Quotes of: Doing-the-right-thing Keyword

If you buy things you don't need, you'll soon be selling things you do.

Filipino

Recently, a lot of Americans have swapped the awkward phrase 'same-sex marriage' for the term 'marriage equality'. This phrase is ordinarily implied to mean that same-sex couples will have the rights different-sexed couples do. But it could also mean...

Men Explain Things to Me

Well, right now I'm dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading. [...] An old one. It's up on a library shelf, so you're safe and everything, but the book hasn't been checked out for a lo...

The Things They Carried

I know the Smiths," I snapped, because lord knows you can launch any kind of criticism at me, lord knows I've heard it all before, but don't you dare doubt my musical knowledge. There's not much I can do right, just this one thing, but you cannot tak...

This Song Will Save Your Life

Don’t be adamant; don’t make up your mind about all the things that don’t even have anything at all to do with you. Don’t be too quick to define right and wrong. Life has a way of putting the adamant person into the very situations they’ve ...

C. JoyBell C.

Annie turned away, her eyes glittering. 'Here's what no one tells you,' she said. 'When you deliver a fetus, you get a death certificate, but not a birth certificate. And afterward, your milk comes in, and there's nothing you can do to stop it.' She ...

Handle with Care

Ritsu: "I’m a complete failure. At everything I do, I’m absolutely worthless. I know this, and yet I continue to burden the human race with my presence. Every day I rob the world of valuable air by breathing. I’m a thief, and I hate myself for ...

Natsuki Takaya

What we don't often realize is that the rebirth and collapse of grand things do not begin with grand things at all, like the things we see, but with the small, like the things we are - in the things we do - in the things we say.

Rise of the Morningstar

Never do things by halves.

Traditional

To do a great right do a little wrong.

William Shakespeare

Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.

James Baker

Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.

Jack Kingston

As man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own rights, he begins to value the rights of others. .

The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. The thing is if you have 10 views that land you on the left side of the aisle and two views that land you on the right side of the aisle, then people ...

Adam Carolla

Fear is a strong instrument of power, brother, extremely strong, in fact. If you pluck the right strings the population stays docile, concentrates on idiotic rubbish and doesn't complain about the things that are really important, like freedom of exp...

Anders de la Motte

I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.

Obie Trice

People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.

Klaus Kinski

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

George Savile

Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.

Helena Bonham Carter

Mr. Dawes Sr.: Well, do you have anything to say, Banks? George Banks: Well, sir, they do say that when there's nothing to say, all you can say... [He feels Michael's tuppence in his pocket, takes it out and looks at it] Mr. Dawes Sr.: Confound it, B...

Mary Poppins

What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how t...

Ursus Wehrli