Quotations

"What an old maid I'm getting to be—lacking the courage to be in love with death!"

— Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, born 1854

"I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach."

— Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer, born 1844

"You cannot sit here in the shrine room serenely practicing and then walk out that door and treat each other badly. If you meditate in perfect peace and then flash someone an irritable look because they make noise or their child cries, you are entirely missing the point."

— Khandro Rinpoche, Indian spiritual leader, born 1967

"Whatever is born is impermanent and is bound to die. Whatever is stored up is impermanent and bound to run out. Whatever comes together is impermanent and is bound to come apart. Whatever is built is impermanent and bound to collapse. Whatever rises up is impermanent and bound to fall down. So, also, friendship and enmity, fortune and sorrow, good and evil, all the thoughts that run through your mind—everything is always changing."

— Patrul Rinpoche, Tibetan Buddhist teacher, born 1808

"We give because someone gave us. We give because nobody gave to us. We give because giving has changed us. We give because giving could have changed us."

— Alberto Rios, American poet, born 1952

"I know that each one of us travels to love alone, alone to faith and to death. I know it. I've tried it. It doesn't help. Let me come with you."

— Yiannis Ritsos, Greek poet, born 1909

"I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element."

— Herb Ritts, American photographer, born August 13, 1952

"Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality."

— Diego Rivera, Mexican painter, died November 24, 1957

"If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait."

— Diego Rivera, Mexican painter, born 1836

"I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso."

— Diego Rivera, Mexican painter, born 1836

"Every man dies. Not every man lives."

— Tim Robbins, American actor, born 1958

"I shall take my voice wherever there are those who want to hear the melody of freedom or the words that might inspire hope and courage in the face of fear. My weapons are peaceful, for it is only by peace that peace can be attained. The song of freedom must prevail."

— Paul Robeson, American singer, born 1898

"You discover real true love at the moment when you are making love with your partner and realize that all your life together is a single continuous and ongoing act of love-making, in the course of which you happen to occasionally disengage Bodies altogether for hours at a time. It is not something to which you return—it is something you suddenly find you have never really left."

— Spider Robinson, American science fiction author, born 1948

"Star Trek says that it has not all happened, it has not all been discovered, that tomorrow can be as challenging and adventurous as any time man has ever lived."

— Gene Roddenberry, American screenwriter, born 1921