R Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with R. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Real freedom for most other people is likely being free of my attempts to control them.”
“Real freedom for people can only exist whenever there is security and independence.”
“Real freedom goes beyond the realms of our minds and meets us back at the core of our soul.”
“Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.”
“Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.”
Source: The Wisdom of Tenderness: What happens when God's firece mercy transforms our lives
“Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.”
“real freedom is not a matter of the shifting of advantage from one sex to the other or from one class to another. Real freedom means the disappearance of advantage, and primarily of economic advantage.”
“Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.”
“Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence.”
Source: Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning
“Real freedom is saying 'no' without giving a reason.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.”
“Real Freedom is to not feel limited when wearing this Zen robe, this troublesome formal robe. Similarly, in our busy life we should wear this civilization without being bothered by it, without ignoring it, without being caught by it.”
“Real freedom isn't subject to how others estimate our value; it is in realizing that none are free who find their sense of worth wondering how others measure their lives.”
“Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.”
Source: Autobiography of values
“Real freedom must include economic security.”
“Real freedom will come when U.S. soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors.”
“Real French people don't bake! At least they don't bake anything complicated, finicky, tricky or unreliable.”
Source: Baking Chez Moi: Recipes from My Paris Home to Your Home Anywhere
“Real friends are hard to come by, and as annoying as Henry is, he'd throw himself in front of dragon's fire for you." "And that's the definition of a real friend?" "Oh, yes, just ask Owain." He laughed.”
“Real friends are like autotroph, whether you pay your intentions or not but they keep calm your noons.”
“Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day.”
“Real friends, are really hard to come by.”
“Real friends are the ones you can count on no matter what.
The ones who go into the forest to find you and bring you home.
And real friends never have to tell you that they’re your friends.”
Source: Since You've Been Gone
“Real friends are there no matter what. Real friends are people you love and hate in equal measure but who are as much a part of you as yourself.”
Source: The Chalk Man
“Real friends are very special, but you have to be careful because sometimes you have a friend and you think they are made of rock, then suddenly you realise they're only made of sand.”
“Real friends change because they want to; not because you want them to.”
“Real friends don't leave those who shout and scream, they just stand back and leave them until they are ready to calm down...”
“Real friends knew where to draw the line between laughing with you instead of at you.”
Source: Falling Off the Face of the Earth
“Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be honest.”
Source: Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life
“Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.”
Source: Reviving Ophelia
“Real friends stab you in the front.”
“Real friends tell you the truth...even when you want them to shut up.”
“Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you'd left off, whether it be a week since you'd seen each other or two years.”
Source: The One Plus One
“Real Friends' are someone who are right next to you when you got in emergency, not in only parties.”
“Real friends. The kind that don't purposely hurt your feelings or stop liking you for no reason.”
Source: Firefly Lane
“Real friendship is a slow grower.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.”
Source: Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts
“Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.”
“Real friendship, love, respect, and trust are all gained without a single dollar.”
“Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.”
Source: This Simian World
“Real frontier-busting math explores new worlds . . . . If you can communicate that experience, somewhere between math and uncertainty, life experience provides the balance.”
“Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“Real G's move in silence like lasagna.”
“Real gangster-ass Nerdfighters don't run from nothing... 'cause real gangster-ass Nerdfighters can't run fast.”
“Real gases behaved like ideal gases as long as they remained in stable conditions. When the environment changed, either with increased temperature or mounting pressure, they began to deviate from their regular nature and at some point, crossed over to the less-than-ideal state. If deviating form perfection was the law of nature, why were children expected to be perfect in an imperfect world?”
Source: The Reengineers
“Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others.”
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
“Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.”
“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”
“Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.”
Source: Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings
“Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.”
Source: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s
“Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.”