Right Quotes

The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many believers, may help open the way for a more theologically serious religious life.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old.

It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here.

I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.

I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.

Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.

You can't blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don't ask for it right off the bat.

You can see it right away when a person is dressing outside of who she is.

American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information.

The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.

My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.

I'm not politically motivated. I used to be - passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle.

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.

I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.

Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.

For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.

I have to concentrate more intently when people speak. I always have to position myself on their right side so that I can hear out of my left ear. I sometimes get a crick in my neck from listening. But I don't there's too much else.

What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.