Right Man Quotes

• I was in the right place at the right time.

  Mel Allen

  Photography, Perseverance, Good Luck

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• I happened to be in the right place at the right time.

  Calvin Harris

  Good Luck, Ohio, Mcdonalds

  "Calvin Harris Out-Earns Jay Z, Toby Keith As World’s Highest Paid DJ" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2014.

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• And what is the right woman, the right man? Someone who wants to go in the same direction as you do, someone who is compatible with your views and your values-- emotionally, physically, economically, spiritually.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Men, Views, Want

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• Flirting is the first step in a long process of finding the right man or woman.

  Julie Garwood

  Flirting, Men, Long

  Julie Garwood (2010). “The Clayborne Brides: One Pink Rose, One White Rose, One Red Rose”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Success, Lying

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• Lord Jesus,' Christy whispered, 'I want You to hold the key. I want You to decide what should happen in my heart's garden. I want You to let in or send out anything or anybody You want. Especially with guys. I don't want to ever unlock that gate again. I want you to open it only when the right man comes along. Take the key, Lord. Take all my keys. I'll wait for you.

  Robin Jones Gunn

  Jesus, Heart, Men

  Robin Jones Gunn (2009). “Christy Miller Collection”, p.465, Multnomah

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• If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Men, Doe

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.357, Penguin

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• if the right man does not come along, there are many fates far worse. One is to have the wrong man come along.

  Letitia Baldrige

  Fate, Men, Dating

  Letitia Baldrige (1968). “Of Diamonds and Diplomats”, New York : Ballantine Books

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• Take care with your words, Jacquetta, especially in cursing. Only say the things you mean, make sure you lay your curse on the right man. For be very sure that when you put such words out in the world they can overshoot-like an arrow, a curse can go beyond your target and harm another. A wise woman curses very sparingly.

  Philippa Gregory

  Wise, Mean, Men

  Philippa Gregory (2013). “The Lady of the Rivers”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.

  Aristotle

  Anger, Men, Rage

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• I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Exercise, Power, Men

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.3389, e-artnow

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• No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.

  Philip Danforth Armour

  Inspirational, Leadership, Fighting

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• Ostwald was a great protagonist and an inspiring teacher. He had the gift of saying the right thing in the right way. When we consider the development of chemistry as a whole, Ostwald's name like Abou ben Adhem's leads all the rest ... Ostwald was absolutely the right man in the right place. He was loved and followed by more people than any chemist of our time.

  Wilder Dwight Bancroft

  Teacher, Inspiration, Science

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• The clever combatant looks to the effect of combined energy, and does not require too much from individuals. Hence his ability to pick out the right men and utilize combined energy

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Clever, War

  Sun Tzu (2012). “Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text”, p.7, Tuttle Publishing

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• The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Leadership, Courage, Inspiration

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• Thirty was a big deal for me. It was the age where I reevaluated everything - how I approached life and how I thought about myself. When I look at my 20s, or when I look at any period in my life, I think about how much time I've wasted trying to find the right man.

  Amy Adams

  Men, Thinking, Age

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A sovereign of high character and intelligence must be able to know the right man, should place the responsibility on him, and expect results.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Character, Responsibility

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• For women of a certain age, how do you meet a guy, fall in love, and decide he's the right man to have children with? Your clock's ticking, you're looking at him, and it's a crazy, pressure-filled experience.

  Marcia Cross

  Falling In Love, Children, Crazy

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• But i couldn't. Was nowhere near ready for a committed relationship, and it wouldn't be fair. I needed time - to become the right man for a woman like you.

  Marci Shimoff

  Men, Like You, Committed

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• The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Men, Numbers, Legendary

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• I think it's important for every man to find the right woman and every woman to find the right man.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Men, Thinking, Important

  Interview in GQ Magazine, May 2010.

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• To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Lasts, Said

  Jane Austen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jane Austen (Illustrated)”, p.2302, Delphi Classics

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• The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go. He must still, to be a right man, be his mother's darling, and more, his father's pride, and more. The child is not meant to die, but to be forever fresh born.

  George MacDonald

  Mother, Children, Father

  George MacDonald, Rolland Hein (2004). “The Heart of George MacDonald: A One-Volume Collection of His Most Important Fiction, Essays, Sermons, Drama, and Biographical Information”, p.31, Regent College Publishing

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• I felt free and chained at the same time - like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been nominated and you are beseeched to vote for the right man.

  Henry Miller

  Men, Feels Just, Crooks

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.39, New Directions Publishing

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• Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way; but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Men, Law, Too Late

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.269, Faber & Faber

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