#rightly

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#burns #choose #concern #debt #diet

I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community. ↗

— Ken Mehlman

#african-american #african-american community #am #candidates #committed

Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible. ↗

— Hermann Oberth

#barely #brightly #discernible #educational #forward

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#eye #heart #here #invisible #now

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. ↗

— Mark Twain

#ever #may #pause #right #right word

It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light. ↗

— Roland Gift

#brightly #burn #dim #half #light

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

#been #conformity #creative #despotism #differences

Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#first #five #four #i #light

Now being upon the haunches (as he necessarily must be in this case) is it impossible but he must be light in hand, because no horse can be rightly upon his haunches without being so. ↗

— William Cavendish

#being #case #hand #haunches #his

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#body #give #life #live #main