R Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with R. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Rather than live on in the hearts and minds of my fellow man, I would rather live on in my apartment.”
“Rather than living only in the present, the use of verbal symbols allowed the Homo sapiens to mysteriously transcend the immediate experience given by the physical senses and to live in an abstract, extra-sensory, and hypothetical world.”
Source: Homo: A Brief History of Consciousness
“Rather than look at a marriage as two people morphing into one thing, you could see two individuals who are choosing to form a partnership.”
“Rather than look back on childhood, I always looked sideways on childhood. If to look back is tinted with a honeyed cinematography of nostalgia, to look sideways at childhood is tainted with a sicklier haze of envy, an envy that ate at me when I stayed for dinner with my white friend’s family or watched the parade of commercials and T.V. shows that made it clear what a child looked like and what kind of family they should grow up in. The scholar Kathyrn Bond Stockton writes, "The queer child grew up sideways, because queer life often defied the linear chronology of marriage and children". Stockton also describes children of color as growing sideways since their youth is likewise outside the model of an enshrined white child. But for myself it is more accurate to say that i looked sideways at childhood… to look sideways has another connotation - giving side eyes telegraphs doubt, suspicion, and even contempt.”
Source: Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
“Rather than looking for another religion, look for the values that are in every religion.”
“Rather than looking outward in an attempt to predict the outcome, you turn inward to your identity. You base the decision on who you are--or who you want to be.”
Source: Originals
“Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?”
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
Source: Walden or, Life in the Woods
“Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness - give me truth.”
“Rather than majoring in frivolities, women should be educated in useful subjects and 'be furnished with a stock of ideas, and principles, and qualifications, and habits, ready to be applied and appropriated…' - Hannah More”
Source: Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
“Rather than make claims of final theories, perhaps we should focus on our ever-continuing dialogue with the universe. It is the dialogue that matters most, not its imagined end. It is the sacred act of inquiry wherein we gently trace the experienced outlines of an ever-greater whole. It is the dialogue that lets the brilliance of the diamond’s infinite facets shine clearly. It is the dialogue that instills within us a power and capacity that is, and always has been, saturated with meaning.”
Source: About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang
“Rather than making a position your identity, Make your habit your identity.”
Source: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
“Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is”
“Rather than making the universe out of nothing, which seems difficult because how does nothing know about the laws of physics, we say, well, maybe the universe was made out of something and that something was itself.”
“Rather than managing by clarifying events, the creative process may require raising the level of uncertainty. Sometimes this can be done by issuing a creative challenge that has resonance in that it inspires the team to activity.”
“Rather than me sort of characterize the appropriateness or inappropriateness of what Donald Trump is doing at the moment, I think what we have to see is how will the President-elect operate, and how will his team operate, when they've been fully briefed on all these issues, they have their hands on all the levers of government, and they've got to start making decisions.”
“Rather than move to compromise or fight for her way, Yvonne will step out of the issue and CRIB to get to Mutual Purpose.”
Source: Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Talking About Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior
“Rather than munching on a bag of potato chips, stick to fresh fruit and veggies.”
“Rather than passing a thousand pages of tax reform legislation and restarting the tax code manipulation process, we should change the paradigm. It is time to eliminate the IRS and repeal the 16th Amendment.”
“Rather than “People, planet and profit”; the Sustainability base should be, “People, planet and prospect of both.”
Source: SuaaS : Sustainability as-a-Service
“Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let’s use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy and remind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together.”
“Rather than polygyny needing an explanation, it is monogamy that may need to be explained.”
Source: We Want for Our Sisters What We Want for Ourselves, Polygyny~Copartnering: A Relationship, Marriage and Family Alternative
“Rather than pound or a national mind that he believed had been closed by his critics, John Quincy Adams decided to seek a place in the is the esteem of future generations.”
Source: John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
“Rather than prioritize the dominant narratives, Internet search platforms and technology companies could allow for greater expression and serve as a democratizing tool for the public.”
Source: Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
“Rather than protecting music as a sublimely meaningless activity that has managed to escape social signification, I insist on treating it as a medium that participates in social formation by influencing the ways we perceive our feelings, our bodies, our desires, our very subjectivities - even if it does so surreptitiously, without most of us knowning how. It is too important a cultural force to be shrouded by mystified notions of Romantic transcendence.”
“Rather than providing him with economic opportunity, the Act of that name seems designed to make the poor man do penance all his life for the sin of being born into a non-capital-owning family... One searches it in vain for measure designed to provide economic opportunity to the capital owner. But nobody proposes to educate, train, or rehabilitate either him or his children, even when their "unemployment" is notorious.”
“Rather than push your kids into things, create environments of high-trust where they can thrive. Where they can take their passions and apply them.”
“Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to be more like them.”
“Rather than raising his voice like everyone else, he leaned close to my ear and asked, "Dance with me?" I felt his warm breath and inhale the scent of his aftershave -something basic and male.”
“Rather than reacting to every obstacle or dashed expectation, incorporate the event into your overall plan. Real life setbacks like rejections, broken promises, and unfair disadvantages will happen. Rethink the meaning behind the emotional triggers and how your reaction will further your purpose. Manage emotions by recognizing their place, but do not allow them to control your moves.”
Source: Reality Check: What the Ancient Game of Chess Can Teach You About Success in Modern Competitive Settings
“Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.”
“Rather than really have, like a close relationship to anything that's coming out today, people are just, they've got it on as background music. It's kind of the same way the cabdrivers use music; it's very disposable.”
“Rather than recallin these flowersthe fragrance of the past,I would like to hear this nightingale's voice,to know if his song is as sweet.”
“Rather than recount his life as he has lived it, he must live his life as he will recount it.”
Source: The Immoralist
“Rather than regret for what I have written, I feel regret for what I shall never be able to read.”
Source: Little Misunderstandings of No Importance
“Rather than relying on my skills, the musical ability of my band or the technical expertise of our production team, I want to learn to rely on the leading of the Holy Spirit. Only then will our churches come alive in worship.”
“Rather than remain a sealed jar, she sought only to pour herself out to others. Everything she did mirrored her faith. It was as though every waking hour of the day she was devoted to pleasing her God by serving others. This God that she worshiped consumed her. It didn't ask for a brief visit to a temple, or a small votive offering of food or coin, or a few prayers every now and then. This God wanted all of her.”
Source: A Voice in the Wind
“Rather than resist rest and gravitate toward constant motion, let’s experiment with letting go.”
Source: Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
“Rather than retreat inward, the evangelical followers of Jesus focused out- ward, marketing their message to the pagan masses. The appeal of their pitch lay in its simplicity: anyone could become one of God’s chosen people by joining the Brotherhood in Jesus Christ. Harnessing monotheistic energy for mass liberation, these devout followers invited people of all backgrounds to join a Catholic (from the Greek katholikos—“universal”) movement.”
Source: The Life of the Qur'an: From Eternal Roots to Enduring Legacy
“Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what to do about the Act's limitation of tax credits to state Exchanges.”
Source: Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents
“Rather than risk starting their own businesses, most people seek safer environments, preferring job security to freedom and a steady paycheck to greater wealth. Their fear of failing is greater than the joy of freedom.”
“Rather than say I play Jazz, I simply say I play music.”
“Rather than saying 'I hate mess', it might draw more compassion to say, 'mess terrifies me as a harbinger of catastrophe'.”
“Rather than saying people aren't interested when things don't take off, you should take it on yourself to say, 'I'm not doing a great job of telling the story in a way that makes it interesting.”
“Rather than saying that the commissioner is hired by the owners and therefore is subservient to them, you have to look at whether or not the players are getting a fair shake.”
“Rather than saying, 'My checking account is a wreck,' change it to 'I will learn how to track my spending and balance my checkbook.'”
“Rather than seeing ourselves as insignificant specks in the immensity of the cosmos, we can consider that immensity an indicator of our worth. It seems the Creator invested a great deal-a universe of 50 billion trillion stars, plus a hundred times more matter, all fine-tuned to mind-boggling precision-for us. If not for the strength and abundance of evidence in support of that notion, it would seem the height of arrogance. Humility demands that we take a deeper and wider look at that evidence.”
Source: Why the Universe Is the Way It Is
“Rather than seeing the opportunities that feminism created they very easy morph into expectations.”
“Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to find relaxation and pleasure in the company of their 'inferiors'? They would need to shed their desperate need to admire a man, and accept the gentler role of loving him. A learned woman cannot castrate a truck-driver like she can her intellectual rival, because he has no exaggerated respect for her bookish capacities. The alternative to conventional education is not stupidity, and many a clever girl needs the corrective of a humbler soul's genuine wisdom.”
Source: the female eunuch
“Rather than seeking millions of followers, let us strive to invest in education systems that teach the true worth of a million - not as a mere numerical quantity, but as an empowering tool of knowledge and empathy. Let us nurture connections that transcend shallow fame, focusing on cultivating compassion and understanding among humanity.”