Q-R quotes

Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thine superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there. -Francis Quarles (1592-1644)

This president is going to lead us out of this recovery. It will happen. -Dan Quayle at a campaign stop

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will never, never surrender to what is right. -Dan Quayle

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people. -US Vice President J. Danforth Quayle

When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame. -US Vice President J. Danforth Quayle

The US has a vital interest in that area of the country. -Dan Quayle referring to Latin America

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. -Dan Quayle

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system. -Dan Quayle, Former U.S. Vice President (1947-) [on the concept of a manned mission to Mars]

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. -Robert Quillen, journalist and cartoonist (1887-1948)

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone; all leave it alone. -Thomas De Quincey, writer (1785-1859)

The perfection of art is to conceal art. -Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus), rhetorician (c. 35-95)

R Quotes

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness. -Zadok Rabinwitz

You can sometimes count every orange on a tree but never all the trees in a single orange. -A.K. Ramanujan, poet (1929-1993)

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. --Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973)

He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink. -John Ray, naturalist (1627-1705)

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone. -Stella, Lady Reading

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. -Ambrose Redmoon

Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want. It isn't charity to give away things you want to get rid of and it isn't a sacrifice to do things you don't mind doing.-Myrtle Reed, author (1874-1911)

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is. -Chuck Reid

Laziness is no more than the habit of resting before you get tired. -Jules Renard

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. -Jules Renard, writer (1864-1910)

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right. -Jules Renard, writer (1864-1910)

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it. -Jules Renard, writer (1864-1910)

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. -Jules Renard, writer (1864-1910)

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more. -Jules Renard, writer (1864-1910)

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. -James Reston, journalist (1909-1995)

The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. -Joshua Reynolds, painter (1723-1792)

The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly. -Charles Reznikoff, poet (1894-1976)

No matter what a man's past may have been, his future is spotless.- John R. RiceI

Lying is done with words and also with silence. -Adrienne Rich, writer and teacher (1929- )

If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find something in them to hang him. -Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642)

I never said it was possible. I only said it was true. -Charles Richet, Nobel Laureate in Physiology

A scholar knows no boredom. -Jean Paul Richter, writer (1763-1825)

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted. -Jean Paul Richter

Fine minds are seldom fine souls. -Jean Paul Richter, writer (1763-1825)

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at 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.
-Jacob A. Riis, journalist and social reformer (1849-1914)

Two step formula for handling stress: 1. Don't sweat the small stuff. 2.Remember that it's all small stuff. -Anthony Robbins

I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and I would never have to worry. -Anthony Robbins

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it. -Tom Robbins, writer (1936- )

When we kill animals to eat them, they end up killing us because their flesh, which contains cholesterol and saturated fat, was never intended for human beings. -William Clifford Roberts, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of Cardiology

Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) Writer

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. -John D. Rockefeller

Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. -Paul Rodriguez

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn...and change. -Carl Rogers

Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. -Comedian John Rogers (who holds a graduate degree in physics)

Rogers (1879-1935) American Humorist, Actor

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else. -- Rogers

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it. -Will Rogers

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. -Will Rogers

You can't say civilization isn't advancing, in every war they kill you in a new way. -Will Rogers, American humorist (1879-1935)

I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the one who sold it. -Will Rogers

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there -Will Rogers (1879-1935,) American Humorist, Actor
Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like. -Will Rogers, humorist (1879-1935)
A king can stand people fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking. -Will Rogers, humorist (1879-1935)

Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.- Jim Rohn

O Liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name! -Jeanne-Marie Roland, revolutionary (1754-1793)

You can't always get what you want. But if you try, sometimes you'll find what you need. -Rolling Stones

You 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 - Eleanor Roosevelt

When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted. Eleanor Roosevelt ~
(1884-1962, American First Lady, Columnist, Lecturer, Humanitarian)

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give. Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, American First Lady, Columnist, Lecturer, Humanitarian)

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. -Eleanor Roosevelt, diplomat, author, and lecturer (1884-1962)

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. -Eleanor Roosevelt, diplomat and writer (1884-1962)

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? -Eleanor Roosevelt, diplomat and writer (1884-1962)

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity. -Eleanor Roosevelt, diplomat and writer (1884-1962)

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. -Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President (1882-1945)

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough. -Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA)

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. - Franklin D. Roosevelt - (1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA) (incorrect perhaps teddy?)

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President (1882-1945)

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. -Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President (1882-1945)

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. - Theodore Roosevelt

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything. - Theodore Roosevelt

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to he man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt

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. -Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President (1858-1919)

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. - Roosevelt, Theodore 1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground. - Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. -Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-sixth US president (1858-1919)

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head. -Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President (1858-1919)

Each of us must make his own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way. -Suzuki Roshi

A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds. --Percy Ross

Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws. -Amschel Mayer Rothschild, banker (1743-1812)

Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains. -Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? -Jean Jacques Rousseau, philosopher and author (1712-1778)

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure. -Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher and author (1712-1778)

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. -Leo Rosten, author (1908-1997)

People rarely win wars; governments rarely lose them. -Arundhati Roy, writer and activist (1961- )

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. -Theodore Rubin

You know the oxygen masks on airplanes ? I don't think there's really any oxygen. I think they're just to muffle the screams. -Rita Rudner

Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them. -Rita Rudner

When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always. -Rita Rudner, comedienne (1955- )

The satiated man and the hungry one do not see the same thing when they look upon a loaf of bread. -Rumi, poet and mystic (1207-1273)

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. -Salman Rushdie, writer (1947- )

When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package. -John Ruskin

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness. -John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)

Life without industry is guilt, industry without art is brutality. -John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. -John Ruskin

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it. -John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. -John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)

I believe that the first test of a truly great man is his humility. I do not mean by humility, doubt of his own powers. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not in them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful. -John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)

We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it; which last is itself another form of duty. -John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)

Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, and author (1872-1970)

After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.~ Samuel Rutherford ~1600-1661, Scottish Pastor

The only person you should ever compete with is yourself. You can't hope for a fairer match. -Todd Ruthman

You train people how to treat you by how you treat yourself. -Martin Rutte