All Quotes

Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.
‐‐ Leon Panetta

Rather than use the term 'profiling,' the profilers prefer to say they engage in criminal investigative analysis. That is because, besides developing profiles, the analysts offer a range of other advice, including personality assessments and interview techniques tailored to a particular offender.
‐‐ Ronald Kessler

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.
‐‐ Jimmy Connors

Rather than wait to be discovered, discover yourself. Whatever it is that you intend to do later, start doing it now, get good at it, and show people what you've done. Actions speak louder than words.
‐‐ Steve-O

Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration.
‐‐ Ron Wyden

Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
‐‐ Gary Miller

Rather than writing about international events, I write about individual lives. There is elation and sadness, death and birth, love and jealousy, co-operation and betrayal. All the great emotional transactions that happen wherever people come together.
‐‐ Tom Drury

Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.
‐‐ Matt Taibbi

Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.
‐‐ Dan Rather

Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you tell a story is fundamentally different.
‐‐ J. J. Abrams

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
‐‐ Albert Ellis

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't realize what he is doing. No translation can express the mystery of sensibility, a word, still unreliable, which is nevertheless the basis of painting or poetry, like a kind of alchemy.
‐‐ Marcel Duchamp

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
‐‐ Huston Smith

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
‐‐ Arthur Erickson

Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.
‐‐ Francis Parker Yockey

Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes.
‐‐ Scott Hamilton

Rationally, I was convinced that the universe without God made no sense, but that simply was not the same as believing. But I also knew that I could not argue myself, or be argued, into faith.
‐‐ Henry Grunwald

Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg.
‐‐ Joshua Chamberlain

Rattigan's world demanded unwavering trust in principles, loyalty, and virtue. At the time of this play - Rattigan was writing this play in 1947 about an incident that took place in 1914 - should a boy say he didn't do something, his father would believe him; a British father would take the defense of his son's honor to his grave.
‐‐ Roger Rees

Rattigan wrote some very good plays.
‐‐ Roger Rees

Raul Reyes was a good revolutionary. I knew him personally.
‐‐ Hugo Chavez

Rave music sounds like an electronic disco version of '30s Universal monster movies.
‐‐ Mojo Nixon

'Ravenswood' is horror. It's not slasher, but it's psychological and spiritual horror.
‐‐ Tyler Blackburn

'Ravi' means 'sun.' It's a Sanskrit original word. And 'Shankar' is another name of Shiva, one of the holy trinity god that we worship.
‐‐ Ravi Shankar

Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

Raw foodists are kind of paddling upstream against evolution. The only reason they can do it, and they don't all keel over, is that they are using blenders. They're very Cuisinart-dependent.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

Raw leafy greens contain only about 100 calories per pound and are packed with nutrients.
‐‐ Joel Fuhrman

Raw lobster tail, freeze dried, is amazing.
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold

Rawn did her own thing in her own way. She cast the female gaze on a genre heavy with all-male quest fellowships, trophy females, and the occasional Smurfette. Her world was male-dominated and highly patriarchal, but she populated it with notable numbers of well-drawn female characters.
‐‐ Judith Tarr

Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum... they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.
‐‐ Kelly Wearstler

Ray and I both grew up with radio. Our whole hopes for the future were that we'd get into radio.
‐‐ Bob Elliott

Ray and I do not draw salaries, Any profits will be re-invested into marketing the music we believe in.
‐‐ Steve Vai

Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It's a Rat Pack-era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back.
‐‐ Sam Weller

Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.
‐‐ Greg Bear

Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an international writer long before I arrived. When my mom was nine months pregnant with me, my father read Bradbury aloud to her as I listened intently, in utero. And I later became his biographer.
‐‐ Sam Weller

Ray Bradbury's connections to fantasy, space, cinema, to the macabre and the melancholy, were all born of his years spent running, jumping, galloping through the woods, across the fields, and down the brick-paved streets of Waukegan.
‐‐ Sam Weller

Ray Bradbury was the first author that I was really exposed to back in grade school. I'm a big Philip K. Dick fan, but the emotion and humanity that Bradbury brings to his stories and the way he uses sci-fi to get at the human heart is something that's unique and for me incredibly influential.
‐‐ Rian Johnson

Ray Charles has always been a big part of my life.
‐‐ Darius Rucker

Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
‐‐ Taylor Hackford

Ray Charles' revolutionary approach to music was also reflected in his politics and his deep and abiding commitment to Martin Luther King and the plight of African-Americans. Ray Charles may not have been on the front lines, but he put his money where his mouth was.
‐‐ Diane Watson

'Ray Donovan' is such a revelation to everybody who's working on it, and it's only getting better.
‐‐ Steven Bauer

'Ray Donovan' was all fiction and pure fun, to be working with such greats as Liev Schreiber and Jon Voight. My character was recurring, but my storyline was intricate to the whole thing. With the character that I played, I got to go through all aspects of my instrument. I got to bring it to tears and to laughter.
‐‐ Johnathon Schaech

Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.
‐‐ Benny Green

Ray is very secretive about his ideas - why not, the times that the Kinks have been ripped off, especially in the early years, it makes you a little bit cautious about telling anybody what you're doing. And that's understandable.
‐‐ Dave Davies

Ray Johnson was a great innovator of mail art and photocopying and sending people photocopies.
‐‐ Leo Fitzpatrick

Ray Leonard is more the family man, kind of quiet. He's not as outgoing as Sugar Ray Leonard. Sugar Ray Leonard was very determined, very focused, very outgoing and very selfish, if you will. There are two different individuals there.
‐‐ Sugar Ray Leonard

Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night.
‐‐ Thomas Hearns