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It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.
- Jodi Picoult

The fate of our country is now in the hands of people who don't think about what they want until they get right up to the register at McDonald's.
- Stephen Colbert

This is a process," she said gently. "I know we want Haven to skip over the middle part and get right to the end... but I think the only way for her to get out of it is to go through it. Step by step.
- Lisa Kleypas

Hi, this is Julia. I'm sorry i'm not able to take your call right now, but please leave your deets and i'll get right back to you. Um....if this is Ryan, i'm thinking of you this very minute and i love you.
- Kahlen Aymes

In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.
- Dave Barry

Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.
- Samuel Beckett

My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture.
- Robert Benton

If I sleep in and don't run, I'll feel a little bit off because I didn't do what I was supposed to do. But I'm not going to beat myself up because of it. I'll just get right back on track.
- Valerie Bertinelli

If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much.
- Terry Brooks

At That Moment, it seemed the whole world cared what happened to him. All those people were hugging him and petting his hair. Everybody asked if he was okay.
It seemed that moment would last forever. That you had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.
- Chuck Palahniuk

You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.
- Chuck Palahniuk

Well, hell," muttered Drake. "Do you do that to all the human women?"
"No. Usually they've already started taking off their clothes by now. She's beginning to hurt my feelings."
"We need to get you a paper bag or a giant scar or something."
"Yeah," said the man, his tone dry. "I'll get right to work on that
- Shannon K Butcher

Awh hell," muttered Drake, "do you do that to all the human women?"
"No, usually they've started taking their clothes off by now. She's beginning to hurt my feelings." (Logan)
"We need to get you a paper bag or a scar or something. (Drake)
"Yeah," he said in a dry tone. "I'll get right to work on that."
(Helen spellbound-meeting Logan the Vampire for the first time)
- Shannon K Butcher

when you stumble, keep faith. And when you're knocked down, get right back up and never listen to anyone who says you can't or shouldn't go on.
- Hillary Clinton

One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, noble and brave and wonderful, it is also, when you get right down to it, only human.
- Terry Pratchett

I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'
- Doug Coupland

When you get right down to it, everybody's having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everyone. And the hell of it is, nothing seems to help much.
- Kurt Vonnegut

I call hellfire a threat," Natasha said, " and 'love thy neighbor' a value. But I believe in hell, or something close to it. I think hell is what we get right here on earth when people trade their spiritual and political values in on spiritual and political threats.
- David James Duncan

When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around.
- Black Elk

We all know what fun it can be to get right into a book and live there for a while, but falling out of a story and suddenly finding yourself in this world doesn't seem to be much fun at all.
- Cornelia Funke

Why could she remember nothing but stories of frightened people when Capricorn looked at her? She usually found it so easy to escape somewhere else, to get right inside the minds of people and animals who existed only on paper, so why not now? Because she was afraid. "Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.
- Cornelia Funke

I was just very conscious that I could either bore people by having the music be similar for too long, or I could just wear them out and bore them in a different way by having it changing too much every minute or two minutes. So, there was that kind of balance to get right.
- Jonny Greenwood

If the thought inspires you, and it feels good and right...it is yours, alone, to exercise. So get right on it!
- T F Hodge

I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.
- Laurence Housman

Because each are going to blame each other. The thing that Canberra has to really get right is the sharing of the resource. But my problem with people in the government who are there for a short time is that there's no consequences for some of these decisions they make.
- Rex Hunt

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.
- Thomas Huxley

You could get 50% wrong and you'd still get 50% right. That's nearly half!
- Jarod Kintz

But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that. About how your kids aren't really YOURS, they're just these people that you try to keep an eye on, and hope you'll all grow up someday to like each other and still be in one piece. What I mean is, everything you get is really just on loan. Does that make sense?"
Sure,"I said. "Like library books. Sooner or later they've all got to go back into the nightdrop.
- Barbara Kingsolver

He never did get right all the way again. And every once in a while he'd come down all bitey.
- Jonathan Maberry

When you get right down to it, every collection of letters is a magic spell, even it it's a moronic proclamation... Words have their impact, girl. Mind your manners. I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.
- Gregory Maguire

...but she wrote out some extra words on a piece of paper so Rain could practice reading. "Is this a magic spell?" the girl asked her.
"Don't let me get sappy on you, but when you get right down to it, every collection of letters is a magic spell, even if it is a moronic proclamation by the Emperor. Words have their impact, girl. Mind your manners. I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing."
-Out of Oz
- Gregory Maguire

It's nice to have eye candy around for my enjoyment." He looked Brad over. "It wouldn't kill you to pretty yourself up if you're going to be in my presence."
"Yeah, I'll get right on that," Brad said wryly.
"See that you do.
- R L Mathewson

A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience.
- W Somerset Maugham

It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right.
- Ian Mcdiarmid

Right,' said Kai, 'that'll be no problem in a city of two and a half million people. Let me just go dig out my special Lunar detector, and I'll get right on that.
- Marissa Meyer

Like true friends, they take no hardy or elegant stance loosely choreographed from some broad perspective. They get right in there and mutter "Jesus Christ!" and shake their heads.
- Lorrie Moore

Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time.
- Kenneth Noland

Nature will get rights as soon as it gets duties. The minute we see birds, trees, bugs, squirrels picking up litter, giving money to charity, and keeping an eye on our kids at the park, we'll let them vote.
- P J Orourke

When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.
- Sarah Jessica Parker

In many churches, the message of justification- how to get right with God- is preached over and over again. But much less is said about sanctification- how to live after you're converted.
- Nancy Pearcey

Technically, you don't pay me.
And technically, most of what I do is "think."
I...rrr. ummm.
And when you get right down to it, I'm better at it than you are.
-Ennesby & Captain Tagon
- Howard Tayler

When you get right down to it, militaries are essentially legalized mafias.
- Michel Templet

One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!
- Lea Thompson

My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
- Jack Wagner

I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.
- Lucinda Williams

I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously... I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird.
- Frank Zappa

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