#tie

So in terms of the global economic footprint, let's just say China within the next decade and a bit is likely to emerge as the world's largest economy. Obviously its foreign policy and security policy footprint increases and that creates both challenges and opportunities for us all. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#both #challenges #china #creates #decade

A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a scene. Some things may be true, and some things may not. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#be true #i #insecurities #into #just

Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#annually #businesses #people #products #prune

First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#first #lose #may #politics #rule

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#enjoy #error #every #every day #filled

People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#fascinated #great #intrigued #lives #obsessed

Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#easy #ego #ever #fifties #forties

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#central #century #condition #doubt #human

I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#almost #anyway #child #disappeared #force

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. ↗

— John Ruskin

#beauty #endurance #nobler #strength #than