Top 100 Right That Quotes
#1. LAWYER. Justice that destroys itself in seeking to be just! - - - Right, that so often fosters wrong!!! DAUGHTER
August Strindberg
#2. Agnes was the worst prophet that's ever existed. Because she was always right. That's why the book never sold.
Neil Gaiman
#3. Join with those who have never said: 'Right, that's it, I'm going no further,' because as sure as spring follows winter, nothing ever ends; after achieving your objective, you must start again, always using everything you have learned on the way.
Paulo Coelho
#4. When everybody agrees," Taggart's voice suddenly went shrill, "when people are unanimous, how does one man dare to dissent? By what right? That's what I want to know - by what right?
Ayn Rand
#5. After all, a right that can't be exercised is not very useful to anyone.
Jessica Valenti
#6. Even at the time, I realised this couldn't be right, that this interpretation didn't fit with the rest of the lyrics. But that wasn't an issue with me. The song was about what I said, and I used to listen to it again and again, on my own, whenever I got the chance.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#7. Loyalty isn't standing by someone when he's right - that's good judgment. Loyalty is standing by someone when he's wrong.
Susan Estrich
#8. It's not doing what is right that's hard for a President. It's knowing what is right.
Lyndon Johnson
#9. Voting is a right that has been given to every American; however, as Christ followers, our votes should reflect our God.
Monica Johnson
#10. Each hero had a tale, of the old days, and of how he had routed and killed, and set things to right, sometimes to right the right that the hero before him had righted.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#11. It is right that we should be successful, for otherwise Spirit is not expressed.
Ernest Holmes
#12. You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.
Charles Olson
#13. We all enter this world in the same way: naked, screaming, soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there.
Dana Gould
#14. A career is a job you love, right? That's what a career should be. If you're in a job that you hate, you should quit. That's the way I look at it. I'm in a job that I love, so I'm going to make it my career.
Cameron Sinclair
#15. Humans make the mistake of believing that it is their right to survive. Species die out on this planet all the time without anyone noticing. The planet will still be there, and we must lose this attitude of divine right, that something will save us ...
Sting
#16. I get it, hon. I know you need to be strong enough to handle your own shit. I'm not saying you're not. I'm not trying to boss you around. I'm not trying to take your strength away from you. I'm trying to add mine to it. That's what love is, right? That's what family is.
Susan Fanetti
#17. It is right that people should have a statuary right to holidays and a maximum working week. It is right that part-time workers should have the same equality when it comes to hourly rates.
John Reid
#18. This notion that's peddled by the religious right - that they are oppressed is not true. Sometimes it's a cynical ploy to move their agenda ahead. The classic example being that somehow secularists are trying to eliminate Christmas, which strikes me as some kind of manufactured controversy.
Barack Obama
#19. What are you like inside? Don't you have feelings where you love everyone, and at the same time you hate everyone? Or - don't you have times when everything goes the way you want, but nothing feels good or right? That's what I mean," he'd say, "about my black horse and my white horse.
Frank Delaney
#20. I've never been on a bike," I say. "I mean, I've been on a bike but not a motorcycle."
"And why is that?" he asks.
"Bugs. They get in your mouth, right? That's just gross."
Chris makes a face.
"If you ride around with your mouth hanging open, I assume that could be a possibility.
Summer Lane
#21. You think you're going to chain me to a wall then stand here and tell me why it's okay that I am the way I am? That because of all the crap folks put me through when I was young it's all right that I turned out like this?
Dude, I don't have a problem with how I turned out. I like me.
Karen Marie Moning
#22. My room is much better than Axel's and that's what counts, right?" "That's right," Dad said. "Hey!" Axel said.
Aileen Erin
#23. If anyone wanted ter find out some stuff, all they'd have ter do would be ter follow the spiders. That'd lead 'em right! That's all I'm sayin'.
J.K. Rowling
#24. Do not say I use what is mine: you use what is alien to you; the indulgent, selfish use makes what is yours something alien; that is why I call it alien good, because you use it with a hardened heart and claim that it is right, that you alone live from what is yours.
John Chrysostom
#25. Only in porn did people appear to need sex as badly as she needed it right that minute.
Christine Warren
#26. Power makes all things right. That is my first law, and my last. That is the only law that I acknowledge.
Joe Abercrombie
#27. A man called, wanting to borrow a rope. "You cannot have it," said Nasrudin. "Why not?" "Because it is in use." "But I can see it just lying there, on the ground." "That's right: that's its use.
Nasreddin
#28. Is it but right that our hearts should be on God, when the heart of God is so much on us.
Richard Baxter
#29. But what if ... what if you sincerely believed something was true, but you were dead wrong? What if you were so stubbornly sure that you were right, that you wouldn't even consider the truth? Would the truth be silenced, or would it try to break through?
Stephenie Meyer
#30. You must think I'm a complete idiot right? That I'm just some doormat who'll wait for you on the sidelines forever? That you can keep running back to her every time things get difficult and I'll just be okay with it?!
Stephanie Perkins
#31. Let's not play games. I was suggesting - you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith.
Barack Obama
#32. You're right that not everything we do has to have some kind of social agenda, but that doesn't mean it can only be anesthetizing crap.
Brian K. Vaughan
#33. I would say I'm pro-choice only because I don't feel that it's right that anybody in this world puts restrictions on anyone.
Shannen Doherty
#34. Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.
Henry Adams
#35. I am very proud to have kept my commitment to introduce the married couples' tax allowance. I think it will prove very popular. I think it's absolutely right that we recognise marriage in the tax system properly, and I would like to see that expanded.
David Cameron
#36. Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#37. Besides, old ladies are always right. That's how they get to be so old. It's one of those things.
Ian Kelsey
#38. I've been horribly depressed (lately), which, as you know, can be terribly time-consuming. I mean, if you're going to do it right, that is.
Errol Morris
#39. My wife accuses me - and she's probably right - that I'm sometimes oversensitive.
Joe Torre
#40. Usually, when you make a decision in life, unless you have access to parallel universes, you can't truly judge how right that decision was.
Tibor Fischer
#41. I have been to this point unwilling to sign on to same-sex marriage primarily because of my understandings of the traditional definitions of marriage. But I also think you're right that attitudes evolve, including mine.
Barack Obama
#42. holyshitit'sKultistandingrightthere. Poop. He poops. He poops. Right. That was all I needed to snap out of it. I pictured an image of him sitting on the porcelain throne to remind me he was just a normal man with needs like everyone. I
Mariana Zapata
#43. Right, that's exactly what I mean by your being both the prisoner and the jailer.
Irvin D. Yalom
#44. So you're quite right that when ... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.
E. Howard Hunt
#45. A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others' positions, no matter how odious.
Ed Royce
#46. It is right that we long to be in the fellowship of God's people in which God's character is manifested, for when we delight in the godliness of God's people, we are ultimately delighting in God himself as we see his character evidenced in the lives of his people.
Wayne A. Grudem
#47. All this happiness on display is suspect ... If they think - and they could be right - that continued torture and summary executions, ethnic cleansing and occasional genocide are preferable to an invasion, they should be sombre in their view.
Ian McEwan
#48. It was right that she was now staying at the ranch. She belonged there.
She belonged with him.
Always had. Always would.
Donna Grant
#49. One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.
Tobias Wolff
#50. Leaders can get stuck in groupthink because they're really not listening, or they're listening only to what they want to listen to, or they actually think they're so right that they're not interested in listening. And that leads to a lot of suboptimal solutions in the world.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#51. You do what you want and know is right. That is the only law.
Simone Signoret
#52. Oh, there's no such thing as my favorite performance. I can't sit here today and look back, and say: "Top Hat was better than Easter Parade or any of the others". I just don't look back, period. When I finish with a project, I say: "All right, that's that. What's next?"
Fred Astaire
#53. Success and social promotion are not some right that anybody can claim after queuing at some [government office]. It is better: it is a right, a right that one can merit because of one's sweat.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#54. He should have fucking known. He should have read Eve's damn case study, but he'd been so sure that he was right, that he couldn't possibly be wrong. Yeah, well, if I'd paid any attention to Eve's profile, I would have. She knew. But I was far too smart. I thought I had the fucker
Lexi Blake
#55. Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.
Peter Wilson
#56. Freedom of speech is central to most every other right that we hold dear in the United States and serves to strengthen the democracy of our great country. It is unfortunate, then, when actions occur that might be interpreted as contrary to this honored tenet.
Sam Farr
#57. I've got some good saints out there - that's right - that pray for me constantly. You've gotta have that! You do.
Whitney Houston
#58. Angus thought about this. She was right. That was why our national conversation was so bad. Courtesy had been abandoned in favour of the put-down, the attack, the calculated sound bite. What sort of national conversation was that? The answer came to him immediately: none.
Alexander McCall Smith
#59. That wasn't the way that things was supposed to be. And all because the so-called culture that I thought was right, that I thought it was cool, and I thought it was fun, and it was exciting at the time. It all led to me laying in a prison bunk by myself with no one to talk to but myself.
Michael Vick
#60. We've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way.
Tony Abbott
#61. Jesus died for our sins not so that we could sort out abstract ideas, but so that we, having been put right, could become part of God's plan to put his whole world right. That is how the revolution works.
N. T. Wright
#62. If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#63. It doesn't seem right that someone like that would get sick and die.'
[He] countered, 'Why shouldn't it be right? It's what happens.
Jan Elizabeth Watson
#64. It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that will change for a long time.
Steve Wozniak
#65. I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions,
Henry David Thoreau
#66. At some stage I'm going to have to say, 'Right, that's it. I'm stopping for a bit'.
Kate Winslet
#67. A wrong is just a wrong no matter who's doin' it or who it's done to. You know someone's doin' wrong and even if it has not one thing to do with you, you do what you can to right that wrong. You don't, you're no kind of person or, at least, no kind I'd wanna know.
Kristen Ashley
#68. You know its more than that. I know now that it was right that I didn't find my queen all these years. Waiting for you was worth everything that I thought I couldn't endure.
Melissa Marr
#69. Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.
John Cusack
#70. Immediately after his re-election [Cameron] announced: "For too long we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens so long as you obey the law we will leave you alone." A statement so far to the right that it conceded the political centre ground to Judge Dredd.
Frankie Boyle
#72. Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of ... recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it ...
William Gaddis
#73. The thing about sex is not that you're naked physically, but if you do it right, that you're naked emotionally.
Joy Browne
#74. She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not face up to the enemy in all his dark power, then the enemy will come up from behind some dark day and destoy you while you are facing the other way.
Frederick Buechner
#75. Once I start writing, I am a huge reviser. To me writing is revising. I probably turn over every sentence that I write, to see if I have the rhythm right. That's why my first drafts take a really long time.
Matt De La Pena
#76. The premise of 'The Originals' are places that have been open 50, 60, 75, 100 years or longer that are still doing it right that maybe a lot of people, particularly the younger generations, have not even thought about.
Emeril Lagasse
#77. I believe that each of us can make a difference. That what is wrong can be made right. That people possess the basic wisdom and goodness to govern themselves without conflict.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#78. Rieux was thinking it was only right that those whose desires are limited to man and his humble yet formidable love should enter, if only now and then, into their reward.
Albert Camus
#79. I really believe that anybody on the Left or the Right that tries to invoke the teachings of Jesus to say they should vote for this candidate or that candidate, I think they're stretching Scripture.
Jerry Falwell Jr.
#80. I'm used to being a supporting player in the background. All I ever wanted, at the very most, was to have a small part in something where people were like, 'Oh, right, that one guy, whoever he is, was pretty good in that.' That's all I ever really strived for or expected.
Robin Lord Taylor
#81. It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
Aristophanes
#82. To the wrongs that need resistance,
To the right that needs assistance,
To the future in the distance,
Give yourselves.
Carrie Chapman Catt
#83. Liberty is not something a government gives you. It is a right that no government can legally take away.
A.E. Samaan
#84. For some reason, this is the moment I know I'm gonna be all right; that the hurt might never fade, and my heart might always long for a stubborn cowboy with squinty eyes, but I'll make do. Sure as the sun will rise.
Erin Bowman
#85. I think voters want somebody who understands their problems. You're right that they don't expect the president to fix everything. When he's wrestling with Congress and Wall Street and the rest of the world, they hope he'll be looking at things from their vantage point.
Gail Collins
#86. Do you mind my madness? Even if you're right that I can contain the rages, I will always be mad. I won't get better." "I know." Beth snuggled against his chest. "It's part of the very intriguing package that is Ian Mackenzie.
Jennifer Ashley
#87. My main goal, and it's a big one, is that every child has a chance to get close to music - as a right - that as they have access to food, health, and education, they get the chance to have art and culture - especially music.
Gustavo Dudamel
#88. Right, that was awkward. Eve, you stay and ... , bake or something."
"The hell I will.
Rachel Caine
#89. It seems right that Mik should be awakened in the same way. That we should lose our magic virginity the same way. To creepy puppets, during snowstorms.
(Okay. That sounds so wrong. But you know what I mean.)
Laini Taylor
#90. The last time you were freaking the hell out due to anxiety and you were in the presence of someone else who told you, "Breathe. Just breathe," you probably felt like punching them in the face, right? That's because you suck at breathing. Let me teach you how to suck less. The
Robert Duff
#91. It is also right that we continue to consult with front line workers and the public to ensure that targets are reasonable and achievable, that measurement regimes are proportionate and that the targets take full account of the other reforms that are under way.
John Hutton
#92. The discussion of any subject is a right that you have brought into the world with your heart and tongue. Resign your heart's blood before you part with this inestimable privilege of man.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#93. Policymakers think that if they get the abstractions right, that will drive behavior in the desired direction. But the world happens in real time.
Sendhil Mullainathan
#94. Dharma is a sanskrit word. It simply means that which is right, that which is correct, that which is the divine law.
Frederick Lenz
#95. The PEOPLE being regarded as the essential part of the State, and FOOD as the people's heaven, is it not right that those in authority should value and be careful of both?]
Sun Tzu
#96. ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are. Is it possible she could be right? That Peeta could return to me? "I have to
Suzanne Collins
#97. Some people would rather be right that happy, I choose to be happy.
Catie Hartsfield
#98. I want to represent possibilities. I want to represent magic, right, that you're in a universe, and two plus two equals four.
Will Smith
#99. Despite some remaining puzzles, there's no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological relatives
Michael Behe
#100. Really, I want you to finish this book feeling like we could become friends, if the timing was right. That's it. Oh, and by the way, you should drink while you're reading this book. If you want to play a drinking game, I suggest you take a shot when you feel like I am abusing commas.
Alida Nugent
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