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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

- J. Danforth 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.

- J. Danforth Quayle

 

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.

- Robert Quillen

 

Politicians are people who, when they see the light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy more tunnel.

- John Quinton

 

Take the clouds from your eyes and see me as I really am.

- Don Quixote

 

There are three kinds of love, - unselfish, mutual, and selfish. The unselfish love is of the highest kind. The lover only minds the welfare of the beloved and does not care for his own sufferings. In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved but has an eye towards his own happiness also. It is middling. The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness, no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe.

- Ramakrishna

 

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends good-bye.

- Marie Louise De La Ramee

 

There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers.

- Ayn Rand

 

You can no more win a war that you can win an earthquake.

- Jeanette Rankin

 

One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.

- Anatol Rapoport

 

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

- Jeff Raskin

 

Only as high as I reach can I grow,
Only as far as I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see,
Only as much as I dream can I be.

- Karen Ravn

 

A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

- Dixy Lee Ray

 

No one grows old by living--only by losing interest in living.

- Marie Beynon Ray

 

We vote too much. We deliberate too little. We have brought within the scope of the federal jurisdiction a vast number of subjects that do not belong here, but are nevertheless here. What we need to do is to stop passing laws. We have enough laws now to govern the world for the next ten thousand years.

- James Alexander Reed

 

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

- Theodor Reik

 

Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.

- George Reisman

 

The art of acting consists of keeping people from coughing.

- Sir Ralph Richardson

 

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

- Jean Paul Richter

 

Morality is the weakness of the mind.

- Arthur Rimbaud

 

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.

- Anthony Robbins

 

Until you get dissatisfied, you won't do anything to really move your life to another level. Dissatisfaction is a gem. If you're totally satisfied, you're going to get comfortable. And then your life begins to deteriorate.

- Anthony Robbins

 

Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.

- Tom Robbins

 

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.

- Tom Robbins

 

Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.

- Tom Robbins

 

When life demands more of people than they demand of life- as is ordinarily the case- what results is a resentment of life almost as deep-seated as the fear of death.

- Tom Robbins

 

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

- Tom Robbins

 

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

- J.M. Roberts

 

And when the future hinges on the next words that are said, Don't let logic interfere, believe your heart instead.

- Philip Robison

 

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.

- Dennis Roch

 

Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them.

- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

 

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk of ourselves at all.

- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

 

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about but few have seen.

- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

 

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

 

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

 

Old men are fond of giving advice to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad Examples.

- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

 

Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgement.

- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

 

Lovers never get tired of each other, because they are always talking about themselves.

- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

 

The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.

- John D. Rockefeller

 

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

- John D. Rockefeller

 

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

- John D. Rockefeller

 

I learn by going where I have to go.

- Theodore Roethke

 

Even if you're on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there.

- Will Rogers

 

What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.

- Sanaya Roman

 

Computers make it easy to do alot of things, but most of the things that make it easier to do don't need to be done.

- Andy Rooney

 

You always pass failure on the way to success.

- Mickey Rooney

 

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

 

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

 

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

 

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

 

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

- Theodore Roosevelt

 

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be afraid to make mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.

- Theodore Roosevelt

 

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

- 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 better. The credit belongs to the 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; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

- Theodore Roosevelt

 

The reason most people sweat is so they will not catch fire while they are making love.

- Don Rose

 

I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.

- Joel Rosenberg

 

I find that we all get more legendary as time goes by. "Legend" means, basically, "bullshit."

- Joel Rosenberg

 

Yeah, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a bitch in the valley.

- Joel Rosenberg

 

Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.

- Joel Rosenberg

 

Miscellaneous is always the largest category.

- Joel Rosenberg

 

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

- Roberto Rossellini

 

Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone and you are God.

- Jean Rostand

 

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

- Jean Rostand

 

If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it.

- Leo C. Rosten

 

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

- Leo C. Rosten

 

When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we have left them.

- La Rouchefoucauld

 

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

- La Rouchefoucauld

 

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and finish without knowing what you have written.

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

 

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

 

Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

 

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

 

It wasn't raining when Noah built the arc.

- Howard Ruff

 

Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth.

- Rudolph Rummel

 

Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom.

- Rudolph Rummel

 

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

- Margaret Lee Runbeck

 

It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet.

- Damon Runyon

 

On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have it in an infinite degree, and among the less, the patient weak ones always conquer the impatient strong.

- John Ruskin

 

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example.

- John Ruskin

 

One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

- Bertrand Russell

 

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

- David Russell

 

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

- Mark Russell

 

The same hammer that breaks the glass forges the steel.

- Russian Proverb

 

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

- David Russell

 

The only posible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.

- Ernest Rutherford

 

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

- Todd Ruthman