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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Nation'

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Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely? Never! I can assure you, they will never fight against either the Soviet Union or the peoples' democracies.
Paul Robeson, American Actor (1898-1976)
Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President (1882-1945)
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President (1882-1945)
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg, American Writer (1906-1978)
A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
Percy Ross, American Businessman (1916-2001)
The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.
Bruno Rossi, Italian Scientist (1905-1993)
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
Philip Roth, American Novelist (1943-  )
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
Jean Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher (1712-1778)
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
Carl T. Rowan, American Journalist (1925-2000)
The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.
Helen Rowland, American Writer
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
Helen Rowland, American Writer
I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself.
Pete Rozelle, American Celebrity (1926-1996)
We have to make a determination of what the minimum standards are for police, fire and emergency services in all of America's major cities. Once we determine that, then we can decide what the funding is.
Warren Rudman, American Politician (1930-  )
I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.
Wilma Rudolph, American Athlete (1940-1994)
I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination.
Mark Ruffalo, American Actor (1967-  )
Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.
Bobby Rush, American Politician (1946-  )
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist (1947-  )
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher (1872-1970)
My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.
Richard Russo, American Novelist (1949-  )
Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American Clergyman (1869-1942)
 
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