Quotes about Rightness, page 4

Because one of the curious things about writing is that it doesn't matter how perfect you try and get it, that you never quite get the sentence right, or there are things that you miss and, you know, you have work repeated a couple of pages later...

Quote by Al Alvarez about rightness

These impossible women! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them!

Quote by Aristophanes about rightness

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Quote by Aristotel about rightness

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Quote by Aristotel about rightness

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Quote by Aristotel about rightness

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning about rightness

America stands for liberty, for the pursuit of happiness and for the unalienable right for life. This right to life cannot be granted or denied by government because it does not come from government, it comes from the creator of life.

Quote by George W. Bush about rightness

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

Quote by George W. Bush about rightness

States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

Quote by George W. Bush about rightness

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about rightness

When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.

Quote by Michael Caine about rightness

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about rightness

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

Quote by Albert Camus about rightness

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and nobody in his right mind will believe this today.

Quote by Albert Camus about rightness

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about rightness

If you put yourself out there and you're lucky, it comes to you. You find it, and you know right away that's it.

Quote by Michael Chabon about rightness

It's a fantasy that we could have a president who could actually make choices based on what's right, rather than having to weigh the political fallout. But that's sort of what we're showing. And you can dream.

Quote by Geena Davis about rightness

To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.

Quote by Catherine Deneuve about rightness

I also hope that I sometimes suggested to the lion the right place to use his claws.

Quote by Winston Churchill about rightness

I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the right time using your clout when you have it and what for and what reason.

Quote by Danny DeVito about rightness