What happened to these young men, it had nothing to do with religion. It was a random thing. They just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time doing the right thing.
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There is nothing wrong to be innocent But not novice.Being novice may deprive you dong right thing a... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA To the family of a victim of a fatal accident, the deceased was at the wrong place at the wrong time... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA It felt like the wrong thing to do, standing at the wrong door in the wrong place. We did it anyway.... LEMONY SNICKET I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time. CLARK GABLE We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wro... ALEX GIBNEY The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. EDMUND BURKE The right thing at the wrong tme is the wrong thing. JOSHUA HARRIS No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time ... CHARLES E. WILSON Don’t loose patience & rush for things to be happened. Let thing takes it own course.Wait for the ... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I can't really say I had anything to do with it at all. I was in the apartment. The only thing I ple... DARRYL LITTLEJOHN (Woodley) always got blocked or picked up or he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. You just h... ASHTON YOUBOTY You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues. CAROL PLUM-UCCI You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel. CAROL PLUM-UCCI It just didn't feel like it was the right thing to do at the right time. LAURIE PIRTLE The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsa... DOROTHY NEVILL The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanat... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day. EMILY LYONS You know, we're 12 months later and I'm still ecstatic about what happened last year, ... It's just ... 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WAYNE GRETZKY Wrong is wrong though everyone is doing it. Right is always right though no one is doing it. Be alar... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I was in the right place at the right time. I know it's a cliché, but that's what happened. BEN KINNE It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing. WINSTON CHURCHILL The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave the ... DOROTHY NEVILL There is no wrong time to do the right thing. CHARLES M. BLOW Doing the right thing has power. LAURA LINNEY I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. He pump-faked and then went up like nobo... JOSH POWELL Whether or not belive in Fate comes down to one thing: who you blame when something goes wrong. Do y... JODI PICOULT I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's mu... JACK COLEMAN Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave ... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thi... JAMES CARVILLE It looks like the street just fell in. Just the wrong place at the wrong time. LARRY NELSON They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back ... JHUMPA LAHIRI Nothing is wrong with the past: it happened with its own timing, with its own reason and produced th... JOHN B. BEJO She was at the wrong place at the wrong time. SASHA ADAMS Women is a special character, mother of hospitality, gentleness and softness. Never get to match you... DEVASKI I just think too many nice things have happened in string theory for it to be all wrong. Humans do n... EDWARD WITTEN It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I did nothing wrong. The same thing I said after the game. It already is in the past. It happened a ... JOSH PAUL In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the ... THEODORE ROOSEVELT I dialed the number slowly, wanting to get it right. Two rings, and he picked up. "Yes," I sai... SARAH DESSEN [Kerrey has said he feels guilty about what happened and unable to justify it militarily or morally.... BOB KERREY Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think th... J. C. WATTS Wrong things happen to the person who is at the wrong place at the wrong time at the wrong situation... JOHN B. BEJO We were planning on going to New Orleans for vacation about the time it happened. After it happened,... JEFF NEAL Doing a thing wrong for a long period of time gives it the superficial appearance of being right. UNKNOWN To change yourself you have to move from where you are and take a step, then you have to be willing ... BRENT M. JONES It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I just threw my arm up and deflected the ball. It wasn't really a play that I was trying to make. It... IAN GOLD They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes GEORGE LUCAS And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing. STEVE YZERMAN We were doing nothing wrong at all. But we all felt intimidated by these men. JOE MORRISON “I am in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing.” LOUISE L. HAY I am in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing. LOUISE L. HAY It was phenomenal. We were on an isolated part of the island. Nothing to do. Just basketball. It was... ERIC MUSSELMAN The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong i... DOUGLAS ADAMS The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong i... DOUGLAS ADAMS The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong i... DOUGLAS ADAMS Do not withhold good . . . when it is in your power to do it. RACHEL HAUCK Doing what's right is seldom easy. JANICE HARDY 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
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thing you can do i... THEODORE ROOSEVELT There's a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing. CHRIS FUSSELL Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. VICTOR HUGO To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing i... SIMONE WEIL We've never had this kind of thing happen before. It could've happened anywhere and unfortunately, i... PERRY COOPER It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time... LEE WESTWOOD Steve Bartman was in the wrong place at the wrong time. RYNE SANDBERG Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don... PHILIP PULLMAN Sometimes it's right to do the wrong thing. FINIAN WHISH
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But for a line, be that sublime--
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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happ... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL THE SNOW had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highwa... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, sayin... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Light is the symbol of truth. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pira... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in ... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The ... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man:
He's been on all sides that give places or pelf;
But consis... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL And but two ways are offered to our will,
Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace,
The... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Communism means barbarism. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL "What means this glory round our feet,"
The Magi mused, "more bright than morn!"
And voices ch... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very fo... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The thing we long for, that we are
For one transcendent moment. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL He seemed a cherub who had lost his way
And wandered hither, so his stay
With us was short, an... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL What visionary tints the year puts on,
When falling leaves falter through motionless air
Or nu... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The future works out great men's destinies;
The present is enough for common souls,
Who, never... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A beggar through the world am I,
From place to place I wander by.
Fill up my pilgrim's scrip f... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Laborin' man an' laborin' woman
Hev one glory an' one shame;
Ev'ything thet's done inhuman
... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Democ'acy gives every man
A right to be his own oppressor. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL We remain
Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Be noble! And the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping, but never dead, will rise in majesty t... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party po... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL No price is set on the lavish summer;
June may be had by the poorest comer. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL And what is so rare as a day in June?
Then, if ever, come perfect days;
Then Heaven tries eart... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A woman's love
Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak,
And by its weakness overcomes. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL In general those who nothing have to say
Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL It is good
To lengthen to the last a sunny mood. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Tiny Salmoneus of the air
His mimic bolts the firefly threw. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Listen! O, listen!
Here come the hum the golden bees
Underneath full blossomed trees,
A... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The apprehension of approaching evil has hurried many into the
utmost danger. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Idleness induces caprice. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A crime in which many are implicated goes unpunished. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of b... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL O chime of sweet Saint Charity,
Peal soon that Easter morn
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it were, in pretty crystals by the ... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,
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For the gift without the giver is bare. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL He who esteems the Virginia reel
A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal,
And regards ... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of bel... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The heart forgets its sorrow and ache. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party po... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the li... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Fate loves the fearless. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it b... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Freedom is the only law which genius knows. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Our seasons have no fixed returns,
Without our will they come and go;
At noon our sudden summe... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL So we're all right, an' I, for one,
Don't think our cause'll lose in vally
By rammin' Scriptur... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL They are slaves who fear to speak
For the fallen and the weak;
. . . .
They are slaves w... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL An angel stood and met my gaze,
Through the low doorway of my tent;
The tent is struck, the vi... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward;
Rains fall, suns rise and set;
Earth whirls, and all b... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Violet! sweet violet!
Thine eyes are full of tears;
Are they wet
Even yet
With ... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL In life's small things be resolute and great
To keep thy muscle trained: knowst thou when Fate
... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL It takes a mind like Dannel's, fact, ez big ez all ou'doors
To find out thet it looks like rain ar... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow:
Don't never prophesy--onless ye know. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession,
many. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the
misfortunes hardest to bear are those which ... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL That cause is strong which has not a multitude, but one strong man behind it. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL O wild and wondrous midnight,
There is a might in thee
To make the charmed body
Almost l... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker mus... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - Among My Bo... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Daily with souls that cringe and plot,
We Sinais climb and know it not. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions,
Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best o... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,
Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL He gives us the very quintessence of perception. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The fireflies o'er the meadow
In pulses come and go. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Folks never understand the folks they hate. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this-that you are dreadfully like other people. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all ... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL They are slaves who fear to speak, For the fallen and the weak. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to pu... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man h... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new -- and near the end. The milestones into head... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL It is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamanti... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the f... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Nursed by stern men with empires in their brains. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Of my merit
On that pint you yourself may jedge:
All is, I never drink no sperit,
Nor I ... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed;
Man is more than Constitutions; better rot b... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Oh, Washington! thou hero, patriot sage,
Friend of all climes, and pride of every age! JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The purely Great
Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere,
Thou nameless, now a power and mi... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And i... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and ... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL All kin' o' smily round the lips, / An' teary round the lashes. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which n... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope and peace JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Light is the symbol of truth JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Be noble! and the nobleness that lies
In other men, sleeping, but never dead,
Will rise in ma... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Thet tells the story! Thet's wut we shall git
By tryin' squirtguns on the burnin' Pit;
For th... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Sence I've ben here, I've hired a chap to look about for me,
To git me a transplantable an' thrift... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called
the savior of society by the next... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great
occasions. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Not caring, so that sumpter-horse, the back
Be hung with gaudy trappings, in what course
Yea, ... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The very room, coz she was in,
Seemed warm f'om floor to ceilin'. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL No man is born into the world whose work
Is not born with him: there is always work,
And tool... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious
liberty, laid, without knowing it, th... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL