#lie

Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences. ↗

— George G. Simpson

#appear #categories #completely #continuous #every

I think if I believe in something strongly enough, I'm pretty outspoken about it. ↗

— Andy Roddick

#believe #enough #i #i believe #i believe in

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies? ↗

— Roy Rogers

#butterflies #butterfly #garden #without

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India. ↗

— Romain Rolland

#days #dream #dreams #earliest #earth

When the Republicans controlled the House from 1994 -2006, Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Henry Waxman Charlie Rangel, John Conyers and Rahm Emanuel weren't saying we need to move right to win. They stuck to their philosophy. And they fought against Reagan and they fought against the Bushes. And eventually they did win. ↗

— Ed Rollins

#barney #bushes #charlie #controlled #democrats

There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer mixture of the three. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#religion #religion

Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. ↗

— Zhu Rongji

#ahead #back #before #even #i

My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it. ↗

— Zhu Rongji

#criticism #doing #flies #good #into

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. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#beliefs #cannot #cause #does #hold

In a way, you might say that David Duke is the son of Willie Horton. Duke is more overt, of course, but he's really just pushing the same buttons and sending the same coded messages that the Horton ads did so effectively for the Bush campaign last year. ↗

— Judd Rose

#bush #buttons #campaign #coded #course