Quotes About Knowing Something Isn't Right

#1. Just because someone doesn't act or look unhappy doesn't mean their lives are perfect." He raises his eyebrows. "There's this method of dealing with things that involves keeping your chin up. Knowing whatever crap you're dealing with right now isn't going to last forever. All things pass.

Kelley York

#2. Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#3. Loneliness isn't about being by yourself. That's fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. Loneliness is about finding a landing-place, or not, and knowing that, whatever you do, you can go back there. The opposite of loneliness isn't company, it's return. A place to return.

Jeanette Winterson

#4. Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all.

Jodi Picoult

#5. Intention governs attention, and attention exerts real, physical effects on the dynamics of the brain.

Jeffrey M. Schwartz

#6. Knowing what's right isn't as important as doing what's right.

Frank Sonnenberg

#7. Jack, there are only two of us here. One of us is going to push him out, one of us is
going to catch him. Which job do you want?
(Melinda talking to her husband)

Robyn Carr

#8. Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

Idries Shah

#9. Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl.

Marlene Dietrich

#10. From this simple phenomenon, this idea of saying something twice, more often, as often as possible, in order to make oneself understood - the most artful things developed ... the principle of repetition!

Anton Webern

#11. I'm trying to keep your safe!" Puck exploded, whirling on me. His eyes feverish, and I shrank back. "This isn't a game, Meghan! The shit is about to hit the fan, and you're right in the middle of it without knowing enough to duck!

Julie Kagawa

#12. A golden drop, the third of three, bears the power to set them free.'

~The Prophecy of Myst~

E.M. McIntyre

#13. The personality is determined by a variety of interventions that enter the head like big symbolic flags in the conquered soil which seldom knows its defeat.

Andrew Durbin

#14. Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

Dexter Gordon

#15. And in the sin of wanting
always to be right, the punishment
is knowing it isn't possible.

Jennifer Clarvoe

#16. And when I got sick I felt confident that if it was the last thing I ever recorded before I left this earth, I would be really proud of it.

Andrew McMahon

#17. What you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#18. Christians think a long record of church attendence and Bible reading is equivalent to an advanced degree in science.

Graham Kendall

#19. You know home isn't really about what color your couch is or what you hang on the wall... Home is about knowing you are in the right place with the right people.

Jay Crownover

#20. Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

Jan Peter Balkenende

#21. The main thing isn't knowing whether you're right or wrong. That really doesn't matter ... The main thing is to keep people from bothering you ... The rest is eyewash ...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#22. It isn't always easy to act on what's in your head instead of what's in your heart. And it isn't always right to. The whole trick to knowing what to do is deciding when to make yourself listen to your head, and when it's okay to just follow your feelings.

Steven Brust

#23. I'm quite good at knowing, 'This isn't right for me,' or, 'That person will be really good at singing that.'

Rebecca Ferguson

#24. Allah protect us,' Bold said politely. Then, in Arabic, 'In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.' In his years in Temur's army he had learned to be as much a Muslim as anyone. The Buddha did not mind what you said to be polite.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#25. Love is about needing someone, about feeling as if the day isn't quite right if they're not there. Its about knowing that, no matter how bad a day you've had, the moment you see them again or hear their voice, the world is back in its place.

Jessica Hart

#26. So much of life isn't about having the right answer; it's about knowing the right question.

Duane Hewitt

#27. It is a proven fact that everyone on this earth has some bit of madness within their soul. I am no exception and neither are you.

Matthew Hunt