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The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.
Annie Lennox

Best, Future, Past

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.
William Jennings Bryan

Faith, Money, God

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
George Herbert

Work, Time, May

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
Horace Mann

Children, Means, Books

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
Benjamin Disraeli

Society, Him, Keep

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Pat Paulsen

Control, Country, Around

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
Moliere

The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.
Deepak Chopra

Live, Mind, Real

Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.
Dennis Miller

Time, Again, Getting

Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
Edward Abbey

Woman, She, State

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Life, Away, Difficult

I'm in a position of feeling secure enough so that I can say what I think is right and if so many people think it's wrong that I get fired, well, I've got enough to eat.
Andy Rooney

Feeling, Enough, Wrong

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.
John C. Maxwell

Choice, Choose, Attitudes

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.
Phyllis Diller

Become, Wanted, Knew

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Politics, Science, Others

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.
Dick Gregory

Country, Voting, Duty

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.
John Ruskin

Long, Rich, Wish

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
Jose Marti

Liberty, Honest, Speak

Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.
Jim Carrey

Work, Time, Good

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
Horace

Different, Another, Both

To me, if a heterosexual has a right to do it, then I have a right to do it. And if it's important to the gay youth - who are now setting the agenda - then its important to me.
Harvey Fierstein

Gay, Important, Youth

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Time, Why, Wrong

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
Horace

Wrong, Pride, Between

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.
Andrew Jackson

Worth, Takes, Believes

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Life, Keep, Reason

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
Helen Rowland

Marriage, Husband, Wife

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
Thomas Huxley

Power, Struggle, Thinking

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.
Jack Kevorkian

Sports, Happy, Working

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
Calvin Coolidge

Simple, Direct, Requires

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Nation, Nations

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