R Quotes
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“Rakshabandhan is not meant as Brother protecting Sister.
It actually means Sister prays for the long life and good health of her Brother by tying him 'Rakshabandhan'.
By
-Swapna Rajput-”
“Raksin worked for Alfred Hitchcock, about whom one of the most famous Raksin anecdotes was spoken. The legendary director declared he wanted no music at all for the oceanic Lifeboat, because he felt audiences would wonder where the music was coming from in the middle of the sea. Raksin said, Ask Hitch where the cameras are coming from.”
“Rakyat berasal dari kata ro'iyah artinya kepemimpinan, maka rakyat hakekatnya pemimpin tertinggi diatas presiden, gubernur dan lain sebagainya. Umat dari kata umm artinya ibu yaitu serumpun, sekelompok, segolongan, dan masyarakat dari kata syirkah artinya berserikat yaitu beberapa kelompok yang mempunyai tujuan yang sama.”
“Rakyat itu, cuma butuh pemimpin yang jujur, merakyat, dan bebas korupsi.”
“Rakyat sekarang miskin karena dimiskinkan oleh kaum elit. Sebelum kemerdekaan, mereka dirampok oleh penjajah, sekarang mereka dirampok oleh kaum elit kita sendiri.”
Source: Saya Terbakar Amarah Sendirian!
“Rakı içen kadın gülüyorsa, o gülüşün ardında en az dokuz roman, on dört tane de film repliği yatar. Rakı içen kadının gülüşünde bu dünyanın en zararsız mutluluğu vardır çünkü: Büyük güler, büyük susar. (...) Rakı içen kadın, baharın ta kendisidir: Keyfine doyum olmayan bir akşamüstü sonrasında, bir kıyıda köşede gecesefası gibi açar. Rakı içen kadın, afet-i devrandır. Rakıda, ruhlarımızın tüm çingene dekoru saklıdır ve çok sevdiğin yazarların, şairlerin ve filozofların gölgesinde, rakı içen kadınları gerçekten sevdiğini anlarsın. (...) Rakı içen kadın, rakıyı lıkır lıkır içiyorsa, başka bir anlamı oluverir o gecenin; rakıyı ağırdan alıyorsa, bambaşka bir anlamı... Ehlikeyiflere sığmaz gecenin çakırkeyfi. Bilirsin ki rakı içen kadın, herkesle rakı içmez ve eğer seninle rakı içiyorsa, senin için kalbinde en az yüz elli metrekare daha yer vardır. Rakı içen kadın, cihanda sulhtur; ağdalı değil, nağmeli sever.”
Source: Babam Beni Şahdamarımdan Öptü
“Rally GB is obviously very special to me, so I am very much looking forward to competing in my home event and giving the fans something to cheer.”
“Rally points scoring is twenty for the fastest, eighteen for the second fastest, right down to six points for the slowest fastest.”
“Ralph (Houk) brought out the best in everybody, and that included me. I consider myself lucky to have played for him.”
“Ralph [ Nader] is an old friend of mine, and he does a useful job in displaying a position.”
“Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came.”
Source: Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
“Ralph Angel was such a great character. The single-father image has been portrayed in so many ways so having the ability to be a part of that narrative excites me!”
“Ralph Angel, for me, was about getting in touch with the similarities between the characters. I felt like he was a human being that I knew and [somebody] that I've been and am currently still exploring.”
“Ralph Bunche, who is an internationally recognized and respected diplomat, can't stay in a hotel in Georgia, which means that no matter what the accomplishment, the intellectual, the academic, or professional level of a negro is, collectively he stands condemned.”
“Ralph dichiarò che per lui l’aristocrazia non lasciava un vuoto che la signorina Stackpole stessa non riuscisse a colmare, e che in quel momento non si poteva trovare un uomo più contento di lui. In questo diceva la verità, perché quei frusti giorni di settembre, nell’enorme città semivuota, portavano un fascino avvolto in sé, così come in uno straccio polveroso può essere ravvolta una gemma dai mille colori. Quando a sera rientrava nella casa vuota di Winchester Square, dopo una serie di ore trascorse con le sue relativamente ardenti compagne, s’aggirava per la gran sala da pranzo oscura, dove la candela che egli entrando prendeva dal tavolo nell’atrio costituiva tutta l’illuminazione. La piazza era silenziosa, la casa era silenziosa; se apriva una delle finestre della sala da pranzo per far entrare un po’ d’aria, udiva il lento scricchiolio degli stivali di una solitaria guardia di città. Il suo stesso passo, nella casa vuota, sembrava alto e sonoro; alcuni tappeti erano stati avvolti, e dovunque andasse egli risvegliava una eco malinconica. Si sedeva in una delle poltrone; la grande tavola da pranzo scura luccicava qua e là alla debole luce della candela; i quadri sulle pareti, tutti molto scuri, apparivano vaghi e indistinti. C’era un’aria spettrale, come di pranzi da lungo tempo digeriti, di discorsi conviviali che avevano perduto la loro attualità. Questa punta di soprannaturale forse aveva qualcosa a che vedere con il fatto che la sua fantasia prendeva il volo e che egli rimaneva nella sua poltrona molto più in là dell’ora alla quale avrebbe dovuto essere a letto; senza far niente, senza nemmeno leggere il giornale della sera. Dico che non faceva niente, e confermo l’espressione, proprio perché in quei momenti egli pensava a Isabel. Per lui pensare a Isabel non poteva essere che un ozioso passatempo, che non portava a niente e giovava ben poco ad alcuno. La cugina non gli era mai sembrata così affascinante come in questi giorni trascorsi a scandagliare, alla maniera dei turisti, gli abissi e la superficie dell’elemento metropolitano. Isabel era piena di premesse, di conclusioni, di emozioni; se era venuta in cerca di colore locale, lo trovava dappertutto. Faceva troppe domande perché lui potesse darvi risposta, e varava audaci teorie, su cause storiche ed effetti sociali, che egli era incapace nella stessa misura di accettare o di confutare.”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
“Ralph Ellison is a classic work of erudition, grace, and elegance. Rampersad offers us an Ellison whose gifts and warts orbit the same universe of creative genius. Like Ellison's work, Rampersad's text wrestles eloquently with difficult truths about race, politics, and American life.”
“Ralph era uno specialista del pensiero, ora, e poteva riconoscere il pensiero in un altro.”
Source: Il signore delle mosche - Riti di passaggio - Gli uomini di carte
“Ralph Fiennes was a big hero of mine acting-wise growing up and while I was training. I just find him so watchable. He was playing this very intimidating character when we worked together and it certainly felt like he was in character off set as well! He was very cool. Before a scene, he'd be like, "Come on. Let's improvise. Let's just do stuff." But Jesus Christ. He's Ralph Fiennes!”
“Ralph Gomory, the President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, proposes a tripartite division of science: the known, the unknown, and the unknowable. The known is taught in the schools and universities and is exhibited in the science museums. But scientists are excited by the unknown. Parenthetically, artists go to art museums to learn; scientists do not go to science museums because those museums act as if it's all known and preordained. That may be changing; exemplars are the Exploratorium in San Francisco and the American Museum of Natural History.
Gomory's tripartite division proposes three distinct areas: the known, the unknown which may someday become known, and the unknowable, which will never be known. The unknown and the unknowable form the boundary of science. Here are examples of questions for which the answers are today unknown.”
“Ralph Hibbs said his heart stopped, for he realized that it was the first Stars and Stripes he'd seen since the surrender. All the men in all the trucks stood at attention and saluted. Then came the tears. "We wept openly," said Abie Abraham, "and we wept without shame.”
Source: Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
“Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and quips into books of a thousand pages. Through the centuries quotation collectors have saved quotations that would otherwise be lost.”
“Ralph Kramden, as played by Jackie Gleason, was this big bumbling New York City bus driver who was kind of mean and crass and a little bit egotistical. But underneath it all, he was a big heart looking for a place to land I think.”
“Ralph Lauren and Valentino have a lot of common. Ralph Lauren was one of the first really to put himself at the center of the story, and Valentino was even earlier.”
“Ralph Lauren has always stood for providing quality products, creating worlds and inviting people to take part in our dream. We were the innovators of lifestyle advertisements that tell a story and the first to create stores that encourage customers to participate in that lifestyle.”
“Ralph Lauren was borin' before I wore him.”
“Ralph Nader choose the man with whom to share the responsibility of running a distant third, California activist Peter Camejo. You may remember that Camejo ran for president in 1976 on the Socialist Workers Party ticket. Actually, you might only remember that if you run a lesbian, vegetarian, bookstore.”
“Ralph Nader has slavery reparations on his platform, which makes me think he's not serious. If he thought he could win he wouldn't even say that.”
“Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He's helped me out on a couple of occasions when I've given speeches to corporations where he'd have a good... He'd give me some good information.”
“Ralph Nimmo carecía de título universitario y se enorgullecía de ello. -Un título [...] es el primer paso de un recorrido calamitoso. Como no quieres desperdiciarlo, pasas al trabajo de graduado y a la investigación doctoral. Terminas por ser un absoluto ignorante de todo, excepto en tu estrechísima especialidad.”
“Ralph reflected for a moment on the similarities between loneliness and insomnia — how they were both insidious, cumulative, and divisive, the friends of despair and the enemies of love.”
Source: Insomnia
“Ralph’s horse shifted under him. It sensed the danger, the fear, the icy sweat that ran down his back. He laid a calming hand on the animal’s thick veined neck. Breda had carried him across the battlefield of Edgehill, got him safe away at Aylesbury, Brentford and Turnham. Could they make it back behind Winchester’s walls? The great charger stepped backward. Along their short line, other horses were backing up, tossing their heads, whinnying.
‘As you were!’ Smith held them in check. ‘On my order. Keep close. Together.’ He looked at them. Looked again at the enemy about them. ‘Now! Ride for the gate!”
Source: Desecration: Winchester 1642
“Ralph Stanley is like an uncle to us and now that all my uncles are gone, Ralph's singing is even more precious. This album of classic folk songs is one of his best.”
“Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson”
“Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would create new religions overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead, the stars come out every night and we watch television.”
“Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would become religious overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead, the stars come out every night, and we watch television.”
“Ralph Waldo Pickle Chips! I don’t know him.”
Source: Best of Catbug: My Name is Catbug, What's Yours?
“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.”
“Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.”
Source: Lord of the Flies: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Ralston didn't care. He turned on his brother as the surgeon knelt next to him and inspected the wound. "She could have been killed!" And what about you?" This time, it was Callie who spoke, her own pent-up energy releasing in anger, and the men turned as one to look at her, surprised that she and found her voice. "What about you and your idiotic pland to somehow restore my honor by playing guns out in the middle of nowhere with OXFORD?" She said the baron's name in disdain. "Like children? Of all the ridiculous, unnecessary, thoughtless, MALE things to do...who even FIGHTS duels anymore?!”
“Ralston looked down his long, elegant nose at the vile creature at his feet, and said, “You just impugned the honor of my future marchioness. Choose your seconds. I will see you at dawn.” Leaving Oxford sputtering on the ground, Ralston spun on one elegant heel to face Benedick. “When I am done with him, I am coming for your sister. And, if you intend to keep me from her, you had better have an army at your side.”
“Ralston stiffened at the reference to the stupid wager that caused so much pain and unhappiness. He ignored Oxford's proffered hand, and instead met the baron's concerned gaze, and said, "Keep the money. I have her. She's all I want.”
“Ram Dass, Krishna Dass, we all spoke through interpreters. There were good interpreters there, educated people in India speak English but Maharaji was the One, the Baba, Holy Man, mendicant, he didn't speak English. We talked to him and it was hard to know him, he was an ancient holy man and I was a 21 year old seeker. So I never knew what was going on, I mean I don't really know what's going on now, my guess work is a little better perhaps.”
“Ram-fication of Ravan-ous thoughts is what Dussehra all about.”
Source: You By You
“Ram it up your poop chute.”
“Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with the handicap of having to think in English and transmit their thoughts chiefly in English.”
Source: Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi
“Ram wanted to marry a woman in front of whom he would be compelled to bow his head in admiration. P.210”
Source: Sita: Warrior of Mithila
“Ram, ass, and horse, my Kyrnos, we look over
With care, and seek good stock for good to cover;
And yet the best men make no argument,
But wed, for money, runts of poor descent.
So too a woman will demean her state
And spurn the better for the richer mate.
Money's the cry. Good stock to bad is wed
And bad to good, till all the world's cross-bred.
No wonder if the country's breed declines-
Mixed metal, Kyrnos, that but dimly shines.”
“RAM: This gives guys a way of deciding whose computer has the biggest, studliest memory. That's important, because the more memory a computer has, the faster it can produce error messages.”
“Rama for you should mean the Path He trod, the ideal He held aloft, and the Ordinance He laid down. They are eternal and timeless.”
“Rama is a fairly common name in India. It symbolizes an individual who is interested both in enlightenment and martial arts. I do not claim to have any past life connection with the historical Rama. It's just a name I liked.”