Top 100 Things Right Quotes
#1. The most staunchly determined are but quitters of the right things.
Wes Fesler
#2. In my view, the greatest threat to America's future isn't hiding in a cave in Pakistan or Afghanistan; it's right here at home. Baby boomers like myself are on course to become the first generation of Americans who leave things in worse shape than they found them.
David Walker
#3. I think one of the big issues with, you know, people who have strong faith in addition to competing is that conflict between accepting things the way they are, and wanting to compete and get better, and at what point are you in the right balance.
Tom Lehman
#4. Each time that we respond unmercifully, our malevolence reveals our lack of faith. If we believe that Jesus will set all things right in the end from his great white throne of judgment then we can be merciful and respond with mercy.
Jason Farley
#5. It's not unlike a marriage, the partnership. All the effort and good intentions in the world can't make things right if you choose poorly in the first place.
Cecilia Grant
#6. PSA98.1 O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory. PSA98.2 The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.
Anonymous
#7. Colin mustered a perfunctory leer, but his mind was obviously elsewhere. 'Do you know ... ' he began.
I knew many things, but I didn't think he needed to hear the entirety of the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales right at just this moment.
Lauren Willig
#8. I never took my SAT's. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that was the smart move or not, I'm sitting here talking to you now, so it paid off.
Scott Foley
#9. If we each get on a treadmill right now, one of two things is going to happen ... either you're going to get off first or I am going to die. Period.
Will Smith
#10. You think that because I want to do what's right, because I want to make things better, I'm weak," Claire said. "Or that I'm stupid. But I'm not. It takes a lot more strength to know how bad the world is and not want to be part of that, give in to it. And I do know, Kim. Believe me.
Rachel Caine
#11. I've written things about that, about how life's really big decisions aren't right or wrong, it's just that one lives different lives. No, I don't think your life went wrong.
Bernhard Schlink
#12. If you play your cards right things are going to happen in the long run. In the short run, it is anybody's guess.
Ron Livingston
#13. Romance is about putting things aright after some tragedy has put them asunder. It is about restoration of the right relations among things - and going home is where that restoration occurs because that is where it matters most.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#14. Don't worry about how bad things look right now. It's all going to fall into place. You'll see.
Melody Carlson
#15. Three things ruin a man," Harry would tell a reporter long afterward. "Power, money, and women. "I never wanted power," he said. "I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now." On
David McCullough
#16. You're the right colour for the Angel of Death, Mister Cale. But a little short.' 'I could cut your head off and stand on it. Then I'd be taller.
Paul Hoffman
#17. If things look right on the surface the underside is rarely questioned. However, things may be great in reality, but if one perceives them to be amiss, it is difficult to change that perception.
Aleatha Romig
#18. Wisdom is having things right in your life
and knowing why.
William Stafford
#19. There was a time when I just felt like a superwoman. I was like, 'I got Jesus! I ain't afraid!' But, the truth is, I want to do things right, and sometimes I am afraid that I'm not good enough or that I'm not going to handle something right.
Tasha Smith
#20. I've been going a long time now
along the way I've learned some things.
You have to make the good times yourself
take the little times and make them into big times
and save the times that are all right
for the ones that aren't so good.
Rod McKuen
#21. He had a talent for asking exactly the right questions to lead me to my own answers. Just being near him made things clearer.
K.D. Sarge
#22. Life is not about things we do or do not have to do; it's about doing what we should do, about doing the right thing.
Quinn Loftis
#23. The things that are happening to me are unbelievable. I'm actually busier right now than when I played football. This is almost like I'm coming back out of retirement. It will be fun to see myself in the game.
Jerry Rice
#24. It's all right. Things as they once were will never be again, but it's all right.
Janet Morris
#25. She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.
Jodi Picoult
#26. The people I knew, even the people I loved, did not always get things right, and they accumulated acts and omissions that lessened their sense of sureness.
Kadiatou Diallo
#27. You are to make your own way prosperous ... Even God cannot do it for you; you will have to do it yourself by doing the right things; taking right decisions, talking right, thinking right, being at the right place with the right-kind of people and by reading the right materials.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#28. The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.
Fran Lebowitz
#29. Each human being has the right to two blessings: getting things right and getting things wrong. In the latter case, there will always be a kind of apprenticeship that will lead him back to the right path.
Paulo Coelho
#30. Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
Pope Francis
#31. I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.
Patti Smith
#32. I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.
Karl Rove
#33. I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.
Brian Eno
#34. There was no question that in our house doing well, doing it the right way, school, sports - there was an expectation. One of the things I've taken away from that is that I'm unafraid to expect a fair amount from people. It makes them so much better - you're doing them a disservice if you don't.
James McNerney
#35. Here comes goodbye, here comes the last time
Here comes the start of every sleepless night
The first of every tear Im gonna cry
Here comes the pain, Here comes me wishing things had never changed
And she was right here in my arms tonight, but here comes goodbye
Rascal Flatts
#36. Just because we've always done things a certain way doesn't mean it's the right way.
Janice Hanna
#37. One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, noble and brave and wonderful, it is also, when you get right down to it, only human.
Terry Pratchett
#38. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future.
John Green
#39. You can extend your life tremendously by eating the right things. By eating right you can combat almost everything: disease, fatigue, over-work.
Fred Richmond
#40. Good girls earn good things." She let my jaw go, her eyes going beyond me toward Benny's house, then coming back to me. "Let yourself have good things." "It's not right," I told her quietly. "Know one thing on God's beautiful earth, and that is" - she leaned into me - "love is never wrong.
Kristen Ashley
#41. [A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#42. To get the right things done, choosing what to ignore is as important as choosing where to focus.
Peter Bregman
#43. If I can do things right, I don't see why everyone else can't.
Courtney Summers
#44. Maybe what you found is being used for another reason?" Z stopped. "Oh, yeah. Right. Because those things are multifunctional. Like Q-tips or some shit. Look, would you talk to her?
J.R. Ward
#45. We like things to manifest right away, and they may not. Many times, we're just planting a seed and we don't know exactly how it is going to come to fruition. It's hard for us to realize that what we see in front of us might not be the end of the story.
Sharon Salzberg
#46. There are some things you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.
Julie Bowe
#47. Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time
Tim Harford
#48. Nothing is ever quite right, is it, after a parent dies? No matter how well things go, something always feels slightly off ...
Jenna Blum
#49. It is not right to vex ourselves at things, for they care not about it.
Marcus Aurelius
#50. If it were possible to go back in a time machine and change the stupid things some of us did in grammar school and junior high, Soups old buddy, that gadget would be booked up right into the twenty-third century.
Stephen King
#51. It's not about being mad at everything. It's about being really mad at the right things.
Ice-T
#52. If I do enough different things in enough different ways, I may, eventually, do something right.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#53. We can't spend all day trying to get the performance exactly right and you just have to accept that and move on and accept the medium that you're working in and you know, there's a beauty in working under constraints and limitations. I think a lot of great things can come out of that.
Emily Deschanel
#54. The body is an amazing machine ... If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well!
Shawn Johnson
#55. We must not fall into the trap of waiting so long for the big things that we let numerous small chances slip right by us.
Ming-Dao Deng
#57. There's a saying in engineering: You can build things cheap, fast, or right, but not all three.
Temple Grandin
#58. There's not a man on Earth who doesn't wish he was me right now. Your mind and your body will never forget the things I'm going to do to you tonight. Every ... single ... inch of your body is going to feel me."
"Oh my God."
"Yes.
Gail McHugh
#59. There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.
Mario Cuomo
#60. To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway.
George Saunders
#61. If there was a birthday party or a gathering and I was at training and couldn't make it, then I guess I might have missed out on a few things, but I wouldn't see them as sacrifices because I love what I do so much. I feel I've made the right choices in the way I've lived my life.
Liam Tancock
#62. I decided I wanted to go to Cambridge, and then I got introduced to Fred Sanger. I was very conscientious, and I asked him when I first got there if I should start reading up on things. But he said, 'No, I think you can just start these experiments,' so I plunged right in.
Elizabeth Blackburn
#63. Learning to stop sweating the small stuff involves deciding what things to engage in and what things to ignore. From a certain perspective, life can be described as a series of mistakes, one right after another with a little space in between.
Richard Carlson
#64. What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.
George Bernard Shaw
#65. (In schools) There is an emphasis on doing things right rather on doing the right things.
Thomas J. Sergiovanni
#66. They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor.
Libba Bray
#67. The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.
George Lucas
#68. She talked too much, and evidently not in the right ways or about the right things.
Jessica Park
#69. There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#70. People are dying to tell you their secrets; it's just a matter of getting the conversation going in the right direction. If you just let people fill the silence, they will let you the most extraordinary things. I sometimes wonder if afterward they remember what they've said.
Charles McCarry
#71. Different things make me feel sexy. Sometimes it's just a manicure or when I buy some new underwear or just receiving a compliment from a guy on the street. But I think to feel sexy, you just need the right person next to you, who's going to complete you and make you feel even sexier.
Irina Shayk
#72. You'd be surprised how fast things happen when the right man comes along.
Danielle Steel
#73. Clean water and power is our right as humans on this earth, and for too long, our governments in Africa have failed to provide these things.
William Kamkwamba
#74. You've got to think about how to do things for the right price. You have to shoot in different places to be creative and get tax rebates.
Brett Ratner
#75. When things are not going right, there are satanic forces in
operation. What is my solution? To rebuke the condition of sin, death, disease, or
whatever it is. I can pray in the Holy Ghost, and that prayer is effectual to bring
down every stronghold of the enemy.
Smith Wigglesworth
#76. I know that I am not right about everything, and yet I am simultaneously convinced that I am. I believe these two things completely, and yet they are in catastrophic logical opposition to each other.
Will Storr
#77. True productivity is not first about efficiency - doing things right and doing them quickly - but effectiveness - doing the right things.
Matt Perman
#78. Personal sacrifices are really the beginning and the end of everything, because you don't win because you do one thing right or two things right. You win because you do 1,000 little things right throughout the year.
Susan Butcher
#79. No matter how extreme things get, it still has that ring of truth about it that backs the characters - even though they're despicable and what they're doing isn't right you still care for their fate.
Andy Serkis
#80. It's always been jewelry, clothes, appearance. Those are things that compete with the car. But the car is the ultimate. Get that car right and it doesn't matter what you got on or what you wear once you step out of that car.
Ice Cube
#81. We've accumulated a lot of things over the years and many things from our grandmother. Hopefully it'll be all right. I really don't want to cry, but I can't help it.
Dorothy Fields
#82. Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.
David Mitchell
#83. I did have wonderful things to draw from, from my own experience and also just from friends and people I'd gone to school with who were very much immersed in this world right now.
Lily Rabe
#84. Playing somebody who's real, you can bring all kind of nuances and things to him that you get from source material and things like that, but the more popular or known the person is, the more impossible it is. To get it right, that is the goal.
Anthony Mackie
#85. The trouble is that right now I want to put as much work into football as I can. It's very important for me to get off to a good start. By the same token, I feel a responsibility to handle the media and those sort of things.
Doug Flutie
#86. We're going to do the right thing for the company and our customers, all things considered.
Jamie Dimon
#87. Remember, do the things that you fucking believe in, alright? This is what it's all about right now. [MTV Awards 2005]
Green Day
#88. We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.
Tim Scott
#89. I realize that two years is not a long time. I realize that even ten years is not a long time. But when it seems insurmountable, I need reminders like this that you can get used to it. That it can take on the comfort of the right choice. That lasting things do, in fact, last.
David Levithan
#90. No matter the challenges we face in life, there is always a guardian angel watching over us and will make things right at the appointed time.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#91. The perseverance in this world, despite it all, of things done right.
Ben H. Winters
#92. The most important thing in life will always be family. The people right here, right now.
Vin Diesel
#93. At the back of my mind there is always a fear the depression could return but I do all the right things. I try to get the right amount of sleep because I know that I need sleep to function and I need to eat properly and to do some exercising.
Melanie Chisholm
#94. Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.
Buddy Guy
#95. Just because an employee does things differently doesn't mean he or she won't do the job right or as well. If you establish expectations of the goal and the standards to follow, then methodology shouldn't be an issue.
Harvey MacKay
#96. I know. I don't know what I can do to make things better right now.
Liv Brywood
#97. Eating cherries on a hot July afternoon in Michigan is one of the greatest things that can happen to anybody, and here it is right now - three minutes after three - happening to ME, and to you.
William, Saroyan
#98. I get lost in my right brain, especially in creative things.
Jeff Ament
#99. I need to put the right things in my body before and after I work out, so I end every workout with some sort of protein shake to help me get the most out of my training.
Sam Bradford
#100. Amelia, this changes things, right? You don't have to run from me. I can help. Whatever is happening, I can help.
Stormy Smith
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