You know, in playing a role like this, you really want to get it right, because this is a person who was revered by so many doctors, women doctors especially. ~By Mary Stuart Masterson ~
Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking. ~By Derek Jarman ~
What we have, however, is an issue that has tremendous impact here at home, and we believe that Americans are starting to feel vulnerable, not just from what is going on around the world but right here in the United States. ~By Ted Stevens ~
What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education. ~By Joschka Fischer ~
Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou. ~By Akhenaton ~
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets. ~By Abraham Lincoln ~
Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right or wrong independently if I'm right or left. ~By Bjorn Lomborg ~
With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on the move. ~By Jim Doyle ~
Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied. ~By John L. Lewis ~
I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job. ~By Harry Bridges ~
Well, its very exasperating when you can't get it right. ~By Donald Judd ~
Nothing ever sounds quite the way it does when you're standing right in the middle of it. ~By Michael Davis ~
I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around. ~By Andy Gibb ~
Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others. ~By Elihu Root ~
I played it right because that's what you're supposed to do - play it right and with respect. ~By Ryne Sandberg ~
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction. ~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right. ~By Harvey Keitel ~
To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening. ~By John C. Hawkes ~
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. ~By Carroll Quigley ~
One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it. ~By Paul Harris ~
If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them. ~By Jack Welch ~
The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right. ~By Aldous Huxley ~
President Barack Obama has it right - there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much will get changed unless we confront the runaway filibuster in the U.S. Senate. ~By Peter Fenn ~
Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort. ~By Neil Gaiman ~
I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there. ~By Mickey Rourke ~
The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view. ~By Paul Farmer ~
I was at that time like a fledgling swallow living high up in a niche in the eaves, who from time to time peeps out over the top of its nest with its little bright eyes. ~By Pierre Loti ~
So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off. ~By Barbara Boxer ~
Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering. ~By Aleksander Kwasniewski ~
Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Taiwan has been a vibrant democracy with a democratically elected president and legislature. ~By Nick Lampson ~
My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform. ~By Mike Farrell ~
The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense. ~By Christopher Lasch ~
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. ~By Mark Twain ~
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough. ~By James Thurber ~
This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom. ~By Thomas Traherne ~
My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George? ~By Barbara Bush ~
You sin in thinking bad about people - but, often, you guess right. ~By Giulio Andreotti ~
I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate. ~By Kate Greenaway ~
He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil. ~By William Godwin ~
The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face. ~By Napoleon Hill ~
Clean air is a basic right. The responsibility to ensure that falls to Congress and the president. ~By Thomas Carper ~
Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England. ~By Thomas Malory ~
I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things. ~By Chuck D. ~
Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend. ~By Tony Dorsett ~
To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more. ~By Ernest Istook ~
One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now. ~By Chris Isaak ~
Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem. ~By Bjarne Stroustrup ~
Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf. ~By Ben Hogan ~
Well, I want to do The Music Man. I think it's an amazing opportunity, but I think that they are probably looking at major movie stars right now, and I don't blame them. ~By Gregory Harrison ~
Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel. ~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it. ~By Henry George ~
In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing. ~By Patsy Kelly ~
Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves. ~By Benjamin Netanyahu ~
Lonnie was ahead of his time, but at the same time he was right in there with Albert Collins's Cool Sounds. ~By Stevie Ray Vaughan ~
Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from my house to the U.S. capital and to make use of my right to point out to government officials and to the media when they are wrong. ~By John Jay Hooker ~
The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything. ~By Carol Moseley Braun ~
Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do. ~By Spike Lee ~
In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty. ~By Claudio Hummes ~
The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments. ~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
I can't think of any more important issue. If we get this right, we'll not only preserve our landscape for future generations we'll be able to generate I think more investment and more job opportunities in the inland and we sure as hell need those jobs. ~By John Anderson ~
A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess. ~By A. Philip Randolph ~
People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too. ~By Jim Valvano ~
Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith. ~By Rich Lowry ~
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. ~By Ezra Pound ~
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. ~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources. ~By Allan Sloan ~
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. ~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Obviously, I'm not a trained actress, and right now I'll come out and say I'm glad I'm not. ~By Jenny McCarthy ~
I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post. ~By Tony Kornheiser ~
Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films. ~By Atom Egoyan ~
If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind. ~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
The 21st Amendment gives the states the right to decide what the drinking ages should be and other aspects relative to alcoholic beverages, and I support that. As a United States senator, I want to weigh in - this is not my agenda. ~By Pete Coors ~
I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ. ~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it. ~By Jack Vance ~
For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really do the right thing, so to speak, as my momma would always say to show that they care, a sense of community that we've lost so much in our country. ~By Sela Ward ~
I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life. ~By David Eddings ~
I always wanted to be a cowboy, and Jedi Knights are basically cowboys in space, right? ~By Liam Neeson ~
Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap. ~By Morton Feldman ~
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. ~By Anne Frank ~
The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me. ~By Thomas Huxley ~
I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment. ~By Donald Cargill ~
The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place. ~By Paul Watzlawick ~
I don't see a candidate on the scene right now, but it is going to have to be a candidate that people can look at as a leader and not as a man or a woman. ~By Julie Nixon Eisenhower ~
A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces. ~By Kenneth Grahame ~
You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right. ~By Casey Stengel ~
I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable. ~By Victoria Woodhull ~
If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won. ~By Joichi Ito ~
They have a right to censure that have a heart to help. ~By William Penn ~
The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes. ~By Walter Ulbricht ~
Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong. ~By James Mansfield ~
Don't wait. The time will never be just right. ~By Napoleon Hill ~
Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down. ~By Andrew Jackson ~
I think that you get the mood of a song stronger if you get it right that way. On the other hand, you put some songs out live and they don't catch flight. They just flop. It is hard to tell until they are out there. ~By Peter Gabriel ~
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. ~By Confucius ~
Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples. ~By Theodore Bikel ~
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. ~By Leo Tolstoy ~
Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try to go out there and create my own image, my own style, my own type of game. Right now I can't even think of one guy I've been compared to. ~By Paul Pierce ~
I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical. ~By Edie Brickell ~
But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed. ~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~
So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. ~By Ibrahim Rugova ~
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