Quotes
Quotes about Right
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed," you find that it simply means to follow through.
By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mould The purple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough Drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.
Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right about it.
Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.
Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are; And while the ship right onward leaps, Uplift it from the exhaustless deeps. Parch not your life with dry despair; The stream of hope flow everywhere-- So under every sky and star, Just drop your bucket where you are.
Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things.
Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.
The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.
To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.
Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?
Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.
The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play.
Vain is the hope by colouring to display The bright effulgence of the noontide ray Or paint the full-orb'd ruler of the skies With pencils dipt in dull terrestrial dyes.
They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.
For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
Kathleen Mavourneen, the gray dawn is breaking, The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill, The lark from her light wing the bright dew is shaking-- Kathleen Mavourneen, what, slumbering, still? Oh hast thou forgotten how soon we must sever? Oh hast thou forgotten this day we must part? It may be for years and it may be forever; Oh why art thou silent, thou voice of my heart?
Therefore Agathon rightly says: "Of this alone even God is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been."
Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel's united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong.
