Quotes about right
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Letter to John Quincy Adams (16 June 1816). Adams Papers (microfilm), reel 432, Library of Congress. James H. Hutson (ed.), The Founders on Religion: A Book of Quotations. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007, p. 20
1810s
Source: The Portable John Adams
“Those who do not fear the sword they wield have no right to wield a sword at all.
~Shuhei Hisagi”
Variant: He who does not fear the sword he holds is not worthy of holding a sword.
-Hisagi Shuuhei
Source: The Realm of Possibility
Source: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
“Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.”
“The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.”
The Ambassadors (1903), book V, ch. II.
Context: Live all you can — it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?.. What one loses one loses; make no mistake about that... The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.. Live!
Variant: Shane talking to Claire -
"Hang on - Slow down. I'm not going anywhere. You know that, right? You don't have to put out to keep me here. Well, as long as you eventually..."
"Shut up" Claire said.
Source: The Dead Girls' Dance
Source: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver
Source: Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now
Source: Honor's Splendour
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”
“We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
"The Ecological Conscience" [1947]; Published in The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold, Susan L. Flader and J. Baird Callicott (eds.) 1991, p. 346.
1940s
Source: A Sand County Almanac
Context: The direction is clear, and the first step is to throw your weight around on matters of right and wrong in land-use. Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays. That philosophy is dead in human relations, and its funeral in land-relations is overdue.
“Inigo Montoya: He's right on top of us. I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using.”
Source: The Princess Bride
“I have to tell you, man, that my stalker meter is kind of registering in the red zone right now.”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love.”
Revelations (1993)
Context: The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly colored, and it's very loud, and it's fun for a while. Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, "Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, "Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we … kill those people. "Shut him up! I've got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always kill the good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok … But it doesn't matter, because it's just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.
“Total evil.
dang, his principal had been right all along…
he really was demonspawn.”
Source: Infamous
Source: Shelter Mountain
Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
Source: Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
Source: Almost Like Being in Love
“It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.”
Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998), p. 294.
“The right thing at the wrong time is never the right thing.”
Source: Between The Tides
Lufkin, Texas http://www.kidbrothers.net/words/concert-transcripts/lufkin-texas-jul1997-full.html (July 19, 1997)
In Concert
Context: It starts off so beautifully and then at the end of that Psalm, the last verse of that Psalm is “How very blessed is the man who dashes the little one’s heads against the rocks.” This is not the sort of scripture you read at a pro-life meeting. But it’s in there none the less. Which is the thing about the Bible that’s why it always cracks me up when people say ‘Well in Dududududududududududududu it says’ you kinda go ‘Wow it says a lot of things in there.’ Proof texting is a very dangerous thing. I think if we were given the scriptures it was not so that we could prove that we were right about everything. If we were given the scriptures it was to humble us into realizing that God is right and the rest of us are just guessing. Which is what makes them so much fun to read, especially if you are not a fundamentalist.
“Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.”
“you are right where you should be / now act like it”
Source: The Beautiful: Collected Poems
Liberty.
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. IX
Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
1960s, (1963)
Source: I Have A Dream
“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”
Variant: You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.
Source: The Rescue
“If you don't take the time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”
Source: Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs
Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!
Source: Sugar Daddy
"A Universe From Nothing" by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo#t=16m49s (16:50-17:23)
Context: The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
“Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.”
Source: Can You Keep a Secret?
Source: The Yellow Wall-Paper
Variant: It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
