Quotes about right
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“I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting… Something's going down. I'm right about this.”

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

Waiting

“You need to follow your own heart in light of God’s word and do what you feel is right and good for you.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

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

God, Feeling, Light, Heart

“Vin: I don't know -- and it's all your fault, you know. I used to understand everything. Now it's all confused.

Kelsier: Yes, we've messed you up right properly.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Final Empire

Understanding

“Don't just act because you can; act because it's the right thing to do. If you keep that in mind, you'll be all right.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: Steelheart

“It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others ad fight for your rights…”

Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

Faith, Fight

“I hate witches. Humans had the right idea, burning them at the stake.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead to the World

Source: Dead to the World

Hate, Idea

“A battle can be won before it's ever fought by choosing the right ground.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

“You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick.”

Ron Rash book Serena

Source: Serena

“Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.”

Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes

“It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.”

Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor

Source: Up From Slavery: An Autobiography

Law, Exercises

“Because not wanting the prize the gods have arranged for you - that just might offend the hell right out of them.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

God, Hell

“Whenever you think you can or think you can’t, either way you are right. (Henry Ford)”

Rhonda Byrne book The Secret

Source: The Secret

Way, Thinking, Motivational

“The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.”

Margaret Peterson Haddix Among the Hidden

Source: Among the Hidden

People

“We may need to focus here.'
'Right. Yes. OK. Turn around.'
'Are you going to throw something at me?'
'What? No, I'm getting out of bed.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Death Bringer

“She wasnt exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

Way, Feeling

“Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.”

Justin Cronin (1962) American writer

Source: The Summer Guest

Courage, Courageous

“When you read you can have every adventure. In the pages of a book you can be anyone you ever dreamed of being… They can never tell you you're too young to slay the dragon -- because it all happens right here, where it's safe.”

Janette Oke (1935) Canadian writer

Source: Love Comes Softly

Books, Dreams, Reading

“Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Source: Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

Feeling, Confidence

“You're under arrest for multiple counts of murder. You have the right to not much at all, really. Do you have anything to say in your defense?”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Mortal Coil

“When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Life

“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

Truth, Thinking, Change, Personality

“Right, because I'm flat-chesteda midget.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.”

Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman

Law, Country

“Seriously,” Shane said, “this kind of is the worst situation we’ve ever been in, right?”
“Speak for yourself,” Michael said. “I got myself killed last year. Twice.”
“Oh yeah. You’re right—last year really sucked for you.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Kiss of Death

“Uh-huh, right. Let me count all the ways you and I aren't going there.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Awakened

Way

“Still I pictured having you for fifty, sixty more years. I thought I might be ready then to let you go. But it's you, and I realize now that I won't be anymore ready to lose you then than I am right now. Which is not at all.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Some of us are born in the right place, and some of us have to go look for it.”

Chris Wooding book Poison

Source: Poison

“God put me on earth to accomplish certain things. Right now, I’m so far behind, I’ll never die.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

God

“Other people apologize and don't mean t "Sorry, but you shouldn't have…" or "Sorry, but I just didn't…" They apologize while telling you that they were right all along, which is the opposite of an actual apology.”

E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…

Source: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver

People

“It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.”

John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) British economist

Not attributed to Keynes until after his death. The original quote comes from Carveth Read and is: It is better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong. Logic, deductive and inductive (1898), p. 351 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18440/18440-h/18440-h.htm#Page_351 Misattributed

“Learning to stop sweating the small stuff involves deciding what things to engage in and what things to ignore. From a certain perspective, life can be described as a series of mistakes, one right after another with a little space in between.”

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

Life, Learning

“Artemis Fowl grinned right back at him and pointed his index finger to the sky… from the tip of this finger sprang a small blue spark that exploded like a tiny firework.
“I know magic can be stolen,” said Artemis. “Because I stole some myself.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

“Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right,
By these we reach divinity”

John Donne (1572–1631) English poet

Faith, Soul

“To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last…”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

Source: Jane Austen's Letters

“Now remember, Kate." Barabas leaned over to me, grinning. "You are the Consort. Be the Consort." He stretched "be" into a three-syllable word. "Think like a-"

"Open the door or I'll punch you right in the face," I growled.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks

Thinking

“But am I clever and right or clever and wrong?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“How about you, Mockingjay? You feel totally safe?” “Oh, yeah. Right up until I got shot,” I say.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Feeling

“My purpose in life is to do right and to glorify God.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Life, God

“If you believe in your heart that you are right, then you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.”

Linda Ellerbee (1944) journalist

Way, Fish, Time, Heart

“To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.”

Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet

"A Word to Husbands" in Marriage Lines (1964)

Love, Marriage

“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. is soon forgotten, butlasts forever.”

Philip Pullman (1946) English author

Books, Silence, Time

“Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.”

Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books

The Believer interview (2013)
Context: Yeah, our view of reality, the one we conventionally take, is one among many. It’s pretty much a fact that our entire universe is a mental construct. We don’t actually deal with reality directly. We simply compose a picture of reality from what’s going on in our retinas, in the timpani of our ears, and in our nerve endings. We perceive our own perception, and that perception is to us the entirety of the universe. I believe magic is, on one level, the willful attempt to alter those perceptions. Using your metaphor of an aperture, you would be widening that window or changing the angle consciously, and seeing what new vistas it affords you.

Universe

“Your hands on a gun butt right now, isn't it? Afraid of me?”
“Just want to make sure I can take care of you.”
“Oh, really?”
“Yeah, in case you need Glock-to-mouth-resuscitation.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Awakened

“Out beyond ideas
of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

Idea

“Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

Love, Books

“All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.”

David Sedaris book Holidays on Ice

Source: Holidays on Ice

Pleasure

“I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day.

Whoever I had become had to die.”

Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…

Source: American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Christmas

“When the heart is right, "for" and "against" are forgotten.”

Zhuangzi (-369–-286 BC) classic Chinese philosopher

Source: The way of Chuang Tzu

Heart

“Tell Hugh," she whispered.
Tell Hugh your freaking self! He's right here! And you're not going anywhere.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

“How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

Source: Bruiser

“Barrons." I hastily shoved the phone between the cushions.

Ms. Lane." He inclined his dark head.

You tattooed me, you bastard." I got right to the point.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Bloodfever

Tattoo

“Myrnin:I could murder a cheeseburger right now
Oliver:focus ya fool”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: The Morganville Vampires, Volume 4

Fools

“The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one,” Dr. Poblocki said. “When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

Faith

“One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong”

Martin Luther King, Jr. book Strength to Love

Source: Strength to Love

Learning, Heart

“It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

Time, Back To Work

“I've never been shot, but this probably what it feels like, that second of nothingness right before the pain catches up to the bullet.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Source: This is Where I Leave You

Pain, Feeling

“The rain is a necessary prelude to beautiful weather. So even if your heart is in downpour right now it only means it will become exceptionally beautiful in time.”

Bisco Hatori (1975) Japanese manga artist

Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 5

Beauty, Time, Heart, Weather

“Carter, not to be unkind," I said, "but the last few months you've been seeing messages about Zia. Two weeks ago, you thought she was sending you a distress call in your mashed potatoes."
"It was a Z! Carved right in the potatoes!”

Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire

Source: The Throne of Fire

“You know, it’s amazing to me the wounds we carry for eternity. But what has fascinated me most these last few years is how the right person can heal them. I remember a wise man once said to me that everyone deserves to be loved. Even you. (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Love, Personality

“Nothing is ever quite right, is it, after a parent dies? No matter how well things go, something always feels slightly off…”

Jenna Blum book Het familieportret

Source: Those Who Save Us

Feeling, Parent

“Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.”

Henry David Thoreau book Civil Disobedience

Source: Civil Disobedience (1849)

“God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

Wisdom, God, Justice, Law

“I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…”

Aimee Bender (1969) Novelist, short story writer

Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

“You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
What mood is that?
Last-minute panic.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Mood

“Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

War

“A heart's a heart, in a child or a man. You are tougher than you feel right now. Your roots are deep, your canopy's spread wide. You're going to show everyone what it means to be a king.”

Shannon Hale (1974) American fantasy novelist

Feeling, Heart

“I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.”

Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman

Lecture, The Anti-Slavery Movement http://books.google.pt/books?id=wN9Dj-_wM0IC&pg=PA33&dq=%22I+would+unite+with+anybody+to+do+right+and+with+nobody+to+do+wrong.%22&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22I%20would%20unite%20with%20anybody%20to%20do%20right%20and%20with%20nobody%20to%20do%20wrong.%22&f=false (1855) 1850s Variant: I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.