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Rand, Ayn

To achieve, you need thought . . . that's real power.

Rankin, Jeannette

You can no more win a war than win an earthquake.

Ravitch, Diane

The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss.

Rayburn, Sam

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

Reagan, Ronald

They say hard work never hurt anybody, but I figure why take the chance?

Reagan, Ronald

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

Reagon, Bernice Johnson

There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.

Redmoon, Ambrose

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Reed, Rex

In Hollywood, if you don't have happiness, you send out for it.

"Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye"

The proliferation of support groups suggests that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain grandmothers.

Repplier, Agnes

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and not possible to find it elsewhere.

Richards, Ann

It's the rooster that does all the crowing, but it's the hen that delivers the goods.

Richter, Jean Paul

For sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.

Rickey, Branch

Problems are the price you pay for progress.

Riis, Jacob A.

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Rivers, Joan

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes&emdash;and six months later you have to start all over again.

Roberts, Cavett

If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one.

Robeson, Paul

I heard my people singing&emdash;in the glow of the parlour coalstove and on the summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews&emdash;and my soul was filled with their harmonies.

Rockefeller, John Davison

Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Rockefeller, John Davison

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

Rockne, Knute

Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.

Rogers, Ginger

When two people love each other, they don't look at each other; they look in the same direction.

Rogers, Will

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what's going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House?

Rogers, Will

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.

Rogers, Will

You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

Rooney, Andy

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Rooney, Andy

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Mickey

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Roosevelt, (Anna) Eleanor

A woman is like a teabag&emdash;only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.

Roosevelt, (Anna) Eleanor

Happiness is not a goal, it is a byproduct.

Roosevelt, (Anna) Eleanor

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

Roosevelt, (Anna) Eleanor

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Roosevelt, (Anna) Eleanor

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Roosevelt, (Anna) Eleanor

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along."

Roosevelt, (Anna) Eleanor

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

Above all, try something.

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Roosevelt, Theodore

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action.

Roosevelt, Theodore

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Rose, Aaron

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

Rose, Billy

Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repairing.

Rossetti, Christina

Better by far that you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

Rostand, Edmond

All our souls are written in our eyes.

Rosten, Leo

If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Ruckleshaus, Jill

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

Rumi

You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?

Ruskin, John

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

Russell, Bertrand

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Russell, Bertrand

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Russell, John

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

Russian proverb

Happiness is not a horse; you cannot harness it.

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