R Quotes
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“Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.”
Source: Living in Christ's Presence: Final Words on Heaven and the Kingdom of God
“Ruthlessness is the most practical of emotions, Reen's voice whispered. She ignored it.”
Source: The Hero of Ages
“Ruthven surmised that he had hit upon some of the central deceptions which had wrecked him and reduced him and so many of his colleagues to this condition. To surmise was not to conquer, of course; he was as helpless as ever but there was a dim liberation in seeing how he had been lied to, and he felt that at least he could take one thing from the terrible years through which he had come: he was free of self-delusion.”
Source: Breakfast in the Ruins
“Rutina este dobânda compusă a autoperfecționării. Tot așa cum banii se înmulțesc prin adăugarea dobânzii, și efectele obiceiurilor tale se vor amplifica dacă le transformi în rutină.”
Source: Atomic Habits An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones INDIAN EDITION
“Rutted faced men such as me do not determine the suitability of life’s terrain. Our terracotta passageway simply unfolds before us awaiting the minor edits we compose in the mistaken notion that as mere actors we also serve as the almighty playwright. In actuality, faltering men stumbling along in life such as me serve at the mercy of our base desires. Caught in cacoethes – uncontrollable desire – we manically act to satisfy our wild and occasionally harmful urges. Working slavishly to mollify our wants reduces us to serving as the unwitting chroniclers of the jeremiad canvas painted with the frayed lisle of our shillyshallying élan vital.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Ruttie’s suicide would be hidden for many years and only those in the Jinnahs’ inner circle were told the truth. Yet as Sarojini Naidu wrote to her daughter Padmaja:
Poor little Ruttie had taken an overdraught of veronal … But, darling you realize of course that this is not the official version … Poor mad little suffering child. Maybe [now] she’ll find the peace that she was denied – or denied herself on earth.
Jinnah’s friend Dwarkadas sat next to him at Ruttie’s funeral, and he later described the scene.
Never have I found a man so sad and bitter. He screamed his heart out … Something I saw had snapped in him. The death of his wife was not just a sad event, nor just something to be grieved over, but he took it, this act of God, as a failure and a personal defeat in his life.75
With Ruttie gone, Jinnah found solace in his still-nameless daughter, who soon took the name Dina. As a single father, he made her his primary project, moving to London and enrolling her at a new school in Sussex. By the time he returned to India, he would be a changed man.
By early 1929, with Jinnah living in Europe, Gandhi once again assumed supreme leadership of Indian politics. Looking to find a way to unite everyone, Hindu or Muslim, Bengali or Burmese, behind a single cause, he announced his intention to stage a national protest against the British Salt Act which gave the British government a monopoly on the manufacture and distribution of Indian salt.”
“Ruud Gullit was able to impose his multi-lingual skills on this match.”
“Ruud is in 2003 overleden. Veertien jaar geleden alweer.'
'O,' zei Paul, 'Dat spijt me.'
'Zelfdoding. Ja, ik zeg het maar even meteen, anders blijft het zo hangen.'
Paul keek rond, zijn ziel vloog als een musje tegen het raam.”
Source: De heilige Rita
“Ruy-Sanchez's works of fiction are always amazing: adventure, poetry and intelligence in a new geometry of words... His writing has nerve and agility, his intelligence is sharp without being cruel, his mood is sympathetic without complicity.”
“RVM Thoughts for Today -
"Things will happen.You can't stop them from happening, but you can control your reaction from making things worse . React Positively. Live Happily”
“Rwanda has its own problems and never sought to blame others or cause others trouble. I advise Burundi to do the same.”
“Rwanda is a democracy not a monarchy.”
“Rwanda is a very open and free country. Key to our recovery as a nation has a range of grassroots, citizen-centered polices we call "homegrown solutions." The idea that Rwanda is highly controlled from the center belies the reality, which is that citizens in every village have a powerful say in how things get done. We prize accountability and Rwandans are quickly adapting themselves to the possibilities of a digital economy.”
“Rwanda is an example in terms of the transformation of the rights of women. But if you talk to almost any Africanist at the State Department or the World Bank, when you say the word Africa, they think women.”
“Rwanda is not over needing aid, but we can survive with less aid than before.”
“Rwanda is rebuilding itself once again as one nation and that is the reason why we are making progress. Now many Rwandans are making their ends meet and others are able to do better than they have before.”
“Rwanda’s Muslim community is an example of a group (a full community rather than isolated individuals) that resisted the appeal of dangerous speech and other pressures to participate in the genocide. The Muslim community, which had both Hutu and Tutsi members, not only refused to participate in the genocide but actively opposed it. Its actions during the genocide included rescuing, hiding, and taking care of Muslim and non-Muslim Tutsis, and providing safe haven in mosques. Muslims also rejected commands to kill or reveal Tutsis hidden in their communities, on several occasions going so far as to fight back and be killed themselves.”
Source: Defusing Hate: A Strategic Communication Guide to Counteract Dangerous Speech
“Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.”
“Rx for Fascism (Sonnet)
Gaza is not for sale,
Greenland is not for sale,
Ukraine is not for sale,
Canada is not for sale.
Planet Earth is not real estate,
to pander to your predatory psychopathy.
If you are so hard up for cash, we can all
chip in to buy you some good ol shock therapy.
When someone plays fast and loose with rights
and freedom, their place is either in the jungle
or in a mental institution, not in office.
Fascism, fundamentalism and nationalism,
these are the ultimate mental illness.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“Ry Cooder for me is a master, a great master that has a wonderful feel for Cuban music. He's also paid tribute my talent a bit, even though I don't know half of what he knows.”
“Ryan [Gosling] has a history with the Mickey Mouse Club. He was a child performer himself. And he took the time to get to know people.”
“Ryan Alvanos is an offbeat, insanely inventive singer-songwriter who sneaks up on you with a sly wit and subtle power.”
“Ryan Bailey.
As in the Ryan Bailey. As in the Ryan Bailey of her fantasies, where they talked about Plato and Heidegger through a veil of steam in his West Hollywood hot tub.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“Ryan Baker sustained a penalty of play, and we withheld him from play today based on the rules violation.”
“Ryan Crocker, who served as the top U.S. diplomat in Kabul under both Bush and Obama, said the gusher of contracts to support U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan virtually guaranteed that extortion, bribery and kickbacks would take root. He said corruption became so widespread that it presented a bigger threat to the U.S. mission than the Taliban.”
Source: The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
“Ryan finally came to my rescue. He'd thought working together in Paper Moon would help us bond.”
“Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He's on the brink of his 13th league title, after all.”
“Ryan Gosling. He was a good kid, good actor. I like him very much. What was the name of the movie? I've forgotten it. Fracture.”
“Ryan held out his hands. "What the hell is this? Beat The Shit Out Of Ryan Week?" "I didn't think you'd mind, since you're always insisting upon getting yourself hospitalized,"Claire said.
Ryan's face screwed into disgust. "That was uncalled for."
"The truth hurts, baby."
He smiled. "If you're going to talk to me like that, you can insult me all day long."
Claire pulled her car keys from her pocket, and then pulled on Ryan's hand. "I meant that you're a baby. It wasn't a term of endearment."
"Yeah, right.”
Source: Eden
“Ryan le pregunta a Avery acerca del pelo rosa.
ㅡSí, es un color raro, ¿verdad? Para un chico que nació con aspecto de mujer y que quiere que lo vean como a un varón. Pero piénsalo un momento, solo muestra lo arbitrario que es el género. El rosa es femenino... pero ¿por qué? ¿Acaso las chicas son más rosas que los chicos? ¿Los chicos son más azules que las chicas? Es algo que nos enseñaron, principalmente para poder enseñarnos también otras cosas. Mi pelo puede ser rosa porque soy un chico. El tuyo puede ser azul porque eres una chica. Si te desprendes de toda esa mierda arbitraria con que nos controla la sociedad, te sientes más libre y, si te sientes más libre, puedes ser más feliz.
ㅡMi pelo es azul porque me gusta el azul ㅡseñala Ryan.
ㅡY el mío es rosa porque me gusta el rosa.”
Source: Two Boys Kissing
“Ryan Murphy just gives new people a shot, and it takes a lot of confidence and generosity to do that.”
“Ryan never found any inspiration to be a man worthy of love. Outside sex, Ryan had nothing of value to add to my life. I found that, emotionally, he was a man unequipped to deal with himself and my emotions as well.”
Source: From Seeking To Radiating Love: Evolution is unavoidable in the process of overpowering doubt
“Ryan only had one name to help him get to his mother, and he had no idea of who it belonged to.
Even worse, his dad had gone missing two days before, and he was clueless as to what had happened to him as well.”
Source: A Personal Investigation
“Ryan Reynolds and I can be doing a scene facing the camera and somehow our back and forth and our rhythm, we know when to stop and when to volley, when to make the sound. It's like music.”
“Ryan Seacrest: Trouble, trouble trouble. So why do girls go for the bad guys, what is it Taylor Swift? Why? Taylor Swift: Because maybe we could change them! Everybody wants to like tame a lion.”
“Ryan stared at me as I pulled my phone out to see who was calling at this late hour. “You have the Fraggle Rock theme song as your ring tone,” he said, with a bemused look on his face. “You are so weird.”
Source: Mark of the Demon
“Ryan Stout, a straight-arrow-looking kind of guy, shocks the crowd into laughter with his inventive interplay between innocence and a jarringly twisted point of view. He goes from loony to weirdly logical. With him, it’s more than clever writing; his comedy is based on clear and clever thinking.”
“Ryan took him out of Betty Ford after Redmond wanted to leave because he met a girl there. The girl was a heroin addict. She was the one who introduced him to the stuff.”
“Ryan was a man who never did anything from an altruistic place in his heart. Everything he did was always to serve a specific purpose.”
Source: From Seeking To Radiating Love: Evolution is unavoidable in the process of overpowering doubt
“Ryan was a nose away from the tallest cake on display, a six-foot-high chocolate masterpiece Jesse and I had created for this year's fairs. Detailed water nymph's interspersed with insects and toadstools, all sculpted by hand in rich dark chocolate.”
Source: Since You've Been Gone (Hqn)
“Ryan: "You are so fucking gorgeous"
Blake rolled his eyes "Please tell me you don't plan on talking the whole time"
Ryan: "You don't like talking?"
Blake: "There are much better things you could be doing with your mouth. He smirked and added "I guess that's almost always true for you though.”
Source: Making Nice
“Ryanair brings lots of different cultures to the beaches of Spain, Greece and Italy, where they couple and copulate in the interests of pan-European peace.”
“RyanAir have been getting a hard time because they've launched a £7 flight to New York. Although as always with RyanAir it does land slightly outside of New York. In Dublin.”
“Ryanair's biggest achievement? Bringing low fares to Europe and still lowering em. Biggest failure? Hiring me.”
“Ryanna Raines: And why did you choose "Desire Under the Elms?"
Jordan De Carlo: It's ferocious. A full-throttle rage machine. Rage over land, over family, over sexual lust.”
Source: With a Kiss We Die
“Ryanna Raines: "It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”
Source: With a Kiss We Die
“Ryder cocked an eyebrow. “So that’s how you get men do your bidding.”
She laughed, still looking into Tiny’s eyes. “By calling them good boy and offering them treats?”
Ryder smiled. Her laugh made him happy. Hell, just looking at the woman made him happy. “Works for me.”
Source: Playing With Forever
“Ryder Delaney was the one imperfection in my life.He was the bad boy,black sheep,the one your mother always warned you about.He had
only one hard-and-fast rule-Don't Fall In Love”
“Ryder stepped into the hallway to discover Tiny sitting in the middle, his tail wagging in greeting and what looked like a goofy smile on his face. Despite Tiny’s size, his behaviour and the sheer impracticality of having him here, Ryder felt stupidly happy to see his big, dumb face.
For about two seconds. Until he saw the offering at Tiny’s feet. A steaming mountain of crap right in the middle of the hall runner.
Ryder blinked. He’d never seen so much dog doo in his life. What the hell had they been feeding him?
Bricks?”
Source: Playing With Forever
“Rydstrom: "To get it right this time."”
Source: Kiss of a Demon King