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Whosover loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.

Woody Allen

I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

Bible

To everyone who has gone out of the righteous way and has committed a crime in the name of religion and to everyone who belongs to that group that has done itself a disservice, everyone who has been captured in terror acts is given the chance to come back to God if they want to save their lives, their souls.

Prince Abdullah

Thing is, it's very easy to be righteous from a distance. It's his life. It's not my business to say what is wrong or right.

Daniel Radcliffe

As they say the sun shines on the righteous.

David Gower

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20].

Beverly Sills

It's kind of a righteous feeling to see people driving alone in their cars. You feel like you're not polluting as much.

Nik Rapelje

He is a righteous man, and he is close to the Lord, and he wouldn't do these things to anyone.

Dorothy Green

We need to jointly create an atmosphere, which supports the righteous deeds and frightens thieves. Only in this way, the world can be a safe one without thieves.

Yuan Guodong

I wish I could say that when I didn't agree with a director I defer to him, but I think sometimes I'm a little self-righteous.

Billy Crudup

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

Euripides

Anglo-Saxon America dealt with the emotional aspects of life by hiding them, ignoring them, or defining them as problematic. Janis rebelled against those habits, yet there was no guidance beyond the rambling of Kerouac's novels. Releasing one's feelings from years of bondage was a righteous and dangerous experiment.

Laura Joplin

I'd say my most requested song is Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers. But it used to be Town Without Pity until we quit playing Gene Pitney.

Vance Phillips

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

Aleksander Kaasniewski

The state's case is all about what happened after, ... righteous shooting.

Michael Ramsey

As humans have a prior right to existence over dogs by virtue of being more highly evolved and having a superior consciousness, so women have a prior right to existence over men. The elimination of any male is, therefore, a righteous and good act, an act highly beneficial to women as well as an act of mercy.

Valerie Solanas

At the end of the day, it was about strengthening your spiritual foundations and to walk in a righteous way in whatever you believe. It reminded me of my fundamentals and made me a better person.

Musa Smith

[Walter Burns is] the archetypal managing editor-ruthless, self-righteous, manipulative, downright maniacal if it means an exclusive, especially one that it can congratulate itself for on its own front page.

Jay Carr

It is silly to call fat people "gravitationally challenged" - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.

Terry Eagleton

Despite the happy outcome, we ask ourselves about the causes of this incident that targeted Egypt ... which has never abandoned the righteous cause of the Palestinian people.

Suleiman Awad

It's the very righteous, the cream of the crop.

Bruce Wisan

Be not righteous overmuch.

Bible

The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.

Charles L. Allen

It's a self-righteous pat on the shoulder.

Nik Rapelje

For righteous monarchs, Justly to judge, with their own eyes should see; To rule o'er freemen, should themselves be free.

Henry Brooke

Part circus huckster, part guerrilla fighter, part righteous rogue, Anderson waged a one-man journalistic resistance when it was exceedingly unpopular to do so.

Mark Feldstein

Sure, I could die in this house. But I believe in the Resurrection, that the righteous shall inherit the Earth, and I hope to be among them.

Elke Demuynck