R Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with R. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Rather fail and struggle than succeed and be complacent.”
“Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.”
“Rather fast then surfette, rather starue then striue to exceede.”
Source: Euphues. The Anatomy of Wit. Editio princeps, 1579. Euphues and his England. Editio princeps, 1580. Collated with early subsequent editions ... Carefully edited by Edward Arber
“Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.”
“Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.”
“Rather have someone showing us how to climb, than someone claiming they're an expert who knows the ropes, yet doesn't actually help others ascend.”
“Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same.”
Source: Let The Great World Spin
“Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)
“Rather, I plead with you to see a mode of life in our midst, a mode of life stunted and distorted, but possessing its own laws and claims, an existence of men growing out of the soil prepared by the collective but blind will of a hundred million people. I beg you to recognize human life draped in a form and guise alien to ours, but springing from a soil plowed and sown by our own hands. I ask you to recognize laws and processes flowing from such a condition, understand them, seek to change them. If we do none of these, then we should not pretend horror or surprise when thwarted life expresses itself in fear and hate and crime.”
Source: Native Son
“Rather I think that a man who ... is willing ... to value learning as long as he lives, not supposing that old age brings him wisdom of itself, will necessarily pay more attention to the rest of his life.”
Source: Laches
“Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.”
Source: The Iliad ...
“Rather large crowd," I whispered to my employer. "I thought he had no family."
"The fact that he had no family is why the crowd is so large," Barker explained patiently. "It means that the entire community becomes his family. Also, the Jews have great respect for the teachers of their children.”
Source: Some Danger Involved
“Rather later, she would attempt to pinpoint an exact moment when it happened, and she never had much luck with that—maybe it was months earlier, when he appeared on her front porch in his stupid hat, or on the platform on that wretched September 1st, or maybe it was long ago, in some unrecognizable, ever-changing form, but whenever she thought about the matter in the months and years to come, she knew with absolute certainty that it happened no later than this moment. Possibly Lily did not fall in love with James Potter that night, but, she would later conclude, there was no time after it that she did not love him.”
Source: The Life and Times
“Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.”
“Rather let us imagine the anima mundi as that particular soul-spark, that seminal image, which offers itself through each thing in its visible form. Then anima mundi indicates the animated possibilities presented by each new event as it is, its sensuous presentation as a face bespeaking its interior image - in short, its availability to imagination, its presence as psychic reality. Not only animals and plants ensouled as in the Romantic vision, but soul is given with each thing, God-given things of nature and man-made things of the street.”
Source: City and Soul: Uniform Edition
“Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.”
“Rather like "Orwellian", the term "Kafkaesque" has come to be used, often enough by those who have not read a word of Kafka, to describe what are perceived as typically or even uniquely modern traumas: existential alienation, isolation and insecurity, the labyrinth of state bureaucracy, the corrupt or whimsical abuse of totalitarian power, the impenetrable tangle of legal systems, the knock on the door in the middle of the night….”
Source: The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
“Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it.”
“Rather nice night, after all. Stars are out and everything. Exceptionally tasty assortment of them.”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
“Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“Rather stay or die alone than to be with the wrong or die with the wrong Fellow”
“Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.”
“Rather suffer than die is man's motto.”
“Rather take that moral sense and apply it to the particulars of a job that is going to test those ethical and moral precepts differently than if you're a professor, or a business person, or a dad. And if I were not comfortable with the judicious use of our military to protect the American people, than I shouldn't have run for president. And having said that, I do think that the wisdom of a [Martin Luther] King or a [Mahatma] Gandhi can inform my decisions.”
“Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.”
“Rather than a block of granite, wealth resembles a river basin with multiple tributaries and branches.”
Source: Trust
“Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution.”
“Rather than a linear evolutionary progression, the trajectory is like a spiral, the end eventually incorporates the beginning, though it also extends beyond it. One unlearns to learn, and by letting go we gain.”
Source: 7 Principles of Nature: How We Strayed and How We Return
“Rather than a person who hurts others, become the person getting hurt”
“Rather than a profession, photography has always been a passion for me, a passion closer to an obsession.”
“Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.”
“Rather than a universe of static certainty, at the most fundamental level of matter, the world and its relationships were uncertain and unpredictable, a state of pure potential of infinite possibility.”
Source: The Field Updated Ed: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe
“Rather than a vanity paycheck it feels better to give something of far more value than entertainment or money. Sometimes gifts can be priceless like that of love which is everything, connection, inspiration, devotion, attention, purpose…”
“Rather than a victim, the book of Esther reveals a woman who battles her worst fears and emerges a confident, purposeful, and wily heroine. She is a queen who wields considerable influence in a vast empire and changes the course of her people's destiny.”
Source: The Queen's Cook
“Rather than accepting that we are the loving beings that He created, we have arrogantly thought that we could create ourselves, and then create God. Because we are angry and judgmental, we have projected those characteristics onto Him. We have made up a God in our image. But God remains who He is and always has been: the energy, the thought of unconditional love.”
Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
“Rather than accepting the drifting separation of the generations, we might begin to define a more complex and interesting set of life stages and parenting passages, each emphasizing the connections to the generations ahead and behind. As I grow older, for example, I might first see my role as a parent in need of older, mentoring parents, and then become a mentoring parent myself. When I become a grandparent, I might expect to seek out older mentoring grandparents, and then later become a mentoring grandparent.”
Source: Childhood's Future
“Rather than adjust his expectations in the face of disappointment, he (Jefferson) tended to bury them deeper inside himself and regard the disjunction between his ideals and the worldly imperfections as the world's problems rather than his own.”
“Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other in awe, I venerate the young, unknown geniuses who die in their teens, their souls shattered - delicate, phosphorescent glowworms that one must see to know they really did exist.”
“Rather than admit a mistake, nations have gone to war, families have separated, and good people have sacrificed everything dear to them. Admitting that you were wrong is just another way of saying that you are wiser today than yesterday.”
“Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event.”
Source: Yoga Body, Buddha Mind
“Rather than an excess of firearms there's a shortage of faith and family that has a lot more to do with what happened out in Littleton. Let's face it, our public square is more hostile to religion than it is to Marilyn Manson.”
“Rather than argue, Amanda smiled at him. “And then what will you do while your son or daughter is in charge of your store and your companies?” “I’ll spend my days and nights pleasing you,” he said. “It’s a challenging occupation, after all.” He laughed and dodged as she went to swat his attractive backside.”
“Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.”
Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
“Rather than ask, What is the attitude of a work to the relations of production of its time? I should like to ask, What is its position in them.”
Source: The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
“Rather than asking architecture to be more interdisciplinary - a perennial issue within the discipline - I am suggesting that other disciplines might exploit the powers of architecture and urbanism. When addressing urgent situations, whether it's the depletion of the rainforest or abuse of labor, well-meaning people are working with tools, like standards, that seem like very blunt instruments. I am suggesting that spatial variables that are underexploited in governance might add to that repertoire.”
“Rather than asking yourself what it is you want to achieve, ask yourself what it is you can endure to achieve it.”
Source: Fail More: Embrace, Learn, and Adapt to Failure As a Way to Success
“Rather than assume that the wealthy are a monolithic, selfish and unfeeling lot who must be subjugated by the force of the state, set a tone that encourages people of good will to meet in the middle.”
“Rather than assuming make sure before you speak about the fact. Glory lies in your intentions.”
“Rather than assuming weakness or defectiveness, we should acknowledge that getting through depression requires considerable strength. Rather than assuming permanent debility, we should recognize that some depressions are followed by thriving.”
Source: The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic
“Rather than attempting to understand life all at once, focus on being kind. Over time, kindness will lead you to a deeper understanding of life.”