Top 100 Right But Quotes
#1. I will forgive if the players cannot get it right, but not if they do not try hard.
Pep Guardiola
#2. It's just the place we chose. To do what's right. But then, maybe that alone gives reason to take us down, to destroy us.
Steven Erikson
#3. Under Syrian law, a journalist is not allowed to report on military matters. This may be wrong or right, but that's just the way it is.
Bashar Al-Assad
#4. Money is all right but once you have it you learn it's not the be all and end all.
Alan Sugar
#5. If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
Henry David Thoreau
#6. Your dad loves you, Eleanor said. And she
was right. But it didn't matter. That was table
stakes. His dad loved him in a completely obligatory way
Rainbow Rowell
#7. When the world started ending, everybody became a convert and wanted nothing more than to spout the virtues of whatever apocalyptic religion they had latched onto. I wasn't sure who, if any, of them were right, but my best bet for avoiding hell was avoiding death.
Amanda Hocking
#8. A little remembering is all right but too much is a disease I am terribly prone to.
Suzanne Marrs
#9. I had to be alone for a little while, but I'm okay now."
"All right. But next time, don't go where I can't find you.
Alexandra Bracken
#10. right? But no. Don't hitchhike, the driver
Ann Packer
#11. You said I was in love. You were right. But that never happened, either.
Craig Clevenger
#12. A bed unslept, and a woman unbedded. The bed is yours by right, but the woman, though she may come to you in time, never completely belongs to you. Yet the child is yours, for the child belongs not to who makes him but to he who takes him.
Robin Hobb
#13. I wasn't always minimal. In the early days, I was laying it on as thickly as I could, trying very hard to get it right. But I found that the harder I tried, the more tired whatever it was I was working on looked. And then I grew tired of it as well.
Chris Raschka
#14. I never thought being with someone would feel this right. But it does. It does. It's my fairy tale and even though it's going to be short and have a terrible ending, it's still mine.
Kim Holden
#15. My teeth are all right, but they are not American teeth, and my hair is not thick and luscious. Los Angeles is dense with beautiful people, and most of the men who are aspiring actors are 5ft 5in, so I tower above them.
Stephen Merchant
#16. In Islam, it is not just your right, but your responsibility to get education.
Malala Yousafzai
#17. The Government's supposed to be there for people when nobody else is, right? But it never works like that.
Brian K. Vaughan
#18. Entertainment is all right, but entertainment with an idea behind it is much more important.
Gregory Peck
#19. I never prophesy," he declared pompously. "It is true that I have the habit of being always right - but I do not boast of it.
Agatha Christie
#20. You believe this is a game, and you may be right. But if you think you can play it better than me, think again.
Ellen Hopkins
#21. Lot's of things in life aren't right, but most things get better with time.
Anna Myers
#22. You can work hard, do everything that you think is right, but one thing you'll never overcome in life is fate. You can't control fate.
Richard Petty
#24. You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
G.K. Chesterton
#25. You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life depended on reading 'em right. But you know your life doesn't depend on anything that makes sense, and you wonder where in the hell you got the idea it did; and you begin to get sore.
Jim Thompson
#26. Acting advice is a bit like your parents teaching you how to drive a car. You know they're right, but you still kind of want them to shut up a bit.
Max Irons
#27. Easy. Easy is a word that's used to describe other people's jobs. "That should be easy for you to do, right?" But notice how rarely people describe their own tasks as easy. For you, it's "Let me look into it" - but for others, it's "Get it done.
Jason Fried
#28. I hear something in her words that's right, but it's hard to believe her right now.
Veronica Roth
#29. With politics, nothing runs right ... but without politics, nothing runs.
Diss Ti'wyn
Aaron Allston
#30. She was right, but he'd never admit it. But as long as she continued to look this happy, he'd figure out how to get her to the moon if she wanted to go there.
Denise Grover Swank
#31. Most people feel that the world looks like the photograph. I've always assumed that the photograph is nearly right, but that little bit by which it misses makes it miss by a mile. This is what I grope at.
Martin Gayford
#32. The man who says that he does not deserve his wife is probably right, but not for the reasons he thinks.
Lawrence Fagg
#33. The goal of measurement is to not only do things right but do the right things and continuously improve doing that.
Pearl Zhu
#34. Liberty is not a right but a duty.
Ezra Pound
#35. On both sides in 1915 there would be more dead on any single day than yards gained in the entire year. And there would be nearly four more years of attrition - not to determine who was right, but who was left.
Stanley Weintraub
#36. You feel good not because the world is right, but your world is right because you feel good.
Wayne W. Dyer
#37. Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.
Jimmy Wales
#38. I'm not really satisfied. I've done all right, but there's room for improvement.
Travis Hafner
#39. I don't have a trainer. Crazy, right? But I don't need anyone to motivate me. I love exercise, even things like the elliptical and stretching.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
#40. Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.
G.K. Chesterton
#41. 3D is great, but I just think of it as another tool, like colour or music or sound. It has the potential to add another emotional layer to certain things if you use it right. But it's not the saviour [of the movies], the be all and end all, the reason to do something.
Tim Burton
#42. It's fun when the ball is going in the hole and things are going right, but it's a miserable game when things aren't going well.
Fuzzy Zoeller
#43. Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be.
Gore Vidal
#44. I married Miss Right, but didn't know at the time she had shortened her name from Righteouspainintheass
Josh Stern
#45. We are chasing happiness, and don't care about happiness of people who matter. Probably, we got our priorities right, but failed to set an order.
We created a chaos hoping the world would fall in place itself..
Crestless Wave
#46. the children make of it what they can. What they don't understand today, they might tomorrow. "The Declaration is like a map. You trust that it's right, but you only know by going out and testing it yourself.
Colson Whitehead
#47. Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!
Marvin Minsky
#48. Neither clock nor weather-glass is ever right; but we believe in both, devoutly.
Charles Dickens
#49. Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.
Meg Cabot
#50. The tragedy for so many town councils is that they think they can quietly cut spending and no one will notice or care. The tragedy for the country may be that they are right. But
Bill Bryson
#51. We're talking about the novel, right? But maybe we're not. We're talking about ourselves. And I guess that's what can start to happen when you talk about a book.
Meg Wolitzer
#52. Again, right? But how will they know to save us? Hmm. Yopopa's supposedly a genius. That's probably
Sarah Mlynowski
#53. The 'Twilight' movies are great in their own right, but they certainly don't have any sense of humor to them.
Mark Waters
#54. The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might.
Ferdinand Lassalle
#55. My paranoia wasn't always right, but just to be on the safe side, I never went to sleep with a clown in the room.
Mark Henwick
#56. It's just about impossible to be perfect all the time. In fact, some days it's hard to do anything right. But sometimes things go really well. There are a lot of new things to learn, a lot of new rules and regulations.
Paula Danziger
#57. Life worked in such a way that right was not necessarily right, but rather what the person in charge said was right.
Jonas Jonasson
#58. I never did like Cleveland. Don't know why. Didn't like the town. Now, the people are all right, but I just didn't like the town.
Stan Coveleski
#59. There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that I've got better as an actor. I've learnt how to do it. And I still have enough energy to do it.
Ian McKellen
#60. Scientists will say we can't blame global warming for any single event. In a sense that's right, but the fact that the frequency and intensity of these events is increasing you can blame on global warming.
James Hansen
#61. Yeah, all right, but everyone knows they torture people," mumbled Sam.
"Do they?" said Vimes. "Then why doesn't anyone do anything about it?"
"'cos they torture people.
Terry Pratchett
#62. Think if you love someone, you make an effort to suppress habits of yours that displease them, right? But those habits or inclinations are still there. Sam,
Charlaine Harris
#63. The hero isn't the one who is right, but the one who steps forward to take the blame - deserved or not - and apologize to save a relationship.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#64. Marriage is all right, but I think it's carrying love a little bit too far.
Texas Guinan
#65. I'll believe I made it when I'm 100 years old, I'm still able to get work, and they're about to put me in a coffin, and I'll be like, 'Yeah, OK, it went all right.' But until then, I'm not saying it.
Timothy Simons
#66. Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?
Andrew Clements
#67. Oh, all right! But this doesn't mean we're bonding!" "Fine. Fine." "I'm not a bondage kind of person," Angua added. "Yes, yes," said Sally. "I can see that.
Terry Pratchett
#68. Right, but that's exactly what's wrong with everything. It's not about the quality of the music, is it?
Ali Eskandarian
#69. The technical process which is interesting in it's own right but I think the creative process is what's more intriguing to me.
Casey Neistat
#70. A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.
Charles Tupper
#71. Knowing that what's in your head might not be right - but not having any idea how to fix it.
Rachel Van Dyken
#72. I betcha masturbate while reading your books. He started imitating a woman's voice. "Oh fuck me harder, Flabio, oh yes, oh no, but we shouldn't , you're too big and I'm a virgin, but oh, you fit so right, but we still mustn't, we're not married, but oh, oh, oh, yes, yes, YES! ~ Dante
Marita A. Hansen
#73. Two wrongs don't make it right, but it damn sure makes us even.
Kirk Jones
#74. Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not only a surprising variation played upon the world, but a re-tuning of the world itself.
Seamus Heaney
#75. I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.
Samuel Goldwyn
#77. Also, your operating system? You should be nicer to her. You love her, right? But you're just kind of mean to her. You should tell her. You should tell her while you have the chance.
Charles Yu
#78. Two wrongs don't make a right, but two lefts do make a U-Turn
Caleb Eversole
#79. We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead.
Libba Bray
#80. He was a conservative all right, but invariably he gave the impression that he was a conservative because he was surrounded by liberals; that he had been a revolutionist if that had been required in order to be socially disruptive.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#81. If you've read a lot of vintage science fiction, as I have at one time or another in my life, you can't help but realise how wrong we get it. I have gotten it wrong more times than I've gotten it right. But I knew that when I started; I knew that before I wrote a word of science fiction.
William Gibson
#82. You can walk out on me tonight, if you think that it ain't feeling right, but darling, there's no getting over me.
Ronnie Milsap
#83. My Gram said that I would get the role in whichever show God thought was right but it wouldn't hurt to express a preference. I told her that I would like to do 'The Brady Bunch' because I'd have five other kids on the set to play with. God was listening.
Susan Olsen
#84. Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping.
Kevin McCarthy
#85. The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.
Earl Weaver
#86. Hope is human natural right but they have to keep it.
Zaman Ali
#87. History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right, but in addition liberty must be cultivated as a moral quality.
Margaret Thatcher
#88. It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
G.K. Chesterton
#89. With no bottom line, it's hard to know wrong from right. But I ain't ever satisfied.
John Mellencamp
#90. A lady with a clipboard stopped me in the street the other day. She said, 'Can you spare a few minutes for cancer research?' I said, 'All right, but we won't get much done.
Jimmy Carr
#91. The sadness will last forever. And I think he was right, but I also think he was very, very wrong. It doesn't last forever. Because we don't last forever.
Sara Wolf
#92. Luke said those strong instincts of hers served as proof of the Force, evidence that it was working through her all the time. Maybe he was right. But Leia believed just as much in her experience and her common sense.
Claudia Gray
#93. I could never, I knew then, lose myself "in love." Margery had accused me of coldness, and she was right, but she was also wrong: For me, for always, the paramount organ of passion was the mind. Unnatural, unbalanced, perhaps, but it was true: Without intellect, there could be no love.
Laurie R. King
#94. You know you don't see hospital consultants going on strike, and I don't believe that teachers and head teachers should. It's within their rights, it's a civil right, but I think it is wrong in terms of the reputation of the profession.
Michael Gove
#96. Woman knowing this was not right but not knowing what else to do, developed the only means to fight for their survival that they had, since their survival was dependent upon men, and that was to use sexuality to survive.
Frederick Lenz
#97. Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
#98. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see that they are often wrong.
Jane Austen
#99. - 'This is not the way our story ends. You know this'
- 'Stories do not end.'
- 'Ah, you are right, but you are also wrong. They end and they begin every moment. It is all about when you stop the telling.
Patrick Ness
#100. Consider the reasons which make us certain that we are right, but not the fact that we are certain. If you are not convinced, ignore our certainty. Don't be tempted to substitute our judgment for your own.
Ayn Rand
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