R Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with R. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.”
“Rage colors her every movement. Rage that has nothing to do with her so-called bodyguards and everything to do with me and her and the confusion rolling around inside the both of us.
This should be interesting”
Source: An Ember in the Ashes
“rage. delicate rage era.
heartbroken but also hellbent.”
“Rage filled me at her words - cold, black, unending rage. Whatever happened to me, Mab would not hurt my sister again. She would not.”
“Rage flared up in Tessa and she considered belting Woolsey with the poker whether he came near her or not. He had moved awfully quickly while fighting Will, though, and she didn’t fancy her chances. “You don’t know James Carstairs. Don’t speak about him.” “Love him, do you?” Woolsey managed to make it sound unpleasant. “But you love Will, too.” Tessa froze. She had known that Magnus knew of Will’s affection for her, but the idea that what she felt for him in return was written across her face was too terrifying to contemplate.”
“Rage is ... This is Breslin's full quote: Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers”
“Rage is a powerful energy that with diligent practice can be transformed into fierce compassion. However much we disagree with our enemies, our task is to identify with them. They too feel justified in their point of view.”
“Rage is a short-lived fury.”
“Rage is a sign of nothing but immaturity. The power of any faith comes not from its coercion of critics and dissenters. It comes from the moral integrity and the intellectual strength of its believers.”
“Rage is an emotion women are typically forbidden to express, and it is repressed until it becomes unleashed in ways that seem supernatural to those who cannot fathom how it feels to be so violated.”
Source: A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts
“Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.”
“Rage is essentially vulgar.”
“Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.”
“Rage is fine as long as it doesn't deteriorate into bitterness.”
“Rage is in my heart and it keep me warm”
“Rage is mental imbecility.”
“Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief.”
Source: Stella Maris
“Rage is really only for the good days. The truth is there's little of that left. the truth is that the forms I see have been slowly emptied out. They no longer have any content. They are shapes only. A train, a wall, a world. Or a man. A thing dangling in senseless articulation in a howling void. No meaning to its life. Its words. Why would I seek the company of such a thing? Why?”
Source: The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form
“Rage is the opposite of thought, whoever has put you in this frame of mind has more control over you right now, than you have over yourself. If he is your opponent and you will face him today, you will be defeated.”
Source: The Sister Souljah Collection #1: The Coldest Winter Ever; Midnight, A Gangster Love Story; and Midnight and the Meaning of Love
“Rage is to writers what water is to fish.”
Source: Sacred cows-- and other edibles
“Rage keeps the person who feels it company. It moves into the hollows left by grief and loss, and turns inside you like a dark furred animal that grows and fills you; it kills off loneliness and takes its place.”
Source: I Loved You All: A Novel
“Rage on, anger will,
be it day or night,
an existence that has emptied me
of light’s vibrancy.
A walking shadow I have become.
My soul’s pockets empty of life.
I see my shadow now,
flittering closely behind me,
determined to follow my trails
into the encroaching darkness.”
Source: All the Hope We Carry
“Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.”
“Rage or fear... It oscillates. Rage I need to motivate me to try things that I can't ordinarily do - as I'm a lazy man. Fear - to keep pushing harder so we don't lose what we've accomplished.”
“Rage pitted in his bones and a corrosive brew of grief and fury was eating him from the inside.”
Source: Tajrish
“Rage properly channeled can definitely give birth to good even great theater. Disgust, a more passive and distancing emotion, is far less likely to. Would you rush to a play called Look Back in Queasiness?”
“Rage swallowed remorse. Rage drop-kicked self-pity. Rage murdered sorrow. And then, like blood-red wine tucked into the refrigerator, rage chilled to become cold, calculating anger. Anger was a creature that arrived on her doorstep with a suitcase full of strategy and vengeance. It tipped its hat at her and hopped into her brain. It knocked on the Logic Department's door. It found a broken mirror somewhere in the crevices between her hippocampus and her hypothalamus, and it was wondering if somebody had misplaced it.
No retaliation? It scoffed. Think again, missy.”
Source: The Wake Up
“Rage swept over her at being young, young and little, as if some evil fairy had put that spell on her. Why must you be locked up in this dreadful cage of childhood for twenty or a hundred years? Nothing in life was possible unless you were old and rich, until then you were only small and futile before your tormentors, desperately waiting for the release that only years could bring.”
Source: Dawn Powell at Her Best
“Rage was a funny thing. You could put it away for months or even years, tucked neatly inside a drawer alongside your sorrow and your childlike love for an old TV show. You could glance at it once in a while and think, Maybe I’ll wear that today. But it was easier not to. Nothing else in the drawer matched and besides, you grew out of it years ago. Until one day, it fits again.”
Source: The Infinite Miles
“Rage was a productive emotion.”
Source: The Dreams of the Descendants
“Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.”
Source: Dust & Decay
“Rage — whether in reaction to social injustice, or to our leaders’ insanity, or to those who threaten or harm us — is a powerful energy that, with diligent practice, can be transformed into fierce compassion.”
“Rage wrapped itself around her like a tourniquet, keeping her alive even as it condemned a part of her to atrophy.”
Source: American War
“Rage, rage against the dying light”
“Rage-the biggest, truest rage of her adult life-had invaded her like a fever, but it wasn't like any fever she had known previously. It circulated like weird serum, cold on the right side of her body, then hot on the left, where her heart was. It seemed to come nowhere near her head, which remained clear.”
Source: Big Driver
“Ragging at its most harmless is embarrassing and silly, but at its worst, it attempts to prevent individual students from independent thinking, attempts, in fact, to eradicate freewill”
Source: The Female Ward
“Raggiunto il successo, si guardarono indietro e capirono che ogni loro fallimento era stato necessario per il conseguimento dei loro obiettivi. Ogni errore aveva insegnato loro qualcosa.”
Source: Gli uomini vengono da Marte, le donne da Venere: Istruzioni per l'uso
“Raghead (The Sonnet)
Some call me raghead,
Some call me desert dweller.
Some call me curry-breath,
Some call me f-ing nigger.
This is not just my story,
But of every person of color.
In a world stolen by whites,
Anything non-white is inferior.
Upon receiving so much hate,
I admit, sometimes I do feel gloomy.
I know how it is to be cussed everyday,
So I choose love no matter the agony.
The tradition of hate has gone on long enough.
I choose to be the break in habit on the world's behalf.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“Raging against it, or despairing, would not change anything. The past does not imprison us. We may offer ourselves up as its captives, but equally, we can choose to open the cell door and walk free. Even if it's locked, the key is nearby, because we keep it with us always. It's just a matter of finding the right pocket.”
Source: The Land of Lost Things
“Raging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light morals, public misbehavior. Always we convince ourselves that the parade of unwelcome and despised is a new phenomenon, which is why the phrase "the good old days" has passed from cliché to self-parody.”
Source: Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City
“RAGING MIND - A HAIKU
Uncontrollable,
Thoughts flow, attention decides,
If there's peace, or pain!”
Source: On My Way To Infinity: A Seeker's Poetic Pilgrimage
“Ragna hesitated. She had known this moment would come. “My Lady, your son Alberon is the father of our child and he has sworn to me that we will be married.”
Source: The Emperor
“Ragnarok is coming.”
Source: Norse Mythology
“Ragnarok. Is that all the North ever thinks about? Is that what you want, Snorri? Some great battle and the world ruined and dead?” I couldn’t blame him if he did. Not with what had befallen him this past year, but I would be disturbed to know he had always lusted after such an end, even on the night before the black ships came to Eight Quays.
The light kindling on my torch caught him in midshrug. “Do you want the paradise your priests paint for you on cathedral ceilings?”
“Good point.”
Source: Prince of Fools
“Ragnor [was] always happy to see chaos, but not be involved in it.”
Source: The Midnight Heir
“Ragnor and Catarina both begged him to give the instrument up. Random strangers on the street begged him to give the instrument up. Even cats ran away from him.”
“Ragnor looked very regretful about all the choices that had led him to his being in this place and especially in this company”
Source: The Bane Chronicles
“Rags hate clutter the way healthy people hate cancer: it was offensive, invasive, and should be eliminated quickly and surgically.”
Source: The Potrero Complex
“rags to riches lets one look back at poverty with eyes full of fondness”
“Rags-to-riches story? I've heard that gospel before, no thanks. I find no greater inspiration than the riches-to-rags story of redemption, the story of God leaving His golden throne to pursue a wretch like me.”