#mis

We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes. ↗

— Mickey Rivers

#mistakes #our #right

Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day. ↗

— Jake Roberts

#day #else #good #good thing #miserable

I’d love to try to sell a blank white canvas to an art dealer. And when he asks what it is, I’d tell him, “It’s a landscape painting of Key West, from the perspective of an optimistic blind man.”
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— Jarod Kintz

#blind #key-west #optimism #optimistic #art

We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy. ↗

— James E. Rogers

#democracy #education #freedom #fulfilled #gifts

I'm so totally future oriented that, for me, I don't know what the future's about, but I can promise you it's gonna be exciting. ↗

— Kenny Rogers

#exciting #future #gonna #i #i can

In politics, Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck. Daffy's always going berserk, jumping up and down, yelling. Bugs's got that sly smile, like he always knows what's up, like nothing can ruffle him. ↗

— Jeff Greenfield

#emotion #leadership #optimism #attitude

We have revenue coming in. We can pay our interest payments. And then we can prioritize what government programs that have been given to the American people that are unsustainable promises that have been made by reckless politicians that can't possibly be sustained. We can determine which one of those if any we need to keep. ↗

— Todd Rokita

#american people #any #been #coming #determine

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#because #better #blood #change #change things

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.' ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#carry #freedom #half #one half #other

After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war. ↗

— Barney Ross

#atomic #atomic bombs #bay #bombs #dropped