Sima Qian
The refusal of one decent man outweighs the acquiescence of the multitude.
Mary Quant
Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.
Queen Elizabeth I
The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
Jiang Quin
I was chairman Mao's dog. When he said 'bite' - I bit.
Thomas De Quincey
The public is a bad guesser.
All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.
In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.
John Quinton
That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.
R
François Rabelais
Science without conscience is the ruin of the soul.
Itzhak Rabin
We have achieved impossible things. We have not succeeded quite as well with the possible ones.
Bonnie Raitt
Religion is for people who are afraid to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
Dieter Rams
A design ought to make the product talk.
Ayn Rand
Writers are made, not born.
Money demands of you the highest virtues.
Simon Rattle
If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.
Ronald Reagan
To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership.
It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.
Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.
Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look.
Middle age is when you are faced with two temptations, and you choose the one that will get you home at 9 o'clock.
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Alan Reed
A political commentator should never write in the future tense.
Martin Rees
We are made from the debris of dead stars.
Patrizia Reggiani
I would rather weep in a Rolls-Royce than be happy on a bicycle.
Marian Reid
Tough times really show how strong we are.
Ian Reid
He was an original without being eccentric.
Rainey Reitman
If people know where you are , they know where you're not.
Ernest Renan
Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation.
Jules Renard
Fame is a constant effort.
Words are the small change of thought.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
On Earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
Laziness is simply the habit of resting before you get tired.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
There are moment when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.
As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
Jean Renoir
The awful thing about life: everyone has their own reasons.
I consider that women who are authors, lawyers and politicians are monsters. The woman who is an artist is merely ridiculous.
Maria Ressa
Without facts you cannot have truth. Without truth you cannot have trust. How can you have democracy without that? This is the fabric that holds us together: shared reality.
Walther Reuter
If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.
Shonda Rhimes
Thinks feel more doable when they are not about you.
Condoleezza Rice
Obviously, in any compromise, there are compromises.
Aidan Rickets
Activism is like the immune system. It rises in response to the threat.
Rick Ridgeway(explorer)
Tenacity is easier when you have no choice.
Dan Riffle
Every Billionaire is a Policy Failure.
D.W.Riley
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
David Ritter
Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.
Antoine Rivarol
Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception of humanity.
Joan Rivers
I hate housework. You make the beds, you wash the dishes, and six months later you have to start all over again.
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
Sue Roaf
The government has to wake up and smell the coffins. ('Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change')
Leonard H.Robbins
It has become fashionable to be old-fashioned in the garden.
Michael Robotham
Progress marches in jackboots. ('The Wreckage')
Some crushes don't get crushed. ('Bleed for Me')
Love is either equal or a tragedy. ('Bleed for Me')
Life isn’t fair or unfair - it is what it is. (‘The Other Wife’)
The sort of sex that can fog a window. ('The Wreckage')
Everything has a half-life – even facts. (‘Good Girl - Bad Girl’)
Fate is what happens despite our plans. (‘The Other Wife’)
Desperation is the mother of bad ideas. ('The Night Ferry')
Nothing twists a knife quicker than fate. ('Lost')
Every society gets the criminals it deserves. (‘Good Girl - Bad Girl’)
His laugh sounded like nuts falling on a roof. ('The Night Ferry')
He's gayer than a handbag full of rainbows. ('The Wreckage')
Loving children is easy. Keeping them is hard. ('Lost')
People without phone are careful not to be late. (‘The Other Wife’)
Some wives should come with a health warning. (‘The other Wife’)
The observation of an event alters the event itself. (‘The Wreckage’)
The heart has reasons that reason cannot understand. ('Shatter')
If arseholes could fly, this place would be an airport. ('Bombproof')
Some soldiers can't survive the peace. They need chaos. ('The Night Ferry')
Coincidences are just God's way to remain anonymous. ('Bleed for Me')
The blackest hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes. ('The Suspect')
Don't say anything unless you can improve on the silence. ('The Suspect')
You got to hold on like a baby being breastfed by Marilyn Monroe. (‘Life or Death’)
A coincidence is just a couple of things happening simultaneously (‘The Suspect')
When do coincidences stop being coincidences and become patterns? (‘The Suspect')
The sex was so good even the neighbours had a cigarette afterwards. ('Bombproof')
There are so many ways to move forward and only one way to stand still. ('The Secrets she Keeps
The world is full of broken people and most of their cracks are on the inside. ('Shatter')
Paranoia is not reality on a finer scale, it is foolish reaction to unanswered questions. ('The Night Ferry')
We have no self unless we have a secret... We assert our identity as somebody apart (from others). (‘The Other Wife’)
We only exist if others think about us. It is like the tree that falls in the forest with nobody around to hear it. ('Shatter')
Frank Robson
The pathos of ageing isn't the inevitability of death, but the long slow shuffle into an alien landscape.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Heroes are made like other men.
We never praise without a motive.
Self-love is the motive of everything.
The head is always the dupe of the heart.
Our virtues are generally but disguised vices.
Nature assigns merit but chance sets it to work.
Jealousy is born with love, but does not die with it.
What grace is to the body good sense is to the mind.
Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.
We have not enough strength to always act upon reason.
The more we love a woman the more able we are to hate her.
There is only one true love, but a thousand different imitations.
Sometimes one is as different from oneself as from other people.
The blemishes of the mind, like those of the face, increase by age.
Those who know their minds do not necessarily know their hearts.
We have all sufficient strength to support the misfortunes of others.
We promise according to our hopes, we perform according to our fears.
Some would never have loved if they never had heard all the talk about it.
Who deals too much with little things becomes impotent for the great ones.
However deceitful hope may be - she carries us pleasantly to the end of life.
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than to our strength.
No accidents are so bad from which clever men will not draw some advantage.
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
If we had no faults we would not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.
For the majority of men their love of justice is simply the fear of suffering injustice.
The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.
The duration of our passions is no more dependant upon us than the duration of our life.
There is no way which can long hide love where it exists, nor pretend it where it does not.
We become so used to disguise ourselves to others that at last we are disguised to ourselves.
There is something in the misfortunes of our best friends which does not wholly displease us.
Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.
Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and even sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.
Neither love nor fire can thrive without constant motion; both cease to live as soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.
Although men flatter themselves with their great deeds, they are not so often the result of a great cleverness as of chance.
It is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, and that of little minds to say nothing in many words.
John D.Rockefeller
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.
Auguste Rodin
We must love life, if only for the work we can do in it.
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
Sam Roggeveen
Military power is a function of economic power.
Mies van der Rohe
God is in the details.
John Rohn
If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
Alan Roland
Having a career in the arts today requires to be more entrepreneurial than an investment banker.
Romain Rolland
I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.
A discussion is impossible with someone who doesn't search for truth, but is convinced to possess it already.
Rabbi Romain
It is right to both save life when we can, and to limit the pain of dying for those terminally ill who so wish.
Erwin Rommel
We live in a time when we can't bear neither the illness nor its remedy.
Mitt Romney
I thought becoming rich and famous would make me happy. Boy was I right!
Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is meant to be lived.
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product of a life well lived.
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is mystery. Today is a gift.
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; if he betrays you twice, it is your fault.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
He who loses money, loses much; he, who loses a friend, loses much more; he, who loses faith, loses all.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Franklin D.Roosevelt
We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.
(The presidency is) pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
Each age is a dream that is dying or one that is coming to birth.
We, born in freedom and believing in freedom, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
Theodore Roosevelt
Speak softly and carry a big stick.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
Françoise Rosay
Clever people know how to smoothen the end of youth over several decades.
Rod Rosenstein
The truth is not determined by opinion polls.
Philip Rosenthal
Who thinks to be somebody has stopped to become somebody.
Joseph Roth
A writer who spends his time reading is like a waiter who spends his time eating.
Philip Roth
A family is both peace and war. ('The Plot against America')
Even in death you get a bad review.
Old age isn't a battle. Old age is a massacre. (‘Everyman’)
Jews are to history, what Eskimos are to snow.
When the prick stands up, the brains are as good as dead. (‘Portnoy’s Complaint’)
The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy – that is every man's tragedy. ('American Pastoral')
… how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others.
('The Plot against America')
A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die.
(‘Portnoy’s Complaint’
History..., where everything unexpected in its own time is chronicled on the page as inevitable. The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic. ('The Plot against America')
Hannah Rothschild
We are young people trapped in old skin.
The only thing worse than love is lack of love.
History is like waves on a sea shore: tides come and go but nothing really changes. (all: 'The House of Trelawney')
Hassan Rouhani
The heart of elections is competition.
P.J.O'Rourke
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Many kids have parents very difficult to educate.
Do the opposite to the conventional, and almost always you'll do right.
It is more important to have people's respect always than their admiration occasionally.
Life is short - not because of the short time it lasts, but because there is so little of that short time we can enjoy.
Harry Rowohlt (Publisher)
German is one of the most beautiful, precise and poetic languages. What a shame it has chosen the wrong people.
Arundhati Roy
Martyrs' blood irrigates terrorism.
A Superpower never has allies. It only has agents.
History was like an old house at night. With all the lamps lit. And ancestors whispering inside. ("The God of Small Things")
A kinder world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day I can hear her breathing.
Helena Rubinstein
There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.
Friedrich Rückert
Who wants to receive must give in equal measure. And who wants to win a heart must give his life.
Heinz Rühmann
The pessimist enjoys bad experiences because they prove his point.
Muriel Rukeyser
The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
Donald Rumsfeld
Freedom is untidy.
Everybody stumbles and wobbles.
Salman Rushdie
The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame.
('The Ground beneath her Feet')
John Ruskin
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.
There really is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
Bertrand Russell
The cause of the present chaos is past chaos.
Most people would rather die than think. Many do.
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors.
If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think man much to boast of as the final result of all my efforts.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
Lord John Russell
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Michelle Ryan
We should see disability not as a hierarchy of ability, but as a spectrum of human difference.
Ronald Ryan (when hanged for murder)
(Catholicism): It's a hard religion to live in, but a good one to die in.
Scott Ryan
The greatest warrior is the one with the most love in his heart.