Our flag is our identity, and we can't disrespect or let anyone else disrespect our identity.
If we don't discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.
William Feather
Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.
LaoTzu
He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.
Robertson Davies, Fifth Business
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artis
When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when the man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.
Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)
The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.
G. K. Chesterton
Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you are young.
Samuel Ullman
Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.
Don Miguel Ruiz
People will sit up and take notice of you if you will sit up and take notice of what makes them sit up and take notice.
Frank Romer
The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.
Age does not matter if the matter does not age.
Carlos Pena Romulo
Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival.
You have to erect a fence and say, Okay, scale this.
Linda Ronstadt
Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving.
Frank Rooney
A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100, 000 short.
Mickey Rooney
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.
I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me.
Men do not fail; they give up trying.
Elihu Root
We all know of course that we cannot abolish all the evils in this world by statute or by the enforcement of statutes, nor can we prevent the inexorable law of nature which decrees that suffering shall follow vice, and all the evil passions and folly of mankind. Law cannot give to depravity the rewards of virtue, to indolence the rewards of industry, to indifference the rewards of ambition, or to ignorance the rewards of learning. The utmost that government can do is measurably to protect men, not against the wrong they do themselves but against wrong done by others and to promote the long, slow process of educating mind and character to a better knowledge and nobler standards of life and conduct. We know all this, but when we see how much misery there is in the world and instinctively cry out against it, and when we see some things that government may do to mitigate it, we are apt to forget how little after all it is possible for any government to do, and to hold the particular government of the time and place to a standard of responsibility which no government can possibly meet.
Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government; somebody must study it, and learn the art, and exercise patience and sympathy and skill to bring the multitude of opinions and wishes of self-governing people into such order that some prevailing opinion may be expressed and peaceably accepted. Otherwise, confusion will result either in dictatorship or anarchy. The principal ground of reproach against any American citizen should be that he is not a politician. Everyone ought to be, as Lincoln was.
There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.
Elmo Roper
Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.
Richard Rorty
The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.
The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.
Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.
The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
Earl of Roscommon
Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repairing.
Billy Rose
Never bet on baseball.
Pete Rose
My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.
How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a world of tears, welded by the best brains of centuries past; not without the taint and reproach incidental to all human work, but constructed on the whole with pure and splendid purpose. Human, and yet not wholly human -- for the most heedless and the most cynical must see the finger of the Divine.
Lord Rosebery
Does art reflect life? In movies, yes. Because more than any other art form, films have been a mirror held up to society's porous face.
Marjorie Rosen
Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that reduces psychological insight to a collection of standardized observations, that provides a frozen lexicon to deal with an infinite variety of problems.
Richard D. Rosen
If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so.
Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?
If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.
It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.
Confession, alas, is the new handshake.
It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue the ego's condition. Let's call it psychobabble, this spirit which now tyrannizes conversation in the seventies.
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