...
HAROLD BLOOM
O gentle vision in the dawn:
My spirit over faint cool water glides,
Child of the day,
HAROLD MONRO
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds,...
HAROLD LOKES