Quotes about right
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“I think you ought to let me take poor Tessa into town to get some new clothes. Otherwise, the first time she takes a deep breath, that dress will fall right off her."
Will looked interested. "I think she should try that out now and see what happens.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Thinking, Time, Clothes

“And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic nor popular - but one must take it because it is right.”

David Levithan book Wide Awake

Source: Wide Awake

Time

“A woman may be beautiful but have poor character. A man may be a business genius, making money left and right, but lack common courtesy, sensitivity, and compassion.”

Myles Munroe (1954–2014) Bahamian Evangelical Christian minister

Source: Waiting and Dating

Money, Beauty, Business

“You guys are weird," Tori said.
Simon sat on the crate beside me. "That's right. We are totally weird and completely uncool. Your popularity is plummeting just by being near us.”

Kelley Armstrong The Awakening

Source: The Awakening

Guy

“People always try to do the right thing.. after they've tried everything else.”

Tyler Perry (1966) American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter

People

“The right mixture of caring and not caring - I suppose that's what love is.”

James Hilton (1900–1954) British writer

Source: Nothing So Strange

Love

“When the game ended, Mike laid down his control paddle. "So you've met the Nordic goddess, right?"

Aria glanced up at him warily. "Excuse me?"

Mike rolled his eyes. "Klaudia, which I'm pretty sure is Scandinavian for.”

Sara Shepard (1973) Author

Source: Twisted

Game

“He did and said all the right things. Things that went straight to her heart, and worse, they inspired the one thing that she'd given up along time ago. Hope.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: Fever

Hope, Time, Heart

“I'd scale that monster sycamore if I could. Right to the top. And I'd yell her name across the rooftops for the whole world to hear.

-Bryce”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

Source: Flipped

World

“Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.”

Charles Bukowski book Women

Variant: Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It’s like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
Source: Women

Love

“The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The wrong fit however, can suffocate.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Final Empire

Thinking

“I can only drive slowly."
"That's all right."
"And I can only do left turns."
Rose ran downstairs, grabbed a road atlas, and ran triumphantly back up again. "Wales is left! Look! It's left all the way!”

Hilary McKay book Saffy's Angel

Source: Saffy's Angel

Way

“If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Time

“I had the right to remain silent… but I didn't have the ability.”

Ron White (1956) American comedian

“It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.”

Alice Hoffman book Practical Magic

Source: Practical Magic

People, Home

“Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

Pain, Time

“Always when Will did something to protect Tessa, Jem thought it was for his sake, not for Will's. Always Will wished Jem could be entirely right. Each needle prick had it own name. Guilt. Shame. Love.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Love

“… the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.”

Jess Walter book Beautiful Ruins

Source: Beautiful Ruins

“It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn’t come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren’t ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal.”

Ann Brashares book The Last Summer

Source: The Last Summer

Feeling, Time

“Of course you are. The tributes were necessary to the Games, too. Until they weren't," I say. "And then we were very disposable - right, Plutarch?”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Game

“Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Change, Time, Waiting

“Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.”

Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

“The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Light

“If you play your cards right, the next generation will have so much more than you did.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Two Boys Kissing

“They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

Feeling, Thinking, Sad

“I am not okay. I will be okay, but right now I am not okay. I want my husband to put his arms around me, to console me, to baby me a little bit. Just for a second.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Baby

“There were a lot of answers I might've given, from "I knew that" to "LIAR!" to "Yeah right, and I'm Zeus." - Percy, after Quintus says that he is Daedalus”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

“It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

“Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Happiness, Girl

“A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people.”

James C. Collins (1958) American business consultant and writer

Source: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

People

“Beyond our ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’
doesn’t make sense any more.”

Coleman Barks (1937) American poet

World, Soul, Idea, Sense

“Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live”

Toni Morrison book The Bluest Eye

Source: The Bluest Eye

“How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“When you sit right down in the middle of yourself you're gonna wanna have a comfortable chair.”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

“Hit that back-stabber where it hurts, right in the ambition.”

Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl

Source: Artemis Fowl

Hurt

“Sheriff Mossberg was one of those people who never stop speaking until
they are finished, so by this time he was saying: “Do you understand
these rights?”
“No, sir! Mi ne komprenas Dumbtalk!”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Shadow Souls

People, Understanding, Time

“There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.”

John Updike book Rabbit, Run

Source: Rabbit, Run

Way

“Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

Source: The Early Ayn Rand: A Selection from Her Unpublished Fiction

Decision

“What is right, in the end, is not always what it seems to be, and some rules are better broken.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

“Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

Thinking

“If you're right & I'm not, I'm going to be hell to live with, she said. So, you better think about that next time you want to be right.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Hell, Thinking, Time

“You don't need right - if you have strength”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

“Right now, America looks like a fatheaded, shortsighted, gas-guzzling arrogant blowhard to the rest of the world.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Final Warning

World

“We do not influence the course of events by persuading people that we are right when we make what they regard as radical proposals. Rather, we exert influence by keeping options available when something has to be done at a time of crisis.”

Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer

People, Time

“There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even be more than one legitimate right reason. But there is never a right reason to do the wrong thing. Not ever.”

Donita K. Paul (1950) American writer

Source: DragonKnight

Star

“… sometimes when we are beating ourselves up, we need to stop and say to that harassing voice inside, "Man, I'm doing the very best I can right now."”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: Rising Strong

“Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations.
Their right to be free men,
Their desire to live in peace,
Their courage to seek out truth,
Herein lies the Sword of Shannara.”

Terry Brooks book The Sword of Shannara

Source: The Sword of Shannara

Men, Truth, Peace, Soul

“Maybe the best thing to do with favorite books is to leave them be: to achieve such exalted position means that they entered your life at exactly the right time, in precisely the right place, and those conditions can never be recreated.”

Nick Hornby (1957) English novelist

Life, Books, Time

“There is no Mr. Right because there is no Mr. Wrong. There is whoever is in front of us, and the perfect lessons to be learned from that person.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

Source: Return to Love

Learning, Personality, Perfection

“You forgot the ‘my precious,’” Anna said dryly. “If you want to act like a freaking nutcase, you have to do it right.”

Patricia Briggs book Fair Game

Source: Fair Game

“Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

Suffering

“I gave the dwarves an arrogant look, like, Yeah, that’s right. I’ve got a talking disco sword and you don’t.”

Rick Riordan book The Sword of Summer

Source: The Sword of Summer

“Only five books tonight, Mommy," she says.
No, Olivia, just one."
How about four?"
Two."
Three."
Oh, all right, three. But that's it!”

Ian Falconer (1959) American illustrator and writer, costume and set designer

Source: Olivia

Books

“Eve: She told me last!
Shane: Boyfriend!
Michael: Landlord!
Eve: Crap. Right. Next time you sell your soul to the devil, I get first contact!”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Midnight Alley

Soul, Time

“Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Hate, Thinking, Hurt

“It is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life of a dimension of beauty.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body, p. 50

Life, Beauty

“Look right at it. Know you can." Dad said. "Look right at that fear. Fear is the biggest bullshitter.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: Stay

Fear

“Oh, that's just great. I come all the way back here, risking major brain cell burnout, and you don't even believe me? I'm basically guaranteeing myself a lifetime of heartbreak, and all you have to say is that you think I'm not right in the head?”

Meg Cabot book Twilight

Source: Twilight

Way, Thinking

“Percy: Dad-

Poseidon: Very well! It shall be as you say. But my son, pray this works.

Percy: I'm praying, I'm talking to you, right?

Poseidon: Oh… yes. Good point.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Variant: Very well! It shall be as you say. But my son, pray this works.
I am praying. I'm talking to you, right?
Oh... yes. Good point. Amphitrite - incoming!
Source: The Last Olympian

“Acheron: You're really not right, are you?
Nick: Yeah. I know. It was all the paint chips I ate as a kid. They were good, but chromosomally damaging”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Variant: You’re really not right, are you?
Yeah, I know. It was all the paint chips I ate as a kid. They were good, but chromosomally damaging. (Nick)
Source: Infinity

Painting

“Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

Loss

“The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.”

Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Change

“I liked Lost in Space,” Stefan said.
“The movie or the TV series?”
“The movie? Right. I had forgotten about the movie,” he said soberly. “It was better that way.”

Patricia Briggs book River Marked

Source: River Marked

Way

“The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands, but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you. We would rather be just like, and have that be all right.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“You both should feel honored.”
“Right, very honored,” I said. “Always wanted to be possessed!”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Feeling

“Right," Sadie said. "And Set will just stand there calmly while I read him to death.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Death, Reading

“It warmed my heart that my children had the right priorities: their skills, their images, their views on YouTube.”

Rick Riordan book The Hidden Oracle

Source: The Hidden Oracle

Children, Heart

“And although I broke a lot of laws as a teenager, I straightened out immediately upon turning eighteen, when I realized the state had a legal right to execute me.”

George Carlin book Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

Law

“Percy hefted a bronze grenade. ‘I hope you labelled these right.’
He yelled, ‘Die, Romans!’ and lobbed the grenade over the wall.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Hope

“I offered them Utopia, but they fought for the right to live in Hell.”

Mark Millar book Superman: Red Son

Source: Superman: Red Son

Hell

“Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: Rising Strong

Courage

“If I might ask--," she began.
Will sighed. "You know you'll ask whether I say it's all right or not.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

“Learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all.”

Robin Hobb book Assassin's Apprentice

Source: Assassin's Apprentice

Learning

“Don't let it worry you, not being able to speak,'Dustfinger had often told her. 'People tend not to listen anyway, right?”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkspell

People

“For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?”

Kamila Shamsie (1973) Pakistani writer

Source: Kartography

“Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!”

Frank Herbert (1920–1986) American writer

People

“She was truly a beautiful girl. I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted channels and passageways, and yet she managed to toss her pebble right down to the bottom of it all.”

Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance

Source: Dance Dance Dance

Beauty, Feeling, Girl, Water

“To live your best life now, you must learn to trust God’s timing, you may not think He’s working, but you can be sure that right now, behind the scenes, God is arranging all the pieces to come together to work out His plan for your life.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

Life, God, Thinking, Learning

“Maybe Liz was right and she'd wanted someplace safe. Maybe Mr. Solomon really did understand that running was the only way Macey would find out if we'd run after her. Or maybe, like me, she just wanted to disappear for a little while”

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Way, Understanding

“Here's how bizarre the war is that we're in in Iraq, and we should have known this right from the get-go: When we first went into Iraq, Germany didn't want to go. Germany. The Michael Jordan of war took a pass.”

Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian

Stand-up performance at RIT (2005)

War

“There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack.”

Molly Ivins (1944–2007) American journalist

People, Freedom

“We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.”

Amy Hempel (1951) Short story writer

Source: The Collected Stories

Future

“You've got nothing to worry about. The righteous do not always right, but their souls remain pure. -Lassiter the Angel”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Enshrined

Angels, Soul

“Crazy Curran ranked right up there with monsoons, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

Nature

“Go to hell and take that with you!” She shouted it right in Amelie’s face. Eve
was an exotic blaze of color against Amelie’s white fury.
And then she slapped the Founder in the face.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Last Breath

Color, Hell

“You can be right or you can be happy.”

Gerald G. Jampolsky (1925) American writer and psychiatrist

Source: Love Is Letting Go of Fear

Happiness, Happy, Romantic

“Harry Dresden: Maybe it wasn't anything I'd done. Maybe the monsters had gone on strike. Yeah right.”

Jim Butcher book Storm Front

Source: The Dresden Files, Fool Moon (2001), Chapter 1
Source: Storm Front

“The air tasted just the same, smelled just the same. The wind making my hair feel sticky, the salty sea breeze, all of it felt just right. Like it had been waiting for me to get there.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty

Feeling, Waiting, Sea

“People of excellence go the extra mile to do what's right.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

People

“You're crazy, you know that?"
"Yes. But I'm a demon in the sack."
I laughed. "Okay then. That fixes everything."
"That's right, it does.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks

“Spook: No, I'm not troubled. In fact, I actually think everything is going to be all right. Finally.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Hero of Ages

Thinking

“You all right now?"
"I'm exceptional. Wonderful. Thanks for the concern. You complete me.”

Kathy Reichs Virals

Source: Virals

“Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don’t take it off until you’re thirty-four.”

Nora Ephron (1941–2012) Film director, author screenwriter

Nora Ephron: I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, Random House Incorporated, 2008
Source: I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

Reading

“She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.”

Jodi Picoult Plain Truth

Source: Plain Truth

Love

“Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

“I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten.

It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF.”

David Levithan Boy Meets Boy

Source: Boy Meets Boy

Sense, Teachers

“There is nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he's right.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

“Did Belikov bend the rules of time and space to get here so fast? He can do that, right?”

Richelle Mead book The Fiery Heart

Source: The Fiery Heart

Time

“Yeah, it’s me, but I like to think I looked better when we met. ‘Cause right now, I’m pretty much hogging all the ugly. (Nick)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

Thinking

“The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

1820s, Letter to A. Coray (1823)
Source: Letters of Thomas Jefferson
Context: The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government. Modern times have the signal advantage, too, of having discovered the only device by which these rights can be secured, to wit: government by the people, acting not in person, but by representatives chosen by themselves, that is to say; by every man of ripe years and sane mind, who either contributes by his purse or person to the support of his country.

Happiness

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Quotes about right
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