Quotes of: Doing-the-right-thing Keyword

Oskar: Who are you? Eli: I'm like you. Oskar: What do you mean? Eli: [accusing tone] What are you staring at? Well? Eli: Are you looking at me? Eli: [points her finger at Oskar] So scream! Squeal! Eli: Those were the first words I heard you say. Oska...

Let the Right One In

He caught hold of my hand. "Sydney, please don't do this," he begged. "No matter how confident you feel, no matter how careful you are, things will spiral out of control." "They already have," I said, opening the passenger door. "And I'm going to sto...

The Indigo Spell

I made for the door, and the moment I had my hand on the knob, Elijah pulled me back, again. That’s all he’d been doing. His hazel eyes bored right into me as he said, “I don’t want your money. I don’t care what you had to do to make it; I ...

5 Miles

Or, you say that this business of marking books is going to slow up your reading. It probably will. That's one of the reasons for doing it. Most of us have been taken in by the notion that speed of reading is a measure of our intelligence. There is n...

Mortimer Adler

[Tony is on a payphone describing the botched drug deal involving Hector the Toad] Tony Montana: [into the phone] Yeah, it was a setup. Bunch of cowboys. Somebody fucked up somewhere. Fuckin' Columbians. They never wanted to make the sale. They only ...

Scarface

He bombarded me with words, of all things, apparently clueless to the fact that the predawn hours rendered me incapable of coherent thought.

First Grave on the Right

Find things to be grateful for. It is easy. You're alive; that's a good thing to start being grateful for right away.

Gratitude and Beyond: Five Insights for a Fulfilled Life

But some things, no matter how unlikely, are just supposed to happen. You know what I mean. Some things just smack of the future and feel part of an overarching rightness.

Belong to Me

Successful people work hard on the right things b/c working hard on the wrong things only makes one worn out while failing.

Orrin Woodward

Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing c...

Jeff Bezos

What I love about photography, and it's the same thing I love about acting, really, is that it forces you, like, right into the moment, where you can't be distracted, where you can't be, like, thinking about other things or ahead of yourself or behin...

Jessica Lange

As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.

Candace Bushnell

I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.

Daniel Dennett

We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow thin...

Chester Brown

Let the novelists fret about consistency - story writers should feel free to jam; to get things right in new, surprising ways by allowing themselves, now and then, to get things wrong.

Walter Kirn

Truth to tell, I'm right proud of Glory. She's standing up for what she believes is right. All of us should lead our children to do that, don't you know?

Glory Be

I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

When you are destined for greatness, it shows in everything you do. It becomes you. Greatness becomes you.

Targeting Success, Develop the Right Business Attitude to be Successful in the Workplace

Successful people play the part of being successful consistently in all that they do.

Targeting Success, Develop the Right Business Attitude to be Successful in the Workplace

Which do I care more about - demanding my rights or displaying right choices?

Unglued Devotional: 60 Days of Imperfect Progress

Life’s too short to not forgive those who hurt us. I trust you to do what’s right. Right by your own heart.…Forgiveness sets you free.

Whale Song