Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nina Garcia

People always ask me if I could live in any other era what would it be, and I tell them none! I feel so lucky to live in an age where technology has changed and continues to change and make life so much more exciting. It keeps everyone young and constantly learning new things.

Bill Laswell

People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.

Elizabeth Edwards

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.

Jamais Cascio

Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.

Guy Finley

Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us - high and low, light and dark - is the anti-change factor. It is also the mainspring of all our psychological fears.

Laurence Sterne

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

Benito Juarez

Respect for the rights of others means peace.

Clint Eastwood

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

John Lubbock

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

Sander Levin

Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings.

Peggy Lee

Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.

Stephen Kinzer

Revolutionaries who come to power by force of arms usually have great crimes in their background. Leaders who survive campaigns by great powers to destroy them do not survive because they observe the niceties of law. Subversives who shape world events by covert action and violence work in shadows and detest the light of day.

Zhuangzi

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

Rickey Henderson

Rickey don't like it when Rickey can't find Rickey's limo.

Werner Erhard

Ride the horse in the direction that it's going.

Phil Keoghan

Riding a bicycle is about getting back to basics. It's good for the waistline and it's good for the wallet, is what I'm saying.

Lawrence Kohlberg

Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.

Tom Verica

Right before 'American Dreams,' I started to pursue these avenues, like short films and getting into a couple night courses to really study photography and cinematography, and the language of visual storytelling.

Jackee Harry

Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.

Lauren Ambrose

Right now I just want to chill for a while. Take a hiatus from all the craziness. To clean my house, see my family. Just see some movies and pick some strawberries.

Nan Hayworth

Right now, there are nearly 30 jobs bills passed by the House with support from both Republicans and Democrats that are awaiting action in the Democratic-run Senate.

Peter Barris

Risk and failure is a part of our equation, and if you are seeing too little failure, you are actually probably not taking enough risks.

Richard Lamm

Roads are necessary, but the fact that we don't fully recognize that when you build a road you're doing more than building a road - you're building the future development of your city. And, that's what's never dawned on people. It still doesn't, in a way.

Larry Williams

Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.

Vance Packard

Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria

Amado Boudou

Rock helps me communicate directly with the people because rock doesn't lie, and people are fed up with lying politicians.

Hank Ballard

Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it.

Triple H

'Rocky' is a movie that just happens to be about boxing. It's really about characters and story lines and relationships and all those things, and the backdrop is boxing. You can go back and watch the final fight in 'Rocky' a thousand times. If you dig that movie, if you like the characters, you'll watch the whole movie over and over.

Michael Zaslow

Roger became a part of me, and when he went off the deep end and became a mad snake, I felt sorry for him.

Elinor Glyn

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

Beverly Jones

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.

Maggie Gallagher

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.

Graham Joyce

Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.

Mark McKinnon

Ronald Reagan was long thought to be the most conservative of Republicans. And by any standard today he is the most popular Republican in modern history. Yet he raised taxes 11 times, supported a ban on assault rifles and the Brady Bill, which mandated background checks, and established amnesty for 3 million undocumented workers.

Marc Morial

Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.

Oscar Levant

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

Walther Bothe

Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today.

Alexander John Ellis

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.

Nancy Greene

Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.

Philip Treacy

Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.

Brian O'Driscoll

Rugby gave me a confidence. I was quite shy and relatively timid, but it gave me the confidence to be a little bit more out-going and back myself a bit more.

Franz Beckenbauer

Rugby is a different game. There is an interruption every two minutes also in American football. Our soccer is a moving game: play, play, play, move, move - you don't interrupt.

Douglas Bader

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Russia does not have a modern economy: it's a petro-power. The only thing it sells that the world wants to buy is oil and natural gas. When was the last time anyone bought a Russian computer? A Russian car? A Russian cell phone? Russia is so dependent on high energy prices that if oil falls below $100 a barrel, the Kremlin can't meet payroll.

Bob Simon

Saddam, as most tyrants, was a total control freak. He wanted total control of his regime. Total control of the country. And to introduce a wild card like Al Qaeda in any sense was just something he would not do.

James Lovelock

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

Mike Mills

Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.

Jeff Cooper

Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands.

Daria Werbowy

Sailing is the closest I can get to nature - it's adrenaline, fear, a constant challenge and learning experience, an adventure into the unknown. And of course there is nothing better than wearing the same T-shirt for days and not brushing my hair for weeks.