Quotes about right
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“There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Married By Morning

“You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.”

James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright

Source: Selected Letters

Home, Night

“Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Books, Time

“I punched to line. "Yes? What?"
"Norville. It's Cormac. If you don't change the subject right now, I'm going to have to go over there and have a word with you.”

Carrie Vaughn (1973) American writer

Source: Kitty and the Midnight Hour

Change

“I don't really know if it's the right thing to do, making new life. Kids grow up, generations take their place. What does it all come to? More hills bulldozed and more ocean fronts filled in? Faster cars and more cats run over? Who needs it?”

Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 15, The Song Is Over

Life, Cars, Cats

“The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.”

Quentin Crisp (1908–1999) writer, Actor

Happiness, Time

“When we are being compassionate, we consider another's circumstance with love rather than judgement… To be compassionate is to move into the right here, right now with an open heart consciousness and a willingness to be supportive.”

Jill Bolte Taylor (1959) American neuroscientist

Source: My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

Love, Support, Heart

“Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks”

Meg Cabot book Haunted

Source: Haunted

Love, Life, Books

“… it is, after all, not necessary to fly right into the middle of the sun, but it is necessary to crawl to a clean little spot on Earth where the sun sometimes shines and one can warm oneself a little.”

Franz Kafka Letter to His Father

Source: Letter to His Father

Sun, Flying

“I am Sailor Moon, champion of justice! On behalf of the moon, I will right wrongs and triumph over evil, and that means you! - sailor moon”

Naoko Takeuchi (1967) Japanese manga artist

Justice, Evil

“My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

Idea

“Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench.”

Jim Butcher book Fool Moon

Source: Fool Moon

Dance, Training, Clothes

“There is an old and very wise Native American saying: Every time you point a finger in scorn—there are three remaining fingers pointing right back at you.”

Alyson Nöel (1965) writer

Source: Fated

Time

“He wasn't in a safe little story where wrongs were automatically righted; he was still in the real world, where bad bitter things happened for no reason, and people paid for things that weren't their fault.”

Lev Grossman The Magicians

Source: The Magicians

People, World

“Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.”

Edward de Bono (1933) Maltese physician

Source: The Use of Lateral Thinking

Way

“In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up.”

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)

God, World

“It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority’s falsehood as truth, could be fatal.”

Thomas Szasz (1920–2012) Hungarian psychiatrist

Source: The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct

Truth, Age

“I liked you better when you were this timid little kid. What happened?”
“I started living with you guys.”
“Oh, right.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: The Dead Girls' Dance

Guy

“Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“Mr. Right is coming, but he's in Africa and he's walking.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Funny

“Paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much.”

Thomas Pynchon book Bleeding Edge

Variant: Paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen
Source: Bleeding Edge (2013), p. 11

Life

“For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”

Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth

Source: The Phantom Tollbooth

Learning

“Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Feeling

“Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world an "Extreme Makeover: Planet Edition" right after he finishes putting Satan in his place once and for all?”

Arianna Huffington (1950) Greek-American author and syndicated columnist

World, Water

“What you need to learn, children, is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life. And once you learn the difference, you must always choose the right.”

Jeanne DuPrau The City of Ember

Source: The City of Ember

Life, Children, Learning

“I agree with you. Now let’s put on our big-girl panties and go convince Mr. Always Right that he’s seriously wrong.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Queen of Zombie Hearts

Girl

“Life is such a miracle, a series of small miracles. It really is, if you learn how to look at it with the right perspective.”

James Patterson book Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

Source: Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

Life, Learning

“Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries.”

Eoin Colfer book Airman

Source: Airman

Men

“You always find the right quote, or the right thing to say to make me believe you love me.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Love, Quotes

“I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Hope, Suffering

“Sometimes you have to do what’s wrong in order to do what’s right.”

Peter F. Hamilton book The Dreaming Void

Source: The Dreaming Void

“Right," she said, "We're going to the Land of the Dead and I shouldn't think negative.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

Thinking, Dead

“It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.”

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) German late baroque era composer

Variant: There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

Music, Time

“… If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Key of Knowledge

Books, Waiting, Reading

“Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights”

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) German philosopher

World

“But God fears women even more that He fears the devil- and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man.”

Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

Life, Women, God, World

“Curran looked back at me. "Why is it you always attract creeps?"

"You tell me." Ha! Walked right into that one, yes, he did.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

“You fuss too much over making the "right" choice Gaius. All we need do is make a good choice, see it through, and accept the consequences.”

Graham McNeill (1971) writer

Source: Fulgrim

“Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

Way, Painting

“Right, well, we've got to work out what we need. We've got to work out what we need, how we get it, and what we need to get to get what we need.”

Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant

Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

“Remember also that the smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”

Ayn Rand book Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)

“I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy.”

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes book Shattered Mirror

Source: Shattered Mirror

“Hmmm, I bet you’d be really cute with hornays. Not that you’re not cute right now, but you’re a bit young. You’re only what? Four in human years? Oh wait, that’s wrong, isn’t it? You ninety? (Simi)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

Waiting

“How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning.”

Vincent Van Gogh book The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Source: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Love, Flowers

“Love knows no right or wrong.
Love is. Only is.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

Love

“… one can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Tempt Me at Twilight

Life

“Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love..”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Love

“I wouldn't cut you out of my life Clary, any more than I would cut off my right hand and give it to someone as a Valentine's Day gift."
Gross," said Clary. "Must you?"
Simon grinned. "I must.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Life

“This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.”

Jess Walter book Beautiful Ruins

Source: Beautiful Ruins

Life, Dreams, Sleep

“That's right, I am a book kisser.”

Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Books

“Excuse me, but aren't boys forbidden on this floor?' Macey said on our way to the suite.

'That's the advantage of being the only boy,' he (Zach) said. 'No one actually comes right out and makes rules like that.”

Ally Carter Out of Sight, Out of Time

Source: Out of Sight, Out of Time

Way, Boy

“I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself.
- Troy”

August Wilson Fences

Source: Fences

Life, Learning

“My, g**, he was as strong as a team of oxen. That would be strong right?”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

Strong

“Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything… I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?”

Carrie Fisher book Wishful Drinking

Source: Wishful Drinking

Life, Time, Waiting

“right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts.”

Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Music, Cars

“I was right when I said I’d never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can’t ever do anything else except look back.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

Heart, Hurt

“One day you may kiss a man you can’t breathe without, and find breath is of little consequence.”
“Right, and one day my prince might come.”
“I doubt he’ll be a prince, Ms. Lane. Men rarely are.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Bloodfever

Men, Kiss

“I was flying right toward him (the pig) at the speed of demigod-smashing.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

Speed, Flying

“Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Way

“Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah…" Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word.

"Equals?" Miles hazarded.

"Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The Vor Game

Source: The Vor Game

“I know you're right. I'm just low, and when I'm low I talk like a fool.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

Fools

“The most important tactic in an argument next to being right is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without an embarrassing loss of face.”

Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) American evolutionary biologist

Loss

“I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right, lest you make your father a fool.”

Robin Hobb book Fool's Assassin

Source: Fool's Assassin

Fools, Bee, Parting

“She smiled at him, though her hazel-green eyes were wary beneath the brim of a sodden hat. Right at that moment, staring at her across the hall, Gideon Shaw, cynic, hedonist, drunkard, libertine, fell hopelessly in love.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Again the Magic

Love, Smile

“And she did not have to ask if this was right, no one had to tell her, because this could not have been more right or perfect.”

Patricia Highsmith book The Price of Salt

Source: The Price of Salt

Perfection

“Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.”

John Piper (1946) American writer

God, Pleasure

“You can’t concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, “What’s gonna happen if it doesn’t go right?”

Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer

Source: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

Thinking

“Right" he said "Let's get one thing clear. I am not here to teach you law-I am here to teach you loopholes.”

Catherine Jinks book Evil Genius

Source: Evil Genius

Law

“I mean, how would anyone learn anything if they weren't curious? How would scientists make discoveries? -- We all have the right to be different, don't we?”

Annette Curtis Klause (1953) American writer and librarian

Learning

“When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) American feminist, writer, commercial artist, lecturer and social reformer

Death

“For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.”

Lisa See book Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Source: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Love, Life, Girl, Problem

“Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear.”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

Love

“It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword."
--- Ingtar Shinowa ---”

Robert Jordan The Great Hunt

Source: The Great Hunt

“To take what there is, and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived — to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that — this doubtless is the right way to live.”

Henry James (1843–1916) American novelist, short story author, and literary critic

Notebook entry, London, 1889-05-12.

Way, Waiting

“It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.”

Mark Vonnegut (1947) American physician and writer

Source: The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity

Pain, Memory

“… You're omniscient, right?"
"For the most part, yes."
"Then you have to tell me this ‘cause I have to know. What's at the end of everything?"
He shrugged. "That's easy enough."
"Then tell me."
"The letter G.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Parting

“No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Life

“I looked at Rachel. "You're not going to do anything stupid, are you? I mean…. you talked to Chiron, right?"
She managed a faint smile. "You're worried aboutdoing something stupid?”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

Stupidity, Smile

“Right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

Evil

“I want to be outspoken. I want to say my opinions and I hope they’re taken in the right way. I don’t want to stop being free. And I won’t.”

Angelina Jolie (1975) American actress, film director, and screenwriter

Hope, Way

“Agent Jones held Sinjin’s face in his hands. “I’m going to make balloon animals. People need balloon animals.”
“How right you are, strange delusional man,” Sinjin said.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Source: Beauty Queens

People, Animals

“Bran was always a deceptive bastard, gentle and mild right up until he ripped your throat out. He had many other fine qualities as well.”

Patricia Briggs book Cry Wolf

Source: Cry Wolf

“Freedom is… the right to write the wrong words.”

Patti Smith (1946) American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist

Freedom

“Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.”

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

Life, Happiness, Personality

“In eight years not a day has gone by when she hasn’t thought of him. She misses him and she wants him back. I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

Thinking

“I'm not sure if there's one right place I'm supposed to be, he said, but I know a couple of wrong places I'd give a second try in a heartbeat.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

“I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book A Study in Scarlet

Source: A Study in Scarlet

Thinking, Time

“In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Source: A World Without Heroes

“Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.”

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

Knowledge

“Are some people destined for a great fate, or to do great things? Or is it only that they're born somehow with that great passion -- and if they find themselves in the right circumstances, then things happen? It's the sort of thing you wonder…”

Diana Gabaldon book Voyager

Source: Voyager

Fate, People, Passion

“Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery.”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

Source: P.S. I Love You

Happiness, Decision, Personality

“Jamie: You're acting like a crazy person, what's going on?
Landon: Right now, you're straddling the state line.
Jamie: OK…
Landon: You're in two places at once.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

Personality

“Meanwhile, life keeps moving forward. The truth is, there's no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when?”

Richard Carlson (1961–2006) Author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker

Life, Happiness, Truth, Time

“As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we’re really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Life, Death, Health

“Life is what you make of it. There's always fun and laughs right under your nose if you're willing to open your eyes to see it.”

Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host

Life

“I wish the first word I ever said was the word "quote," so right before I die I could say "unquote."”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

When the Leaves Blow Away (2006), I Still Have a Pony (2007)

Quotes

“Also she signed away the right to self-destruct years ago. The fine print on the birth certificate, her friend calls it.”

Jenny Offill book Dept. of Speculation

Source: Dept. of Speculation

Birth

“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

Source: Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other

“Akhlys lunged at Percy, and for a split second he thought: Well, hey, I’m just smoke. She can’t touch me, right?
He imagined the Fates up in Olympus, laughing at his wishful thinking: LOL, NOOB!”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Fate, Imagination, Thinking

“I still stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it?' he asks.
'No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion,' I tell him.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Lie

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Quotes about right
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