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Quotes About Right

Europe is right to tell us to reduce this [France's budget] deficit and spend less. Europe is right to demand this of us but cannot at the same time demand us to increase our dues.
~ Nicolas Sarkozy
I was thinking of resigning since I did not want to be perceived as a man who did the president's bidding to save my job. I have had some time to think about it since. I think I did the right thing
~ Robert Bork
I never really thought about getting married - it just kind of happened. It seemed natural, the right thing to do. It was kind of a celebration of the time.
~ Scarlett Johansson
We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.
~ Thomas Jefferson
It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? (...) But please, when you see an opportunity...ruin them
~ Veronica Roth
If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privacy, which ends up becoming ultimately the right to abortion.
~ Jay Sekulow
Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.
~ Joni Mitchell
The principle I believe in is the principle of protecting our nation. I believe that the United States has the right to attack any country it views as a threat at a time and place of its choosing.
~ George W. Bush
My dates are nightmares! If she were awake, alive, not on parole and truly single that would start. Place, time and what we do matters little if I'm out with the right woman.
~ Vantile Whitfield
Hearing the record and seeing the response is affirming that it was the right time and right choice.
~ Balthazar Getty
Patience, then, believer, eternity will right the wrongs of time.
~ Charles Spurgeon
I regret the time and resources needed to undertake this but... it is right to lay this accusation to rest.
~ David Blunkett
the ancient embodiment of good! It breeds intolerance, rigidity, a belief that because I am right, those who don't believe as I do are wrong.
~ Margaret Weis
When the good holds sway) it breeds intolerance, rigidity, a belief that because I am right, those who don't believe as I do are wrong. - Palidine, Chief God of Good
~ Margaret Weis
It is not that I despise men. If I did I should have no right, and no reason, to try to govern.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Attianus had been right in his conjectures: the virgin gold of respect would be too soft without some alloy of fear.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
~ Marianne Williamson
The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.
~ Marianne Williamson
Everybody in the CIMS database has a number, from minus 15 to plus 15. If you're plus 15, you're on the right of the political spectrum. If you are minus 15 you are on the left of the political spectrum. You are a pinko, leftie, environmentalist, academic probably
~ Mark Bourrie
being right is not the point in this profession. Being useful is.
~ Mark Epstein
Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends, to make things right.
~ Mark Helprin
Active practitioners of nonviolence are always seen as a threat, a direct menace, to the state. The state maintains the right to kill as its exclusive and jealously guarded privilege. Nothing makes this more clear than capital punishment, which argues that killing is wrong and so the state must kill killers.
~ Mark Kurlansky
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.
~ Mark Twain
The government is merely a servant?merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.
~ Mark Twain