I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right.
~By Rachel Weisz ~
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
~By Anais Nin ~
Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so.
~By Anna Lindh ~
Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the decision to correct this unfair practice.
~By Christopher Dodd ~
If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions.
~By Caleb Cushing ~
This is the right time, and this is the right thing.
~By Thomas Moore ~
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
~By William Lloyd Garrison ~
In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.
~By Potter Stewart ~
I do feel we can create more jobs and opportunities for Jersey City residents, but in the spirit of free enterprise, I do not think it is right to force companies to hire a fixed percentage of local residents.
~By Vincent Frank ~
Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
~By Ani DiFranco ~
I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time.
~By David Attenborough ~
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 ~
It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.
~By Joichi Ito ~
And Title IX coming along there. I don't think Evan would have done any different than I did. I was fortunate to be there at a time when that was right.
~By Birch Bayh ~
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
~By Claude Levi-Strauss ~
Sometimes it was so quiet, it's frightening. It really prioritizes things.
~By Toni Collette ~
In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long.
~By Poppy Z. Brite ~
Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
~By Abbie Hoffman ~
Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.
~By Cher ~
An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.
~By John Tukey ~
In a prime-time address, President Bush said he backed limited federal funding for stem cell research. That's right, the President said, this is a quote, the research could help cure brain diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and whatever it is I have.
~By Conan O'Brien ~
There's nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde, like Marilyn Monroe or Princess Diana and, right now, I'm that icon.
~By Paris Hilton ~
I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element.
~By Herb Ritts ~
Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
~By Harry Browne ~
What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
~By Anatole France ~
I've received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me.
~By Harry Dean Stanton ~
The sad thing is, when it comes to diet, is that even when well-intentioned Feds try to do right by us, they fail. Either they're outvoted by puppets of agribusiness, or they are puppets of agribusiness.
~By Mark Bittman ~
Putin has a lot at stake here and restoring the relationship with the United States, and there are already signs as Sandy mentioned that he's moving in the right direction to begin to ascertain that their trade with Iran is not used for the production of nuclear weapons.
~By Frank Carlucci ~
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.
~By Mary Kay Ash ~
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 ~
I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.
~By Harry Bridges ~
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 ~
In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers.
~By Polly Toynbee ~
Right after the game, say as little as possible.
~By Tom Landry ~
I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a right to exercise them.
~By Ernestine L. Rose ~
If I were a Palestinian of the right age, I'd eventually join one of the terrorist organizations.
~By Ehud Barak ~
The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.
~By Byron White ~
The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.
~By Leon Kass ~
A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
~By Manfred Eigen ~
There has been loss of steel manufacturing. Those people need jobs. Where you have to build the third airport is where people are. So you're right; if his site isn't playable, then our site is right next to it.
~By Richard M. Daley ~
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
~By Golda Meir ~
We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.
~By Peter King ~
When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.
~By Andy Roddick ~
Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.
~By Jalal Talabani ~
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
~By Warren Buffett ~
In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
~By Jack Nicholson ~
Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right.
~By Matthew Perry ~
Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
~By Larry Flynt ~
When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.
~By Walter Kaufmann ~
The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.
~By Brooke Shields ~
I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I wish the books had been around when my kids were the right age for them.
~By Gene Wolfe ~
There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.
~By Howard Aiken ~
The poor child was the drudge of the household, and was always in the wrong. He was, however, the most bright and discreet of all the brothers; and if he spoke little, he heard and thought the more.
~By Charles Perrault ~
No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.
~By Charles Simmons ~
We have to have a way of dealing with this that engenders confidence, trust, gives us every chance of getting the right outcome and boosts both sustainability and economic return at the same time.
~By John Anderson ~
I think it's unconscionable for a Senator from Massachusetts to come down here and tell the people of Florida what's right for them. It's arrogant and irresponsible.
~By Jeff Miller ~
Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.
~By Tori Amos ~
At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me.
~By Sammy Hagar ~
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
~By John McCarthy ~
I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.
~By Larry Hagman ~
This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
~By Floyd Abrams ~
I want to thank all the fans for their support over the years. Keep supporting the Knicks, we're moving in the right direction here and we will be exciting to watch and competing against the best in the NBA. Come back to the Garden for those exciting games.
~By John Starks ~
I want to get back to my fighting weight of 98 pounds. I have the exact measurements of that guy from the movie, Powder. Right now, I am the reigning West Coast Powder.
~By David Spade ~
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 ~
Every President wants to do right.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
~By Will Rogers ~
Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.
~By Bjorn Ulvaeus ~
Right now we're working on finishing up Pirates! for the Xbox, we're developing Civilization IV and we've got a couple other games in development that we'll tell you about soon.
~By Sid Meier ~
When Julia and I broke up and I was really scared to go into a market or anywhere because I thought, 'Oh God, everyone must hate me. And that wasn't the case. People said, 'I'm sorry this happened, man. Are you alright?'
~By Kiefer Sutherland ~
I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism.
~By Robert Vaughn ~
You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk show host and I agree with that.
~By Alan Dershowitz ~
My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move.
~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.
~By Lance Morrow ~
I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.
~By Bruce Springsteen ~
I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.
~By Tom Watson ~
The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.
~By William Jennings Bryan ~
What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?
~By Jessica Savitch ~
You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.
~By Joseph E. Levine ~
Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.
~By Pierre Curie ~
I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.
~By Donald Johanson ~
The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.
~By George Sutherland ~
It's very important to vote. People died for this right.
~By Lenny Kravitz ~
Being Captain of the Dodgers meant representing an organization committed to winning and trying to keep it going. We could have won every year if the breaks had gone right.
~By Pee Wee Reese ~
I look at the Senior Al Gore that I had the chance to serve in the Senate with. A great human being. He went down to defeat to this right wing bunch back at the time.
~By Birch Bayh ~
Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.
~By Alison Moyet ~
Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice - that is the essence. And if it's not the essence, then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot - the content of character, not the color of skin.
~By Glenn Beck ~
You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right.
~By Laura Bush ~
Well I knew JD could go out there and knock the guy out because in training I told JD all the time that he has height, reach and size and he has the power. JD has such a right hand, his right hand is like wow, oh man it is bad.
~By Michael Moorer ~
Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.
~By Tom Stoppard ~
There are a lot of people out there who are just waiting that we fail. They brought up the theory that we're one-hit wonders and they want us to fall flat on our noses, just to prove them right.
~By Mark McGrath ~
Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
~By Wade Boggs ~
PR is extremely important, and being able to use it in the right way means everything. You have to market your success.
~By Lee Haney ~
These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever.
~By Caleb Cushing ~
I had the sets that meant so much to this character built - right in my home, especially the kitchen, which was important both for her character and for your introduction to her when Albert comes to visit.
~By Debbie Reynolds ~
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