A relationship with young people is very important to me. It's important to have a sense of what's going on in their world and not just in my own. So the opportunity teaching provides is a gift.
‐‐ Grace Paley
A relative of poison ivy and poison sumac, the cashew contains the same rash-inducing chemicals, known as urushiols, as its kin.
‐‐ Kate Christensen
A religion is not just a set of texts but the living beliefs and practices of its adherents.
‐‐ George Packer
A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and 'superlive,' as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.
‐‐ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi
A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
‐‐ Jeremy Taylor
A religion without rules or God isn't sustainable.
‐‐ David Harsanyi
A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance.
‐‐ Tullian Tchividjian
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
‐‐ Jessamyn West
A religious commitment coupled with theological awareness gives Jews a much better way to answer the claims made upon us by missionaries representing other religions than do the rather weak political and cultural arguments of the secularists.
‐‐ David Novak
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
‐‐ Madame de Stael
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
‐‐ Abraham Joshua Heschel
A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
‐‐ Irving Babbitt
A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
‐‐ Robert Graves
A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.
‐‐ Jaron Lanier
A rematch is one of those things that will always be there when you remove a champion, and it's something you definitely need to give them - that chance for a rematch. That's the only way to do it.
‐‐ Holly Holm
A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.
‐‐ Bill Owens
A report released by the Partnership for a New American Economy and the Partnership for New York City predicts that by 2018, there will be 800,000 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) jobs in the United States that require a master's degree or higher - and only around 550,000 American-graduates with this training.
‐‐ Marvin Ammori
A reporter asked recently, 'What keeps you up at night?' I replied that I generally sleep well, but if I ever do have trouble, I don't have to count sheep. I count all the states I'm glad I'm not the governor of.
‐‐ Mitch McConnell
A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea.
‐‐ Phyllis Battelle
A reporter from 'The Times' wanted to arm-wrestle, and as I recall, he kept challenging me. So we went at it, and there was a pop. His arm broke. Very strange. He went into a kind of swoon.
‐‐ Charles Portis
A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone.
‐‐ Edward R. Murrow
A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.
‐‐ Bob Woodward
A representative is free delivery; she's a personal beauty consultant. Some people want that high touch.
‐‐ Andrea Jung
A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.
‐‐ Moshe Sharett
A republic has been established, and our compatriots in Mongolia, Tibet, Qinghai and Xinjiang, who have always been a part of China, are all now Chinese citizens who are masters of their country.
‐‐ Sun Yat-sen
A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.
‐‐ Mike Pence
A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.
‐‐ Franklin Pierce
A Republican in my state of Arkansas feels about as out of place as Michael Vick at the West Minister dog show.
‐‐ Mike Huckabee
A Republican philosophy goes something like this: If you take your car to the mechanic, and instead of fixing it, they take out the engine and charge you an arm and a leg, you should conclude that mechanics can't fix cars and you should probably just take yours to the junkyard and sell it for scrap metal.
‐‐ Keith Ellison
A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.
‐‐ Kevin Hart
A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.
‐‐ Ernest Bramah
A reputation is really hard to live down.
‐‐ Mickey Rourke
A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
‐‐ Joseph Hall
A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.
‐‐ Jason Mraz
A research group found that 56 percent of major companies surveyed in the late '80s agreed that 'employees who are loyal to the company and further its business goals deserve an assurance of continued employment.' A decade later, only 6 percent agreed. It was in the '90s that companies started weeding people out as a form of cost reduction.
‐‐ Barbara Ehrenreich
A residence of many years in Yorkshire, and an inveterate habit of collecting all kinds of odd and out-of-the-way information concerning men and matters, furnished me, when I left Yorkshire in 1872, with a large amount of material, collected in that county, relating to its eccentric children.
‐‐ Sabine Baring-Gould
A resident's surgical skill is judged by their technique and speed. You can't be sloppy, and you can't be slow.
‐‐ Paul Kalanithi
A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
‐‐ Salmon P. Chase
A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.
‐‐ Nick Rahall
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
‐‐ Thomas Hardy
A resource-poor country like Japan can only rely on people's endeavor and knowledge. I would like to continue my effort to provide help to younger people.
‐‐ Akira Suzuki
A respectable-sized audience hasn't really been able to follow developments in jazz since the free jazz movement in the '60s. Some of them can't even get with John Coltrane. Audiences are diminishing more and more rapidly. Some of the top young musicians with something new to say can't get record companies to put out their stuff.
‐‐ Harvey Pekar
A responsible choice is a choice that creates consequences that you are willing to assume responsibility for.
‐‐ Gary Zukav
A responsive audience is the best encouragement an actor can have.
‐‐ Al Jolson
A restaurant is a compendium of choices that the owner has made. If you look around a restaurant, everything represents a choice: the kind of salt shaker that's on the table, the art on the walls, the uniforms on the waiters.
‐‐ Danny Meyer
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
‐‐ Elbert Hubbard
A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.
‐‐ Chris Christie
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
‐‐ Niccolo Machiavelli