Right Quotes

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

The summer before I went to culinary school, my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure that I was making the right decision. I think they hoped I would change my mind about culinary school.

The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.

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.

So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.

I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline.

Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.

A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite.

I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like.

You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.

Our fans make the band. What they give we give right back. They're an integral part of us. They ARE us.

The more you do, the more experience you have and the next time it will be easier to choose the right thing.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

I was raised in a climate where I believed in God because I was afraid of going to hell - and I didn't think that was the right way to fall in love with somebody.

Unlike others who have been caught swearing on camera, I apologised immediately. And yet I am the only person banned for swearing. That doesn't seem right.

Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.

I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling.