#were

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#blunder #cheer #dangers #every #fail

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#enough #guidance #here #needed #poems

If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character. ↗

— Johnny Rotten

#character #church #kid #kind #little

The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#crisis #cuban #cuban missile crisis #did #during

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise. ↗

— Mickey Rourke

#anger #came #had #i #inside

I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the day to work with directors who were a lot older and were like authoritarian and talking to you like that. ↗

— Mickey Rourke

#back #day #directors #fix #fun

If I were going to stay in coaching, I would have stayed right there because I was totally happy. ↗

— Darrell Royal

#coaching #going #happy #i #right

History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can't think of too many liberal democracies engaging in counterfeiting, drug running, missile proliferation, and just about any other illegal activity you can think of as North Korea does. ↗

— Ed Royce

#abroad #activity #aggressive #any #democracies

But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees. ↗

— Erno Rubik

#bring #capitalist #friends #government #i

Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy. ↗

— Jerry Rubin

#our #our time #reformers #social #some