R Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with R. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.”
“Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.”
“Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.”
Source: You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler
“Rooster, maybe well crows, but the eggs still bears the chicken.”
“Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Root cause analysis requires an extensive examination of history.”
Source: Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue
“Root cause of inequality is the mass scale digital disruption advantage as means of wealth creation is concentrated.”
Source: Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
“Root Chakra Databank: Saving Money
A gift for accumulating wealth—of course you have that deep down. Therefore, you have no need to force yourself to manufacture talent for doing this. Your particular knack has been part of you since the day you were born.
Unfortunately, if you are carrying STUFF like guilt over having “too much money,” that won’t be good for your bottom line. The consequence of money-repelling STUFF, especially in these Top 10 Databanks, can attract patterns of self-sabotage until the problem has been cleaned up.”
Source: Magnetize Money with Energetic Literacy: 10 Secrets for Success and Prosperity in the Third Millennium
“Root for your friend's achievements, milestones, and victories, no matter the size!”
“Root of a tree, fruit of a vine, let me pass by this blood of mine.”
Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance
“Root out all the "to be" verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No "It was" or "they are" or "I am." Don't let it be, make it happen.”
“Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.”
“Root out the violence in your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully. Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others is possible.”
“Root yourself in this earth
and it will root itself in you.”
Source: Firesmoke
“Rooted in love and growth, a new dawn awaits those who embrace resilience and patience. FMSOGAMIAH”
“Rooted in love, tempered by reason - I'm the furnace of peace, piety 'n poetry.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Rooted in silence, you are the soul who gazes and grows.
In a world of pleasures, you are the soul of eternal charm.
You who seek, in you, are the ageless light.”
“Rooted in silence, you are the soul who gazes and grows.
In a world of pleasures, you are the soul of eternal charm.
You who seek, in you, is the ageless light.”
“Rooted in the mythology of all primitive races is the belief in a land of peace and happiness, a sort of earthly paradise, once possessed by man, but now lost, and only to be attained again by the virtuous.”
Source: Myths & Legends of the Middle Ages
“Rooted in your own religion is fine
Be Loyal to your roots
But regard other's religion fruits
Mountain peaks have different names
Yet the experiences are the same
Spirituality maximised... get #Mickeymized!”
“Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success.”
“Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success...when you can wish good things for people and rejoice when they get it, so many gifts and blessings come to you that you can't even imagine.”
“Rooting for the offense is the safe way to go. You win either way.”
“Rooting for the Red Sox is like rooting for the drug companies.”
“Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht.”
“Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for U.S. Steel.”
“Rooting in work is crucial to any accomplishment. Rooting in mere enthusiasm will in the long run force illusory measures to keep the fires of empty enthusiasm going. And this makes politics and politicians.”
“Rooting is following, and I don't do that, but I'd like to see the Phillies win because I love Philadelphia.”
“Rootlessness," I opine, "is the twenty-first century norm."
"You're not wrong and that's why we're in the shit we're in, mate. If you belong nowhere, why give a tinker's toss about anywhere?”
Source: The Bone Clocks
“Roots are, I’m learning, as important as wings.”
“Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.”
Source: Flood
“Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.”
“Roots cannot grow into trees if there are no supernatural elements in the soil. Man cannot grow wealthy and famous if he doesn't contribute to either, the good or evil.”
“Roots, he wrote, symbolize more than underground strong-arms. Roots are also origins, the tendrils of a sprouting seed that give rise to life.”
Source: The Roots of Resistance: - Love and Revolution -
“Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.”
“Roots matter by not even one jot, and though there are lessons we can draw from them, we cannot let them determine us or even define us, just define and frame how it is we are to escape ourselves to remake ourselves. We are not prisoners of the past. We can all reinvent ourselves, build ourselves anew. We are a New Humanity, a Higher Humanity, the Bright Humanity of the future”
Source: The Stairway to Consciousness: The Birth of Self-Awareness from Unconscious Archetypes
“Roots of Light ✨️
Plant seeds of love in a person’s mind,
With hands of grace and a heart aligned.
Let faith take root where fear once grew,
And light reveal what’s pure and true.”
“Roots of Light ✨️
Plant seeds of love in a person’s mind,
With hands of grace and a heart aligned.
Let faith take root where fear once grew,
And light reveal what’s pure and true. ~ Izzi Meditates”
“Roots of the weed sucked first life from the genesis of earth and hold the essence of it still. Always the weed returns; the cultured plant retreats before it.”
Source: West with the Night
“Roots speak of the values to stand for, for they are the pillars of identity.”
“Roots that run so deep have no trouble piercing stone.”
Source: Mountain Fast: A Gothic Tale of Medieval Horror
“Rope? Are you serious? It’s not a glowing rope. It’s The Lasso of Truth!”
Source: When I Met Elena
“Rope-skipping, hopscotch. That old woman in black who sat down next to me on my bench, on my rack of joy (a nymphet was groping under me for a lost marble), and asked if I had stomachache, the insolent hag. Ah, leave me alone in my pubescent park, in my mossy garden. Let them play around me forever. Never grow up.”
Source: Lolita
“Rope taught me to grieve slowly. Deliberately. To enter dark spaces not to conquer them, but to move through them with care, purpose, and trust in what I’d built.”
Source: Underground Echoes: Field Edition: A Short Memoir of Grief, Wilderness, and Return
“ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“Roppongi is now virtually a foreign neighborhood. Africans-I don't mean African-Americans-who don't speak English are there doing who knows what. This is leading to new forms of crime such as car theft. We should be letting in people who are intelligent.”
“Roque always did dress up a place. Unfortunately he's got the taste of a ninety-year-old orchestra first chair.”
Source: Morning Star
“Roque...lined his men up and had them produce all the clothing, jewels, money, and other objects that they had stolen since the last time they had divided the spoils. Having made a hasty appraisal and reduced to terms of money those items that could not be divided, he split the whole into shares with such equity and exactitude that in not a single instance did he go beyond or fall short of a strict distributive justice. They were all well satisfied with the payment received, indeed they were quite well pleased; and Roque then turned to Don Quixote.”
“Rorion did for a generation of Brazilians what 30 years previously Brian Epstein did for a generation of English pop musicians, stimulating seemingly limitless demand for a product where none had existed before (Gould, 2007). But Rorion did it to an even greater degree, conceding that his system was basically judo. Helio felt the same way. In one of his last interviews, with Ana Missa on Sensei SporTV in 2009 (February 14), he explained that because he wasn’t physically suited for judo, he “modified jiu-jitsu so that a weak citizen like himself could fight” [pelo meu porte físico eu não podia ser judoka, então eu adaptei o jiu-jitsu para que até um cidadão fraco como eu pudesse lutar]. So there we have it. Gracie Jiu-Jitsu is pre-Olympic judo, taught by Helio’s method, whatever that is, and modified so that weak citizens can fight (apparently Helio felt that judo required too much strength, which is odd, because many of his promotional pictures and demonstrations involved judo throws). That doesn’t mean Gracie products and services aren’t worth what they cost. If judo people were teaching this material, people wouldn’t be paying Brazilians to do it. Rorion didn’t invent anything. What he did was to make it valuable.”
Source: Jiu-Jitsu in the South Zone, 1997-2008
“Rorion had filed trademarks for both the Gracie Jiu-Jitsu triangle logo and the name itself. Which isn't really a problem in and of itself, and isn't even that odd a move: the idea with a trademark is to be able to control who gets to represent your brand and to corner any revenue that interest in the brand generates. It's standard business practice and, given what Rorion was trying to build, it would have been a mistake not to do it. Without an enforceable trademark there would have been nothing to stop anyone from hanging out a shingle and claiming that they taught "Gracie Jiu-Jitsu," or selling a teeshirt with the Gracie logo. The problem was that in the mid-'90s he started aggressively enforcing the trademark... against members of his own family.”
Source: Worth Defending: How Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Saved My Life