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Jean Racine (5)
A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
323 other sayings about death
Gilda Radner (4)
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
364 sayings about best
Ramakrishna (10)
Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
233 sayings regarding being alone
Ayn Rand (24)
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
233 more quotes regarding being alone
Man Ray (2)
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
136 wisdom & wit about dreams
Herbert Read (7)
The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.
44 more quotes relating to attitudes
Oliver Reed (5)
I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.
19 views about diets
Henry Reed (4)
Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.
136 quotes about dreams
Wilhelm Reich (2)
Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
262 more quotes about knowledge
Thomas Reid (3)
The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
62 quotes about architecture
Ernest Renan (2)
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
210 wisdom & wit about education
Jules Renard (6)
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
233 more sayings about being alone
Agnes Repplier (5)
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
210 thoughts regarding education
Samuel Richardson (22)
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
210 thoughts about education
Laura Riding (2)
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
231 quotes about poetry
James Whitcomb Riley (2)
The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.
58 other wisdom & wit about anger
Rainer Maria Rilke (9)
I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
233 views regarding being alone
Mary Roberts Rinehart (2)
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
41 more quotes about the law
Jane Roberts (3)
Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
136 wisdom & wit about dreams
Frederick William Robertson (4)
Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.
210 thoughts relating to education
Paul Robeson (4)
As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.
225 more thoughts regarding peace
John Buchanan Robinson (3)
For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.
233 thoughts regarding being alone
Jackie Robinson (2)
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
427 other views about life
Nelson Rockefeller (2)
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
292 more quotes regarding power
John D. Rockefeller (10)
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
198 more quotes about business
Knute Rockne (5)
Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
142 more views regarding failure
Auguste Rodin (4)
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
425 sayings relating to art
Will Rogers (57)
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
425 wisdom & wit regarding art
Roy Rogers (3)
I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.
198 more thoughts about business
Carl Rogers (4)
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
425 other thoughts about art
Romain Rolland (3)
It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
198 other quotes regarding business
Erwin Rommel (2)
But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
161 other sayings about courage
Eleanor Roosevelt (30)
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
233 views about being alone
Franklin D. Roosevelt (24)
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
425 sayings regarding art
Theodore Roosevelt (36)
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
249 quotes regarding aging
Leo Rosten (6)
Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.
41 thoughts about communication
Arnold Rothstein (2)
Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.
233 more quotes relating to being alone
Helen Rowland (23)
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
249 quotes about aging
Mike Royko (2)
It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.
13 more thoughts about computers
Helena Rubinstein (2)
Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.
19 more quotes about diets
Arthur Rubinstein (2)
Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
345 thoughts about happiness
John Ruskin (45)
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
58 thoughts about anger
Dora Russell (2)
Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
180 other quotes about marriage
Bertrand Russell (45)
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
249 quotes about aging
Babe Ruth (6)
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
364 other quotes about best
Joseph Franklin Rutherford (2)
Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.
345 views about happiness