Quotes about right

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“And I just want to tell you, at some point it doesn’t matter who was right and who was wrong. At some point, being
angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning
yourself without thinking about it.”

“You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one.”

“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”

“That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.”

“We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.”

“Be normal, now. Right now. Because you are. Because you can be.”

“Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.”

“Maybe the Merlin was right. Maybe its better to look stupid but strong, than it is to look smart but weak, I don't know. I'm not sure I want to believe that the world stage bears that strong a resemblance to high school.”

“When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves”

“So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together, edge to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story.”

“Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.”

“Want me to warm up the sauce?”
“Do we do that? I mean, it’s in a jar, right? Can’t you just dump it over the pasta?”
“Well, you can, but it tastes better if you warm it up.”
“Oh.” Eve sighed. “This is complicated. No wonder I never cook.”

“I wanted to tell him so. Find the right words, string them together in the ideal way, knowing that here they would have the best chance of sounding perfect.”

“His right ear still held both studs, and I wondered who had the missing earring. I would have asked, but was afraid he’d tell me Ivy had it.”

“You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because he's inconvenient or has trouble in school.”

“Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.”

“Love is like liquor, the drunker and more impotent you are, the stronger and smarter you think yourself and the surer you are of your rights.”

“I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now."
Vronsky”

“It is unusual,” said Cristina, “for a revolution to call for fewer rights for people, not more.”

“I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim…”

“Alec shrugged "Look who's talking. 'Oh, I love her. Oh, she's my sister. Oh why, why, why--"
Jace threw a handful of dead leaves at Alec, making him splutter.
Isabelle was laughing. "You know he's right, Jace.”

“The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.”

“What about you? Are you happiest and saddest right now that you've ever been?" "Of course I am." "Why?" "Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you.”

“Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.”

“The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?”

“if you put your trust in God, you’ll be all right in the end.”

“Choose to be kind over being right and you'll be right everytime.”

“Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: “We don’t serve colored people here.” I said: “That’s all right, I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.””

“Don't get it right, get it written.”

“You lose the world for a glance? Of course you do. That is what the world is for: to lose under the right circunstances.”

“Bottom line, Eliza— you’re my home and my family, and I don’t want to lose you.
I could lose everything else, and as long as I still had you and a guitar I know I’d be all right. Do you get what I’m saying?”

“But unfriendly is usually one of those things you pick up on right away. You know, like B. O. There's no hiding it if it's there.”

“The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.”

“I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.”

“I will protect even those I hate,” Kaladin whispered through bloody lips. “So long as it is right.”

“Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.'

'Will you be all right?'

'I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too.”

“Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.”

“If we are strong enough in our souls we can rip away the veil and look that naked, terrible beauty right in the face; let God consume us, devour us, unstring our bones. Then spit us out reborn.”

“I hate clowns. I've mentioned that, right?”

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In the end, we both want the right thing to happen, the right person to win, the right idea to prevail. We have no faith that it will, but still we want it. Neither of us has given up on anything.”

“Hey, does my stupidity give you the right to bruise a tender heart?"

"Yeah, yeah. I'm bruising a heart made of Play-Doh.”

“Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.”

“Well," said Apollo with a brave smile. "You were right, my dear. You had everything under control! Let's go see if we boiled anyone important, shall we?”

“Good men don't become legends," he said quietly.
"Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.”

“I've been going a long time now
along the way I've learned some things.

You have to make the good times yourself
take the little times and make them into big times
and save the times that are all right
for the ones that aren't so good.”

“And by golly, love sure was a battlefield. Benatar was right about that.”

“Right before the explosions begin, I find a star.”

“It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.”

“Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers”

“Koga:"You got a problem with that muttface?"
Inuyasha: Did you just call me a mutt?"
Koga:"No, you're right. That would be an insult to canines.”

“She said, "As long as we're with each other--"
"We know we're in exactly the right place," he finished.”

“But the moment our eyes meet, I'm right back under his spell, a helpless hunk of steel to his irresistible magnet.”

“He almosted smiled. "There you go again. Why? Why do yo keep helping me?"
There were a million answers on my lips, everything from It's the right thing to do to I don't know. Instead, I said, "Because I want to.”

“People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world… But you have to do what's right for you.”

“I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: right here, nowhere else! Right now, never again!”

“… guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.”

“Truth is as free as the air and we all have the right to breathe as deeply of it as we wish. It cannot be held back in the palm of any one man.”

“And Isi always listened, never told Enna she had been foolish, never said hollow things like 'You'll be all right.'… Isi saw Enna's struggle and her sadness, and she understood.”

“To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.”

“There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.”

“And therefor," said Magnus "We must go."
Will blinked at him. "Go where?"
"Don't worry about that right now, my love."
Will blinked again. "Pardon?”

“My mother would take the Band-Aid off, clean the wound, and say, “Things that are covered don’t heal well.” Mother was right. Things that are covered do not heal well.”

“strange, there's so much religion in the world, but only enough to make us fight over who is right, not enough to make us love one another.”

“… hear rumors and go digging for the painful truth beneath the lovely lies. You believe you have a right to these things, but you don't. When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.”

“Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.”

“I may not agree with what you have to say but I will fight you to the death for the right to fight you to the death.”

“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”

“All right you bloody Scottish bastard, lets see how stubborn you really are.”

“There is some relationship between the hunger for truth and the search for the right words. This struggle may be ultimately indefinable and even undecidable, but one damn well knows it when one sees it.”

“She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.”

“Knowing the right questions is better than knowing all the right answers" Caleb from Pretty Little Liars (TV Show)”

“Please, sit down," Sharon said with another hair toss. I made a mental note to practice doing that in a mirror the next time I saw one. it seemed a useful skill, right up there with roundhouse kicks.”

“We have a Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.”

“Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.”

“When were you going to tell me?"
He demanded. "Tell you what? That you can be a real asshole? How about right now.”

“Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.”

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”

“It was one of those moments where you saved me, you made me laugh at just the right time.”

“Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.”

“I speak only of myself since I do not wish to convince, I have no right to drag others into my river, I oblige no one to follow me and everybody practices his art in his own way."

- Tristan Tzara "Dada Manifesto 1918”

“It is a horrible, terrible thing, the worst thing, to watch somebody you love die right in front of you and not be able to do nothing about it.”

“The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.”

“We're shooting the scene where I swallow your heart and you make me
spit it up again. I swallow your heart and it crawls
right out of my mouth.
You swallow my heart and flee, but I want it back now, baby. I want it back.”

“Any love that is love is right.”

“Sometimes the most worthwhile things are right in front of our eyes. We just make them hard because we think that gives them more value.”

“Right. As opposed to your cradle-robbing mentor. I don't really see you making much progress with him.”

“And you work for that demon, right? The one who looks like Matthew Broderick?”

“John Cusack,” I corrected. “He looks like John Cusack.”

“Whatever.”

“Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.”

“People can never own people but whether I can be with him or not right now, the answer is no. Not now. Maybe in another time.”

“So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him.”

“Her eyes were luminous gold. I wondered if that was the last color a bug saw when it was trapped in amber—and if the bug thought,, right before it was frozen forever.”

“Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.”

“The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.”

“A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.”

“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.”

“I certainly supported a woman's right to choose, but to my mind the time to choose was before, not after the fact.”

“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”

“You know, when you're right, that's all you get to be.”

“There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that.”