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(on Sam Peckinpah) Sam has always believed, and I believe rightly, that he is there to make the film and that anyone who stands in his way is dead. They`re in deep, deep trouble. And anyone who doesn`t come up to snuff and do their job absolutely perfectly is in deep trouble with Sam.

- Warren Oates

After Reality Bites (1994) came out, I had opportunities to be a different kind of actor, and rightly or wrongly, I grew up in a household where there was such anger and resentment towards anyone who had any money, that I never really had any desire to make any money. And I had the idea that a real artist wouldn`t have any money. That`s been problematic.

- Ethan Hawke

That`s the hard thing about adapting a book that`s so well loved. It`s like playing Hamlet. The audience doesn`t buy it, because they`re Hamlet. How could you possibly be Hamlet when Hamlet is them? It`s one of those difficult things where a good writer gives the reader ownership of the material. They develop an intimate relationship with it and become its protectors, and rightly so. Whether they like the movie or not, there is something a bit outrageous about exploiting their private story.

- Liev Schreiber

Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story.

- Anthony Holden

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In an ideal way, in an ideal world, myself and the director are one. And as you rightly say, in an ideal world, you can`t see the horizon between sky and sea. I felt that the times with Spielberg (Steven Spielberg) on Schindler`s List (1993), we were moving as one creature.

- Ben Kingsley

Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.

- Benito Mussolini

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

- Bertrand Russell

Obviously if you`re among the three per cent that didn`t get it within 12 months you`re going to be concerned, and rightly so,

- George Abbott

They played so good it was frightening. And I, of course, being young, was in awe of everything that was going on and rightly so. I mean, it was too good to believe.

- Ray Brown

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

- Winston Churchill

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

- Winston Churchill

John, quite rightly, was extremely rigorous about learning the script, and if you didn`t he could get quite cross, which was fair enough,

- Prunella Scales

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

- James Allen

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.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!

- Elizabeth Gaskell

I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I`m confused about the information I get from the media.

- Bob Woodward

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

- G.K. Chesterton

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

- Abner Louima

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

- Adil Ahmed

On two occasions I have been asked, `Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?` I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

- Alan Curry

Organizations like the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960`s, but it`s clear that nowadays they`ve run out of useful things to do since they now spend most of their time defending the scum of the Earth from getting what they rightly deserve.

- Alan McGlade

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

- Albert Frere

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

- Alex Freudmann

It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.

- Alex Ratelle

It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in regulating the rest from the beginning of things, should have regard to itself.

- Alex Thiermann

I don`t think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.

- Alexander Duff

Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.

- Allen Sinai

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

- Alton Greene

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

- Alvina Tan

If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it`s a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed.

- Ana Chapman

India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

- Andrea Wojtowicz

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

- Andrew Bosomworth

The events of March 11th have rightly led us to redouble our efforts

- Annelise Hoffman

We arrived late and just sat at the back of the auditorium. They were showing snippets of a game against Real Madrid and we were just chuckling away because it was great to watch this wee man tearing strips off defenders. He was voted the greatest Celtic player ever, and rightly so.

- Augie Ghio

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Mark Twain

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

- Aristotle

If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ rightly

- Martin Luther