Quotes by Authors - R
Quotes by Authors - R
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads.
I swear -- by my life and my love for it -- that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Jeannette RankinYou can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Nancy ReaganA woman is like a tea bag--you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
Myrtle ReedLots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.
Dr. Brian Reid & a student, on problems in programming, 1992Dr. Reid: Sometimes if you have a cappuccino and then try again it'll work OK.
Marcus J. Ranum: Sometimes one cappuccino isn't enough.
Ernest RenanThe simplest schoolboy is now familiar with facts for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
Jules RenardLaziness is no more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Ruth E. RenkaiNever fear the shadows. They simply mean that there's a light somewhere nearby.
Anne Rice(from The Vampire Lestat) But don't you see, the color of wine in a crystal glass can be spiritual. The look in a face, the music of a violin. A Paris theater can be infused with the spiritual for all its solidity.
Mordecai Richler(from The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz) In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see it.
Jean Paul RichterA scholar knows no boredom.
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
Rainer Maria RilkeThe only journey is the one within.
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see each other whole against the sky.
Joan RiversI told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, "Get the hell off my property."
Frank RizzoThe streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe.
Marion Pat Robertson(speaking of the Equal Rights Amendment) It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Kim Stanley RobinsonTypos in Finnegans Wake? How could you tell?
La Rochefoucauld
If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind will blow out a candle, and blow in a fire.
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
Will RogersWe can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'
I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is; they like to run their own business.
I know men that would make my wife a better husband than I am; but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em.
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else.
Mark Roland(from The Last Gunslinger) Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Trever RookThere are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering.
Eleanor RooseveltThe future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
You can gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk.
Theodore RooseveltDo what you can, with what you have, where you are.
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
W. S. RossWagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
Jean Jacques RousseauPeople who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Helen RowlandBefore marriage, a man will lay down his life for you; after marriage he won't even lay down his newspaper.
Rita RudnerI love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
Wilma RudolphMy doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
Jelaluddin RumiJudge a moth by the beauty of its candle.
The minute I heard my first love storyI tried to find Him on the Christian cross, but He was not there; I went to the Temple of the Hindus and to the old pagodas, but I could not find a trace of Him anywhere.
I searched on the mountains and in the valleys but neither in the heights nor in the depths was I able to find Him. I went to the Caaba in Mecca, but he was not there either.
I questioned the scholars and philosophers, but He was beyond their understanding.
I then looked into my heart and it was there where He dwelled that I saw Him; He was nowhere else to be found.
When I am with you, we stay up all night.I am made from the dust of the stars, the oceans flow in my veins.
John RuskinThe greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, and thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophesy and religion all in one.
It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter. The written poem is only poetry talking, and the statue, the picture, and the musical composition are poetry acting. Milton and Goethe, at their desks, were not more truly poets than Phidias with his chisel, Raphael at his easel, or deaf Beethoven bending over his piano, inventing and producing strains which he himself could never hope to hear.
When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.
The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
Bertrand RussellI would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge
Television allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
(from Autobiography) Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
(from Education and the Social Order) I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
Mark RussellThe scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
Andrew RutherfordReal Programmers always confuse Christmas and Halloween because
OCT 31 == DEC 25 !
You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.