Top 100 Word Right Quotes
#1. His English was exceptional. There was a glottal sound in his voice, but it was not harsh. I'd often asked him to help me with my sparse Arabic, trying to get my pronunciation of this or that word right. "Shukran." "Afwan." "Qumbula." Thank you. You're welcome. Bomb.
Kevin Powers
#2. Pal, if you ever look up the word right in a dictionary, you'll find it's one of the oldest words in the English language. Even so, people have never stopped arguing about what it means. I suspect they always will.
Avi
#3. I have to use the word 'insurgent' because I can't think of a better word right now.
Peter Pace
#4. Do I need any more proof? Strange. Little. Man. Officially proven." "You got one word right. I'm definitely a man. I'm all man, baby.
James Dashner
#5. The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' from the language of philosophy.
Auguste Comte
#6. Seconds ebb and wane. She's not afraid of her voice anymore, but she's not entirely sure she trusts it. She's seen the damage caused with a single word. Right now, each one is a weapon, a conduit of war, and she won't just throw them out there all willy-nilly.
Laura Kreitzer
#7. But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the premise to an unqualified one in the conclusion. Most rights are qualified.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#8. And God help them both, if it hadn't been for Saxton, Qhuinn would have dropped the l-word right then and there, even though the timing was stupid.
J.R. Ward
#9. Pathetic, huh?" He learned that word
from me.
"Yeah. It's like the opposite of a fish,
right?
Hannah Moskowitz
#10. PUBLISHER'S NOTE To seize the knowledge of the UNKNOWABLE needs a language, which is at once symbolically creative, revealingly poetic, infinitely plastic, luminously rhythmic, automatic perception of right relations and their inevitable descent of truth of idea, word and action.
Maa Krishna Sri Aurobindo
#11. I wanted to talk," he said.
"I don't want to talk," said Jared. "And I won't want to talk. Ever."
"Can we just - "
"Talk?" Jared asked. "All right, if you insist. Let's talk about the many definitions of the word no.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#12. Right now, I feel like I can take on the world. Ambition is the perfect word for where I am in my life right now.
Jordin Sparks
#13. Newman cast a despairing glance at his small store of fuel, but, not having the courage to say no-a word which in all his life he never had said at the right time, either to himself or anyone else-gave way to the proposed arrangement.
Charles Dickens
#14. I miss you so much. Maybe if I say your name over and over again, it will eventually feel wrong to me. Like a word you write too many times suddenly doesn't look right anymore. I will try that.
Kate McGahan
#15. I spent most of my career in business not saying the word 'woman.' Because if you say the word 'woman' in a business context, and often in a political context, the person on the other side of the table thinks you're about to sue them or ask for special treatment, right?
Sheryl Sandberg
#16. Just Keep Writing! Who cares if it's a Saturday, or if you left your laptop at home, or if you're around people? Just write one word, one line, jot down one idea. No matter how little you write, it's movement in the right direction. Forward. Toward completion.
Tammy Ferebee
#17. While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way that sustains rather than exploits the rest of creation.
Rachel Held Evans
#18. I need to know how many men ... " I glanced at the door. "How many men Brant has ... " I tried to find the right word to use in this public setting. " ... been in contact with. If Lee is the only one. What the possibilities are for more.
Alessandra Torre
#19. Shakespeare used the word 'flush' to indicate plenty of money. Well, just remember there was only one Shakespeare, and he was the only one that had a right to use that word in that sense . You'll never be a Shakespeare, there will never be such another - Nature exhausted herself in producing him.
Joseph Devlin
#20. Words move, turning over like tumbling clowns; like certain books and like fleas, they possess activity. All men equally have the right to say, 'This word shall bear this meaning,' and see if they can get it across. It is a sporting game, which all can play, only all cannot win.
Rose Macaulay
#21. He swallowed again and tightened his grip so even if she wanted to leave, she couldn't. It astonished him how difficult it was to find the one word he needed after these exquisite days. The one word he had no right to say.
He forced the forbidden syllable from his tight throat.
Stay.
Anna Campbell
#22. Nick came right up into Becca's space and, without a word, buried his hands in her hair and his tongue in her mouth. It was the kind of kiss that could change a woman's life.
Laura Kaye
#23. You hear younger women say, 'I don't believe I'm a feminist. I believe women should have equal right and I believe in fighting for the rights of other women, but I'm certainly not a feminist. No, no, not that!' It's just a word. If you called it 'Fred' would it be better?
Gail Collins
#24. They were as different as honesty and truth, but it takes experience to see the dissimilarities. Rocky was friendly, outgoing and boisterous; Charger was sullen, withdrawn and paranoid. Rocky liked people; Charger didn't. Rocky could trust; Charger didn't know the meaning of the word.
Joel M. McMains
#25. So Jane was getting married. Well, more power to her. In fact, let me tighten those straps. Any word from the governor on the pardon? No? All right, then, more power to her.
James Lileks
#26. I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word.
Griffin Dunne
#27. Which was better: being alive (if that was the right word) but not remembering anything, or being dead?
Laurie Halse Anderson
#28. Because he's just so, so," Peter paused looking for the right word, "so French!
Jack Lewis Baillot
#29. The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn't take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story.
John Rhys-Davies
#30. We created man - We know the promptings of his soul, and are closer to him than his jugular vein - 17 and the two recording angels are recording, sitting on the right and the left: 18 each word he utters shall be noted down by a vigilant guardian.b
Anonymous
#31. Garahel always used to say that heroism was just another word for horror, and maybe a worse one. A hero always feels that he has to do what's right. Sometimes that leads to tormenting himself with doubt long after the deed is done.
Liane Merciel
#32. I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word.
Plato
#33. I have a 2-year-old son, and I know I'm dealing with a big, grand word when I can't point to the thing when I define it. Right? If he wants to know what a chair is, I can point to the chair. If he wants to know what religion is, I can't point to anything in particular. The same is true of the state.
Noah Feldman
#34. All these questions about do you want to be king? It's not a question of wanting to be, it's something I was born into and it's my duty ... Wanting is not the right word. But those stories about me not wanting to be king are all wrong.
Prince William
#35. ( ... ) before they actually admit to the big 'L' word. Love or lust - what's the big, damn deal? You're going to fuck either way, right?
C.M. Stunich
#36. God sends people into our lives just when we need them, to say the right word, His word, just when we need it.
W. A. Criswell
#37. One simple word: ugh. Is something still considered a conspiracy if it's played out right under our noses?
Moby
#38. Let me just say this right now, in case there's any confusion in 2016: If you're a white person and you have references on standby to verify that you're allowed to say the N-word, you are probably the last person on planet Earth who should be saying nigga.
Phoebe Robinson
#39. As for those whose role it is to love us - I mean, relatives and in-laws (what a word)- It's a different tune. They find the right word, but it's usually the one that wounds.
Albert Camus
#40. There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just makes the job so much - maybe 'easier' isn't the right word, but because you know your boundaries, you can just play within those boundaries much more, so it's much more fun to do.
Samantha Harvey
#41. I understood the word 'swoon'. It felt that way, like 'sweep' and 'moon' and 'woo', all those words smashed together in one word that stood for that feeling, right then.
Judy Blundell
#42. An avalanche starts with one pebble. A forest with one seed. And it takes one word to make the whole world stop and listen. All you need is the right one.
Jay Kristoff
#43. seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins
Robert Louis Stevenson
#44. In your promises cleave to what is right, And you will be able to fulfill your word.
Confucius
#45. I love you. Still not the right word, but i know you want to hear it.
Sylvia Day
#46. The word love doesn't count when the word ya comes right after it.
Tommy Greenwald
#47. I was just sitting on my bed in a dormitory room, and I started writing. The thing that was magic about it was that once you put down one word, you could cross it out. I figured that out right away. I put down 'mountain,' and then I'd go, 'No - 'valley.' That's better.'
James Tate
#48. I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled.
Josh Billings
#49. And you're worried, not because you're headed to meet a houseful of vampires, but because you think those vampires won't approve of you, correct?"
"That's right," I answered immediately, hiding my surprise at his casual use of the word.
He shook his head. "You're incredible.
Stephenie Meyer
#50. I think the gay community should get smart and drop the word 'marriage.' Do you really need to change every right-wing Christian to make sure you get your equal rights? Eyes on the prize, we should be sticking to getting equal rights.
Ani DiFranco
#51. I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.
Neil Gaiman
#52. I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
A.E. Housman
#53. Each word I write brings me closer to finding the right ones.
Ally Condie
#54. It's rude to not try and look up-to-date. Is rude the right word? Yes! It's rude - rude to other people.
Nicholas Haslam
#55. Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions of moral behaviour and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society.
Daniel Barenboim
#56. Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.
Gabrielle Zevin
#57. If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
#58. That's the one thing about here, the South, you've missed. You'd be amazed if you knew how many people are on your side, if side's the right word. You're no special case. The woods are full of people like you, but we need some more of you. She
Harper Lee
#59. Understand is not the word; you are right, you can never really 'understand' about someone, anyone, even yourself. It is best to believe in them as human; feel that they are alive like you and need warmth, concern.
Rudy Wiebe
#60. A slightly uncommon condition of the some-long-word. Nothing at all serious, but it just needs putting right. A simple treatment.
Agatha Christie
#61. I think one of the best things you can do is write really sad songs that touch some semblance of ... I guess 'hope' is the right word?
Eric Bachmann
#62. We could say that the word mindfulness is pointing to being one with our experience, not dissociating, being right there when our hand touches the doorknob or the telephone rings or feelings of all kinds arise. The
Pema Chodron
#63. Plan your thoughts, think word-induced thoughts for a man is what he thinks ... think right
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#64. Say the word and I'll go," I whispered in a broken voice, my watering eyes locked on his furious ones. "Say the word and I'll fade away, and this, right here, will be the last time you see me.
Julie Johnson
#65. When we've all finished talking, there's something that never utters a word, but goes right down through the earth, plumb to the centre.
Aleister Crowley
#66. Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go.
Joan Didion
#67. Conscience tells us that we ought to do right, but it does not tell us what right is - that we are taught by God's word.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#68. It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him. We must not use the Bible as a sort of encyclopedia out of which texts can be taken for use as weapons.
C.S. Lewis
#69. I guess "rut" isn't the right word. A rut is something you subconsciously want to get out of. The thing is, when I admitted it to myself, I was happy. Happy happy happy. And that's a good thing.
Sean Kennedy
#71. Image is everything. You don't spare any expense to create the right image. And word of mouth is critical. Once you get a good reputation, momentum will carry you.
Haruki Murakami
#72. The Church should be the place where a word reverberates right into the world.
Karl Barth
#74. This is a Possible Letter. Until the last second, when I write your name beside that word "Dear," all
those sheets and months ago, this is a Possible Letter, pregnant with potentiality. I am very powerful
right now. I am all ready to mine the possibilities, make one of them fact.
China Mieville
#75. Dennis faced him. They glared at each other again. Neither said a word until Dennis set the glasses down, leaned back against the counter, and folded his arms over his chest. "You're an idiot." "Seems to be a common conclusion. You're not my favourite person right now either.
Sloan Parker
#76. I read in your Word that the very best kind of pleasure is delighting in doing what you want. Your way is right and good and it brings life. You are pleased when I follow it, because you want the best for me.
Amy E. Mason
#77. Dan's voice was rough and low as he murmured against Vadim's lips. 'I hate you, Russkie.' No. He didn't, but he couldn't find the right word for this. This feeling. Hatred was the closest he could get. The alternative was still unthinkable.
Aleksandr Voinov
#78. Insane was probably the right word, but Clawdeen preferred determined.
Lisi Harrison
#79. But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.
Patrick O'Brian
#80. Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.
Franz Kafka
#81. Superstitious." What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology or Friday the thirteenth it was superstition! Who had the right to call other people's belief superstition?
Jostein Gaarder
#82. Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.
Karel Capek
#83. Don't look so stiff and concerned, bucko. Word from the wise, sometimes there's no better place to hide than in the open, and no better way to disappear than to stand out."
"That doesn't make any sense."
"Sure it does. Hogan wrote it years and years ago - you do know who Hogan is right?
Gillian Bronte Adams
#84. Didn't you hear a word I said to you the entire time we were together? You're my whole world Layla. You hold my universe in your hand and no matter where I go, who I'm with or what I'm doing, you are right there with me. Here.
Marie Coulson
#86. Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.
Neil Gaiman
#87. There is a pause, while she turns the great pages of her volume of rage, and puts her finger on just the right word.
Hilary Mantel
#88. If your neighbors talk about you, and you think that they do wrong in speaking evil of you, do not let them know that your ever heard a word, and conduct yourselves as if they always did right, and it will mortify them, and they will say, "We'll not try this game any longer."
Brigham Young
#89. It's why we oppose Citizens United from that right-wing Supreme Court. In 2012, I also said the Tea Party "acted like terrorists" and called a donut shop manager in Milwaukee who wanted lower taxes a "smartass." And I said the number one issue is a three-letter word, J-O-B-S." I'm proud of who I am.
Joe Biden
#90. He looked at the white pills in his hand. 'Astin', Eddie called it. No, that wasn't quite right, but Roland couldn't pronounce the word as the prisoner had said it. Medicine was what it came down to. Medicine from that other world.
Stephen King
#91. Sometimes
a word is found so right it trembles
at the slightest explanation.
Rita Dove
#92. I found I'm quite happy working on a sentence for an hour or more, searching for the right phrase, the right word. I compare it to the work of a stone cutter - chipping away at the raw material until it's just right, or as right as you can get it.
Harriet Doerr
#93. Writers are the people who are most awkward with words. Their whole life revolves around one right word.
Saket Suryesh
#94. I can't even think of the right word, but it's not "help." It's more like a prerequisite. I think connection is why we're here, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and belonging is in our DNA. And so "tribe" and "belonging" are irreducible needs, like love.
Brene Brown
#95. A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory ... dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it.
Rumer Godden
#96. I wot well you are more more godly in such-like things that I can ever be - yet, Kristin, 'tis hard for me to see how it should be a right reading of God's word to go on, as your way is, ever storing up wrath and never forgetting.
Sigrid Undset
#97. A Short Southern Screw? So I was right. You're craving something south ot the Mason-Dixon Line."
He moved closer, crowding her even though there was still a good twelve inches between them.
"I can assure you, though, I'm a man who isn't short in any sense of the word.
Katee Robert
#98. Think not that your word and yours alone must be right.
Sophocles
#99. And the Bastard grant us ... in our direst need, the smallest gifts: the nail of the horseshoe, the pin of the axle, the feather at the pivot point, the pebble at the mountain's peak, the kiss in despair, the one right word.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#100. The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightening and a lightening bug.
Mark Twain
Nancy Oswald
