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Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.


Tom Stoppard

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TOM STOPPARD Everybody would like to be remembered, the catch is do you want to be remembered for all the wrong r...
GARY F EVANS... People in life should not judge other people whoever they are whatever they do there religion or cre...
GARY F EVANS... You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER If someone can't accept the way you are, you probably are spending time with the wrong person.
VIKTORIJA GRUMBLYTė History is made so that we can learn from it but like all lessons in life, if they are not learned w...
GARY F EVANS... I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES We want to get you some money right now so you can get somewhere where you can have some power and a...
GUY DAVIS Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you.
F. JOHNSON Weird makes you truly sexy in a way the world can never know.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Better to play dumb than to go as smartass… after all smartasses get what they deserve in the end....
DEYTH BANGER If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.
WILLIAM H. MCRAVEN Why is it that we are constantly proving the world wrong but never proving ourselves right?
GIRL234 That's pretty much the situation throughout the country.
MICHAEL RIGHT There are always risks in battle. It's a dangerous business. The trick is to take the right ones.' [...
JOHN FLANAGAN Goals do not get stored in your voice message or email bin. They are not going to reach out from the...
DARREN L JOHNSON If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can'...
BERNARD BARUCH Get the shading right, the lighting right, and there are things you can do to make the CGI look more...
JON FAVREAU If you can find your way, a little prayer can help you find the right path.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be ri...
BERNARD BARUCH If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be ri...
BERNARD M. BARUCH It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.
JIM DEMINT You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
ROBERT FROST Many times, the right man gets outnumbered by false and wrong people while the other true and honest...
APURVA GAGLANI Knowing "Attitude is Everything" is just right, but understanding what the right attitude is truly i...
ANUJ SOMANY So if you are a superb customer on the Internet or visit our Boston store all the time -- we'll know...
HARRY KUBETZ You deserve respect or get respect you earn it with a true heart
CHRIS MACHADO If you see the current, you can follow it out and you won't even get your hair wet. It sucks you rig...
JAKE KIRSCHENBAUM Before you ask yourself why you didn't get the respect you think you deserve, ask yourself what did ...
TROY J. GAINEY So. I should just give up now?" she asked mildly. "Just let him spiral down into madness until the N...
ROBIN HOBB If you live your life to please others, sometimes you neglect yourself. You deserve happiness. You d...
AMAKA IMANI NKOSAZANA The single most sacred pilgrimage you will ever make is the one right where you are.
MOLLY KATE BROWN If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT Yes, boys are a little like shoes. Why? Well...They can be useful. But mainly...They are nice to loo...
RACHEL HILL Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Don't beg a man to keep you. If he isn't sure you are the right one make the decision for yourself. ...
PAULA HELLER GARLAND Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.
JOHN LENNON Sticks and stones may break my bones’, as they say in the Middle Worlds, but with the right words ...
JOANNE HARRIS Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the righ...
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER "It’s the little things you do that matter most to the ones that love you.” ~Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN What will make you a star is in you
SOTONYE ANGA In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.
JIMI HENDRIX The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Doing the right thing has power.
LAURA LINNEY When there's a last-second play, you can't get too scientific. You have to get the ball in the right...
BOBBY GONZALEZ There are people who treat you right and there are people who do not treat you right. Don't get affe...
AVIJEET DAS I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.
DIANE ABBOTT You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
WINSTON CHURCHILL With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will d...
ZIG ZIGLAR Words are the tools of 'to be' - of expression. They are completely built on the fact that y...
MARCEL DUCHAMP The markets for the products are huge. If you can get it right, it's really a market that's infinite...
ROBERT METCALFE What's the difference between people who see and seek gaps and those that see and seek bridges? The ...
RICHIE NORTON We're men, and men aren't born to stand alone.
TAMORA PIERCE For a longtime we crawl on this earth like caterpillars, waiting for the splendid, diaphanous butter...
GREG CHALMERS For a longtime we crawl on this earth like caterpillars, waiting for the splendid, diaphanous butter...
BERNARD HOLLAND You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're ...
IAN RANKIN You are changing the world with your thoughts, actions, and creation.
DEBASISH MRIDHA If you can manipulate words, you can manipulate the world.
ADAM MUTH So sometimes, no matter what you do, you don’t get the respect you think you deserve..
OLASOT To be the best is a choice you make on your own
SOTONYE ANGA And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing.
STEVE YZERMAN Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do t...
AL LEWIS Journalism is just a gun. It's only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that's all you need....
WARREN ELLIS It can be done. If you take one positive step and get all the little things right, then big things w...
DICKEY MEEKS If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost ...
FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can ch...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Sacred play is anything that takes you into that right hemisphere of your brain. It turns out that t...
MARTHA BECK Know that you get second chances so that you may change the art of your interaction, not so that oth...
ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS If you can’t Respect her, you don’t Deserve Her!
UDAYVEER SINGH Do not withhold good . . . when it is in your power to do it.
RACHEL HAUCK Doing what's right is seldom easy.
JANICE HARDY Doing whats right is never easy ... You think you're right, but you lose track of what you were tryi...
JANICE HARDY The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If you have the will to accumulate knowledge it has to be used in the way it was intended to be used...
GARY F EVANS... You can't make other people do "right." All you can do is "right" yourself, and sometimes even that'...
BILLY C LEE I was concerned about doing the right thing when I was a kid. I suppose as a child, you're a mas...
RUPERT GRAVES ...they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the ...
E.A. BUCCHIANERI In life the only things that you see are things that you are projecting, and life presents you with ...
OSHO Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you ...
TAYLOR SWIFT Be on the right way and go in the right direction. Once you are never going back, you will progress ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR If you live in the right county and get the right worker, you're going to win.
TERRY BROOKS If you know the right answers long enough people wont notice when you make up the ones you don't.
ENMANUEL SELLA YERMENOS There's a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing.
CHRIS FUSSELL Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
VICTOR HUGO We're not perfect, but we want to do the right thing.
CHARLIE BELL I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ...
MARK TWAIN For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a lit...
SLAVOJ ŽIžEK You are a role model to people. You gotta make sure you're doing the right thing.
STIPE MIOCIC Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it ...
OPRAH WINFREY Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing...
MARCIA ANGELL If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw...
SARAH DESSEN Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
JOHN RAY Let nothing human be considered sacred. Let nothing human be considered divine.
MARTY RUBIN You can't be right with others and the world . . . until you are right with yourself.
DETECTIVE DAVID LOVE Right!"
"Right!"
"You can get there!"
"I can get there!"
"You're a natural at co...
TERRY PRATCHETT In the end it doesn't matter what you do.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you o...
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you o...
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TOM STOPPARD GUIL: It [Hamlet's madness] really boils down to symptoms. Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mista...
TOM STOPPARD A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.
TOM STOPPARD There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word ...
TOM STOPPARD Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came acro...
TOM STOPPARD Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on stagin...
TOM STOPPARD One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that...
TOM STOPPARD The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.
TOM STOPPARD You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing the ...
TOM STOPPARD Free to move, speak, extemporize, and yet. We have not been cut loose. Our truancy is defined by on...
TOM STOPPARD Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of ag...
TOM STOPPARD As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it...
TOM STOPPARD All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and...
TOM STOPPARD We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
TOM STOPPARD Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway.
Guildenstern: What?
Rosencrantz: England.
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