-- Gilda Radner
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't
rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not
knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing
what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.
-- Ayn Rand
America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by
the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making
of their own private fortunes.
The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but
one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the
interests and rights of others.
-- Dixy Lee Ray
A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to
death on food every year.
-- Lady Reading
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
-- Ronald Reagan
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you
disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you
tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and
moral courage of free men and women.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves,
tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jelly beans.
-- Jules Renard
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
-- Ricky Renes
If you speak elegantly about something you can inform the educated of something
they do not know, but the people who know of what you speak may not understand you.
-- Agnes Repplier
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of
civilization.
--Helen Steiner Rice
Prayers for big and little thing fly heavenward on angels' wings.
-- John M. Richardson, Jr.
When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it
happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.
-- Rilke
Live the questions.
-- Branch Rickey
Luck is the residue of design.
--
H.U. Rieker
Everybody can look up References, but true knowledge is
power
-- Dan Riesenberger
Lust and love are separated only by commitment
-- Frank Rizzo
The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Wess Roberts
Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough.
--Jackie
Robinson
A life is not important, except in the impact it has
on other lives.
-- Dennis Roch
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
-- John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the
worn paths of accepted success.
-- John Roger
When you are in a state of nonacceptance, it's difficult to learn. A clenched fist
cannot receive a gift, and a clenched psyche grasped tightly against the reality of what
must not be accepted cannot easily receive a lesson.
-- Will Rogers
We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go
by.
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
Even if your on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to
look fear in the face.
You musst do the things you think you cannot do
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to
work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
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.
Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all
means, try something.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
It is not the critic who counts, nor the person who points out how the strong
person stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to
the person who is actually in the arena; whose face is actually marred by dust and sweat
and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows
great enthusiasm and great devotions, whose life is spent in a worthy cause; who, at best,
knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and at worst, if failure wins out, it at
least wins with greatness, so that this person's place shall never be with those timid
souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants
done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along
with people.
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
This country will not be a good place for any of us
to live in if it is not a reasonably good place for all of us to live in.
No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare
cost of living, and hours of labor short enough so that after his day's work is done he
will have time and energy to bear his share in the management of the community. We
keep countless men from being good citizens by the conditions of life by which we surround
them.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say
little.
-- Martin Routh
You will find it a very good practice always to verify your References, sir.
-- Richard Royster
Acceptance of dissent is the fundamental requirement of a free society.
-- John Ruskin
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back
