A Quotes
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“A rare piece of magic, don't let it FLY by you”
“A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.”
Source: Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus
“A rare theorist turned experimentalist.”
“A rarer spirit never Did steer humanity; but you gods will give us Some faults to make us men.”
“A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.”
Source: Peeps
“A rat done bit my sister Nell
With whitey on the moon
Her face and arms began to swell
And whitey's on the moon
I can't pay no doctor bills
But whitey's on the moon
Ten years from now I'll be payin' still
While whitey's on the moon
The man just upped my rent last night
Cause whitey's on the moon
No hot water, no toilets, no lights
But whitey's on the moon
I wonder why he's upping me?
Cause whitey's on the moon?
Well I was already giving him fifty a week
With whitey on the moon
Taxes taking my whole damn check
Junkies making me a nervous wreck
The price of food is going up
And as if all that shit wasn't enough:
A rat done bit my sister Nell
With whitey on the moon
Her face and arm began to swell
And whitey's on the moon
Was all that money I made last year
For whitey on the moon?
How come I ain't got no money here?
Hmm! Whitey's on the moon
Y'know I just 'bout had my fill
Of whitey on the moon
I think I'll send these doctor bills
Airmail special
To whitey on the moon.”
“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all animals.”
“A rat is neither good nor evil. It does what a rat has to do.”
“A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.”
“A rather honored guest of the Cuban government, so I wouldn't experience the problems. I think it would take a black Cuban to really articulate this because I'm being treated in a very generous way.”
“A rather ugly thing starts happening: the playwright finds himself knocked down for works that quite often are just as good or better than the works he's been praised for previously. And a lot of playwrights become confused by this and they start doing imitations of what they've done before, or they try to do something entirely different, in which case they get accused by the same critics of not doing what they used to do so well.”
Source: Conversations with Edward Albee
“A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.”
Source: Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005
“A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. Think of it as the altar of the Muse Oblivion, to whom you sacrifice your botched first drafts, the tokens of your human imperfection.”
Source: Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005
“A rational army would run away.”
“A rational judge will conditionally be accused of being biased as and when it suits either party's interest.”
“A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.”
Source: Essays in the Public Philosophy
“A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.”
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness
“A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.”
Source: Ayn Rand Reader
“A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others.”
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness
“A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards...in order to appeal to the irrationality, dishonesty or stupidity of others.”
Source: The virtue of selfishness: a new concept of egoism
“A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone's orders, directives, or controls; it does not sacrifice its knowledge, its view of the truth, to anyone's opinions, threats, wishes, plans.”
“A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.”
Source: The Emperor-Marcus Antonius: his conversation with himself. together with the preliminary discourse of the learned Gataker
“A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory.”
“A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own severity, or you may try to cheat, to fake the evidence and evade the effort of the quest - but if devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“A rational process is a moral process.”
Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)
“A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own severity, or you may try to cheat, to fake the evidence and evade the effort of the quest - but if devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.”
“A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right.”
“A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing to learn from others - not by simply taking over another's opinions, but by gladly allowing others to criticize his ideas and by gladly criticizing the ideas of others”
Source: All Life is Problem Solving
“A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases, by compromise, rather than by violence. He is a man who would rather be unsuccessful in convincing another man by argument than successful in crushing him by force, by intimidation and threats, or even by persuasive propaganda.”
Source: Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
“A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.”
“A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.”
“A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.”
“A Ravaging Sentinel's Vow by Stewart Stafford
State your love for me now —
Agreed, a cracked heart pledge,
Defying your many flaws,
martyring me to betrayal's dredge.
At your darkest dawn —
My fealty oath holds true,
when every back is turned,
a redeeming ravager’s purview.
A sentinel’s dust trail climbs high,
hooves thunder; the sundial stops,
A vow declared, enemies routed,
disaster reined on teetering clifftops.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
“a raven's heart within a dove.”
Source: Twelfth Night
“A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.”
“A ray of light illuminates any darkness.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“a ray of light pierces the sounds of traffic. the wind gusts. were holding onto one another. holding onto the sides of the building. in this winters cold in this presence we become the horizon in hell.”
“A ray of sunlight poked through the mass of angry clouds.”
Source: Steel Blood
“A rayformer thinks he was ilicted because he was a rayformer, whin th thruth iv th matther is he was ilicted because no wan knew him.”
Source: Observations by Mr. Dooley
“A raznochinets needs no memory—it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done.”
“A razonar se aprende igual que se aprende a hablar.”
Source: Lo que dice la ciencia sobre educación y crianza
“A razão de por que sua ideia de Nova York pode ser mais ou menos verdadeira do que a minha é que Nova York é um lugar real, que existe independente do que qualquer um de nós pense. Se ao pronunciar "Nova York" cada um de nós quisesse dizer meramente "a cidade que estou imaginando na minha mente", como é que se poderia supor que algum de nós tivesse ideias mais verdadeiras do que o outro? No fim das contas, não seria questão de verdadeiro ou falso.”
Source: Cristianismo Puro e Simples
“A razão e o sentimento vivem em ti em quartos separados. Mas têm decerto uma porta de comunicação. Qual deles é o primeiro a transpô-la? A razão é do género feminino e o sentimento do género macho. Qual deles para o outro lado? (Vira a página da alma e vê a resposta).”
Source: Pensar
“A reaction is triggered by something... They have seen something that threatened their inner peace. When you see someone upset do not find them suspicious of being a criminal. Find suspicious that they might have been abused.”
Source: You Are Always Innocent
“A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple.”
Source: Adventures in the Arts
“A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.”
“A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me, everything's irreversible in the life of a society, as well as an individual's.”
“A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards!”