#ring

While I have worked hard to bring folks to the middle to craft common-sense solutions to the many problems that confront our nation, Washington is mired in gridlock, gamesmanship and constant partisan bickering. ↗

— Mike Ross

#bring #common-sense #confront #constant #craft

I'm glad to see the press now referring to the open-ended Richter scale. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#i #now #open-ended #press #referring

The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#engineering #even #farm #farmer #flow

We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#bring #debate #get #industrial #informed

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ↗

— Jacob August Riis

#before #blow #crack #did #gone

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#earth #knows #like #poems #returned

Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing! ↗

— Pat Riley

#contribute #declaring #each #ego #hardest

I think singing traditional country is wonderful, because I'm bringing it to my generation and to the younger kids. ↗

— LeAnn Rimes

#bringing #country #generation #i #i think

I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately. ↗

— Molly Ringwald

#did #early #exploring #france #free

What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction. ↗

— Guy Ritchie

#american #american movies #i #i think #kid