Right Thing Quotes - Page 9

• Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

  Anna Quindlen

  Fashion, Looks, Racist

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• American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information.

  Tim Robbins

  People, Evil, Information

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• Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help.

  Kid Rock

  Children, Talking, People

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• We conservatives don't have a corner on saying no. We're just the ones who say it when it's the right thing to say.

  Mitt Romney

  Saying No, Right Thing To Say, Corners

  "This Week" with Terry Moran, abcnews.go.com. February 21, 2010.

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• President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Country, Offering, President

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• I know I can be bolshy and really unpleasant, and it always happens if I lose confidence in the people I'm working with. If I've got no confidence in what I'm doing and they don't provide me with some assurance that we're doing the right thing then I bully people. I'm a horrible bully.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  People, Bully, Horrible

  "I'm a horrible bully" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2003.

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• If you have to do it, then you're doing the right thing.

  Kathy Valentine

  Valentines Day, Ifs, Doing The Right Thing

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• If I can start my day out by saying my prayers and getting myself focused, then I know I'm doing the right thing. That 10 minutes helps me in every way throughout the day.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Prayer, Way, Helping

  "Mark Wahlberg: 'The first thing I do each day is pray'" by Gabrielle Donnelly, www.catholic.org. December 28, 2010.

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• You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you're doing, yourself, if you figure you're doing the right thing.

  Christopher Walken

  Honesty, Feel Good, Trying

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2004.

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• I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.

  Marcia Wallace

  Karma, Christian, Religious

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• I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.

  Patrick Warburton

  Believe, Independent, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Loneliness, Character

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• The world is such a marvel - it gave you trials, but if you were still and concentrated, if you tried to do the right thing, it always provided you with salvation.

  Anna Godbersen

  Trials, World, Salvation

  Touchstones Magazine, April 2014.

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• I wanted to say something to cheer her up. I had a feeling that cheering her up might be a lot of work. I was thinking of how sometimes, trying to say the right thing to people, it’s like some kind of brain surgery, and you have to tweak exactly the right part of the lobe. Except with talking, it’s more like brain surgery with old, rusted skewers and things, maybe like those things you use to eat lobster, but brown. And you have to get exactly the right place, and you’re touching around in the brain but the patient, she keeps jumping and saying, “Ow.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Cheer, Thinking, Jumping

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• And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss. Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, "Would you like anything to read?

  Dylan Thomas

  Aunt, Shining, Missing

  Dylan Thomas (1986). “The Collected Stories”, p.297, New Directions Publishing

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• religion is about having the right answers, and some of their answers are right... but i am about the process that takes you to the living answer... it will change you from the inside. there are a lot of smart people who are able to say a lot of right things from their brain because they have been told what the right answers are, but they don't know me at all.

  William P. Young

  Smart, People, Brain

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• It seemed to me that the people who made the rules of the road had figured out everything that would help a person drive safely right down to having a sign that tells you you're passing through a place where deer cross. Somebody should stick up some signs on the highway of life. CAUTION: JERKS CROSSING. Blinking yellow lights when you're about to to something stupid. Stop signs in front of people who could hurt you. Green lights shining when you're doing the right thing. It would make the whole experience easier.

  Joan Bauer

  Hurt, Stupid, Light

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• Her hands quieted. "Yeah. Because even if the law says that no one is responsible for anyone else, helping someone who needs it is the right thing to do." I sat down beside her, close enough that the skin of her arm hummed right next to mine. "You really believe that?" She looked down at her lap "Yeah." Then how," I asked, "can you walk away from me?

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Hands, Helping Someone

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• I know I've done the right thing but I couldn't feel worse about it, and I suppose that is part of what it is to lead.

  Libba Bray

  Done, Feels, Knows

  Libba Bray (2007). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.743, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• This was something you had to work through on you own," Jason said. "Besides, I knew you'd do the right thing." "Oh, right," I said. I wanted to throw something at him. I really did. "And if I hadn't?" Now Jason brandished something he'd been holding behind his back. It was a golf club. "I figured Big Bertha here would drive them away," he said.

  Meg Cabot

  Golf, Clubs, Jason

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• Once in a while, life gives you a chance to measure your worth. Sometimes you're called upon to make a split-second decision to do the right thing, defining which way your life will go. These are the decisions that make you who you are.

  Perry Moore

  Giving, Decision, Splits

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• Because others have let us down, it is now our duty to face the hard truths and do the right thing--no matter the personal cost.

  Glenn Beck

  Cost, Matter, Faces

  Glenn Beck (2009). “Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn't matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I'm going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Passion, Joy

  Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (2013). “The Essential Wayne Dyer Collection”, p.459, Hay House, Inc

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• somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do

  Randy Pausch

  Passage Of Time, Passages, Things To Do

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• A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only a substitute for love (of God and of other people) like a crutch which is a substitute for a leg. Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.

  C. S. Lewis

  Journey, Men, People

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.142, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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