Quotations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Racing is 99 per cent boredom and 1 per cent terror.
- Geoff Brabham quotes
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
- Pope John Paul II quotes
Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.
- Nick Hornby quotes
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
- Fran Lebowitz quotes
Rafael Nadal's going to become a legend of tennis.
- Mariano Puerta quotes
Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.
- James Baldwin quotes
Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb
- Hannah More quotes
Raising awareness is the key and getting people to ask the right questions - only they can decide what they do from there.
- James Gibbs quotes
Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
- Democritus quotes
Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.
- Sylvester Stallone quotes
Ramp up my genius, be not retrograde; But boldly nominate a spade a spade (The Poetaster)
- Ben Jonson quotes
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
- Peter F Drucker quotes
Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.
- Norman Augustine quotes
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
- Bette Midler quotes
Rape is highly reprehensible, both in a moral sense and in its almost total contempt for the personal integrity and autonomy of the female victim and for the latter's privilege of choosing those with whom intimate relations are to be established.
- Byron R White quotes
Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.
- Freda Adler quotes
Raphael Ibanez won't know if he's in Paris or Porthcawl after that tackle!
- Nick Mullins quotes
Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.
- Byron J Langenfeld quotes
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
- Richard Bach quotes
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
- Martin Luther King Jr quotes
Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much.
- Richard Nixon quotes
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
- Marcus Martial quotes
Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many
- Phaedrus quotes
Rather than just a binary choice between grammar schools for some and secondary modern for others, it is far better to have wider diversity in schools and greater choice for parents
- David Davis quotes
Rather than worry about foods to avoid, I think of everything I can eat - lobster, mussels, crab, tomatoes
- Sarah Beeny quotes
Rats!
They fought the dogs and killed the cats,
And bit the babies in the cradles,
And ate the cheeses out of the vats,
.....
- Robert Browning quotes
Rattle his bones over the stones!
He's only a pauper whom nobody owns.
- Thomas Noel quotes
Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman quotes
Re: William Morris 'He didn't quite bring down the Walls of Jericho so much as cover them in nice wallpaper'
- Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen quotes
Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
- Pamela Vaull Starr quotes
Reaching the semi-finals at the French Open will always be a very special memory for me and it proved to be a catalyst for the remainder of the year.
- Tim Henman quotes
Read as you taste fruit or savour wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
- George Herbert quotes
Read good, big important things.
- Peggy Noonan quotes
Read in order to live.
- Henry Fielding quotes
Read much, but not many books.
- Gustav Flaubert quotes
Read my lips: no new taxes.
- George Bush quotes
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
- Benjamin Disraeli quotes
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
- Samuel Johnson quotes
Read the rich list in Forbes. When you see all these people with all different kinds of money, it will make you feel inadequate and keep you focussed.
- Damon Dash quotes
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
- Christopher Morley quotes
