Quotes of: Right-words Keyword

So is that it? Will I have to live the rest of my life like this? Not doing the right thing? Not saying the right words?" "That's your choice. You can't change the past. Ah, but the future. . .you own the future." The Greenman smiled. "So, you tell m...

Dust and Decay

I hear something in her words that's right, but it's hard to believe her right now.

Allegiant

There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.

Rich Lowry

Remember, 'governance' is a big word that includes human rights, freedom of speech, economic transactions on a worldwide basis - it touches everything. It's everywhere, and that's why Internet governance is Topic A in many corners.

Vint Cerf

Don't." That one word made him freeze. "Don't what?" "Touch me right now." Her voice cracked on the last word before she swallowed hard again. "If you do, I'll invite you to join me in bed and I don't think that's the smartest thing right now." "What...

Deadly Fallout

One idea to a sentence is still the best advice that anyone has ever given on writing.

Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right

The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being wrong; it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word 'orthodoxy' not only no longer means being right; it practically means being wrong.

Heretics

Pilate's skeptical sneer "What is truth?" was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest question was three words; God's profoundest answer was one Word.

Jesus-Shock

I spent most of my career in business not saying the word 'woman.' Because if you say the word 'woman' in a business context, and often in a political context, the person on the other side of the table thinks you're about to sue them or ask for speci...

Sheryl Sandberg

With poetry and writing, the question isn’t “do you know the right words?”. The real question is, “can you make words from the unwordable, chisel blocks of raw silence into shapes and touch our souls?

Jacob Nordby

Right words are born in courage, which results from our struggle to make sense of our various predicaments. Cheer is what words are "trying to tell us/... It's native to the words/and what they want us always to know/even when it seems quite impossib...

Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems

Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.

Patti Smith

The words walked right out of my mouth.

James Brady

My mom's gonna be the biggest star - mark my words right now!

Vinny Guadagnino

I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well deserved reward of an ordered mind but just the opposite: a complete system of pretence invented b...

Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Whenever someone says some- thing about us, it gets written inside us, permanently. The good words, the ugly words, it’s all right here.” I placed a palm against my chest. “Sure, you can scribble out the words or try to paint over them, but ben...

Life Unaware

If a man speaks many holy words but he speaks and does not, this thoughtless man cannot enjoy the life of holiness: he is like a cowherd who counts the cows of his master. Whereas if a man speaks but a few holy words and yet he lives the life of thos...

Anonymous

Without God's Word as a lens, the world warps.

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

Whether you think you're right or you think you're wrong. You're right." "If you think in pictures, write. If you think in words, paint.

Under a Prairie Moon

There is no better way to live God’s way than to have His Word in your heart and mind.

A Woman's Guide to Making Right Choices

Since the global economic crisis began, the change in global attitudes is clear to see - and I think it is pitiful. Barack Obama came to China and he is probably the only president of the United States never to mention the words 'human rights' in pub...

Ai Weiwei