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“Don't worry about it. The right thing will come at the right time.”
Danielle Steel (1947) American author of romance novels
Source: Until the End of Time
Bryan Lee O'Malley (1979) Artist
Source: Scott Pilgrim, Volume 3: Scott Pilgrim & The Infinite Sadness
“In The Right Light, At The Right Time. Everything Is Extraordinary.”
Aaron Rose (1969) American film director
“Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.”
Jack Kerouac book On the Road
Source: On the Road
“My dad said I did the right thing. I hope I did, but it's hard to tell sometimes.”
Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
John Mayer (1977) guitarist and singer/songwriter
Half of My Heart
Song lyrics, Battle Studies (2009)
Source: John Mayer - Battle Studies
Context: I was born in the arms of imaginary friends,
Free to roam, made a home out of everywhere I've been.
Then you come crashing in, like the realest thing,
Trying my best to understand all that your love can bring.Oh half of my heart's got a grip on the situation;
Half of my heart takes time.
Half of my heart's got a right mind to tell you
That I can't keep loving you (can't keep loving you)
Oh, with half of my heart.
“You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.”
David Nicholls book One Day
Variant: You can live your whole life not realising that what you're looking for is right in front of you.
Source: One Day
“If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?”
Dogen (1200–1253) Japanese Zen buddhist teacher
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Context: I had also hoped that the white moderate would reject the myth concerning time in relation to the struggle for freedom. I have just received a letter from a white brother in Texas. He writes: "All Christians know that the colored people will receive equal rights eventually, but it is possible that you are in too great a religious hurry. It has taken Christianity almost two thousand years to accomplish what it has. The teachings of Christ take time to come to earth." Such an attitude stems from a tragic misconception of time, from the strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually, time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively. More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be co-workers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right. Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.
“They say you're not supposed to put metal in a microwave oven. They're right.”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
When the Leaves Blow Away (2006), I Still Have a Pony (2007)
Max Ehrmann (1872–1945) American writer, poet, and attorney
Source: Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life
Lady Croom, Act II
Source: Arcadia (1993)
Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist
Source: Immortal Beloved
“All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property”
Gary L. Francione (1954) American legal scholar
“No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.”
Isaac Babel (1894–1940) Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translator, and short story writer
Source: The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
“You're, you see, and nobody else. Youyou, right?”
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore
Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
Brian Andreas (1956) American artist
Variant: Real Reason:
There are things you do because they feel right & they may make no sense & they may make no money & it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other & to eat each other's cooking & say it was good.
Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Source: Veronika Decides to Die
“Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn't, they would get a new one.”
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“It's just a penis, right? Probably no worse for you than smoking.”
David Sedaris When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Source: When You Are Engulfed in Flames
A.A. Milne book The House at Pooh Corner
Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Five - Rabbit, speaking of Christopher Robin.
“The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.”
Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978) Vice-President of the USA under Lyndon B. Johnson
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Breaks
“Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.”
Lou Holtz (1937) American college football coach, professional football coach, television sports announcer
“You're a part of me… You're in my heart. Forever and always, all right?
—D”
Jacqueline Woodson book After Tupac and D Foster
Source: After Tupac and D Foster
Frances Hardinge (1973) British children's writer
Source: A Face Like Glass
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
"Physics and Reality" in the Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 221, Issue 3 (March 1936), Pages 349-382
1930s
Context: It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher. Why then should it not be the right thing for the physicist to let the philosopher do the philosophizing? Such might indeed be the right thing to do at a time when the physicist believes he has at his disposal a rigid system of fundamental laws which are so well established that waves of doubt can't reach them; but it cannot be right at a time when the very foundations of physics itself have become problematic as they are now. At a time like the present, when experience forces us to seek a newer and more solid foundation, the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of theoretical foundations; for he himself knows best and feels more surely where the shoe pinches. In looking for an new foundation, he must try to make clear in his own mind just how far the concepts which he uses are justified, and are necessities.
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Source: The Ladies of the Corridor
“Suffer. You could say it means endure, but that's not exactly right”
E. Lockhart book We Were Liars
Source: We Were Liars
Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility
Variant: Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
Source: Sense and Sensibility
“Goddamn it,” Jace shouted over the noise. “I hate it when Simon is right.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
Source: City of Heavenly Fire