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13535 quotesWhy not spend some time determining what is worthwhile for us, and then go after that?
Desire
William Ross
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There's nothing worse than someone coming up to me and going Oh God, I really love your hair.
Compliments
Gavin Rossdale
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And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.
Death and Dying
Christina Rossetti
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For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.
World
Christina Rossetti
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Obedience is the fruit of faith.
Dedication
Christina Rossetti
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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.
Love
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
Opera
Gioacchino Antonio Rossini
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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
Reality
Jean Rostand
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I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
Paradise
Jean Rostand
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I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
Understanding
Jean Rostand
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It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
Science and Scientists
Jean Rostand
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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
Science and Scientists
Jean Rostand
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One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
Theory
Jean Rostand
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One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
Involvement
Jean Rostand
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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
Books - Reading
Jean Rostand
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Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Critics and Criticism
Jean Rostand
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The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
Atheism
Jean Rostand
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The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
Ideals and Idealism
Jean Rostand
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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
Power
Jean Rostand
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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
Belief
Jean Rostand
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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Admiration
Jean Rostand
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There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
The future
Jean Rostand
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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
Truth
Jean Rostand
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We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
Modesty
Jean Rostand
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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.
Courage
Leo Rosten
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun