Top 680 Rightly Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

Google worries - and rightly so - about how hard it is for a big company to come up with the next hot thing.

Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.

A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only.

Whatever your problem is, if you may think it rightly, the solution will appear on the horizon like a shining sun!

Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.

Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements ... those of us who prevail today will have done no small thing.

He that rightly understands the reasonableness and Excellency of charity will know that it can never be excusable to waste any of our money in pride and folly.

When people think, rightly or wrongly, that marriage is forever, they are stimulated to seek and find a resolution, a modus vivendi, whenever they quarrel.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

It has been rightly said that what a critic wants to understand he must, at one time, have deeply loved, even if only for a fleeting moment.

The credit for much of this rightly belongs to the late Mayor Daley who forged a coalition of business and labor that kept Chicago always moving ahead.

In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather than lethal.

It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.

God desires that we become spiritually healthy enough through faith to have a conscience that rightly interprets the work of the Holy Spirit.

One of the clear problems of Obamacare is that it was perceived, I think rightly, as one party forcing its vision of how healthcare should be upon the rest of the country.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

The American people rightly look to their military leaders to be not only skilled in the technical aspects of the profession of arms, but to be men of integrity

No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.

Our intelligence experts are rightly concerned about the use of the TikTok app, especially on U.S. government-issued devices.

Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us.

Rightly tired of the pain ? hear and feel, boss... where we's comin from or goin to or why... If ? could end it, ? would. But ? can't.

Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

It's wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline's name is mentioned, people's voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so.

I'm accused of, and perhaps rightly so, of not being mean enough. I've been taken to task in many a book review; a good satirist has to, you know, has to kill.

Almost every culture has its own variation on chicken soup, and rightly so - it's one of the most gratifying dishes on the face of the Earth.

Rightly or wrongly, as a woman in politics, you're being judged for what you're wearing, and people are paying attention to that more than they do with men.

The public, unlike our governing elite, are not obsessed by race and sex. They are rightly interested only in the contents of the person's character.

If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightly consider it an act of war.

Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.

Multiplexes need to be partners in increasing footfalls, but they have been too focused - maybe rightly so - in expanding their footprint of screens, because we are such an under-screened country.

Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand.

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.

I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.

All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.

Since Gamergate, many women I know are reluctant to speak publicly on gender issues, because they fear - rightly - that they will be targeted and harassed.

I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.

Rightly or wrongly, for better or worse, valuation is a very important tool for recruiting - particularly in the markets for software engineering, where the market is really tight.

It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed.

Rightly or wrongly, most Americans look at mortgage equity withdrawal as the closest thing to a free lunch.

Be rightly related to God, find your joy there, and out of you will flow rivers of living water.

We can't forbid women from going to the beach because of a costume, even if it is rightly seen as neo-fundamentalist, backward, and shocking.

My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.

We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals we disseminate widely in our environment?

Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their States were rightly governed. Their States being rightly governed, the whole kingdom was made tranquil and happy.

I want to take this opportunity to express, one more time, my deep sadness to those countrymen who feel, rightly, that they were victims of my government.

Love is like fire, a dangerous thing to play with, although the best of friends and the most loyal of servants when rightly handled.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.

Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers.

Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble. (Quidvis recte factum quamvis humile praeclarum.)

The great mass of our citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.

I returned to Vietnam in '94, and even then, all those decades later, walking around that place, I remained afraid. And, in some ways, rightly so.

As a player you get scrutinised and rightly so, sometimes it's what comes with a move that I've made. I've just got to take that on the chin and concentrate on me.

Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus.