Sometimes Being Right Quotes

#1. Vindication and horror. Sometimes being right isn't all it's cracked up to be: how

Peter Heller

#2. Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page.

Eudora Welty

#3. Onlookers frequently confuse edge with style ... Edge means generating excess returns because of mispricing. Style suggests being in the right place at the right time. Sometimes edge and style overlap, sometimes they don't.

Michael Mauboussin

#4. No amount of hatred can prevent an enemy from being right sometimes.

Wes Fesler

#5. Sometimes I wish Darth Vader had been my father. I'd have been better off. I wouldn't have a right hand, but I definitely wouldn't have the burden of being black and constantly having to decide when and if I gave a shit about it. Plus, I'm left-handed.

Paul Beatty

#6. It's possible for an editor to break down a dream, if you like, into its components and being able to shoot the wide shots in sunshine, when the weather was at its best and you know, we would get sort of almost a 3D effect sometimes if you chose the right time of day to shoot the thing.

John Glen

#7. In life, you have to keep certain parts of yourself in check because you want to be a decent human being. But one of the guilty pleasures of acting is that sometimes you get to let a little something out that you don't in life because it's not right.

Paul Dano

#8. Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#9. Sometimes you choose the wrong actor, he could be the best actor ever, but hes not cast in the right part then it doesnt work.

Sophie Marceau

#10. Sometimes you have an idea that is so simple that you can't see how it can fail. But in learning, being right is not always the quickest way to success

Donald Clark

#11. He held Saraid the rest of the way home, and in a way she held him right back, because sometimes and especially for a man, being able to be someone's big strong shoulder to cry on helps you not need to cry so very much yourself.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#12. 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

#13. Sometimes, he thought wryly, a reputation for being right all the time could be a heavy burden.

John Flanagan

#14. Sometimes Ronan thought Adam was so used to the right way being painful that he doubted any path that didn't come with agony.

Maggie Stiefvater

#15. If Cam finally learned one lesson before she died, it would be that being kind was sometimes more important than being right.

Wendy Wunder

#16. Sometimes being hotheaded and doing it your own way and walking out on all the hot shit might be the right thing to do.

Porochista Khakpour

#17. Sometimes it's easy to see the negative side of things or question why people bully you. You could think, 'Maybe they're right. Maybe I'm not worth it. Maybe I should just quit.' But that's when you should fight the hardest. Now I don't mean fight physically, but mentally. Keep being you.

Raini Rodriguez

#18. Sometimes being a leader isn't about winning. Sometimes it's about doing what's right, instead of what's powerful.

James Patterson

#19. Sometimes, you feel like being watched from behind by someone.
When you turned, it's just nothing, nobody, none,
or only someone who's daydreaming and staring right through you.

Toba Beta

#20. Father Brown: ... one can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place

G.K. Chesterton

#21. The hardest thing about being a parent is watching your kids make mistakes. Our instinct is to protect you. But you're right, Deenie. Sometimes we have to step aside and let you make them anyway. The best we can do is be there when you mess up.

Lisi Harrison

#22. Being defiant can be a good thing sometimes," Aunty Ifeoma said. "Defiance is like marijuana - it is not a bad thing when it is used right.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#23. The human MIND seems to work best in the presence of reality. The brain that contains the problem probably also contains the solution. IF the conditions are right, the huge intelligence of the human being surfaces. IDEAS seem to come from nowhere & sometimes STUN US.

Nancy Kline

#24. Sometimes we gotta be brave even when we're scared. We gotta not let being scared keep us from thinkin' straight. That's all brave is, boy, when you come right down to it, not lettin' the fear get you so turned around you start doin' stupid things, instead of what you know you ought to do.

Poppy Z. Brite

#25. Sometimes it takes being at your lowest point to see who's really there for you. And they're all standing right beside me now. The

A. Zavarelli

#26. I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.

Tanith Lee

#27. People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.

Jodi Picoult

#28. There is a way of being wrong which is also sometimes necessarily right.

Edward Abbey

#29. The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy to heart, and that sometimes means being unpopular. But we have to do the right thing.

Ben Bernanke

#30. Maybe sometimes the only right choice is the wrong one, and what it really comes down to is being brave enough to make it.

Shannon Messenger

#31. there are times when no one is right, and sometimes among family and children, no one can admit that there is no right, and that maybe at the same time there is no wrong. But in this case I was wrong and I appreciate Vivian Baxter for being big enough to accept my apology.

Maya Angelou

#32. You may sometimes be much in the Wrong, in owning your being in the Right.

Benjamin Franklin

#33. I'm very comfortable being right," she admitted.

"We all are. But sometimes it's a lonely place.

Susan Mallery

#34. You can be affected by a person because of something particular they said or did but sometimes how a person was, a manner of being, that gets most deeply absorbed, and prompts you to revisit certain parts of your life with an enhanced perspective, flowing forward right up to now.

Chang-rae Lee

#35. Sometimes being a friend is enough in its own right to inspire someone on to victory.

Stephen Richards

#36. Sometimes I hated it when I was right, but I always hated it when someone else was. Especially when their being right made me wrong. I'm irrational that way. It's something I'm working on.

Lisa Shearin

#37. Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life.

Emma Stone

#38. He wasn't the least bit disturbed that his intuition was wrong: intuition often missed, sometimes spectacularly, but when it connected it saved so much time that the spirit leaped forward ... and, of course, there was no use denying the basic human delight in being right the first time.

Jim Dodge

#39. Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.

Sharon Salzberg

#40. We're going to be okay.
Here's the thing about being a spy: sometimes all you have are your lies. They protect your cover and keep your secrets, and right then I needed to believe that it was true even when all the facts said otherwise.

Ally Carter

#41. Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want.

Ryan Gosling

#42. Sometimes I really hate being right.

R.L. LaFevers

#43. Preaching styles and people being slain in the spirit and things like that. Now it doesn't happen in all black churches, and it happens sometimes in white churches, right? But on average they're quite a bit different.

Michael Emerson

#44. Courage doesn't mean never being afraid. We're all afraid sometimes. Bravery means doing the right thing anyway. That's true strength.

Gwenda Bond

#45. I love to dance!" she said cheerfully.
"Sometimes I think the whole world should be put to music and choreographed!"
"This being the Nightside, someone somewhere is undoubtedly working on that very thing, right now.

Simon R. Green

#46. I think sometimes that people think brave means not being afraid, which of course it doesn't mean that at all. It means that you're afraid, but you move past that and do it anyway, do what you think is right.

Craig Ferguson

#47. Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.

Herb Ritts

#48. There is a horror that sometimes comes with being right.

Samantha

#49. Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I think, How funny, this is what being alive is.

Robin Morgan

#50. Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

Charles Bukowski