#ten

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#because #been #big #clerk #dad

I was elected by the people of Australia as Prime Minister of Australia. I was elected to do a job, I intend to continue doing that job. I intend to continue doing it to the absolute best of my ability. Part of that job has been to steer this country through the worst economic crisis the world has seen in 75 years. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#absolute #australia #been #best #by the people

Be Skeptical, but learn to listen. ↗

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

#listen #skeptical

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#poetry #seeking #sources #spirit

I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away. ↗

— Ann Rule

#away #back #battered #books #cause

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique. ↗

— Jane Rule

#artists #bearing #because #each #every

If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us. ↗

— Jane Rule

#became #even #gay #inspire #legislation

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives. ↗

— Jane Rule

#choices #feel #force #genuinely #happy

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#depressing #encourage #tendency #view #war

The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#better #federal #federal government #first #government