#ape

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#consent #gain #greatness #must #often

There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#enough #extremely #hated #little #low

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#escape #ever #every #every man #fire

Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander. ↗

— Karl Rove

#adams #arranged #hire #james #jefferson

I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#i #i think #landscape #photography #somewhat

Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#american #american tradition #back #brought #coast

Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#bedroom #had #how #landscape #luckily

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#before #declares #down #even #his

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#different #discussed #diverse #escape #homogeneous

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns. ↗

— Mike Royko

#columns #editorials #good #hollywood #impact