Was Right Quotes

#1. Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.

A.J.P. Taylor

#2. My grandfather ... saw where inherited wealth ruined people. And my grandfather was right.

Dan Quayle

#3. I wondered if this wasn't a case of making the ideal an enemy of the good, but Salatin was convinced that industrial organic was finally a contradiction in terms. I decided I had to find out if he was right.

Michael Pollan

#4. 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

#5. Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.

Harper Lee

#6. I'd be happy to do Star Trek again, if the writing was right.

Stephen Collins

#7. Oh so i was right last night then. Unlike me, she has your love.

Samantha Young

#8. So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all.

Steve Forbert

#9. When I went to school, it was right after the '60s and before this general wave of practical purposefulness had set in ... The idealistic wind of the '60s was still at our backs, though, and most of the people I know who are my age have that engrained in them forever.

Steve Jobs

#10. He never thought he was right. The horror of all that had died under his will had become mundane to him. You see, the first horror is the horror itself. The real horror for him was accepting it as necessary.

Thomm Quackenbush

#11. I was right --skirts are inventions meant to make running harder.

Sara Raasch

#12. I wanted to be a comedian. I wanted to meet waitresses and felt that being a comedian was my best way to go about it and I was right.

Dana Gould

#13. Ah, if I could only feel assured that it was right and not a blind impulse of a weak woman's heart!'" ~Rosamond

Louisa May Alcott

#14. Does history record any case in which the majority was right?

Robert A. Heinlein

#15. ... I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

Edmund Morris

#16. Pessoa talked about there being no escape," the bear said. "He was right.

Tao Lin

#17. Your-no-our free will gives us choices and because we're not perfect, it's not always clear which choice is the right one ... So yes, we can be wrong. Yes the world's a messy place. But a world in which we always knew what was right and had no choice but to do it, that would be a world of puppets.

Emil Ostrovski

#18. After Cannes, my agent told me to get the next flight to LA. He was right. I had a part in 'Prime Suspect 3' by the end of the week.

David Thewlis

#19. She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause. My back was to him, but there was a strange quality to his voice that made me turn around.
"What's that?" I asked.
"That I do still love you."
With that one sentence, everything in the universe changed.

Richelle Mead

#20. Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#21. 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

#22. He saw Krampus grinning at him and knew then that the Yule Lord was right, he could no more quit music than breathing, and while he needed air to live, he needed music to truly be alive.

Brom

#23. But he still thought it self-evident that one had to do what was right; he had never learned how people could want to do otherwise; he had learned only that they did.

Ayn Rand

#24. There was no sound but that of his shoes and the now senseless singing of birds. Once I thought they sang because everything was right with the world, Robert Neville thought. I know now I was wrong. They sing because they're feeble minded.

Richard Matheson

#25. I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right.

David R. Ellis

#26. Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species

Edward O. Wilson

#27. Lonnie was ahead of his time, but at the same time he was right in there with Albert Collins's Cool Sounds.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

#28. He did not look at Mrs Weasley. He had been touched by what she had said about his being as good as a son, but he was also impatient with her mollycoddling. Sirius was right, he was not a child.

J.K. Rowling

#29. I was going to look like one of the sweet little white girls who were everybody's dream of what was right with the world.

Maya Angelou

#30. The Boston Transcript once printed this bit of significant doggerel: Here lies the body of William Jay, Who died maintaining his right of way - He was right, dead right, as he sped along, But he's just as dead as if he were wrong. You

Dale Carnegie

#31. Everyone was right about you- prove them wrong.

Daniel Handler

#32. 8:30pm, Exquisite I've got the peaches, you bring the cream. Holy shit was right.

Ella Frank

#33. During the Indian Wars, "Everyone was right, everyone was wrong and everyone got hurt.

Julia Robb

#34. Wasnt it more important to be loyal to what was right or to those people you knew and cared about? What was the good of killing people or being hateful to them because someone you didn't know was doing something hateful to someone ekse you didn't know?

Janet Lunn

#35. It didn't help that she was right; when had that ever made anything better?

Jennifer E. Smith

#36. Life worked in such a way that right was not necessarily right, but rather what the person in charge said was right.

Jonas Jonasson

#37. 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

#38. When late I attempted your pity to move,
Why seemed you so deaf to my prayers?
Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love
But-why did you kick me downstairs?

John Philip Kemble

#39. I spent a lifetime giving my power away, assuming that everybody knew better what was right for me than me. And then there comes a point in your life you go, Oh, wait a second! There's an a-ha moment when you realize that the only person that can delegate your future is you.

Mariel Hemingway

#40. Magnus wondered how long Alec was envisioning it would be until they found the baby a home. Alec must think that it would take a while, and Magnus feared Alec was right.

Cassandra Clare

#41. another climax building. Cody's groan alerted her he was right there with her. They came together. She gazed up at him, his back arched, his

Morgan Hannah MacDonald

#42. Sarte was right, Hell is other people

Tana French

#43. He tasted passion. He tasted emotion. He tasted a world he'd never imagined, one he could never enter. It was right there in front of him, suddenly open to him. Unexpected. Exciting. Scary.

Christine Feehan

#44. But home wasn't a place, she was coming to realize. Home was family. Home was right here, right now. With these God-given people.

Laura Frantz

#45. I was born on the 5th April 1942. On Good Friday. Round about crucifixion time. Archbishop Ussher, a man for dates, who calculated that the world began on September 27th 4004 BC, says the crucifixion took place at three o'clock in the afternoon on Good Friday in the year 33 AD. I was right on time.

Peter Greenaway

#46. Erin was right. Apologies could come too late.

Tammara Webber

#47. A part of me does not want to think that I always knew something was wrong.=. This is probably the same part that didn't look at the evidence that was right before my eyes, and even though I know this, it does not stop me from defending the fairy tale.

Carrie Jones

#48. Freddie often fold me that you've got to be happy when you can, because life won't wait for you to take the time. And she was right.

April Genevieve Tucholke

#49. He was right, she wanted this just as much as he did. He knew it before she was ready to admit it. There was no more denying her feelings inside, she wanted him in every way she could possibly get him.

T.N. Williams

#50. I've done my part, played my hand, even thrown in my cards when I had to. I've bet what I didn't have and bluffed until I had it. Link once said: Ridley Duchannes is always playing a game. I never told him, but he was right.

Kami Garcia

#51. If Vorbis was right, and there was a kind of light that made darkness visible, then down there was its opposite, the darkness where no light could ever reach: darkness that blackened light, He thought of blind Didactylos and his empty lantern.

Terry Pratchett

#52. We've come a long way from having one land line that was forbidden to be answered during dinner. We had no answering machine, just a dad who barked, 'Who calls during dinner? If it's important, they'll call back.' He was right.

Regina Brett

#53. Plutarch was right after all. Fate did lead those who were willing to be led, and those who resisted the idea, like himself, were dragged forcefully instead.

Elif Shafak

#54. A professor I had in college used to tell me that if someone won't listen to what you have to say because you're not wearing a tie, then put on a tie, 'cause what you have to say is more important than not wearing a tie. He was right.

Joe McNally

#55. Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.

Richard Dawkins

#56. She knew what he was thinking: if she was asking questions like these, she was trying to understand. Trying to forgive him. He was right.

Chris Pavone

#57. My respect for the law was diminishing with every exchange. Dickens was right. The law is an ass, and I was starting to think that people are asses as well.

Wendy Buonaventura

#58. He's thought he was willing to do anything in order to get what he wanted, what was right for his kind. He'd been certain any sacrifice was possible.
He'd been wrong.

Linda Howard

#59. Instead, he reflected on what she'd said earlier, about their similarities, thinking she was right and hoping that it was enough to keep her coming back to the ranch. After a while their conversation lapsed into a peaceful lull, and he realized he had no

Nicholas Sparks

#60. You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground.

Della Reese

#61. The British were keen for 30 caliber guns, did not believe in daylight bombing. American experts said 30 caliber was not enough; we had to have 50 caliber, also said daylight bombing was right provided the planes attacked in formation, with 50 caliber guns.

Stuart Symington

#62. I was right, I knew I was, but it won't do me any good to say it. I enjoy my victory silently; I take pleasure in it almost as much as in his touch.

Paula Hawkins

#63. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth's centre.

George Orwell

#64. I have never been sorry when I stood for what was right-even against severe criticism.

Richard G. Scott

#65. I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Tony Blair

#66. Damn it, Emily. I'm responsible for your safety." "Then wear a condom!" "Jesus," he said, breathing out hard. "I was right before. You definitely have multiple personalities." My eyes narrowed. "Yeah, well maybe I do, and none of them like you!

Alison Bliss

#67. Say that he was right about how bad it was in the Soviet Union, but he just didn't understand the nice materialism of the West. Say that the Soviet Union was bad because the people were deprived of meaningless creature comforts, and that the West is good because the people are flooded with them.

Anthony Esolen

#68. Jake was right - I'm strong in a way June never was. Because I know that I want to be here. Even with the pain. Even with the ugliness.

Hannah Harrington

#69. Shaw once remarked: "If you teach a man anything, he will never learn." Shaw was right. Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.

Dale Carnegie

#70. I grew up missing my mom while she was right in front of me.

Maggie Young

#71. An ordinary fellow, who did not spend half his life torturing himself by trying to discover what was right so as to conquer his inclination towards what was wrong, might have cut the knot which brought their ruin.

T.H. White

#72. My brother was right about one thing: I didn't really know how to be bad

Jenn Bennett

#73. There was a time when man stood strong, right was right and wrong was wrong.

Ted Nugent

#74. Like most of the connections that explain the pain in our hearts, he couldn't bring it to mind. He couldn't see the truth because it was too big and it was right in front of him.

Keith Ablow

#75. It was right then, in that instant, that I realized I might be a little in love with Aiden. Not in a way that was anything like the easy crush I had on him in the past, but different. So, so different.

Mariana Zapata

#76. I wondered whether the life that was right for one was ever right for two! I

Willa Cather

#77. When assumptions were made that I was going to bail out there was a little part of my brain that thought 'I am going to do to prove them wrong'. In the end that wouldn't be coming from my heart and doing what was right.

Craig Stevens

#78. I had the opportunity to go with some other teams. But I didn't consider those teams to be contenders, and I was right.

Pedro Martinez

#79. Hans Christian Andersen said 'Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.' Maybe he was right, maybe not. Either way, just remember: enchanting as they may be, in fairytales the forests are always dark.

Greg F. Gifune

#80. He was right. My ruthless, murdering blood brother had been right all along.

Julie Kagawa

#81. If you look back at President Bush, nobody agreed with his policies, but you understood that he was doing things that he believed was right.

Martin Heinrich

#82. She didn't like the way he was right. How she listened. She wondered if there was any difference between how she listened to him and how Arin listened to his god.

Marie Rutkoski

#83. It's not who was right or who was wrong when a mistake was made. It's about who learned from it.

Robert Kiyosaki

#84. My mother would take the Band-Aid off, clean the wound, and say, "Things that are covered don't heal well." Mother was right. Things that are covered do not heal well.

T.D. Jakes

#85. I always try to tell the story the best possible way. I create the mood for each scene in a way that the audience feels that they are right there with me and they feel actually in the mood that was right for the scene.

Vilmos Zsigmond

#86. Can you really cook meth in a hotel coffeepot?" - Cassel
"Sure," Jones says, looking into his cup thoughtfully.
Guess Mom was right about one thing.

Holly Black

#87. I am right. I'm always right. One time I thought I was wrong, I found out I was right.

Jerry Lee Lewis

#88. He'd been raised to give women what they wanted. 'You can fight,' his father told him. 'You can bitch. If you're a real prick, you can overpower. But the pain over the long haul ... just not worth it, son. Surrender young and happily with fewer scars.' The old man was right about that.

Lisa Unger

#89. My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it cost her dearly. Late in her life, she was furious that she had not followed her own heart; she thought that it had ruined her life, and I think she was right.

Ruth Reichl

#90. I am her heartbreak at night.
I am her tears come the dawn.
I am her all that was right,
now turned horrible wrong.
I took her happy away,
replaced with an ache so strong.
I made her regret the day
she played me her favorite song.

Kirk Diedrich

#91. I want to be his love slave. An image of me in a black corset wearing a collar with a leash attached to it pops into my head. Maybe stupid Lydia was right to cut the smut from the book club for a while.

Helena Hunting

#92. But if Smith was right, and gold and silver became money through the natural workings of the market completely independently of governments, then wouldn't the obvious thing be to just grab control of the gold and silver mines?

David Graeber

#93. When I was young, a teen, fresh as a glass of water, my first lover said I should break the mirror and never seek on out again. He was right, of course.

Chloe Thurlow

#94. Her self-respect had suffered a head-on collision with love, a clash that generally only ends one way. Love does not fight fair. In that moment her pride, the gut knowledge that she was right, even her sense of who she was, meant nothing, faced as she was with the prospect of being unloved. Faith

Frances Hardinge

#95. Ridley Scott was part of the production team on 'The Good Wife.' I auditioned on my iPhone, and it moved very quickly after that, as they thought I was right for the role, and pretty soon I was filming in Iceland for two months.

Mike Colter

#96. God wasn't powerful because he was right. He was right because he was powerful.

Genevieve

#97. I do not think my painting has ever been revolutionary. It was not directed against any kind of painting. I have never wanted to prove that I was right and someone else wrong ...

Georges Braque

#98. What was happening to him? - he wondered. The impossible conflict of feeling reluctance to do that which was right - wasn't it the basic formula of moral corruption? To recognize one's guilt, yet feel nothing but the coldest, most profound indifference.

Ayn Rand

#99. There was no bang, no light at the end of a tunnel. I didn't feel pain or even numb, and Sirius was right, it was quicker and easier than falling asleep

Daniel Xiao Wang

#100. But I'd also learned that the self might want one thing, but that didn't mean it was right.

Sherwood Smith