Can't Do Anything Right Quotes

#1. To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.

Marian Wright Edelman

#2. I would love to be more specific, but really, any type of bird is the funniest animal. They have to move awkwardly when walking. They have beady eyes; they are very suspicious. They can't do anything right. They have no hands, which is inherently funny.

Kurt Braunohler

#3. I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative.

Jeffrey Archer

#4. Tate grabbed me, hugging me so hard, I knew I'd have bruises. He was probably unaware of it, not having had much time to get used to his new strength.
I pushed at him, "Tate ... you're squeezing me too hard."
He let go of me so fast I almost staggered. "Oh Christ, I can't do anything right!

Jeaniene Frost

#5. What I would say to people right now is that you can't count on anything that you don't do yourself," Jim said. "If your hand don't put it there, and you don't provide for your own family yourself, by your own intelligence and by your own means, you can't count on anybody else to do it for you.

Dale Maharidge

#6. I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing ... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

Lou Holtz

#7. It's like she's ... in my head, in my skin. I can't do anything anymore without having her there with me. Sometimes it feels like she's right there.

Shelly Crane

#8. One thing I can't do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#9. Dating now is a lot like going shopping when you don't have any money. Even if you find the right thing, you can't do anything about it.

Joshua Harris

#10. I've always done what felt right. I do what I can to protect the people I love, and even though I don't like you very much right now, I love the shit out of you. If anything happened to you, it might take me out for good.

Sarah Fine

#11. The worry question: "What can I do about it right now?" If I can't do anything about it right now, it is not a priority and does not deserve my attention.

Karlyle Tomms

#12. I was able to fly when I believed. If you believe you can do anything, right?

Shiro Amano

#13. I'd never, ever do anything that would hurt you. That I promise. I'm so happy that we are together right now, I can't even tell you.

L.M. Trio

#14. Okay, there's this thing you can do, a thing you can do like no other person on this planet. That makes you special, but being special ready doesn't mean anything. You still have to get dressed in the morning. Your shoelaces still break. Your lover will still leave you if you don't treat her right

Andrew Kaufman

#15. If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#16. Jim Carrey can do anything he wants, right? There are guys like that. I'm not one of those guys, so my career has been cobbled together with what the universe has put in front of me.

LeVar Burton

#17. What I've always said about comedy is if you do it in the right way, you can say anything to anybody because they know where you're coming from. They know it's not malicious.

Trevor Noah

#18. You had no right." "Ah, the morally outraged cry of the weak: You're not 'allowed' to do that. One is allowed to do anything one can get away with. Only when you understand that will you know your place in this world. And your power. Might is right.

Karen Marie Moning

#19. Syn opened a door to their right. "Sumi? Get in here and let Hauk know that you're okay. I can't do anything with this unreasonable, surly bastard."
"He's not unreasonable. He's just fierce.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#20. I know it may not be an easy thing to do, but with the right person by their side, they can conquer anything.

Stephanie Kaleto

#21. It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things like stories or books or movies or TV. I just get, like, completely enamored and lost in that world, especially when one really hits the right way. Like, I just can't do anything else.

Mae Whitman

#22. If we will imagine the thing we want and do our part to "be in the right place at the right time," there isn't anything we can't do, be, or attain.

Daniel Willey

#23. If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.

Paul Rand

#24. You can't make someone else do anything, even if you know you're right.

Sue Grafton

#25. If you are talented, you can really do anything. And if your heart is at the right place and you have the passion for it, you can go for it and do it.

Heidi Klum

#26. I'm as good as I can be right now, i don't see anything that I need to really change or do differently. I'm on top of my game.

Bubba Watson

#27. The world is full of confusion and contradiction. We cannot expect to do anything that is absolutely right. We can only measure rightness by the truth within ourselves. And our own truth will never be quite the same as somebody else's.

Jay Woodman

#28. You can do almost anything with soup stock, it's like a strong foundation. When you have the right foundation, everything tastes good.

Martin Yan

#29. Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.

Tom Stoppard

#30. I'll do anything. I'll shave my head for the right job. I'm partial to my facial hair, I guess, but I also enjoy doing something where I look totally different, which is kind of the reason why I've always worn long hair. I can really change my look radically by getting rid of it.

Sam Elliott

#31. If you choose to make regulations about carbon dioxide, that's OK. You as a state can do that; you have a right to do it. But it's not going to do anything about the climate. And it's going to cost, there's no doubt about that.

John Christy

#32. Anything that causes you to doubt, to raise either objections or just concerns about it - and they always put the information right at the bottom of the screen so you can't really read it - every time you see a company do that, the ad becomes less effective. The communication becomes less effective.

Frank Luntz

#33. Let go right then. Do not rationalize, blame, or try to figure it out. Don't do anything. Just let go immediately, and allow the energy to go back to the highest center of consciousness it can achieve. If you feel shame, let it go.

Michael A. Singer

#34. If your thoughts have convinced you that you can never do anything right, you'll tend to make more mistakes than normal and have a high rate of failure.

Joyce Meyer

#35. You cannot be firmly certain about anything. You can only have enough courage and strength to do what you consider to be right. Maybe it turns out that was wrong, but still you would have done his, and it is most important.

Irving Stone

#36. Most Americans, who think Congress has a right to do anything for which they can get a majority vote, ignore the clearly written constitutional restraints on Congress.

Walter E. Williams

#37. When you're convinced that you're right and you believe that you have the license to do anything because you're right, you can be bossy and you can be dangerous. You can be oppressive. You can be a tyrant.

Terry O'Quinn

#38. France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.

Adam Michnik

#39. Catch-22 says they have the right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

Joseph Heller

#40. And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.

Carol Kane

#41. When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he is right. For the old culture has its greatness and goodness behind it, and an historical education forces one to admit that it can never again be fresh.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#42. Not everything's perfect, especially in the beginning. And its all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it ... that's when you get into trouble

Sarah Dessen

#43. All of a sudden, if I can't go cycling, I have to do something else for five hours - I can't do anything for five hours! It just means sitting at home trying to work out something to do. It's just not me, it doesn't feel right.

Magnus Backstedt

#44. You can't help but change when you have a kid, and for me it was just a sense of I didn't feel like anything was missing in my life and it wasn't. It all came at just the right time, and now if I am absent from my son, I do feel like something is missing.

Chris Pratt

#45. Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait.

Haruki Murakami

#46. I need to know," he said. "I need to know, right now, if you're mine. I've been patient for years, and if need be, I can wait years more. I'll do anything in my power to win you, to keep you. But I need to know, this moment, if you'll be mine in the end.

Tessa Dare

#47. I tell people, 'You can do this.' And they write back and say, 'You were right. I can do this. And now I believe I can do anything.'

Bob Ross

#48. You can't trust the government to do anything right-except, of course, to conspire and cover up. Then it becomes diabolically efficient. The very people who are wildest for government conspiracies are often the same people who believe the government is incapable of delivering the mail efficiently.

Richard White

#49. One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you.

Carrie Vaughn

#50. You may have seen me in movies like 'Fast & Furious' and 'Avatar.' But I wouldn't have been able to do any of that without hard work and determination. You can accomplish anything if you just stay out of trouble and do the right things.

Laz Alonso

#51. If you have the right shoes, you can do anything.

Meg Cabot

#52. He punches the steering wheel. And then he breaks. The boy I love breaks. And there's nothing sadder, nothing harder in the world than watching the person you love fall apart right before your eyes - and you can't say or do anything

Jay McLean

#53. If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#54. If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

Paul Harvey

#55. it seems like there are ten lousy situations you can't do anything about, for every one where you can make a difference, it's all about putting your right foot forward, and just taking those small steps.

Jerome Preisler

#56. What's the feeling everyday somebody to say right in your face lie... ( like a woman which sucks your dick and your semen goes right in her
mouth) and you can't do anything on this problem??

And what to tell you move on, soon or later??

Deyth Banger

#57. I can always invent movement, and sometimes it can be fitted into the right place, but that is not choreography. It is the music that dictates the whole shape of the work. I do not believe in the permanence of anything in ballet save the purely classical.

George Balanchine

#58. And there's nothing sadder, nothing harder in the world than watching the person you love fall apart right before your eyes - and you can't say or do anything to change it.

Jay McLean

#59. If you're willing to do it as good as you're willing to think up to do it, that's what your mind is there for, and you deliver excellence right now, now being the only moment you can control or do anything with or be creative with.

Robert Forster

#60. You have to believe in its principles. Anything is possible, as long as it's for the good of the world. Make the exception. Live exceptionally. And if you can't do that, maybe we should consider whether you're right for the project. Think about it, then let's talk tomorrow.

Amy Tan

#61. I went to a website the other day and right at the top of the page it showed me my ip address. It was the most disturbing moment I have ever experienced. This website even told me what internet browser I was using, and what day it was. Computers can do anything.

Edward Snowden

#62. My point is,' Jamie continued, 'not everything's perfect, especially at the beginning. And it's all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it ... that's when you get into trouble.'
pg 169-170

Sarah Dessen

#63. A simple truth, repeated as often as it is ignored, is that if you tell a child it can do absolutely anything, or that it can't do anything at all, you will in all likelihood be proven right.

Fredrik Backman

#64. Recruiting is the lifeblood of any program, so you can't put anything above that, ... But it wouldn't matter who you had here if you didn't have the right mental attitude and work ethic. You need all those elements to come together to do something like we are doing.

Pete Carroll

#65. You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

Taylor Swift

#66. Anybody can do anything, it's up to themselves. All it takes is the right intentions.

Jimi Hendrix

#67. You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.

Charles Olson

#68. I want to challenge myself and do new things.
I don't know what it's like to be my true self. But it's more interesting that way.
Even if you don't know yourself?
If you don't know it means you can become anything you want to be, right?

Peach-Pit

#69. when people settle their accounts, guilt is easy to find, and justice is the right to do whatever we think must be done, and therefore justice can be anything.

Mesa Selimovic

#70. Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.

Billie Holiday

#71. You'd just be amazed what people will do. You really would. And not crazy people. Ostensibly normal people. When the right person touches the right button in someone, you can get them to do almost anything.

Annie Parisse

#72. We're not going to have a party when half of our friends ... can't do that thing we're doing. We're not going to ask them to come celebrate a right they don't have. That's just tacky! Forget like anything else, it's like really tacky for us

Kristen Bell

#73. I do actually believe in love. I can't say that I'm 100 percent successful in that department, but I think it's one of the few worthwhile human experiences. It's cooler than anything I can think of right now.

Trent Reznor

#74. What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage.

Stephen King

#75. I'm just not a good psychic. I can tell when something's not right, sometimes, but I can't tell what it is, or when it is, or if I'm supposed to do anything about it. I've tried to make it make sense, but I can't. It's just feelings instead of words.

Maggie Stiefvater

#76. 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

#77. Right now you can make a decision, ... If you truly decided to, you can do almost anything. So if you don't liike the current relationship you're in, make the decision now to change it. If you don't like your current job, change it.

Tony Robbins

#78. Jacinda, will you listen to me?"
"Not if your words have anything to do with 'this isn't right' or 'Jacinda, this can't happen between us.

Dominique Eastwick

#79. Camp Taylor is a foundation that I'm connected with right now, and anything I can do to help them and help those kids is something I want to do.

Colin Kaepernick

#80. But it seems to me that these worlds we touch upon can get so dark, anything we can do to lighten them must be a good thing, right?

Neal Shusterman

#81. Regis can do anything these young punks can do. I fit right in there with my Fox people. They want Regis to dance, Regis will dance. They want Regis to lift weights with them, Regis will lift weights with them. Whatever they want!

Regis Philbin