R Quotes
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“Rosie wanted her daughter to know who she was before she went out into Nowhere, where terrible things would happen to her. It was hopeless to try to protect a girl--- better you equip her to protect herself. If Dorothy could feel certain of who she was and what she wanted of the world, if she could be confident in her skin, as none of the rest of them had been after a childhood on the island, she could make her way anywhere, do anything.”
Source: The Waters
“Rosie was a bright spot in all their lives. Even a decade ago, people would come to sit beside Herself at the roadside hoping for a chance to see the pretty, dreamy girl reading a book in the grass or walking slowly and lazily across the bridge from the island. If she talked back then, she talked about the characters in books, as though their adventures were real, or she'd say she saw a troll under the bridge.”
Source: The Waters
“Rosie, you’re the Stephen Hawking of the real estate business.”
Source: Rosie: An Old Castle Novel
“Rosies mother was a highly strung bundle of barely thought-through prejudices, worries and feuds.”
Source: Anansi Boys
“ROSINE. What gives you the right?
BARTHOLO. The oldest right in the world: the right of the strong.”
Source: The Barber of Seville / The Marriage of Figaro / The Guilty Mother
“Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.”
Source: Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories
“Rosneft, for instance, was mainly built upon capital stolen from [jailed oligarch Mikhail] Khodorkovsky's company, but the IPO was successful with many Western corporations investing in it. This means that it is extremely difficult to detect these assets in their pure form.”
“Ross [Mathews] was my favorite for years so I am glad he is part of the family. I have stayed in touch and connected with many over the years. I am very lucky that way.”
“Ross believed in past lives. Moreover, he believed that the person you fell in love with in each life was the same person you fell in love with in the life before, and the one before that. Sometimes, you might miss her - she'd be reborn in post-World War I generation, and you wouldn't come back until the fifties. Sometimes, your paths would cross and you wouldn't recognize each other. Get it right - that is: fall madly, truly, deeply - and perhaps there'd be an eternity carved out solely for the two of you.”
Source: Second Glance: A Novel
“Ross Brawn knows that I prefer to have odd race numbers.”
“Ross held her face between his hands and kissed her. He tasted doubt on her tongue and pain on the roof of her mouth. He swallowed these, and drank again. Consumed, she had no choice but to see how empty he was inside, and how, sip by sip, she filled him.”
Source: Second Glance: A Novel
“Ross pensò: se solo potessimo fermare la vita per un po’, la fermerei qui. Non al mio ritorno a casa, non al momento di lasciare Trenwith, ma qui, qui, mentre ci avviciniamo alla sommità della collina, oltre Sawle, il crepuscolo che accarezza i confini della terra e Demelza che cammina canticchiando al mio fianco.”
Source: Ross Poldark
“Ross Perot. I could have had a ball with him.”
“Ross provava un senso di perfetta soddisfazione. Riceveva amore e lo donava in egual misura, generosamente. In quel momento il loro rapporto non aveva alcun difetto.”
Source: Ross Poldark
“Ross’s style is always beautifully matched to his material – spare, lean, honest, no gimmicks, and yet in its very simplicity setting up continuing echoes of the mind. (Margaret Laurence's Afterword)”
Source: The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories
“Ross said: “I’ll tell you what is best for the other man, always, and that’s work. Work is a challenge. I’ve told you – I tried to drink myself out of my misery once. It didn’t succeed. Only work did. It’s the solvent to so much. Build yourself a wall, even if there’s hell in your heart, and when it’s done – even at the end of the first day – you feel better.”
Source: The Angry Tide
“Ross si avvicinò alla porta, vi appoggiò contro una mano. Gli occhi di lei adesso erano quasi asciutti e straordinariamente scuri".”
Source: Ross Poldark
“Ross was a firm believer that you could not force circumstance. You could buckle your seat belt, but still crash the car. You could throw yourself in front of an oncoming train, but somehow survive. You could wait for years to find a ghost, and then have one sneak up on you when you were too busy falling in love with a woman to pay attention. To that end, he made the conscious decision to stop waiting for Lia. When he least expected her, that was when she would show up.”
Source: Second Glance: A Novel
“ROSS You must have patience, madam. LADY MACDUFF He had none: His flight was madness: when our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors.”
“Rossi pulled the carving tools out. “This was gonna be a surprise. For a while now, I’ve wanted to make you a new cane. And this morning, it was like, well, I have to do it now, so you’ll have time to enjoy it, to wear it out even. ... Part of the development of the piece of art is it being lived on, y’know…before you leave us.” She took a deep breath, looking over her shoulder toward the now shadowy amphitheater. “But then at the moot, with Bianca and…” she trailed off.
“The world got bigger,” he said.”
Source: The Tainted Girl: Episodes 7-14: a new adult post-apocalyptic dark fantasy serial novel, col. 2
“Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside.”
“Rosslyn Castle was built in the early 14th century on a promentory surrounded by the River North Esk on three sides. Additions and repairs were made to the castle over the next three centuries due to frequent mishaps, including a fire in 1447. Cromwell's troops attacked the castle in 1651 using canons situated on higher ground. A house built out of the castle's remains is now a holiday let. The castle is also featured in Sir Walter Scott's poem Rosabelle. Legend tells us that it is home to a sleeping lady who, when awake, will show the location of treasure buried deep within its vaults.”
Source: Midlothian Station Walks
“rosto cupped laddybuck in one hand and grabed the back of my neck with the other pulling me in and kissing me right on the mouth. i should have punched him but his lips were soft and sweet. i will punch him next time. -beka after she realizes that rosto the piper is the new rouge”
“Rostov got onto his knees, wrapped his rosary around his sticky fingers, kissed the small golden figure sat upon its throne, closed his eyes, and began to pray.”
Source: Avenging Son
“Rostov kept thinking about that brilliant feat of his, which, to his surprise, had gained him the St. George Cross and even given him the reputation of a brave man - and there was something in it that he was unable to understand. "So they're even more afraid than we are!" he thought. "So that's all there is to so-called heroism? And did I really do it for the fatherland? And what harm had he done, with his dimple and his light blue eyes? But how frightened he was! He thought I'd kill him. Why should I kill him? My hand faltered. And they gave me the St. George Cross. I understand nothing, nothing!”
Source: War and Peace
“ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“Rosy lifted her arm, tried to say something, then pointed at the cafe, held her head, covered her mouth and—humiliation of humiliations—she began to cry. Right there in the street. “I’m so confused,” she said but it came out as a great honking wail.
“Come here, you silly girl,” Phyllis said.
The woman put her arms around Rosy, patted her back, and for the first time in forever, Rosy allowed herself to just cry.
A young mother with twins in a pram passed them. The children’s eyes tracked Rosy for a second before their faces crumpled and they started to cry too.
“I’m sorry,” Rosy said, and flapped her arms. “I’m sorry.”
Source: Screw Friendship
“Rosy’s mummy hands Franny a clear plastic bag full of reject biscuits, then Rosy holds her cheek out for Franny’s wet kiss. Rosy wipes the slime from her face and Franny cackles, then shows them both into the lounge.
There on Franny’s coffee table is a biscuit tin with a Christmas picture on the lid. Proper shop-bought biscuits, not factory rejects.
“Please, may I have a biscuit?” Rosy says.
“Oh, there are no biscuits in that my darling,” Franny says, and pulls the tin from Rosy’s prying fingers. Franny holds open the bag of crumb-speckled chocolate digestives. “Help yourself, my wee hen.”
Rosy settles for a reject.
Franny puts the Christmas tin up high, way up high, way out of reach.”
Source: Screw Friendship
“Rot! Absolute rot! Hatch was merely an alias of Holmes. He had as many as a city directory, but he used the name Hatch frequently. If Hatch did the killing, Holmes will hang for it, for Holmes and Hatch are one and the same person,' Linden said.”
Source: Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer
“Rot his black soul!" fumed Rupert. "The devil's in it now and no mistake. A horse, Fletcher, a horse!"
"Horse sir?"
"Burn it, would I want a cow? Horse, man, and quickly!”
Source: These Old Shades
“Rot,” Hortense said. “I keep telling you, Esme, the direct approach. It’s the only way. Churchill didn’t win the war by waiting for Hitler to come and talk to him.”
Source: The Christmas Wish
“ROT—Return on Time—is the new ROI every entrepreneur must master.”
“Rota's personality is compatible with mine.”
“Rotation of crops and less automobiles will relieve the farmers whenever they decide to try it.”
“ROTC programs at Ivy League campuses would liberalize the military. That can only be good for this country.”
Source: Generation Kill
“Rote learning is a killer for most of us and for some people, it really excludes them.”
“Roth might be a cool demon 99 percent of the time, but I wasn't stupid. Not that I needed the daggers when I had mt grace, but I wouldn't just whip out my grace willy-nilly and start a party with it.
I'd end a party with it.”
Source: Rage and Ruin
“Roth might be a cool demon 99 percent of the time, but I wasn't stupid. Not that I needed the daggers when I had my grace, but I wouldn't just whip out my grace willy-nilly and start a party with it.
I'd end a party with it.”
Source: Rage and Ruin
“Roth Unbound is filled with intelligent readings and smart judgments. Because of the author's sympathy and sharp mind, it offers real insight into the creative process itself, and into Philip Roth's high calling as a great American artist. The book is, in some ways, a radical rereading of Roth's life and his work. It is impossible, by the end, not to feel a tender admiration for Roth as a novelist and indeed for Claudia Roth Pierpont as an empathetic and brilliant critic.”
“Roth wrote The Breast. Would you ask him how he could do this since he had never been a breast? Adams wrote Watership Down. Would you ask him how he could do this since he admitted his rabbit knowledge came from a book about rabbits? ... And those hobbits!... I am a bigger risk-taker than these others. The Hoosiers can contradict me. No rabbit, hobbit, or breast has been known to speak up in reply to their exploiters.”
“Rothbury inhaled the familiar lemon-tinged air wafting before him. He remained silent, ignoring the zing of awareness thrumming through him, and listened for the sound of footfalls instead.
Whoever had entered the room, it was definitely a young woman. He'd bet one of his prized Arabians on it, but it wasn't Cordelia. She smelled perpetually of pungent roses, which he had been partial to in the beginning of their short love affair, but which now merely reminded him that the woman connected to it was just as clingy and thorny as the flower itself.
But this scent- he inhaled deeply as it now surrounded him- inspired contentment, which was a miracle in itself, considering all he wanted to do presently was break free, find Lady Gilton, and throttle her elegant neck.
"Who's there?" Rothbury demanded, his tone firm but quiet. He pulled at the twisted silk binds holding his wrists together behind him, noting they were finally starting to tear. "Come now," he said in a tone he used on skittish horses. "Tell me who's there.”
Source: To Wed a Wicked Earl
“Rothbury's admiration had grown gradually, steadily, despite his efforts to ignore her. Never quick to judge, she was kind, she was sincere, she was secretly funny, and quite observant. She was the only woman of his acquaintance, the only person really, to whom he had ever revealed even the smallest hint of what he was truly feeling.”
Source: To Wed a Wicked Earl
“Rothbury," she whispered. "I need to feel you inside of me again."
His eyes fluttered open, then met her gaze.
Staring into her eyes, he positioned himself at her opening, then with one hand at her hip, he entered her slowly at first, thinking she must be tender from the day before.
She arched against him, silently giving him leave to enter more fully.
And he did, then, nearly losing himself in that second.
Together they began to move, their rhythm steady and firm. Soon her moans grew desperate and her heels pressed into his buttocks.
He increased the pace, pumping into her wildly now, determined to bring them both to utter bliss.”
Source: To Wed a Wicked Earl
“Rothenberg was dumbfounded, shocked speechless. He was retained to provide treatment in a fourth-degree fondling case. This was far worse. This is a first-degree case. These boys were raped! The floodgates opened—details were pouring out now.”
Source: Betrayal of Faith
“Rothschild & Co-এর ওয়েবসাইট অনুসারে, তাদের কাছে ৪২০০ ফাইনান্সিয়াল এক্সপার্ট (অর্থ বিশেষজ্ঞ) রয়েছে। এরা বিশ্বের চল্লিশটি দেশে সক্রিয়ভাবে কাজ করে যাচ্ছে। রথচাইল্ডরা আজও অনেক ধনী। তবে তারা আগের মতো একক ধনী নয়। বিশ্বের হাজার হাজার পুঁজিপতির একজন।
অষ্টাদশ ও ঊনবিংশ শতাব্দীতে তাদের পরিবার ব্যাংকিং ও সুদ থেকে যে সম্পদ উপার্জন করেছিল, পরিমাণে তা অবিশ্বাস্য হলেও সেটা অনেক উত্তরাধিকারীর মাঝে বণ্টিত হয়ে গেছে। তাছাড়া পরিবারটি চারিদিকে ছড়িয়ে পড়েছে। আগের মতো একার হাতে ব্যবসা পরিচালিত হয় না। কয়েক প্রজন্ম ধরে সম্পদ বণ্টনের পর পারিবারিক সম্পদ এখন অনেক কম। কত কম? এটা নিশ্চিতভাবে বলা কঠিন। রথচাইল্ড সবসময় নিজের ও গ্রাহকদের যাবতীয় ব্যবসায়িক তথ্য গোপন রাখে। এটাই তাদের ব্যবসায়িক পলিসি।
বর্তমানে রথচাইল্ডদের মধ্যে সবচেয়ে ধনী সদস্য ডেভিড মায়ার ডি রথচাইল্ড। তার সম্পদের পরিমাণ দশ বিলিয়ন ডলার। তার এই সম্পদ বিশ্বের ১০০তম ধনী নারী 'ভিকি সাফরা' ও তার পরিবারের চেয়েও কম। গ্রিক বংশোদ্ভূত ভিকি সাফরার ষোল বিলিয়ন সত্তর মিলিয়ন ডলারের সম্পদ আছে। অর্থাৎ, রথচাইল্ডদের সবচেয়ে ধনী ব্যক্তিও বিশ্বের শততম ধনীর ব্যক্তির চেয়ে পিছিয়ে।...
...মোদ্দাকথা, রথচাইল্ডরা এখনো গরিব নয়; আবার এ কথাও সত্য, আজ তারা কোনো ধনী-নেতৃস্থানীয় দেশকে নিয়ন্ত্রণ করার মতো অবস্থায় নেই। বিশ্বব্যবস্থা পরিচালনার ক্ষমতা তাদের আর নেই। এখন তারা কোনো ব্যক্তি বা দেশকে ব্ল্যাকমেইল করে ব্যবসা বাগাতে পারে না।
যারা রথচাইল্ড সম্পর্কে আজগুবি গালগল্প তৈরি করে, তারা আসলে কন্সফিরেসি ওয়েবসাইটের পোকা। তাদের জানাশোনাতেও কোনো আপডেট নেই। বিশ্বে আজ কার একচেটিয়া আধিপত্য? কে আজ পৃথিবী চালাচ্ছে? আমাদের গ্রেট গেইম লেখায় এর উত্তর মিলবে।
পৃষ্ঠা : ১২৯-১৩০”
Source: দ্য গ্রেট গেইম
“Rothschild is the lord and master of the money markerts of the world and virtually lord and master of everything else.”
“Rothschild is the Lord and Master of the money markets of the world, and of course virtually Lord and Master of everything else. He literally held the revenues of Southern Italy in pawn, and Monarchs and Ministers of all countries courted his advice and were guided by his suggestions.”
“Rothstein worked with Park Avenue men as beards in the club-house, and with Broadway characters, such as Morris the Boob on The Lawn, and he probably bet away from the track, too.”
Source: King of the Jews
“Rotla (bread) and vegetables (food) are to be eaten for the purpose of putting out hunger, not for taste. If you eat for taste, then you will not like to eat. It will become a thing to suffer (ved). This world is rotting due to the three sufferings (due to the 3 veds (genders)).”
Source: Brahmacharya: Celibacy
“Roto el cerebro, el espíritu roto,
vagas en la apática sociedad
que decide por ti con su vil voto
sin entender tu interna tempestad.”
Source: Sólo lloré en otoño