Quotes about right
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Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
“A battle can be won before it's ever fought by choosing the right ground.”
Source: The Son of Neptune
Source: Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
Source: Love Comes Softly
Source: Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters
“Uh-huh, right. Let me count all the ways you and I aren't going there.”
Source: Lover Awakened
“God put me on earth to accomplish certain things. Right now, I’m so far behind, I’ll never die.”
Source: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver
“It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.”
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
“Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right,
By these we reach divinity”
Source: Magic Breaks
“My purpose in life is to do right and to glorify God.”
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.
“Out beyond ideas
of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”
Source: American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
“When the heart is right, "for" and "against" are forgotten.”
Source: The way of Chuang Tzu
“Myrnin:I could murder a cheeseburger right now
Oliver:focus ya fool”
Source: The Morganville Vampires, Volume 4
“It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.”
Source: This is Where I Leave You
Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 5
“Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.”
Source: Civil Disobedience (1849)
“I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…”
Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
“I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.”
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.
Source: Magic Slays
“You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.”
Source: Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys
“I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.”
Source: Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years
Source: Conspiracy Game
“How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?”
Source: Between the Lines
Source: North of Beautiful
Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
“If you can't do something smart, do something right.”
Source: Serenity