#or

No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence. ↗

— Yitzhak Rabin

#achieving #arab #consider #idea #long

A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence. ↗

— Marc Racicot

#acts #banning #bush #congress #decision

Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs. ↗

— Glenn Greenwald

#censorship #freedom-of-speech #martyrdom #twitter #freedom

I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#actually #because #being #expected #got

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing. ↗

— Raymond Radiguet

#else #everybody #everybody else #failing #like

I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#death #god #his #humanity #i

After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#stories #worlds #life

You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!... but if it doesn't hit with the public in two minutes, it's bye-bye. ↗

— Charlotte Rae

#minutes #producers #public #show #take

In America, after 9/11, and after the death of bin Laden, and after two wars, one of them fought, a lot of people think, on false pretenses, and definitely post the Patriot Act, there are a lot of these questions about what can we do to our citizens in order to prevent the next attack. ↗

— Gideon Raff

#act #after #america #attack #bin

I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself. ↗

— Patrick Rafter

#keeps #lot #myself #person #sort