#sec

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#hire #people #second-rate

I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#created #danger #did #efforts #half

If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#deny #disaster #how #insecure #least

Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises. ↗

— Johnny Rotten

#love is #minutes #noises #seconds

We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#cases #countries #essential #even #made

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#difficult #first #guinea #million #money

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#persecutors #rascals #religious

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#bride #does #getting #her #marriage

It is not about the money. It's the public service aspect. Absolutely, I think it has qualities of redemption. The city gets a second chance. I get a second chance. ↗

— John Rowland

#absolutely #aspect #chance #city #get

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#backgrounds #been #both #came #college