R Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with R. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Reduce the stress levels in your life through relaxation techniques like meditation, deep breathing, and exercise. Youll look and feel way better for it.”
“Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46
“Reduce US military presence in Iraq; and bring in neighbors.”
“Reduce your humanity through what Jules Feiffer called little murders. The minute I hear someone trying to demean me, I know that that person means to have my life. And I will not give it to them. When a person commits these little murders, and then you catch him or her at it, he or she might say, "Oh, I didn't mean it." But make no mistake: It is an assassination attempt.”
“Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.”
Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition
“Reduce your wants and lead a happy and contented life. Never hurt the feelings of others and be kind to all. Think of God as soon as you get up and when you go to bed.”
“Reduce. Do as little as possible to get what you have to get done.”
“Reduced employment opportunities is one effect of minimum wage legislation. The minimum wage law has imposed incalculable harm on the disadvantaged members of our society. The only moral thing to do is to repeal it.”
“Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.”
Source: Death in Venice, Tonio Kröger, and Other Writings
“Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.”
“Reducing a group to a slur or stereotype reduces us all.”
“Reducing absolute truth is like editing a symphony, leaving only dissonant notes of confusion.”
“Reducing ambient environmental radiation to the lowest levels possible would be prudent during the global COVID-19 pandemic.”
“Reducing bisexual experience around oppression to the visual aspect only, necessarily means erasing all those other aspects of bisexual oppression that aren't perceived as visible or intuitive.”
Source: Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution
“Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.”
“Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools.”
“Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children.”
“Reducing dietary salt is not only important for those who already have elevated blood pressure - limiting added salt is essential for all of us to remain in good health.”
“Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues.”
“Reducing health costs and increasing access to health care are worthy goals that every Member of Congress should support.”
“Reducing hunger should become the driving force for progress and hope...”
“Reducing military presence has never in history won a war.”
“Reducing our dependence on foreign energy - that is critically important to America's economic future. Excellence in education - if we're not the best educated, we're not going to be the most powerful for very long.”
“Reducing our desires and eliminating false neediness is the answer to resolving the nagging inner discomfort that we feel.”
“Reducing street crime depends on creating and maintaining safe, healthy, early-life social environments for children.”
Source: Beggars and Thieves: Lives of Urban Street Criminals
“Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a reform strategy which can be supported by the budget request.”
“Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.”
“Reducing the nuclear danger will require a universal, consistent opposition to all forms of weapons development”
“Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.”
“Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.”
“Reducing the thinking required to take the next action increases the likelihood of the desired behavior occurring unconsciously.”
Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
“Reducing trade barriers with this key ally will go a long way toward increasing market access for American farmers, manufacturers and service providers.”
“Reducing your life down to three pairs of jeans, two skirts, a couple of shirts, and a few pairs of shoes was so nice for me. I really loved living in this tiny room where I didnt have space for anything. It sounds really lame, but it made me feel a lot more free, because I just didnt have as many choices.”
“Reduciré el continente a cenizas si hace falta y tomaré todas las decisiones egoístas e inmorales. Puedo luchar contra todos esos demonios; puedo convertirme en el maldito villano si eso significa salvarnos.”
Source: Conjuro de noche y estrellas
“Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.”
Source: A Mathematician's Apology
“Reduction is at the heart of progress in science.”
Source: Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences
“Reduction is the least observed of the three R’s of environmentalism (‘reduce, reuse, recycle’) but it’s probably the most important. Reuse and recycling are sensible measures in an over-productive society, but why not neutralise the problem of overproduction at the source? Instead of choosing to act efficiently at the end of a product’s life cycle by reusing or recycling it, we should stop said product from being made in the first place by eliminating consumer demand for it. If the rainforests must be burned and the oceans poisoned to cater for the essentials of human life, then so be it and we’ll call it an inevitable pity; but for that to happen in the name of games consoles, cell phones and chocolate fountains is a wanton and avoidable shame.”
Source: Escape Everything!
“Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.”
Source: Paul Klee
“Reductionism is a dirty word, and a kind of 'holistier than thou' self-righteousness has become fashionable.”
Source: The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
“Reductionism is merciless.”
Source: I Am a Strange Loop
“Reductionism is not the right viewpoint for everything, and it certainly won't explain the relationship between the brain and the mind. This is because of a feature known as emergence. When you put together large numbers of pieces and parts, the whole can become something greater than the sum.”
Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain
“Reductionist ideology not only hinders biologists from thinking adequately about the phenomena we wish to understand: it has two important social consequences: it serves to relocate social problems to the individual rather than exploring the societal roots and determinants of a phenomenon; and second, it diverts attention and funding from the social to the molecular.”
“Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually .”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.”
Source: Dark Age Ahead
“Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts.”
“Reduzi os fantasmas do passado a meras imagens quebradas mas mesmo assim eu não os exorcizo de vez, temendo mais o esquecimento do que a própria morte.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Redwing had read somewhere that one of his favourite writers, Ernest Hemingway, had been asked what was the best training for a novelist. He had said “an unhappy childhood.” Redwing had enjoyed a fine time growing up, but he wondered if this whole expedition was unfolding more like a novel, and would be blamed on one person, one character, the guy in charge: him. Maybe you got a happy childhood and then an unhappy adulthood, and that’s how novels worked.”
Source: Shipstar
“Ree Dolly stood at the break of day on her cold front steps and smelled coming flurries and saw meat. Meat hung from trees across the creek. Carcasses hung pale of flesh with fatty gleam from low limbs of saplings in the side yards. Three halt haggard houses formed a kneeling rank on the far creekside and each had two or more skinned torsos dangling by rope from sagged limbs, venison left to the weather for two nights and three days so the early blossoming of decay might round the flavor, sweeten that meat to the bone.”
Source: Winter's Bone
“Ree-" Grey barked into the icy silence. "Lax!"
The word spat so unexpectedly into her ear had precisely the effect Grey must have intended. It shocked Nan for a split second into a state of not-thinking, just being-
Suddenly, all in an instant she and Neville were one.”
Source: The Wizard of London
“Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks reddening as if smacked and smacked again.”