#lit

Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are. ↗

— Robert J. Ringer

#appear #nor #reality #things #way

A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over. ↗

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

#love #over #sleep #work

Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom. ↗

— Sally Ride

#astronauts #bedroom #beds #close #compartments

It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze. ↗

— Andre Rieu

#back #brought #global #made #personality

Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit. ↗

— Sally Ride

#during #i #into #itself #mission

I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.' ↗

— Laura Riding

#am #conscious #go #human #human nature

If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer you speak, the more you will know to tell. ↗

— Laura Riding

#know #little #make #more #something

Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody. ↗

— Andre Rieu

#elite #everybody #his #mozart #music

The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#antitrust #case #courts #currently #federal

The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#audience #did #electronic #electronic media #europe