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
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
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)
When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner
EVERYONE has the right to make an ass out of themselves.
- Harold and Maude (The movie )
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
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
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
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
Jesus was all right,
but his disciples were thick and ordinary.
It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
- John Lennon
Lord, where we are wrong,
make us willing to change;
where we are right,
make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall
Donkey, you HAVE the right to remain silent.
What you lack, is the capacity.
- said by Shrek in the movie Shrek 2
Morality is the theory that every human act
must be either right or wrong,
and that 99 % of them are wrong.
- H. L. Mencken
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
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
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
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- 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
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
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
Confidence comes not from always being right
but from not fearing to be wrong.
- Peter T. Mcintyre
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
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
Everyone believes that their beliefs are the right ones -
that is why they are called beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
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.
There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human.
I am a woman first of all.
- Anais Nin
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing -
after they've tried everything else.
- Winston Churchill
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love
will have the final word in reality.
That is why right, temporarily defeated,
is stronger than evil triumphant.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
Understand that the right to
choose your own path
is a sacred privilege.
Use it.
Dwell in possibility.
- Oprah Winfrey
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying
as to put the right man in the right place.
- Thomas Jefferson
The time is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
- Rumi
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mankind are more disposed to suffer,
while evils are sufferable,
than to right themselves by abolishing
the forms to which they are accustomed.
- Thomas Jefferson
The right to do something doesn't mean that doing it is right.
- William Safire
I despise people who go to the gutter
on either the right or the left
and hurl rocks at those in the center.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Life ... is like a parachute jump:
you have to get it right the first time.
- Margaret Mead
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
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
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
A right delayed is a right denied.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
Government is a contrivance
of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
People have the right to expect that these wants
will be provided for by this wisdom.
- Jimmy Carter
It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
There are righteous people working
in a whole rainbow of belief systems -
from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters
to charismatic Catholics.
- Bono
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
- Oprah Winfrey
Let reason trump tradition and the opinions of others,
but let your own sense of what is Right trump even reason.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
The strongest reason for the people
to retain the right to keep and bear arms is,
as a last resort, to protect themselves
against tyranny in government.
- Thomas Jefferson
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
What is, is right.
- Alexander Pope
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