It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.
Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy.
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest.
The crown is not my right, and pleaseth me not. The Lady Mary is the rightful heir.
It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itself pleasant to do, and which should be done under such conditions as would make it neither over-wearisome nor over-anxious.
I think it’s important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven’t had the right mentors and supporters around them – because of circumstances beyond their control.
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
Just because Fate doesn’t deal you the right cards, it doesn’t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.
When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody’s right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.
Right is right, even if no one else does it.
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Connectivity is a human right.
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’
If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right.
A great way to get all the right nutrients is to make a colorful plate – mix of good vegetables, carbohydrates, and protein. If you notice all your vegetables are green, change it up and add another color for a variety of benefits in one meal.
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
Social class has worked for years. Born into the right family, go to the right schools, even if you’re not super bright to start with, you’ll turn out bright. You go to the right university, you get the right job, you have the right connections, you’ll make it to the top. Job done, very efficient.
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
Jimi Hendrix came from the blues, like me. We understood each other right away because of that. He was a great blues guitarist.
Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
Your identity is not wrapped up in how right you get it or how perfect you can posture yourself. But, your identity is wrapped up in the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Growing up, I was a target. Speaking the right way, standing the right way, holding your wrist the right way. Every day was a test, and there were a thousand ways to fail, a thousand ways to betray yourself, to not live up to someone else’s standards of what was accepted, of what was normal.
The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.
If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
It’s been true in my life that when I’ve needed a mentor, the right person shows up.
A beautiful deleveraging balances the three options. In other words, there is a certain amount of austerity, there is a certain amount of debt restructuring, and there is a certain amount of printing of money. When done in the right mix, it isn’t dramatic.
Obviously, as you grow up, no one’s ever 100 percent proud of every decision that they’ve made, and that’s OK. I think as long as you learn from your mistakes and don’t make them over and over again, you’re on the right path.
If we tackle deforestation in the right way, the benefits will be far-reaching – greater food security, improved livelihoods for millions of small farmers and indigenous people, more prosperous rural economies, and above all, a more stable climate.
It’s just the risk that I take and the sacrifice that I make: Putting myself, my career, my family’s peace of mind on the line just to do right by my fans. It ain’t no gray area: You’re either with that and willing to go out of your way to make people who contribute to your dreams coming true happy or you aren’t.
By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ’tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.
To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.
I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.
True love doesn’t happen right away; it’s an ever-growing process. It develops after you’ve gone through many ups and downs, when you’ve suffered together, cried together, laughed together.
We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.
I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.
The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.
I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.
I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I’m an idiot.
Shout out to Sting: that’s the G.O.A.T. right there. The goat. Greatest of all time.
The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.
The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can’t so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
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.
It is right to give every man his due.
Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening.
Every day, I get closer to God. Every day, my will to do the right thing gets stronger.
At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures, I learned from him. Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
