R Quotes
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“Round still, but that's fine.
Feeling good outside and in.
Maybe I'm not thin,
but skinny isn't perfect.
The perfect size is happy.”
Source: Garvey's Choice
“Round the boles of the pine-wood the ground-laurel creeps, Unkissed of the sunshine, unbaptized of showers, With buds scarcely swelled, which should burst into flowers!”
Source: Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier
“Round the world and home again, that's the sailor's way!”
Source: Songs, Ballads, and Stories: Including Many Now First Collected, the Rest Revised and Rearranged
“Round the World. Someone is waiting to be with you. Something is waiting for you to be explored. Round The World.”
“Round three?" she said half-jokingly.
He released her thumb, a wicked grin stretching his lips. "I thought you'd never ask." Apparently, being alive for more than a century had not tempered his stamina.
She was a very fortunate girl.”
Source: A Wolf's Hunger
“Round up and deport two million aliens who committed crimes.”
“Round, cat-eye frames, wayfarers, and aviators are my go-tos.”
“Round-heads and Wooden-shoes are standing jokes.”
Source: Miscellaneous works in verse and prose [ed.] with some account of the author, by mr. Tickell
“Rounder Records decided to call the album Move It On Over, much to my chagrin but they knew what they were doing. It took off and to this day I can't figure out why.”
“Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.”
“Rourk didn’t even know her name, but he knew he’d never seen anyone so magnificent in his life. Her wavy hair glistened in the sunlight. She had a delicate, round face with large, blue-green eyes and full lips. With her cheeks flushed from the cold fall air, she reminded him of a porcelain doll. He knew that her looks deceived; her bold, daring eyes gave her away. She constantly observed her surroundings. Rourk smiled to himself; soon they would be together.”
Source: Coexist
“Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots.”
Source: The Art of War
“Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.”
Source: Dryden: Selected Poems
“Rousseau already observed that this form of government is more accurately an ‘elective aristocracy’ because in practice the people are not in power at all. Instead we’re allowed to decide who holds power over us. It’s also important to realise this model was originally designed to exclude society’s rank and file. Take the American Constitution: historians agree it ‘was intrinsically an aristocratic document designed to check the democratic tendencies of the period’. It was never the American Founding Fathers’ intention for the general populace to play an active role in politics. Even now, though any citizen can run for public office, it’s tough to win an election without access to an aristocratic network of donors and lobbyists. It’s not surprising that American ‘democracy’ exhibits dynastic tendencies—think of the Kennedys, the Clintons, the Bushes.
Time and again we hope for better leaders, but all too often those hopes are dashed. The reason, says Professor Keltner, is that power causes people to lose the kindness and modesty that got them elected, or they never possessed those sterling qualities in the first place. In a hierarchically organised society, the Machiavellis are one step ahead. They have the ultimate secret weapon to defeat their competition.
They’re shameless.”
Source: De meeste mensen deugen: Een nieuwe geschiedenis van de mens
“Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set free from family, church, town, class, guild; yet they wear, instead, the chains of the state, and they expire of ennui or stifling lone lines.”
Source: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
“Rousseau bemödar sig om att bevisa att allting från början var rätt, några författare menar att allting numera är rätt, medan jag hoppas att allting kommer att bli rätt.” (s. 43)”
Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
“Rousseau, esse primeiro homem moderno, idealista e 'canaille' numa só pessoa; que necessitava da 'dignidade' moral para aguentar seu próprio aspecto; doente de vaidade e de autodesprezo desenfreados. Esse aborto que se recostou no umbral da nova época também queria 'retorno à natureza' -- para onde, repito a pergunta, queria retornar Rousseau? -- Eu odeio Rousseau inclusive na Revolução: ela é a expressão histórico-universal dessa duplicidade de idealista e 'canaille'. A 'farce' sangrenta com que transcorreu essa Revolução, a sua 'imoralidade', pouco me importa: o que odeio é a sua moralidade rousseauniana -- as chamadas 'verdades' da Revolução, com as quais ela ainda faz efeito e convence para o seu lado tudo o que é raso e medíocre. A doutrina da igualdade!... Mas não há veneno mais venenoso: pois ela parece pregada pela própria justiça, enquanto é o fim da justiça... 'Aos iguais o que é igual, aos desiguais o que é desigual' -- esse seria o verdadeiro discurso da justiça: e, consequência disso, 'jamais igualar o que é desigual.' O fato de as coisas terem transcorrido de maneira tão medonha e sangrenta em torno dessa doutrina da igualdade conferiu a essa 'ideia moderna' par excellence uma espécie de glória e resplendor, de modo que a Revolução como espetáculo também seduziu os espíritos mais nobres. Isso não é, no fim das contas, razão para estimá-la mais. -- Vejo apenas um homem que a considerou da maneira que ela deve ser considerada, com nojo -- Goethe”
Source: Crepúsculo dos ídolos: (Ou como filosofar com o martelo) (Conexões)
“Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.”
“Rousseau identified reason as the disease for which it pretended to be the cure.”
“Rousseau introduced the idea of false needs, and showed how the systems we live in work against our growing up: they dazzle us with toys and bewilder us with so many trivial products that we are too busy making silly choices to remember that the adult ones are made by others.”
Source: Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age
“Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge of a classroom. Young adults, he thought, should be allowed to develop their capabilities in their distinctive way.”
“Rousseau's constant influence on later generations is indubitable (though not always positive). He can be seen as father of the Romantic movement (and even a great-grandfather of the Green movement). The Romantics were inspired by his confirmation of the worth of each and every one of us, however ordinary, by his emphasis on equality, on knowledge of the inner self, and on a spiritual connection with nature, as well as by his imagination and the depth of his feelings.”
Source: Rousseau's Dog: Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment – An Intellectual History of Treachery and Shattered Friendship
“Rousseau said that a woman’s place is the home. Many women are at home…watching their children starve. Some Assembly members voted for schools to teach girls home arts. Did any woman of the Third Estate not learn home arts as soon as she could walk? If women were educated, they’d have other ways to feed their children besides laundering and whoring.”
Source: Her Own Legacy
“Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers.”
“Route 206 has only two lanes, which makes no sense in this over populated state, but presumably someone in power believes that restricting the road to only two lanes forestalls the advent of a further population explosion.
Presumably these same people have not realized that a two-lane system clogs cars, frustrates drivers, and imperils a family of three (Mom, Dad, Ben) driving to a dinner deep in Southern New Jersey.
These same people have not seen any logic to expanding a roadway so that a bleary, sweaty, fleshy man, vodka steaming from his pores, angry at the Range Rover sputtering in front of him, angry that the man with the ponytail driving the Range Rover has a Range Rover, angry at himself for not picking up Willy, his eleven-year-old son, from his mother's today because he went to the bar Fredo's instead, angry angry angry - so fuck it, fuck it all, he thought, I'm going to fucking pass this fucking asswipe Range Rover asshole, I don't care who's coming down the other side, I don't care if the President and his fucking Secret Service guys are barreling down this shitty road, fuck it all, I have the bigger car, I don't need a Range Rover, I have this, my TRUCK, my beautiful big motherfucking TRUCK, and goddamn it, what was up with the blond at the bar?”
Source: Cranberry Queen
“Route 66 is a symbol for relishing life through-and-through via the senses; the Interstate represents missing out on life. You go from point A (birth) to point B (death) utterly oblivious to what’s happening in between.”
Source: The Last Hobo: A Clueless Detroit Kid Hitchhikes Across America the Summer the Seventies Ran Out of Gas
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“Routes rate me, not the other way around.”
“Routine feeds the illusion of safety.”
“Routine hacking starts with ingredients. Everyone has their unique skin quirks. Getting comfortable with ingredient lists is your first step in figuring out what works for you — and what doesn't.”
Source: Skincare Decoded: Revised and Expanded: The Practical Guide to Beautiful Skin
“Routine had become rhythm. Rhythm had become identity.”
Source: The Dog Walker: The Prequel
“Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.”
“Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.”
Source: Organization in Daily Life: An Essay
“Routine is part of coping.”
“Routine is really important. However late you went to bed the night before, or however much you had to drink, get up at the same time each day and get on with it.”
“Routine is supposed to be the great deadener of souls; how much worse is the half-completed task, the broken round, the unfulfilled routine?”
“Routine is the death to heroism.”
“Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork.”
Source: Adventures of Ideas
“Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.”
Source: Stormbreaker
“Routine is worry's sly assassin.”
Source: Peace Like a River
“Routine kills creative thought.”
Source: PopCo
“Routine preventative 5 year interval Colonoscopies should be mandatory for all very high altitude workers, regardless of their age.”
“Routine ruins the life, variety vitalise the life.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Routine shortens and variety lengthens time, and it is therefore in the power of men to do something to regulate its pace. A life with many landmarks, a life which is much subdivided when those subdivisions are not of the same kind, and when new and diverse interests, impressions, and labours follow each other in swift and distinct successions, seems the most long.”
Source: The Map of Life
“Routine was never the leader of any important new movement.”
“Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.”
“Routines are recommended and necessary for some. But if you skip a nap at your usual time, it's okay. Don't stress.”
“Routines may include taking a warm bath or a relaxing walk in the evening, or practicing meditation/relaxation exercises. Psychologically, the completion of such a practice tells your mind and body that the day's work is over and you are free to relax and sleep.”
“Routines provide an avenue to work through fear. He knew where we were going and what to expect and could make plans to conquer specific fears as all else was the same. It allowed focus.”
“Routinize the routine. The things that aren't important to you, whether it's breakfast or your commute, try to do them with the least energy possible so that leaves you with more energy for other things.”