#ros

When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#exactly #grounds #poetic #poets #prose

Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#business #disastrous #hands #help #just

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek. ↗

— Dan Rather

#after #alligator #creek #crossed #until

Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#content #daunting #disappointed #exercise #fairly

He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#develop #distinguished #event #fall #form

The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#approbation #become #caused #completely #cross

I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should be deprived of a critical source of energy. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

#critical #deal #deprived #developing #developing world

I didn't know if I was heterosexual or homosexual. ↗

— Michael Reagan

#homosexual #i #know

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#freedom #god #law #prospers #religion

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#age #barbed #barbed wire #borders #electrified