R Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with R. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Rather than attend to a world considered as if it's out there, I have to start to attend to me. That led to some things that I never wanted it to lead to, person as a sort of psychological miasma. I started to get wrapped up in self, and then, for the first time, self did become an autobiographical self.”
“Rather than Barack Obama borrowing from Mitt Romney, both Romney and Obama borrowed from Richard Nixon.”
“Rather than be afraid of evolution and try to stifle inquiry, people should revel in the joys of knowing and find a serenity and a joy in being a part the rest of life on Earth. Not apart from it, but a part of it.”
“Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.”
“Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all.”
Source: Paradise lost: a poem in twelve books
“Rather than beating yourself up for what you are not doing, appreciate and celebrate the things you are doing. When you shift your focus away from what you do not want, you can create a vision for what you do. Don't fight with yourself - focus on what you do, can do, choose to do, are ready to do.”
“Rather than beautifying one’s own creation, make better the environment that surrounds it.”
“Rather than becoming discouraged, know that encountering a wall is proof of the progress that you have made so far.”
“Rather than becoming obsessed with the evil around you, ask God to give you a fresh perspective to see how He can bring good out of it. Look for the hand of God in your difficult situations. He is willing to use even the most horrible sins and the most foolish choices, as long as we trust Him to do just that.”
Source: Reaching Your Prodigal: What Did I Do Wrong? What Do I Do Now?
“Rather than becoming the best, I want to become a singer with meaning.”
“Rather than being a human, be a humanitarian”
“Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.”
“Rather than being able to have a healthy relationship with our own sexual imagination, we're driven into some dark corners by shame and embarrassment and guilt, and those dark corners breed all sorts of monsters.”
“Rather than being afraid to ask for help, remember this: When you ask someone to help you, you are actually doing them a tremendous favor by giving them an opportunity to feel needed.”
Source: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff
“Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.”
Source: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
“Rather than being any longer a threat to the established androcratic order, Christianity became what practically all this earth's religions, launched in the name of spiritual enlightenment and freedom, have also become: a powerful way of perpetuating that order.”
“Rather than being confined to a separate dimension, martial arts should be an extension of our way of living, of our philosophies, of the way we educate our children, of the job we devote so much of our time to, of the relationships we cultivate, and of the choices we make every day.”
Source: On the Warrior's Path, Second Edition: Philosophy, Fighting, and Martial Arts Mythology
“Rather than being fearful of not detecting disease, both patients and doctors should fear healthcare. The best way to avoid medical errors is to avoid medical care. The default should be: I am well. The way to stay that way is to keep making good choices - not to have my doctor look for problems.”
“Rather than being green with envy, realize that a dramatic difference between the “haves” and “have-nots” is the “do” and “do-nots.” If you are seeking positive change and transformation, what can you begin to do?”
Source: The Art of Action: 8 Ways to Initiate & Activate Forward Momentum for Positive Impact
“Rather than being guided by images of how to be, people need to attend to how they actually are and to respect this.”
Source: Facilitating Emotional Change: The Moment-by-Moment Process
“Rather than being handed down from above, like the Ten Commandments, they [the laws of physics] look exactly as they should look if they were not handed down from anywhere...they follow from the very lack of structure at the earliest moment.”
Source: God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
“Rather than being incensed by the nature of the bruise, maybe we should be inspired by the possibilities in the bruise.”
“Rather than being linear, grief is more like a rollercoaster than it is a flight of stairs.”
Source: Answers in the Dark
“Rather than being taught to accept ourselves, we were trained to make ourselves socially acceptable. And whenever we fail, we suffer inside.”
“Rather than being taught to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others’ versions of ourselves.”
Source: The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart
“Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.”
“Rather than blaming people for their poor habits, Behavior Analysis focuses on altering the environment to help them succeed.”
Source: Vital Behavior Blueprint: 5 Steps to Embed Mission-Critical Habits into Your Organization's DNA
“Rather than bring peace and harmony, the EU will cause insurgency and violence.”
“Rather than bring the full force of our creativity and rationality to bear on the problems of ethics, social cohesion, and even spiritual experience, moderates merely ask that we relax our standard of adherence to ancient superstitions and taboos, while otherwise maintaining a belief system that was passed down to us from men and women whose lives were simply ravaged by their basic ignorance about the world.”
Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
“Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community.”
“Rather than caring about whether or not you are known, strive to be worth knowing.”
“Rather than carry on his father’s business, many a boy has been trained, at his parents’ sacrifice, to help man some unit of the big-business system that has destroyed his father’s business.”
Source: White Collar: The American Middle Classes
“Rather than caving in to protests, let us know who is in charge by setting boundaries.”
“Rather than chairs and tables, I preferred the ground, trees, and caves, for in those places I felt I could lean against the cheek of God.”
“Rather than clinging to the time spent with the wrong people and recalling the bad phase of life; treat these as rotton tomatoes and get rid of.”
Source: Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts
“Rather than collecting certifications, focus on deepening your connection, refining your perception, and trusting your own experience.”
Source: Unlocking Psychic Potential: A Beginner’s Guide to Channeling, Remote Viewing, and More
“Rather than compare yourself to others, compare your present progress with your potential.”
“Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities; and it is still closer to politics, which in turn may be considered as a kind of commerce on a larger scale.”
Source: On War
“Rather than concede to the state of Missouri for one single instant the right to dictate to my government in any matter however unimportant, I would see you, and you, and you, and you, and every man, woman and child in the state, dead and buried. This means war.”
“Rather than condemning people for their wrong deeds, love and pray for them because everyone has their shortcomings”
“Rather than considering the Iraqi regime solely responsible for these sanctions, many exiled and displaced academics believe that the UN bears the main ethical and human responsibility for the damage the embargo caused for Iraqi people and society. Many academics saw these sanctions as the UN’s method to obtain the consent of Iraqi people to the 2003 occupation through starving and weakening the people, as well as destroying Iraq’s strong institutions and infrastructure.”
Source: Bullets in Envelopes: Iraqi Academics in Exile
“Rather than continuing to base our economy on a finite supply of dead things, we can base it on sources that are practically infinite and eternal: the sun, the moon, and the Earth's inner fire.”
Source: The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
“Rather than continuing to seek the truth, simply let go of your views.”
“Rather than converting people from one organised religion to another organised religion, we should try to convert people from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation and from cruelty to compassion.”
“Rather than deal with problems in relationships, I've always moved on. That's why I'm one of the very few survivors as a woman, you know.”
“Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.”
“Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.”
“Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.”
“Rather than double-down on the top-down economics that let a fortunate few play by their own rules, let’s embrace an economic patriotism that says we rise or fall together, as one nation, and as one people.”