Quotes with right-about-face

Quotes 381 till 400 of 1609.

  • Harper Lee Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. You're not gonna change any of them by talking right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.
    Harper Lee
    American writer (1926 - 2016)
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  • Hal Borland For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is.
    Hal Borland
    American author, journalist and naturalist
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  • Thomas Carlyle For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ethel Barrymore For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
    Ethel Barrymore
    American actress (1879 - 1959)
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  • Henry David Thoreau For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Benjamin Franklin For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • William Shakespeare For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Paul Goodman For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with mystery more than the baby's woeful face or the venerable tower.
    Paul Goodman
    American writer, poet, criticus (1911 - 1972)
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  • Bill McCartney For many years, our Messianic Jewish brothers and sisters have paid a great price. Other Jews have rejected them, and the Christian church would require they walk away from their traditions to fit into the Gentile culture. We must face these past wrongs.
    Bill McCartney
    American football player and coach (1940 - )
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  • Ann Bancroft For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Ben Zobrist For me, it's not so much about picking the right position; it's about the team.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Alexander Pope For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Brad Henry For only by nurturing the minds and strengthening the values of our children can we give them an opportunity to be full, productive citizens, to reach their God-given potential, and to have good jobs right here in Oklahoma.
    Brad Henry
    American lawyer and politician (1963 - )
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  • Frederick W. Faber For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.
    Frederick W. Faber
    English hymn writer and theologian (1814 - 1863)
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  • Catherine Drinker Bowen For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
    Catherine Drinker Bowen
    American writer
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  • John Webster Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.
    John Webster
    English dramatist (1580 - 1634)
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  • Adam Michnik France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
    Adam Michnik
    Polish historian, essayist and dissident (1946 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Abbie Hoffman Free speech is the right to shout Theater! in a crowded fire.
    Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980)
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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