All Quotes

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

The rarity is the sudden epiphany or single turning point showing you with dramatic clarity that your marriage is over, although that does happen. Most relationships hover on a precipice for years before one party or the other finally decides it is time to jump, and coming to the decision isn't easy.
‐‐ Laura Wasser

The Rascals are something else. They're up there with the Beatles, and Stones and Byrds. That level of musicality. They have a real chemistry. It is like magic.
‐‐ Steven Van Zandt

The Rastafari culture has a very strong connection to Haile Selassie, a descendant of King Solomon.
‐‐ Ziggy Marley

The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.
‐‐ Ray Liotta

The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.
‐‐ Bernard DeVoto

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.
‐‐ Douglas Engelbart

The rate of change and innovation occurring across the entire spectrum of society demands that a company like XL utilize the highest level of analytics and information to solve problems for our clients.
‐‐ Mike McGavick

The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.
‐‐ John P. Kotter

The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible.
‐‐ Shannon Miller

The rate of growth of the management skills of any country is inversely proportional to the number of MBAs. Germany produces no MBAs, but America used to produce MBAs by the millions, and you saw the German economy, until at least the '90s, was certainly more efficient than the American economy.
‐‐ Jairam Ramesh

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.
‐‐ Jared Diamond

The rate of innovation is a function of the total number of people connected and exchanging ideas. It has gone up as population has gone up. It's gone up as people have concentrated in cities.
‐‐ Peter Diamandis

The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.
‐‐ Irving Fisher

The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.
‐‐ Emanuel Celler

The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage.
‐‐ Paul Ryan

The rate of technological and human physiological change in the 20th century has been remarkable. Beyond that, a synergy between the improved technology and physiology is more than the simple addition of the two.
‐‐ Robert Fogel

The rates of soda consumption in our poorest communities cannot be explained by individual consumer preferences alone, but rather are linked to broader issues of access and affordability of healthy foods in low-income neighborhoods, and to the marketing efforts of soda companies themselves.
‐‐ Geoffrey Canada

The rating agencies historically actually did a pretty good job rating regular bonds.
‐‐ Andrew Ross Sorkin

The ratings board is completely different when it comes to film versus the television arena.
‐‐ Lee Daniels

The ratio of successful shots is one in God-knows-how-many. Sometimes you'll get several in one contact sheet, and sometimes it's none for days. But as long as you go on taking pictures, you're likely to get a good one at some point.
‐‐ Elliott Erwitt

The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.
‐‐ Garrett Hardin

The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly institutions in the country. Yes, conservative: Economists joke that their discipline advances one funeral at a time, but many fields must wait for wholesale generational turnover before new approaches take hold.
‐‐ Francis Fukuyama

The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

The rawness and the richness of music on vinyl almost went away, but it still seems to be on a lot of people's radar, and for good reason. It does something different than more accessible means of music playing, like MP3 players and downloads and whatnot. You get in front of these archaic contraptions that go 'round and 'round.
‐‐ Billy Gibbons

The re-establishment of a hard border on the island of Ireland would be a step backwards and present an opportunity for others, with malign agendas, to exploit for destructive purposes.
‐‐ Enda Kenny

The Re-Up Gang mixtapes are going down in history, man. I still listen to them in my car, and the 'Hell Hath No Fury' album. I tell people all the time that I'll never make another album like that one again. Never!
‐‐ Pusha T

The reach of Coke and McDonald's is undeniable, and I'm thrilled these iconic brands are joining forces to inspire local communities through messages of peace and motivation in unique ways. It's an added bonus that they are using the lyrics to 'Rise Up' as a part of those messages.
‐‐ Andra Day

The reaction of the public plays a very important role. It gives us an adrenaline boost, especially when people start to shout and clap their hands in time with the music. That really helps us to go on.
‐‐ Simone Biles

The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched by it. In both cases, I've coped artistically by believing the criticisms weren't right. They upset me, but they didn't challenge my understanding of how to write, nor of how morality functions in literature.
‐‐ Rachel Cusk

The reaction to this album has just been fabulous around the world... and I've had offers to perform from around the world and I'm tempted to do it. I've got itchy lips.
‐‐ Herb Alpert

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
‐‐ Theodore Roosevelt

The reactionary percentage of the electorate in these United States has been relatively constant since McCarthy's day; I'd estimate it as hovering around 30 percent. A minority, but one never all that enamored of the niceties of democracy - they see themselves as fighting for the survival of civilization, after all.
‐‐ Rick Perlstein

The reactions haven't differed; the concerns have been different. When I read for a predominantly Indian audience, there are more questions that are based on issues of identity and representation.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.
‐‐ Victor Grignard

The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.
‐‐ Daisaku Ikeda

The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.
‐‐ David Foster Wallace

The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.
‐‐ John Ciardi

The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea's alternate reality.
‐‐ Adam Johnson

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.
‐‐ Nathalie Sarraute

'The Reader' is about a young man's experience of falling in love with somebody who, it turns out, made some choices that were unavoidable in her life that resulted in horrific crimes against humanity.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these people often, to have them figure largely into the story, possibly to care about them. Usually, this will be the protagonist.
‐‐ Nancy Kress

The reader knows the writer better than he knows himself; but the writer's physical presence is light from a star that has moved on.
‐‐ John Updike

The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule.
‐‐ Francis Parkman

The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.
‐‐ Giacomo Casanova

The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.
‐‐ Tobias Wolff

The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.
‐‐ John Barton

The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
‐‐ Harlan Coben

The readership of Victorian novels, when they were published, was much less diverse. People were probably white, and had enough money to be literate. Very often, there are phrases in Italian, German and French that are left untranslated.
‐‐ Eleanor Catton

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
‐‐ Demosthenes