Things Right Quotes
168 quotes by 146 authors
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Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.
— William Stafford
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Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of…
— Gary Paulsen
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Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends,…
— Mark Helprin
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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.…
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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There was nothing I hated worse than clumps of whispering girls who got quiet when I passed. I started picking scabs off my body and,…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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East of the sun and west of the moon.' As unfathomable as the words were, I realized I must figure them out, reason it through.…
— Edith Pattou
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There were eleven of us. Each more different than the next. All with the same mindset. Things weren't the way they were meant to be.…
— D. J. MacHale
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I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are.
— Simone Elkeles
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To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of…
— Louise Erdrich
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I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till the deaf world's ears be made to hear. The wrongs of…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias
— John Derbyshire
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Making mistakes is part of learning to choose well. No way around it. Choices are thrust upon us, and we don't always get things right.…
— Brandon Mull
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When Darroc returns, I know by the look in his eyes that I've chosen well. He thinks I picked black and red for him, the…
— Karen Marie Moning
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The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you…
— George Orwell
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God is the creator of all things, right? He is the force that dictates the laws of the universe, and is therefore the ultimate source…
— Brandon Sanderson
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When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.
— Matt Groening
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What sucks the worst is . . . this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is…
— Dean Koontz
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Sometimes it's necessary to do wrong. Sometimes it's the only way to make things right.
— Hillary Jordan
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Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.
— Sarah Dessen
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After all, when we were children, when things went wrong, there wasn’t much we could do to help put it right. But now we’re adults,…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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