R Quotes
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“Rabids, the stranger had called them. It fit. I wondered where he was now, where he was going. I hoped, wherever it was, he would find his peace.”
Source: Dawn of Eden
“Rabies, frightening though its ravages may be to see up close, has about it the comfort of certainty. However much the furious dog was once loved, it cannot be saved. [...]
One could hardly grieve for the dog, because the dog was already gone. To euthanize it [...] was merely to acknowledge its departure.”
“Rabies’ residence in people is also, by these standards, accidental, though its inability to spread through humans largely boils down to issues of anatomy and behavior: although the virus does express itself in human saliva, humans lack a propensity to bite and the sharpened teeth with which to do it effectively.”
“Rabindranath Tagore’s Vision of a Free India:
Where the mind is without fear
and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been
broken up into fragments
by narrow domestic walls; …
Where the clear stream of reason
has not lost its way into the
dreary desert sand of dead habit; …
Into that heaven of freedom,
my Father, let my country awake.
Quoted in "Passage from India to America: Billionaire Engineers, Extremist Politics & Advantage to Canada & China." By Ignatius Chithelen”
Source: Gitanjali and Other Stories
“Rabindranath Tagore writes that the song he wanted to sing has never happened because he spent his days "stringing and unstringing" his instrument. Whenever I read these lines a certain sadness enters my soul. I get so preoccupied with the details and pressure of my schedule, with the hurry and worry of life, that I miss the song of goodness which is waiting to be sung through me.”
“Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence. Circe Berman: Who isn't?.”
“Rabt ho gar khaamushi ka phir ye hona chahiye Lab pe jo aata nahin aankhon mein dekhna chahiye
रब्त हो गर खामुशी का फिर ये होना चाहिए लब पे जो आता नहीं आंखों में दिखना चाहिए
Khud kaha tha auraten kamzor hain hamne to phir
Aadmi ko aadmi ka khoon piina chahiye
खुद कहा था औरतें कमज़ोर हैं हमने तो फिर आदमी को आदमी का खून पीना चाहिए
इस जमाने में जहां mamta bhi jhoothi ho sake Is zamane mein bhi tujhko ishq sachha chahiye
इस ज़माने में जहां ममता भी झूठी ही सके उस ज़माने में भी तुझको इश्क़ सच्चा चाहिए
Hain azal se hi hamen Farhaad banne ki talab Aur ziyaada ishq se hamko bhala kya chahiye
हैं अज़ल से ही हमें फरहाद बनने की तलब और ज़ियादा इश्क़ से हमको भला क्या चाहिए
Josh mein sab par katar kar rakh diye hamne magar Ab falak tak pahunchne ko ek gana chahiye
जोश में सब पर कतर कर रख दिए हमने मगर अब फलक तक पहुँचने को एक जाना चाहिए
Kaun kahta hai ki jitega to khush ho jaayenge Sher Kehne ke liye umeed paspaa chahiye
कौन कहता है कि जीतेंगे तो खुश हो जाएंगे शेर कहने के लिए मम्मी पापा चाहिए
Maine marham se kaha dikhla tu hamko mojza Zakhm to bharte hi hai naasoor bharna chahiye
मैंने मरहम से कहा दिखला तू हमको मोजिज़ा ज़ख्म तो भरते ही है नासूर भरना चाहिए
Misr ke bazaar mein naadan kharha Yusuf mira Aur bina sauda kiye usko Zulaikha chahiye
मिस्र के बाज़ार में नादां खड़ा यूसुफ मिरा
और बिना सौदा किए उसको जुलैख़ा चाहिए
Aye khuda Sadiq ko tujhse kya gila jurrat siva Saath Mein sat kar nadi se ik gharaunda chahiya
आये खुदा सादिक़ की तुझसे क्या गिला जुर्रत सिवा साथ में सट कर नदी से इक घरौंदा चाहिए”
“Rabu, kutanya padamu, apakah kesedihan harus memilliki warna atau hari khusus untuk dirayakan?”
Source: Di Kota Tuhan Aku Adalah Daging yang Kau Pecah-pecah: Sekumpulan Puisi
“Raccogli le tue ossa, le poche certezze che hai, la tua residua fiducia nella vita e diamoci una mossa. Morire può essere un fatto spiacevole, ma se proprio dobbiamo farla questa cosa, lasciandoci le palle, allora facciamola come si deve.”
Source: Root Legacy
“Raccoons are beyond fear, and they are assholes.”
Source: Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
“Race ain't nothing but a number.”
“Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.”
“Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.”
“Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies.”
“Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid”
“Race and class reinforce one another in housing. Our America Divided story, "A House Divided," shows that racist discrimination in housing is alive and well in the Big Apple.”
“Race and racism are power constructs of the modern world. For roughly two hundred thousand years, before race and racism were constructed in the fifteenth century, humans saw color but did not group the colors into continental races, did not commonly attach negative and positive characteristics to those colors and rank the races to justify racial inequity, to reinforce racist power and policy. Racism is not even six hundred years old. It’s a cancer that we’ve caught early.
But racism is one of the fastest-spreading and most fatal cancers humanity has ever known. It is hard to find a place where its cancer cells are not dividing and multiplying. There is nothing I see in our world today, in our history, giving me hope that one day antiracists will win the fight, that one day the flag of antiracism will fly over a world of equity. What gives me hope is a simple truism. Once we lose hope, we are guaranteed to lose. But if we ignore the odds and fight to create an antiracist world, then we give humanity a chance to one day survive, a chance to live in communion, a chance to be forever free.”
Source: How to Be an Antiracist
“Race and religion do not separate people; ignorance does.”
“Race and religion have been deliberately conflated. All the intolerant have to do is say that it’s racist, or politically incorrect, or antisemitic, to challenge them, and the cowed liberals immediately all fall into line like the craven little poodles they are. The one thing the fascists can bank on is that if they play the race card, or any other minority card, they gain instant and total immunity. All the useful idiots of liberalism will rally around them and support them. But all intelligent Westerners should see through the scam. Islam is not, and never will be, a race. It has nothing to do with race. It’s a totalitarian system trying to take over the world, and everyone has the right and indeed duty to oppose it.”
Source: In (Unlikely) Praise of Donald Trump: Embracing America’s Shadow
“Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.”
“Race and temperament go for much in influencing opinion.”
Source: An Odd Volume Extracted from an Autobiography
“Race as a subject only comes about because of what I look like. If I say something truthfully, people say "Oh, she's so angry." If I write about a married person who lives in Vermont, it becomes "Oh, she's autobiographical."”
“Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town.”
“RACE CARE
Anagram/Acronym: Respect, Accept & Coexist Ethnically
Kamil Ali”
Source: Profound Vers-A-Tales
“Race cars are neither beautiful nor ugly. They become beautiful when they win.”
“Race cars, no matter what size or shape they are, they do the same things. It is not complicated.”
“Race designation is a political designation.”
“Race determines everything in the criminal justice system.”
“Race determines variables that yield results undesirable to one sector, while rendering a noticeable favor to others.”
“Race differences show up early in life.”
Source: Race, Evolution, and Behavior: A Life History Perspective
“Race does not come into it. It is pure religion and culture. Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam. That would have been a fair comparison.”
“Race doesn't mean what it used to in America anymore. It just doesn't. Obama's black, but he's not black the way people used to define that. Is black your experience or the color of your skin? My experience is as a Mexican immigrant, more so than someone like George Lopez. He's from California. But he'll be treated as an immigrant. I am an outsider. My abuelita, my grandmother, didn't speak English. My whole family on my dad's side is in Mexico. I won't ever be called that or treated that way, but it was my experience.”
“Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.”
“Race for the pschological advantage. Sit up tall, pull in high, stay within the margins of power, and they will inevitably look over at some point to see what kind of God is blasting your boat forward.”
“Race has been a big issue in this [presidency] campaign [2016].”
“Race has been used not to describe differences amongst humanity, but to enforce inequality amongst humanity.”
Source: Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War
“Race has no place in American life or law.”
“Race has object permanence. It is still there, no matter how hard we try to look away.”
Source: Raising Multiracial Children: Tools for Nurturing Identity in a Racialized World
“Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.”
“Race I've been studying since I knew there was a problem with race and that I was Black and something was wrong. Gender, is very new to me. All I can say is this is something that I'm going to take hold of and pray about it.”
“Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.”
“Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss.”
“RACE INTERFACE
If God created man in his own image - What's his facial profile?
Kamil Ali”
Source: The Initiates
“Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive.”
Source: Extraordinary, Ordinary People
“Race is a core reality of American experience. Media images on television need to reflect that reality to help people who consume media and who don't have the day-to-day, face-to-face contact with others, or where that contact is minimal, to help them have a greater appreciation of other experiences and how they're all part of the American fabric.”
“Race is a huge factor when it comes to income and social inequality, and it plays a role in the structural barriers you are talking about. But when you're in the upper echelon of the 1 percent - even though it's certainly a more white demographic overall - there are fewer barriers.”
“Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.”
“Race is a lie built on a lie. The first lie is that people are different, somehow skin color or hair texture is more significant than eye color, or the shape of one's feet. The second lie built on top of that is that there's a hierarchy that more significant difference, the color showing up as brown on your skin rather than brown in your hair, or whatever, is somehow more significant and there's some sort of hierarchy. That the lighter you are, the straighter your hair, the better you are.”
“Race is a part of every conversation in America, whether you know it or not.”
“Race is a ‘social DNA,’ and they act like mixed blood is a mystery. We live in a systemic racist world.”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?