#richard

All of us, each and every one, lives a life that is, in its own right, an epic. ↗

— Richard Hammond

#life #my-story #on-the-edge #richard-hammond #life

If there is a void in your life then you will never fill it with cash! ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cash #law-of-attraction #material-goods #material-possessions #materialism

Linda continued stubbornly, “Evolution can’t be true, because if humans evolved from apes, then why are there still apes?” “Frankly, Linda, it is exactly that kind of bone-headed statement that demonstrates a complete ignorance of evolutionary processes by the staggeringly misinformed. Humans did not descend from apes, humans and apes shared a common ancestor millions of years ago. Humans and apes are distant cousins, with chimpanzees as our closest cousins sharing roughly ninety-eight percent of our genome, who together share an even earlier common ancestor with gorillas.” “I am not descended from a monkey,” Linda stated hotly. “Humans are created in the image of God and appeared on Earth in our present form. We did not evolve from pond scum!” “You are free to believe that and persist in your ignorance, but as the renowned evolutionary biologist and zoologist, Richard Dawkins, wrote in A Devil’s Chaplain—” “Aha!” Linda burst out, “there you go, admitting it’s the work of the devil. ↗

— Diogenes of Mayberry

#evolution-vs-religion #richard-dawkins #religion

In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context. ↗

— John N. Mitchell

#compared #context #i #important #just

Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#clinton #everyone #known #obama #once

I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I'm a sucker for it, whether it's Linkin Park or Little Richard. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#been #emotional #fan #fears #hear

It is my personal plan to assassinate by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace. ↗

— Arthur Bremer

#either #george #nixon #personal #pistol

I'm quite looking forward to the fact that people know me as Richard rather than Craig. ↗

— Richard Fleeshman

#fact #forward #i #know #looking

I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#chamberlain #closet #fear #found #gay

The more you are able to forgive then the more you are able to love. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#forgiveness #forgiveness-men-women #forgiving #healing #self-help