All Quotes

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
‐‐ James Madison

The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.
‐‐ George W. Romney

The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for the impossibly wealthy.
‐‐ Silvia Cartwright

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.
‐‐ Tina Brown

The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.
‐‐ Xun Kuang

The rigors of creativity - the self-doubt, the revising, the solitude - do require a kind of self-consumption. It comes at a cost; a cost that isn't for everyone.
‐‐ David Rakoff

The Rilo Kiley song 'A Better Son/Daughter' is my most requested song - especially for people who are at the age I was when I wrote it. It's sort of a mid-twenties lament.
‐‐ Jenny Lewis

The rim is looking bigger and bigger every game.
‐‐ Paul Pierce

'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' had a formative effect on me. I think it's one of those works that if you encounter it very early you're doubly enchanted by the beauty of the language and the strangeness of the vision. It stays with you.
‐‐ Ben Okri

The Rio de Contas, a wide, almost delta-like river, was startling, a sudden big sky and a feeling of openness, and very bright. It was noisy with birds. The rain forest houses most of the earth's plant and animal population. I hadn't anticipated it would be so loud.
‐‐ Bill Buford

The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
‐‐ Yann Arthus-Bertrand

The Rio experience for me is going to be completely different to London.
‐‐ Lizzie Armitstead

The Rio Games, it will be a big goal.
‐‐ Pauline Ferrand-Prevot

The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then.
‐‐ Debbie Allen

The ripest peach is highest on the tree.
‐‐ James Whitcomb Riley

The rise in equities helped strengthen the economy.
‐‐ Jerry A. Webman

The rise in the price of gold is a sign that capitalism has stumbled.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast.
‐‐ George Osborne

The rise of a ubiquitous Internet, along with 24-hour news channels has, in some sense, had the opposite effect from what many might have hoped such free and open access to information would have had. It has instead provided free and open access, without the traditional media filters, to a barrage of disinformation.
‐‐ Lawrence M. Krauss

The rise of African nations concurrent with the spread of the Nation of Islam and the civil rights movement gave black America a burst of pride over and above anything they had had since the decline of the movement of Marcus Garvey.
‐‐ John Henrik Clarke

The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them.
‐‐ Ralph Bakshi

The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when, no matter where you are - in the middle of a deserted highway or in a bustling city - you can get high speed broadband access.
‐‐ Matt Mullenweg

The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they are conceived.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.
‐‐ Tom Vilsack

The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China.
‐‐ Steve Forbes

The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash.
‐‐ James Chiles

The rise of digital technology put marketers in a bind. No longer a captive audience, consumers were splitting their time across devices, social networks and websites.
‐‐ Shawn Amos

The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.
‐‐ Eric Schmidt

The rise of ISIS in Iraq is a wider threat to the stability of the Middle East and the West than many realise.
‐‐ Maajid Nawaz

The rise of ISIS is a result of - Obama and Clinton making a decision to pull our troops out without preparing Iraq is a colossal mistake.
‐‐ Paul Manafort

The rise of ISIS starts with a Jordanian thug named Abu Musab al-Zarqawi who founded ISIS' parent organization, al Qaeda, in Iraq. What gave Zarqawi the opportunity to create al Qaeda in Iraq? It was, of course, George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
‐‐ Peter L. Bergen

The rise of King Crimson was so fast that, to me, it felt as if it was going out of control. And it was going so fast that I couldn't keep up with what was happening.
‐‐ Michael Giles

The rise of man from the animal to the human level was prolonged by the necessity of rising from a state of barbarism and violence to one of order and peace.
‐‐ Leon Bourgeois

The rise of National Socialism is the protest of a people against a State that denies the right to work.
‐‐ Gregor Strasser

The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance.
‐‐ Hu Shih

The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.
‐‐ John Lothrop Motley

The rise of the Internet and the camera phone have started to change what stories are accessible.
‐‐ Cameron Russell

The rise of the iPod meant that digital music became the norm, It's sad, but you can still find the real stuff out there if you look for it!
‐‐ Peter Hook

The rise of the presidency began with the Louisiana Purchase, which in 1803 doubled the land mass of the United States. History taught the framers that, just as Rome changed from republic to empire with conquest of new lands, territorial acquisition would lead to the centralization of political power.
‐‐ Noah Feldman

The rise of the Tea Party, along with the emergence of Christine O'Donnell in Delaware, Sharron Angle in Nevada, Carl Paladino in New York and Ron Paul in Kentucky, is not the first time in American history that voters have responded to hard economic times by supporting angry, unorthodox Senate and gubernatorial candidates.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.
‐‐ Niall Ferguson

The rise of Twitter defined 2011. Once every 5-7 years, a company emerges that changes not just the technology industry, but the world... after what some viewed as a rocky start, in 2011 Twitter broke through into the elite group of companies that profoundly shape our world.
‐‐ Peter Fenton

The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.
‐‐ Chiang Kai-shek

The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.
‐‐ David Ricardo

The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation.
‐‐ James Buchan

The rising cost of prescription drugs has sparked a prairie fire that is spreading across our nation.
‐‐ Tim Pawlenty

The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.
‐‐ Hank Johnson

The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.
‐‐ David O. McKay

The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop.
‐‐ Michael Oxley