Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
George Bernard Shaw
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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
George Bernard Shaw
I was brought up in that other service; but I knew from the first that the Devil was my natural master and captain and friend. I saw that he was in the right, and that the world cringed to his conqueror only from fear.
George Bernard Shaw
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
George Bernard Shaw
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
Friedrich Nietzsche
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Oscar Wilde
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.
Anne Frank
A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Henry Ford
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
Henry Ford
Whether you believe you can or believe you can't, you're right.
Henry Ford
If I do the right kind of a job, I don't know whether I am going to be here four years from now. -- John F. Kennedy (to Richard M. Nixon, right after the Bay of Pigs invasion, 1961).
John F. Kennedy
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
Henry Ford
I think there is a law of equity in these disputes. When one party is clearly wrong, it will eventually give way... They had no business putting those missiles in and lying to me about it. They were in the wrong and knew it. So, when we stood firm, they had to back down. But this doesn't mean at all that they would back down when they felt they were in the right and had vital interests involved.
John F. Kennedy
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
Luck is only important insofar as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.
Frank Sinatra
Isn't it funny that anything the Supreme Court says is right?
Robert Frost
The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King Jr.
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
John Updike
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other. God help me. Amen.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
Oprah Winfrey
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity.
Oprah Winfrey
Everyone in the world is constantly fighting an internal battle. A battle between what the brain knows is right and what the heart knows it wants.
Oprah Winfrey
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
Oprah Winfrey
The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.
George Washington
This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
Rita Mae Brown
If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
Jack Welch
Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one.
Elvis Presley
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Germaine Greer
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
Horace Mann
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it's lovely to be silly at the right moment.
Horace Mann
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
Horace Mann
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
Horace Mann
The appearance of right oft leads us wrong.
Horace Mann
There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.
Horace Mann
Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment.
Horace Mann
A stone thrown at the right time is better than gold given at the wrong time.
Persian Proverb
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
Mahatma Gandhi
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
T. S. Eliot
All right, brain, you don't like me, and I don't like you, but let's just get me through this, and I can get back to killing you with beer.
Matt Groening
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, right or wrong - is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore Roosevelt
Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
Theodore Roosevelt
I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.
Michel de Montaigne
In a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his way all the time and no one is right all the time.
Richard M. Nixon
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Benjamin Franklin
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.
Benjamin Franklin
Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.
Edmund Burke
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles M. Schulz
How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.
Babe Ruth
Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
John Updike
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Warren Buffett
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
Calvin Coolidge
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Hubert H. Humphrey
There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.
Woodrow Wilson
Let us not worryAbout the future.Let us only do the right thingToday,At this moment,Here and now.Let the future take care of itself.
Sri Chinmoy
Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
J. K. Rowling
Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy.
J. K. Rowling
...people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
J. K. Rowling
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
Steve Jobs
Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.
Lyndon B. Johnson
I blame the politicians, ... The Air Force has a manual on how to fight a war. You hit them as hard as you can right at first.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge.
John Ruskin
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
Bill Clinton
'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.'
G. K. Chesterton
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
G. K. Chesterton
Learn what is true in order to do what is right.
Thomas Henry Huxley
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
G. K. Chesterton
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
Ronald Reagan
To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last--but eat you he will.
Ronald Reagan
I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.
Anita Roddick
Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted, and then demand as a right. Hold them up for all the market will bear.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Every great improvement has come after repeated failure. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are the posts on the road to achievement.
Charles F. Kettering
A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
George S. Patton
There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.
David Starr Jordan
Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.
Robert J. Sawyer
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
Thomas H. Huxley
Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.
Robert Henri
Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Any type of love is all right. It's your hate that you have to watch.
Margaret Cho
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
John Adams
Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.
Margaret Cho
There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
James Madison
I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven.
Tupac Shakur
God's in His Heaven, all's right with the world.
Robert Browning
A man ought to do what he thinks is right.
John Wayne
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden
Whenever you find a man who says he doesn't believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later.
C. S. Lewis
Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right.
Woody Allen
Right now folks are having difficulty leaving the (flooded) area.
Wilbur Wright
I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.
Milton Friedman
I don't know if boring is the right word to describe the coming year. But it's not likely there will be anything controversial. It's going to be a status quo kind of year. The Legislature is in an enviable position as to what to do with all the extra money that is coming in.
Andrew Smith
Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
Lance Armstrong
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Helen Keller
Be always sure you're right, then go ahead.
Davy Crockett
We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.
Davy Crockett
I am the right.
George W. Bush
Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity.
George W. Bush
States should have the right to enact... laws...particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.
George W. Bush
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
Jules Renard
Live dangerously and you live right.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
William Hazlitt
This is rather large. The fact that Monsanto did it right in front of a trial, they (the university) must have had a lock-shut case.
John Mccamant
We're in the process of interviewing right now. We take their statements, then go back to the site to verify what they said they saw.
Phil Frame
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
Samuel Goldwyn
I still enjoy it, it?s still fun, but coaching basketball is a time-consuming job, and right now I need to be home more often.
Kyle Walker
While I was out I did the right thing, by being in the public and being noticed, but I loved to get home and have my little security.
Betty Cuthbert
It's not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us.
Real Live Preacher
We're going to put this behind us right now. Saturday is all that matters.
Niamh Dwyer
Obviously we saw things totally different that the officials did. They even missed numbers. We had one player ejected who was on the bench. He wasn't even part of it. But the outcome of it all was that Berkley got right back into the game.
Lou Schmidt
She was right in front of me with her new boyfriend. She turned around, and she giggled, and she was like, 'Oh, you look so much like me. That's so hot.' And then her boyfriend was just, like, giggling, and he was like, 'Wow,' and she grabbed him. They were in a hurry.
Natalie Reid
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
Thomas Hobbes
You know, we're 12 months later and I'm still ecstatic about what happened last year, ... It's just one of those things, I was at the right place at the right time and happened to hole the shot.
Craig Parry
States have the right to draw the line between abortion and infanticide. [This Act] defines the point at which a child is a person under the law and therefore entitled to rights, including the most basic right to life.
Robert Muise
Every county employee would agree that you earn sick time and it's your right to use it.
Shelley Davis
They're certainly saying all the right words, but after their history, everyone's waiting to see them execute.
Mike Feibus
Ontario industries withstood the impact of that fairly briskly, ... are able to cope with where the dollar is right now.
Greg Sorbara
He probably is harder on himself than I want him to be right now. Sometimes he makes a mistake and beats himself up and he allows that to affect him two, three plays down the road.
Derrick Jackson
We felt that if we could do it at the right price, the cleaning robot would be embraced by the masses.
Colin Angle
We knew the Hawaiian culture is very specific, especially when it comes to the dance. We made it a priority to get it right.
Christopher Chase
[Spirit is] doing an all-out blitz right now to get people in there to support their needs, ... I also assume they're offering very market-competitive salaries.
Bob Brewer
The zeitgeist right now is instability, where the classical political constellations that we used to rely on are no longer there.
Thorsten Polleit
Right now is the wrong time to disrupt any part of FEMA's operation, ... I'd like to know who's going to take responsibility for this move.
Carolyn Maloney
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.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I grew up around Bison basketball, and I remember how exciting it was back in the day when we were really good. I always told my mom that I wanted to be a part of that. I am so excited right now, I am so glad we finally accomplished our goal.
Chauncey Stacy
We're reviewing it right now.
Abby Ottenhoff
I laid right on the ground next to him, holding his hand. I felt so bad. He kept saying, 'How much longer?' You never want to give false hope.
Hope Trent
I think (the style of play) is working for us right now. The dynamics are there, we just have to keep from getting selfish and keep playing the right way.
Scot Pollard
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Bertrand Russell
War does not determine who is right-only who is left.
Bertrand Russell
We're not even thinking about (the postseason) right now. We've been in a slump, so we're taking things day by day. We aren't looking to the future because we haven't addressed the present.
Cartier Martin
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein
Surfing is not an organized sport, but it does have rules. The surfer closest to the curl has the right of way.
Matt Armstrong
If we don't do it now, our chances of acquiring beachfront land for beachfront parks will be extremely limited if not curtailed. Right now, as you know, most of the mom-and-pop hotels are being purchased and being converted into luxury condominiums.
Glenn Storch
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
Alan Watts
Those things don't exist now. I think right now they're much more transparent in their accounting for their economy.
Cynthia Brown
After they got the lead, they went into a zone and we didn't move the ball well. We did at times, but we weren't making the right cuts, so we'd end up forcing a shot in the end. We just couldn't get our offense going.
Jason Floetke
Carob works on the principle that, when mixed with the right combination of fats and sugar, it can duplicate chocolate in color and texture. Of course, the same can be said of dirt.
Sandra Boynton
The last two weeks we've had several games like this where we're right in it but can't find a way to get the lead. But give Eisenhower credit, they played well.
Dave Witzig
When he kicked in that door and leveled that gun, Joe Sutton had the right to defend himself.
Roger Falk
Oh yeah. I mean, it's everything, especially when you run a 5-1. That's your quarterback and they have to make all the plays. They have to touch every ball. In every play, they're involved. She has to get the ball to the right people at the right time.
Ben Stroud
If you think there might be a chance that you can't play pro tennis ever again, you relish good tennis. You appreciate the times when you play good tennis, ... Right now, James is appreciating his health and his tennis game.
Tommy Haas
(The council had) every right to raise the issue.
Alderman Scott Galvin
The future is way up in the air right now.
Amy Wilson
It all looks good. Every metric is going in the right direction.
David Edwards
No surgery will be required. I'd like to say we're hopeful that Ross will be able to play against Colorado, but it probably leans more to being doubtful right now.
Vic Miller
The judges agreed wolves are recovered in the Great Lakes region. So if the boundaries of where that region is are drawn right, this should work.
Adrian Wydeven
Right after the hurricane hit, we had calls from our members saying we should do something.
Larry Bowman
Automatic enrollment is the right proposal at the right time. It will be a real shot in the arm for workers who need to save for retirement at a time when defined benefit pensions are disappearing.
David Certner
You don't want them to be around a bunch of people because then you'll have a whole team infected. But they should be all right.
Bobby Pierce
That's what we hoped these plans would do...It's another indication that shows we're heading in the right direction.
John Goulter
Right now I'd say it's not necessarily a weird bug, but it certainly could be any number of typical respiratory organisms. We have some tests pending.
Greg Thomas
We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.
Senator John Kerry
I thought we did a lot of things well. But there's always something you can improve on. For us, just little things. Technical things, trying to finish every play, getting on the right guy and staying on him, there's always little things, reading the coverage.
Max Starks
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
Jean Cocteau
Right now it's a squeeze play for oil industry, ... But if they can get by from here to February, I think the coast is clear.
Fadel Gheit
Bowling Green is about on the same level as us right now and have had some close, tough loses this season. This meet will come down to who has the best swim on that day and we are looking forward to a tough meet.
Brian Vereb
Obviously, I'm not a trained actress, and right now I'll come out and say I'm glad I'm not.
Jenny Mccarthy
So that puts us right up there with gather numbers.
Linda Coates
Ryan Butler and our quarterback have been hooking up all year long. Our skill players are doing well. We are just trying to get the right people in the right places. Anytime you can win two games in a row that makes you proud of your guys and coaches.
Joe Matthews
We believe the time is right for him to sign it. It's a good opportunity for him to improve his image with the workers and do something to help working people at Christmas time.
Steve Kramer
He's turned into the smartest player in the league during those last 30 seconds. Even with the pressure, he had the presence of mind to run a pick-and-roll with his money man. He looked for the right guy.
Steve Ketchum
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