Right Quotes

The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.

I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.

Whether you're throwing up or breaking up, you want your girlfriend right there! I don't trust women who don't go to their girlfriends.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road.

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

I'm just kind of taking whatever life gives me and hoping that I make the right decision.

It just proves that I've been here for a long time and, I guess, have done the right things over the years.

Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?

There's only one side with me. You get the right side. You get the correct version of the facts.

Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.

You can't plan anything, right? You can try.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

I was very young when we got married and I don't know why it worked out like it did or how I was smart enough to know that this was the right guy, but somehow I got lucky.

If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.

Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.

I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.

Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because you have to find the right idea.

I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe.

Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture.

In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.