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The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
He early on let her know who is the boss.
He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss."
- Anonymous humor
EVERYONE has the right to make an ass out of themselves.
- Harold and Maude (The movie )
Still, things could be a lot worse.
Oh, that's right... I'm falling to my death. Guess they can't.
- the movie Megamind (2010)
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Always remember the three magic words: You're right dear.
- Anonymous
The proper office of a friend is to side with you
when you are in the wrong.
Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
- Mark Twain
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage
is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
- Ogden Nash
Give the right man two fishes and some bread,
and he will feed the world;
give the wrong man two fishes and some bread
and he will invent the fast-food fish sandwich.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lord, where we are wrong,
make us willing to change;
where we are right,
make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall
Morality is the theory that every human act
must be either right or wrong,
and that 99 % of them are wrong.
- H. L. Mencken
Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
Why wait until you're dead,
when you can create your own Hell right here and now.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Donkey, you HAVE the right to remain silent.
What you lack, is the capacity.
- said by Shrek in the movie Shrek 2
Even if you're on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers
It is dangerous to be right in matters
on which the established authorities are wrong.
- Voltaire
Jesus was all right,
but his disciples were thick and ordinary.
It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
- John Lennon
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mind Chatter...
"I'm too fat; I'm too thin; and my hair is a fright;
And I'm never enough; and my world is not right;
I'm not smart; I'm not cute; I'm not strong; I'm a bust
I earn scorn; I earn hate; I'm no good; I disgust."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink.
I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right.
We're more popular than Jesus now;
I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon
Customs do not concern themselves
with right or wrong or reason.
But they have to be obeyed;
one reasons all around them until he is tired,
but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.
- Mark Twain
Everyone believes that their beliefs are the right ones -
that is why they are called beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
Confidence comes not from always being right
but from not fearing to be wrong.
- Peter T. Mcintyre
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck.
If you live through it, you start looking
very carefully to the right and to the left.
- Jean Kerr
Do what you feel in your heart to be right.
You'll be criticized anyway.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising
that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
Each of us is burdened by an unlimited number of
expectations (demands) that we hold for the actions of others.
We "know" that there is a right way to do things,
and are often outraged when our expectations are not met.
Usually, we are unaware that we merely
have a strong opinion and point-of-view,
and are sure that we know how everything is supposed to be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human.
I am a woman first of all.
- Anais Nin
The right to do something doesn't mean that doing it is right.
- William Safire
Do what you feel in your heart to be right -
for you'll be criticized anyway.
You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
Whether you think you can,
or think you can't,
you're right.
- Henry Ford
Courage is not always about action,
and it doesn't always involve danger,
but courage is always doing what is right.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying
as to put the right man in the right place.
- Thomas Jefferson
Would you rather be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
A right delayed is a right denied.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
I am not interested in power for power's sake,
but I'm interested in power that is moral,
that is right and that is good.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance
or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
- Thomas Jefferson
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets,
but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are righteous people working
in a whole rainbow of belief systems -
from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters
to charismatic Catholics.
- Bono
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
Life is a journey. It is not a race to test
who can finish first or who can end up with the most loot.
Rather, life is best enjoyed as a meander -
watching the view to left and right - above and below -
as the days slowly move past in dress review.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
We can always choose to perceive things differently.
You can focus on what's wrong in your life,
or you can focus on what's right.
- Marianne Williamson
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right;
a single experiment can prove me wrong.
- Albert Einstein
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
- Abraham Lincoln
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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