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“My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.”
Ronald Reagan
“Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.”
Ronald Reagan
“People do not make wars; governments do.”
Ronald Reagan
“Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.”
Ronald Reagan
“History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.”
Ronald Reagan
“We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.”
Ronald Reagan
“What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.”
Ronald Reagan
“Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.”
Ayn Rand
“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.”
Ayn Rand
“There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.”
Ayn Rand
“Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.”
Ayn Rand
“Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.”
Keith Richards
“A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?”
Tony Robbins
“I'd like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned, chemical filled body in my office.”
Henry Rollins
“War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.”
Henry Rollins
“We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.”
Henry Rollins
“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”
Rumi
“Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.”
Bill Gates
“Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.”
Bill Gates
“I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.”
Bill Gates
“The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.”
Bill Gates
“I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.”
Bill Gates
“Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.”
Bill Gates
