#story

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980. ↗

— Jacques Rivette

#begins #certain #directors #film #films

I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#been #catering #confirmation #democrats #entire

I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that. ↗

— Edward G. Robinson

#another #book #east #east side #first

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#abundance #add #enough #little #more

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans. ↗

— Nicolas Roeg

#chance #god #heads #i #idea

Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.' ↗

— James Rollins

#called #family #growing #growing up #i

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe. ↗

— Jules Romains

#category #history #human #phenomena #tends

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#anyone #arrangement #domination #education #europe

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#danger #either #forward #full #history

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#history #left #life #lived #man