Right Quotes - page 15

I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong. (Morarji Desai)
You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people... View quote
Nicholas Sparks
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody. View quote
Willa Cather
When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice. View quote
Sarah Vaughan
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. View quote
George Washington
I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughnut; I don't need a receipt for the doughnut. I'll just give you the money, and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I just can't imagine a scenario where I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut. Some skeptical friend: "Don't even act like I didn't get that doughnut! I got the documentation right here...oh, wait it's at home...in the file...under 'D', for doughnut." View quote
Mitch Hedberg
My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do. View quote
Ani DiFranco
He who did well in war just earns the right To begin doing well in peace. View quote
Robert Browning
Pippa's Song The year's at the spring The day's at the morn Morning's at seven, The Hill side's dew-pearled The lark's on the wing The snail's on the thorn God's in his heaven- All's right with the world. (Robert Browning)
We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success. View quote
Arianna Huffington
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right. View quote
Ricky Gervais
The hardest thing is trying not to correct everything on the Internet. It'd be night and day - wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. So you just have to say, 'All right, I'll take it, bring it on.' View quote
George Clooney
People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me. View quote
Octavia Butler
If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always seem to get people to sing with me. View quote
Pete Seeger
Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know. View quote
Richard Bach
Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year. View quote
Victor Borge
Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key. View quote
Christopher Nolan
Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong. (Alan Lightman)
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. View quote
Herodotus
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water. View quote
Gwendolyn Brooks
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it. View quote
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The way is the beginning of all beings and the measure of right and wrong. View quote
Han Fei