List of Topics starting with [R]

We are ever brutal to those who love and serve us in silence, but the time may come when, for our cruelty, we shall be ...

Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths.

I was that stupid, I realized. I was also stupid enough not to realize that sometimes even the most beautiful souls need to be shown ...

This year's Olympics will be replacing the women's beach volleyball bikinis with uniforms that are less revealing. The stricter dress code was made to appease ...

Yes, red-to give warmth to that milk-white skin and those shining gray-green eyes of yours. Golden hair wouldn't suit you at all Queen Anne-My Queen ...

I see he had his shorts on under the towel all along.I think for a fact that she'd rather he'd of been stark naked under ...

The Indian who fells the tree that he may gather the fruit, and the Arab who plunders the caravans of commerce are actuated by the ...

All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it is not the ...

So we listen. We add up associations of people with people. When a push against Scientology starts somewhere, we go over the people involved and ...

When people believe that every move they make is going to affect their compensation, they tend to get risk averse.

Don't you understand?" snarled Rincewind. "We are going over the Edge, godsdammit!""Can't we do anything about it?""No!""Then I can't see the sense in panicking," said ...

I heard Rolex makes nice watches.

This same formula by which Buddhists so anti-rationalistically and anti-banausically describe the "relation" between soul and body also applies to the relation between lover and ...

The sky is the color of gray flannel, the darkness broken only by the dormer window of another early riser. The woman who lives in ...

The strength of ideas rests on their relationship to reality.

The feeling I got from rallycross was a little bit more of the NASCAR aspect of it; it's a family of races where racing is ...

We never want to be taken for granted, but our partners should be able to expect our honest loyalty. That is a powerfully strong foundation ...

The present treatments for brain cancer are not curative. We need new and better treatments. More funding for research. Legislation to improve the research system ...

Are gun rights advocates arguing that roving gangs ... shooting innocent bystanders constitutes a 'well-regulated militia'?

Remember guls," preached Mrs. Gulbenk, always holding the most perfect red tomato in her hand for all of us to admire, "you can fry 'em, ...

Are you the dove or the statue?Soaring with the eagles leaving the turkeys behind.May our highest Supreme Being be with you and give you lots ...

Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the little ...

In L.A., I love the L'Ermitage in Beverly Hills. Also, the Beverly Wilshire, where they make great huevos rancheros. I also love Shutters on the ...

Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace.

Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.Must hearts forever sufferfrom ignorance and greed?Can bombs heal ...

I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You'd use every part of your body. Even though ...

So I start my mission- leave my residenceThinkin how could I get some dead presidents

To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an ...

In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then ...

Memory inevitably romanticizes, pressing reality to recede like pain.

As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised, lacerated minds and ...

My most memorable science fiction experience was 'Star Wars' and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots.

It was suggested that I take a recording test. I passed, was liked and, well, you know the rest of the story.

High bankruptcy rates, increased credit card debt, and identity theft make it imperative that all of us take an active role in providing financial and ...

Ritsu... Do you like Oda?" More than me?"Yes.

Night descended on Roarhaven like a woolly blanket of blackness with holes in it that were the stars.

The Guild focuses on the ones paying attention to pussy," Ristan remarked crudely. "If we were all dead-set on bedding your women, would you not ...

Why would you do that for me?" Leesha asked.Rojer smiled, taking her hand in his crippled one. "We're survivors, aren't we?" he asked. "Someone once ...

The media doesn't always reflect reality.

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

The day when I am satisfied with what I have, will be the day I retire from the sport.

A life without challenge, a life without hardship, a life without purpose, seems pale and pointless. With challenge come perseverance and gumption. With hardship come ...

Unknown objects are operating under intelligent control ... It is imperative that we learn where UFOs come from and what their purpose is ...

It's quite a trick to use three instruments to tell the story of two people, but Vores carried it off; three, for once, is not ...

Roddick can challenge him as well if he serves big consistently for the entire match. If he does that, then he is tough to break ...

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point ... The truly adult view, ...

I think we must all feel that there are people out there who know things about our young selves, you know, our early, early lives, ...

It's not that Natasha wants to let Daniel go; it's that she has to let go. It isn't possible for her to live in two ...

It's so natural to drag a good thing down. It takes a lot of control to let it be what it is. -Rhiannon

When I started working, I just had my name be 'Bryce Dallas.'

We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody ...

I think a big part of being a success is confidence. Just look at me, I know I'm successful, and I am.

But now I feel like a receptacle -- an empty vessel to be filled at his whim.

Yet here apparently on this stifling summer afternoon was the eye of Mr. Flay at the outer keyhole of the Hall of the Bright Carvings, ...

Ninety-nine percent of men are okay with following the rules and doing what they're told. We're the other one percent, so we built our own ...

We can go forward or we can go back, and even though I'm scared as hell, I don't want to go back.

I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past.

In racing, there is no question who is best - the first one to cross the finish line wins first prize. But with wine, even ...

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough ...

They will be bound to make some arrests, he thought, with something resembling virtuous indignation, for the even tenor of his revolutionary life was menaced ...

Love was only a ridiculous fairy tale that was never satisfying, warm, or safe.

With a sweet kiss, off the glass ...

Life would be a lot easier if conversations were rewindable and erasable, like videos. Or if you could instruct people to disregard what you just ...

Oh my God! Why did I leave India? I fell in love with a white man. That's what it was. It was the most boring, ...

Her voice is filled with distant sonorities, like reverberations in a cave: now you are at the place of annihilation, now you are at the ...

I think people's perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So ...

There are programs such as the NSA paying RSA $10 million to use an insecure encryption standard by default in their products. That's making us ...

There are no rules for felicity.

Is then the fruit of a fig-tree not perfect suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the fruit of a man's mind in ...

Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.

If you think hard enough about it, Rowlf the dog playing the piano on 'The Muppet Show' - what kind of insanity was happening underneath ...

The power of belief, of God is beyond what mere mortals can Imagine. There is no restrictions in my Life. If I do what I ...

Renunciation is submission to time.

Applause. "I'm very excited," Jobs said. "I'm looking forward to get to reknow

I already have two movies in the can, low-key, which are 'Vincent-N-Roxxy' and 'Keanu' with Key and Peele, which is my first comedy, and it's ...

No child should be raised in a system. A system isn't a parent. Even the system knows this, which is why the Children and Family ...

How could she have imagined that it would be possible to live, to move, in the unnatural field of Virek's wealth without suffering distortion? Virek ...

A just fortune awaits the deserving.[Lat., Fors aequa merentesRespicit.]

If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of ...

To be pleased at correction and reproofs shows that one loves the virtues which are contrary to those faults for which he is corrected and ...

I feel that every human being is beautiful, and I think that each one of us needs to realize how beautiful we really are, I ...

One kind kiss before we part,Drop a tear and bid adieu;Though we sever, my fond heartTill we meet shall pant for you.

Speak to me as to thy thinkingAs thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughtsThe worst of words ...

It's the easiest thing in the world to be kind to someone, to show love, to forgive. You are born with this instinct - it ...

I've never wanted to drive a car fast for the sake of it. I mean, I like nice cars. I've got the Bentley, I've had ...

We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

I control my life and I have never let success run away with me - I've taken it and ran. And the only thing that ...

He watched them with the passionate regret with which he saw them play football or go to dances: the activity itself did not interest, but ...

We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to ...

It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who lived in it. ...

God gives me all the willingness I need today to sit quietly and listen.from Time for Joy

In the many-mansioned house of Alternate History, I occupy a small corner. The trio of what-ifs I chronicled in 'Then Everything Changed' all begin with ...

I've learned that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.

Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just ...

To one side, a vintage Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith, polished to a gem-like brilliance, sat on a flatbed trailer, ready to be taken to its new ...

We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not ...

Your beautiful don't let anyone tell you different

I don't think I hate any food trends.

I'm Reconstructionist; I don't serve the Sabbath, but I go to synagogue.