Rightly Quotes

405 Rightly quotes by 316 unique authors

I rightly pass for an atheist. — Jacques Derrida
Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus. — Oswald Chambers
A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but… — Cormac McCarthy
Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored. — Karl Kraus
What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
....I understood why those who had lived through war or economic disasters, and who had built for themselves a good life and a high standard… — Jane Goodall
You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument. The time… — Rabindranath Tagore
This grieved me heartily ; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before… — Daniel Defoe
Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements (and do not and must not discount them now), those of us who prevail… — Neal A. Maxwell
Geric," she called. He turned back around. "What kind of flowers were they?" "I don't rightly know," he said. He made faltering gestures with his… — Shannon Hale
I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us… — Helen Keller
Learning to think rigorously, so as to act rightly and to serve humanity better. — Pope John Paul II
Because I am a part of the Big Picture, I do matter and substantially so. Because I am only a part, however, I am rightly… — Richard Rohr
There is a perverse mood of the mind which is rather soothed than irritated by misconstruction; and in quarters where we can never be rightly… — Charlotte Bronte
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure. — Mark Twain
Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as a stop-gap for… — William A. Dembski
The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I think they ought to know. You do them a disservice by not confiding something this important to them.” “I didn’t want —” “— to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't rightly see how somebody who claims to have had -What'd you say? One partner?-can be welled trained." He… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or… — Epictetus
Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame. — Jose Rizal
Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today, and… — James Allen
We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain.… — Stephen King

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