Rand, Ayn : Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it.
Randi, James : No amount of belief makes something a fact.
Randi, James : Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason.
Ray, Marie Beynon : No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living.
Rayner, Richard : America - the nation of the bullet as well as the ballot, and unlikely to change.
Rayner, Richard : America – the nation of the bullet as well as the ballot, and unlikely to change.
Reagan, Ronald : Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Reagan, Nancy : A woman is like a tea bag: you never know her strength until you drop her in hot water.
Reagan, Nancy : A woman is like a tea bag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.
Reardon, Daniel : In the long run, the pessimist may be proved to be right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
Redemption, The Shawshank : You can get busy living, or get busy dying.
Reed, Donna : The term working mother is ridiculously redundant.
Reed, Myrtle : Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.
Reeves, George : Knock the t off the can't.
Regnard, Jean-francois : We love without reason, and without reason we hate.
Reisinger, John : Baseball is like a Wagnerian opera — 10 minutes of excitement packed into 4 hours.
Remen, Rachel Naomi : When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time.
Renan, Ernest : The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
Renard, Jules : Words are the small change of thought.
Reston, James : This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
Rich, Adrienne : So much in the world has been destroyed that I have cast my lot with those who, age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.
Rich, Adrienne : So much in the world has been destroyed that I have cast my lot with those who, age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.
Richter, Jean Paul : It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
Richter, Jean Paul : The words a father speaks to his children in the privacy of the home are not overheard at the time, but, as in whispering galleries, they will be clearly heard at the end and by posterity.
Richter, Jean Paul : Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are endangered.
Richter, Jean Paul : The words a father speaks to his children in the privacy of the home are not overheard at the time, but, as in whispering galleries, they will be clearly heard at the end and by posterity.
Richter, Jean Paul : Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.
Richter, Jean Paul : For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
Richter, Jean Paul : The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Richter, Jean Paul : The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind.
Riis, Jacob A. : When nothing seems to help, I think of a stone-cutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before together.
Ripley, Alexandra : Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.
Rivarol, Antoine De : Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of water.
Rivarol, Antoine De : It has been . . . said that the mob has many heads, but no brains.
Roane, Susan : They say, You can't give a smile away; it always comes back. What goes around, comes around.
Robbins, Leonard H. : How a minority, Reaching majority, Seizing authority, Hates a minority!
Robbins, Anthony : People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals that do not inspire them.
Robertson, Jeanne : Failure is a disappointment but not defeat.
Robinson, James Harvey : Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
Robson, Flora : Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.
Roche, Boyle : Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.
Rochefoucauld, La : We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.
Rochefoucauld, La : We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
Rochefoucauld, La : Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.
Rockefeller, John D. : Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
Rodin, Auguste : Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best. (Henry van Dyke, U.S. poet and educator, 1852-1933Brothers: A brother is a friend given by nature. (Gabriel Legouve, French writer, 1807-1903Patience: Patience is also a form of action.
Rodin, Auguste : Patience is also a form of action.
Rodriguez, Silverio : Addiction is suicide in slow motion.
Rogers, Will : Diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggie until you can find a rock.
Rogers, Will : A king can stand people fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.
Rommel, Erwin : Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible.
Rooney, Andy : Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make easier don’t need to be done.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. : The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Roosevelt, Eleanor : You must do things you think you cannot do.
Roosevelt, Theodore : To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Roosevelt, Eleanor : No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
Roosevelt, Theodore : No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. : Political equality is meaningless in the face of economic inequality.
Roosevelt, Eleanor : It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Roosevelt, Eleanor : No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Roosevelt, Theodore : The welfare of each of us is dependent upon the welfare of all of us.
Roosevelt, Eleanor : No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. : I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. : A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
Roosevelt, Eleanor : It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Roosevelt, Eleanor : Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. : I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. (Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. politician who was elected four times as the 32nd US President, 1882-1945Judgment: I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. : I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the badluck of the early worm.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. : I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
Rorem, Ned : Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
Rosenbaum, Ada : When men realized that women bleed every month and don�t die, they became fearful of women�s power.
Rosenbaum, Ada : When men realized that women bleed every month and don�t die, they became fearful of women�s power.
Rosenbaum, Ada : When men realized that women bleed every month and don't die, they became fearful of women's power.
Rosenbaum, Ada : When men realized that women bleed every month and don't die, they became fearful of women's power.
Rosenberg, Marshall : Most of us grow up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing.
Rosenberg, Marshall : Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.
Rosenberg, Marshall : Most of us grow up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing.
Rosenberg, Marshall : If you want to enjoy intimacy, you must learn to enjoy pain.
Rosenberg, Marshall : We criticize people for not giving us what we ourselves are afraid to ask for.
Ross, Ronald : The Panama Canal was dug with a microscope.
Rossetti, Christina : Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.
Rossetti, Christina : Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.
Rossetti, Christina : To strengthen whilst one stands. For there is no friend like a sister / In calm or stormy weather; / To cheer one on the tedious way, / To fetch one if one goes astray, / To lift one if one totters down, /
Rossetti, Christina : For there is no friend like a sister / In calm or stormy weather; / To cheer one on the tedious way, / To fetch one if one goes astray, / To lift one if one totters down, / To strengthen whilst one stands.
Rossini, Gioacchino : Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
Rossini, Gioacchino : How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
Roth, Philip : It's best to give while your hand is still warm.
Roth, Philip : It's best to give while your hand is still warm.
Roth, Philip : It's best to give while your hand is still warm.
Roux, Joseph : Science is for those who learn; poetry for those who know.
Rowling, J. K. : It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
Rowling, J. K. : It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
Rowling, J. K. : We all have both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
Rowling, J. K. : We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
Rowling, J. K. : It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
Roy, Arundhati : There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced or the preferably unheard.
Roy, Arundhati : Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons?
Roy, Arundhati : There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced or the preferably unheard.
Roy, Arundhati : Another world is not only possible, she is on her way; on a quiet day I can hear her breathing.
Roy, Arundhati : Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons?
Rubin, Jerry : Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. (Robert H. Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court justice and chief U.S. prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials, 1892-1954Liberty: We can afford no liberties with liberty itself. (Robert H. Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court justice and chief U.S. prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials, 1892-1954Language: No man, or body of men, can dam the stream of language. (James Russell Lowell, U.S. poet, editor, and diplomat, 1819-1891Trees: Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone. (Czeslaw Milosz, Polish poet and novelist, 1911-2004Vision: Where there's no vision, the people perish. (Proverbs 29:18, King James Version of the BibleSustainability: I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management. (E.B. White, U.S. writer, 1899-1985Language: A language is a dialect that has an army and a navy. (Max Weinreich, Yiddish linguist and author, 1894-1969Power: The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.
Rubin, Jerry : The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.
Rubin, Jerry : The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.
Rubinstein, S. Leonard : Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance.
Rudner, Rita : If you like easygoing, monogamous men, stay away from billionaires.
Ruffini, Giovanni : The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.
Rushdie, Salman : A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Rusk, Dean : One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears.
Rusk, Dean : One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.
Rusk, Dean : One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.
Russell, Bertrand : We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Russell, Bertrand : The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
Russell, Bertrand : Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural - while it was recent.
Russell, Bertrand : Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Russell, Bertrand : Sin is geographical.
Russell, Bertrand : 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.
Russell, Bertrand : The central problem of our age is how to act decisively in the absence of certainty.
Russell, Bertrand : Real life is, to most men ... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
Russell, Bertrand : It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Russell, Bertrand : And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.
Russell, Bertrand : Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
Russell, Bertrand : The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Russell, Bertrand : Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.
Russell, Bertrand : There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.
Russell, Bertrand : The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
Russell, Bertrand : William James used to preach the 'will-to-believe.' For my part, I should wish to preach the 'will-to-doubt.' None of our beliefs are quite true. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
Russell, Bertrand : It's a healthy thing to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Russell, Bertrand : An individual human existence should be like a river: small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being.
Russell, Bertrand : 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.
Russell, Bertrand : Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Russell, Bertrand : 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.
Russell, Bertrand : Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent.
Russell, Bertrand : Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.
Russell, Bertrand : The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.