R Quotes
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“Rumors and lies about a person can be fabricated by anyone. But what matters is the truth between you and God. - Kailin Gow”
“Rumors and Manure both get spread around but only one is beneficial”
“Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted on the walls of prehistoric caves, inscribed in the languages of Egyptian myth, Greek philosophy, Hindu religion, Christian art, our own DNA. Belonging within the circle of mankind's intimate acquaintance ... constant albeit speechless companions, they supplied energies fit to be harnessed or roasted.”
“Rumors are like lightning on summer tinder, producing flames that dance in flickering brilliance from person to person, sometimes flaring in great conflagrations of exaggeration before finally extinguishing themselves in the cold waters of fact.”
“Rumors are nearly as old as human history, but with the rise of the Internet, they have become ubiquitous. In fact we are now awash in them. False rumors are especially troublesome; they impose real damage on individuals and institutions, and they often resist correction. They can threaten careers, policies, public officials, and sometimes even democracy itself.”
“Rumors are often more attractive than complex facts. Gossip spreads faster than sober analysis.”
“Rumors are passed by haters, spread by fools, and believed by idiots. People only rain on your parade because they are jealous of your sun and tired of their shade. Do not worry; they cannot stop you!”
“Rumors are spread by jealous people”
Source: Speak
“Rumors are such captivating hearsay. I’m always disappointed with those being spread about me, particularly any that are nice.”
“Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.”
“Rumors become the story du jour. And while our past experiences may have seemed like ancient history to us, every detail of our lives was being sifted and combed as if we were some sort of archaeological dig.”
Source: Living History
“Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.”
Source: New England White
“Rumors had their own classic epidemiology. Each started with a single germinating event. Information spread from that point, mutating and interbreeding—a conical mass of threads, expanding into the future from the apex of their common birthplace. Eventually, of course, they'd wither and die; the cone would simply dissipate at its wide end, its permutations senescent and exhausted.
There were exceptions, of course. Every now and then a single thread persisted, grew thick and gnarled and unkillable: conspiracy theories and urban legends, the hooks embedded in popular songs, the comforting Easter-bunny lies of religious doctrine. These were the memes: viral concepts, infections of conscious thought. Some flared and died like mayflies. Others lasted a thousand years or more, tricked billions into the endless propagation of parasitic half-truths.”
Source: Maelstrom
“Rumors have restarted that the Republican ticket will not be Bush-Cheney. But today those rumors were put to rest when Cheney said, 'No, I'm keeping him on the ticket.'”
“Rumors in Thailand don’t have fathers or mothers. They’re orphans of loan sharks, con men, streetwalkers, and fortune tellers. No one claims them until they become legitimate.”
“Rumors of coal's demise may have been greatly exaggerated.”
“Rumors of my wealth are greatly exaggerated. I have never been interested in money.”
“Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic.”
“Rumors run wild when one sacrifices for self and temporarily forsakes those who assume entitlement to one's persona.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“Rumors said that if he got drunk enough, he sometimes got his jollies by stripping naked and scaring hikers out in the Broken into thinking he was Bigfoot.”
“Rumors served the same role they did for the living: a focus for imagination, a means of making the inexplicable less frightening, small morality plays.”
Source: The Lifecycle of Suns
“Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for up-sized art and more of it... Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast. Bigness is not all bad. There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. But the bigness has also led to a narrowing of sensibilities, by making it very hard for any but the glitziest works to get traction.”
“Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.”
“Rumors spread faster than news and news spreads faster than the happenings”
“Rumors that the sun is out at Santa Ynez are without foundation," the radio said.”
Source: The Sheep Look Up
“Rumors went round that I might be gay. In some ways, I was happy w/ this. Larry Rivers proved to me that a gay man could be wild, attractive, and courageous; in any case one's sexuality was becoming less of an issue every day. One of the great things about the British Mod movement was that being macho was no longer the only measure of manhood.”
Source: Pete Townshend: Who I Am
“Rumors, stories... I'm used to them. I got my ribs removed, I was on 'The Wonder Years'... You know there's a different story every day.”
“Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Rumour has it that the gardens of natural history museums are used for surreptitious burial of those intermediate forms between species which might disturb the orderly classifications of the taxonomist.”
Source: Darwin's Finches
“Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it.”
“Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it does not need people. It can exist free and wild, running from ear to ear without ever touching lips.”
Source: Feet Of Clay: (Discworld Novel 19)
“Rumour was the messenger
Of defamation, and so swift, that none
Could be the first to tell an evil tale.”
Source: The Course of Time: A Poem
“RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.”
Source: The Second Part of King Henry IV
“Rumours are always started for a reason, but that doesn’t always mean the reason is truth.”
Source: Feast
“Rumours are like sexually transmitted diseases, both are spread by whores.”
“Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.”
Source: The Raj Quartet, Volume 1: The Jewel in the Crown
“Rumours should be juicy and gossips must be mouth-watering, since they have to uplift and make people feel better. Tittle-tattle can have a swift ripple effect and when the ball is rolling very fast, it kick-starts a flood of moral destruction. “Schadenfreude” can, then, be fully enjoyed. (“Juicy rumours”)”
“Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.”
“Rumpole, you must move with the times." "If I don't like the way the times are moving, I shall refuse to accompany them.”
Source: Rumpole Misbehaves
“Rumpty!" he muttered, which was very rude if you were one of the few people in the universe who understood what it meant.”
“Rumpus" was a favourite PJ-word; one he'd employed to describe a recent tabloid splash about his friendship with a lap dancer. It was also a term he'd used in reference to both 9/11 and the global recession.”
Source: Real Tigers
“Run a hand through your hair, like the white boys do, even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.”
“Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.”
“Run a layer of skin smoothening on a picture,
And it enhances the quality of the picture.
Run the smoothening more than is necessary,
And you ruin the very life of the picture.”
Source: Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home
“Run a layer of skin smoothening on a picture,
And it enhances the quality of the picture.
Run the smoothening more than is necessary,
And you ruin the very life of the picture.
Likewise, logical thinking in moderation,
Enhances the quality of life.
But practice logic beyond proportion,
And you ruin the sweetness of life.”
Source: Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home
“Run, a little voice in my head calls. Run far. Run fast. Run until you find new stars.”
Source: Crownchasers
“Run a test. Give a 5-year-old a printed book and an iPad and see what happens. That 5-year-old is going to go right for the iPad. They're not intimidated by it. They know what to do with it. They'll start searching around. And in a children's e-book, you can have links to kid-safe encyclopedia. So if they click on the lion, it takes them to Africa and tells them all about lions. So now, the e-book is educational.”
“Run, a voice inside me whispered.
Stay another begged.”
Source: Six Scorched Roses
“Run after God. Be who you're created to be, and you'll run into the people who are doing the same thing, and those are the people that you'll want to be with.”
“Run against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws.”
Source: A Preface to Politics