All Quotes

To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.
‐‐ Giles Foden

To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts. Shakespeare is the chief modern example of this supreme faculty of mankind.
‐‐ George Edward Woodberry

To realize peace on the Korean peninsula, and to develop exchange, cooperation between both Koreas, they are the, you know, immediate target of our government.
‐‐ Kim Dae Jung

To realize President Obama's vision of opportunity for all, it's all about making the right match. The way we do that is through job-driven training - connecting ready-to-work Americans with ready to be-filled jobs. It helps more people secure a foothold in the middle class and helps businesses to profit and grow.
‐‐ Thomas Perez

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.
‐‐ Herbert Read

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
‐‐ Lao Tzu

To realize the American dream, the most important thing to understand is that it belongs to everybody. It's a human dream. If you understand this and work very hard, it is possible.
‐‐ Cristina Saralegui

To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.
‐‐ Anne Rice

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.
‐‐ Donna Tartt

To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that's sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy.
‐‐ Mary Lynn Rajskub

To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it has to make your skin crawl by getting under it. Strangely, that last clause could describe provocative or daring music, as well.
‐‐ Carrie Brownstein

To really boost your sense of self-efficacy, think of ways you could modify your usual tasks to suit your personal style.
‐‐ Martha Beck

To really change the way society thinks, you have to give your entire being to it until there's nothing left.
‐‐ Marina Abramovic

To really understand what love is, you've kinda got to dig down deeper than just how you feel at the moment.
‐‐ Kirk Cameron

To reason logically is so to link one's propositions that each should contain the reason for the one succeeding it, and should itself be demonstrated by the one preceding it. Or at any rate, whatever the order adopted in the construction of one's own exposition, it is to demonstrate judgments by each other.
‐‐ Jean Piaget

To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.
‐‐ Fatos Nano

To receive all of the promised blessings, we must accept the gospel in faith and in full. However, this certain faith does not usually come all at once. We learn spiritually line upon line and precept upon precept.
‐‐ James E. Faust

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
‐‐ Georg C. Lichtenberg

To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
‐‐ Taisen Deshimaru

To receive this award from an organization I admire so much makes me totally happy and grateful.
‐‐ James Welch

To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether.
‐‐ Paul Twitchell

To recognize that head injuries were as essential a part of football as they are of boxing would be to erase the fine distinction on which the game's respectability rested.
‐‐ Charlie Pierce

To recognize yourself in a character onscreen, and to connect with them, you gotta recognize their flaws; they gotta feel like a real person.
‐‐ Ryan Coogler

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.
‐‐ Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

To reconstruct stories and scenes, nonfiction writers must conduct vigorous and responsible research. In fact, narrative requires more research than traditional reportage, for writers cannot simply tell what they learn and know; rather, they must show it.
‐‐ Lee Gutkind

To record is a process against forgetting. I do interviews because it's what I've been doing every day for a few hours since I was a kid. I've always talked to artists.
‐‐ Hans-Ulrich Obrist

To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.
‐‐ Matthew Fox

To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.
‐‐ J. Robert Oppenheimer

To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that's exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his.
‐‐ Sarah Palin

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
‐‐ Jean Rostand

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.
‐‐ George Santayana

To reform the Secret Service, the agency needs a director from outside the agency who will be immune from that culture and not beholden to entrenched bureaucrats within the agency.
‐‐ Ronald Kessler

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
‐‐ Marcus Aurelius

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
‐‐ Mark Twain

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.
‐‐ Publilius Syrus

To regain our political footing, we must prove to moderates that Democrats can make tough choices.
‐‐ Evan Bayh

To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
‐‐ John Burroughs

To regret fully is to appreciate how high the stakes are in even the average human life; fully experienced, it turns our eyes, attentive and alert, to a future possibly lived better than our past.
‐‐ David Whyte

To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.
‐‐ Robert Shea

To reject the word is to reject the human search.
‐‐ Max Lerner

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.
‐‐ Tryon Edwards

To relax, I do yoga and meditate and do little math problems, and it's fun to check that part of your brain off and turn on a different part.
‐‐ David Alpay

To relax, I love sitting back and turning my brain off and watching TV.
‐‐ Aja Naomi King

To relax, I work.
‐‐ Christopher Lambert

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
‐‐ Vladimir Lenin

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.
‐‐ John C. Maxwell

To remain relevant though, I think making great records is the key.
‐‐ Kelly Jones

To remain young one must change.
‐‐ Alexander Chase

To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.
‐‐ Jonathan Safran Foer