#de

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards. ↗

— Rihanna

#i #kill #me #mother #nude

Some defeats are only installments to victory. ↗

— Jacob Riis

#only #some #victory

For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together. ↗

— Bob Riley

#beliefs #binds #cherishing #differences #focused

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these. ↗

— James Whitcomb Riley

#determination #discouraged #effort #man #persistence

Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound. ↗

— Terry Riley

#abstract #create #decided #doing #experimentation

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#distorts #emotion #emotions #gather #impure

Janis Joplin is definitely one of my biggest influences. She taught me how to feel music, and I don't think there's anyone like her that could bring such pain and emotion to a song. ↗

— LeAnn Rimes

#biggest #bring #could #definitely #emotion

I needed to become something besides the star everybody had built me up to be. ↗

— LeAnn Rimes

#besides #built #everybody #had #i

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die. ↗

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

#die #fight #hate #i #into

I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one. ↗

— Faith Ringgold

#been #benefit #i #i think #looking