Rose Quotes - Page 10

• I seek a form that my style cannot discover,a bud of thought that wants to be a rose.

  Ruben Dario

  Style, Bud, Want

  Rubén Darío (2010). “Selected Poems of Rubén Darío”, p.60, University of Texas Press

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• So here's a question from one who believed, only a week ago, that Baghdad might just collapse and that we might wake up one morning to find the Baathist militia and the Iraqi army gone and the Americans walking down Saadun Street with their rifles over their shoulders. If the Iraqis can still hold out against such overwhelming force in Umm Qasr for four days, if they can keep fighting in Basra and Nasiriyah – the latter a city that briefly rose in revolt against Saddam's regime in 1991 – why should Saddam's forces not keep fighting in Baghdad?

  Robert Fisk

  Morning, Successful, Army

  "Robert Fisk: The shocking truth about 'shock and awe'" by Robert Fisk, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2003.

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• A man should not risk his life for beauty alone, Kiall, for that fades. You might as well risk it for a rose. Think on it.

  David Gemmell

  Men, Thinking, Risk

  David Gemmell (2011). “Quest For Lost Heroes”, p.64, Hachette UK

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• Our problem isn't that the universe isn't on our side; the problem is that too many of us numb these days, not awake to the game, or to the power of the universe that flows through our psychic veins. Some of us need to stop whining. It's not like we're the first generation who faced serious challenges. But others rose to the occasion, and we need to too.

  Marianne Williamson

  Psychics, Games, Challenges

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 09, 2012.

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• Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end? The stones from my enemies These wounds will mend But I cannot survive The roses from my friends.

  Ben Harper

  Mean, Enemy, Stones

  Song: Roses From My Friends, 2001

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• This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and wind wielded Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.

  Ted Hughes

  Eye, Night, Orange

  Ted Hughes (2009). “The Hawk in the Rain”, p.37, Faber & Faber

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• You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.

  Alan Keyes

  Selfish, People, Promise

  Alan Keyes' Speech at the DuPage County Republican Central Committee's Party for the President, www.keyesarchives.com. September 2, 2004.

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• Remember that the Unification Church rose, not in freedom, but from a prison, the pit of suffering.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Unification Church, Suffering, Pits

  "The Way Of God's Will". Book by Sun Myung Moon, translated, 1980.

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• Lips, like roses dropping myrrh.

  George Sandys

  Lips, Dropping

  George Sandys (1872). “The Poetical Works”, p.349

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• La Vie En Rose. It is the French way of saying, 'I am looking at the world through rose-coloured glasses.'

  Sabrina

  Glasses, World, Way

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• A rose to the living is more Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead.

  Nixon Waterman

  Wreaths, Sumptuous

  Nixon Waterman (1919). “The Girl Wanted: A Book of Friendly Thoughts”

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• While the happy couple are enjoying the thrill of the rose garden, the in-laws are saying that they are just not right for each other. We keep telling them that they cannot pay couples to stay together, and it is clear that it will take more than a three-quid-a-week tax break to keep this marriage together.

  Harriet Harman

  Couple, Garden, Law

  House of Commons Debates, publications.parliament.uk. May 25, 2010.

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• Color exists simultaneously with form. Both elements are constantly associated but color strikes you more - a rose for instance - sometimes form - the human body.

  Ferdinand Hodler

  Color, Elements, Body

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• If I take things slowly today in order to appreciate life better, and if I take time to listen to the messages that life sends me, then I will have less time to do the things I need to do today. Then tomorrow I will have to do everything that much faster and I will be that much more unable to appreciate life. It is dangerous to stop and smell the roses.

  John S. Hall

  Smell, Order, Appreciate

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• In the season of white wild roses We two went hand in hand: But now in the ruddy autumn Together already we stand.

  Francis Turner Palgrave

  Autumn, Wild Roses, Hands

  Francis Turner Palgrave (1871). “Lyrical Poems”, p.75

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• And once I knew a meditative rose That never raised its head from bowing down, Yet drew its inspiration from the stars. It bloomed and faded here beside the road, And, being a poet, wrote on empty air With fragrance all the beauty of its soul.

  Henry Abbey

  Stars, Inspiration, Air

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• Growing up closes so many doors. The modern world doesn't allow for miracles, so we don't see them. It's a very precious gift, an open mind, but it's not passive. You've got to nurture it like a bed of roses; otherwise it will wither and die. Make sure you don't close off your mind to things you find strange. Sometimes they may be the only truth.

  Tim Lebbon

  Growing Up, Bed Of Roses, Doors

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• I don't believe in reincarnation because there's an expert on this question, and he's Jesus of Nazareth. He's the only person in history who died, rose from the dead, and spoke authoritatively on this question. And Jesus says reincarnation doesn't happen. He says that there's only one death and after that comes the judgment.

  Lee Strobel

  Jesus, Believe, Experts

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• In the darkness, who would answer for the color of a rose, Or the vestments of the May moth and the pilgrimage it goes?

  Nathalia Crane

  Color, Darkness, Answers

  Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

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• When you return, the youngest of the seers, Released from fetters of ancestral pose, There will be beauty waiting down the years Revisions of the ruby and the rose.

  Nathalia Crane

  Years, Waiting, Revision

  Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

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• Said the tiger to the lily, Said the viper to the rose, Let us marry so our children May attain the double pose. With a feline half a flower With the attar in the asp We could institute a slaughter That would make a planet gasp.

  Nathalia Crane

  Children, Flower, Half

  Nathalia Crane (1928). “Venus Invisible: And Other Poems”

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• The world is growing gentle, But few know what she owes To the understanding lily And the judgment of the rose.

  Nathalia Crane

  Understanding, World, Growing

  Nathalia Crane (1928). “Venus Invisible: And Other Poems”

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• Great is the rose
  Infected by the tomb,
  Yet burgeoning
  Indifferent to death.

  Nathalia Crane

  Indifferent, Tombs

  "Venus Invisible and Other Poems" by Nathalia Crane, ("Tadmore"), 1928.

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• Great is the rose
  That challenges the crypt,
  And quotes milleniums
  Against the grave.

  Nathalia Crane

  Challenges, Graves

  "Venus Invisible and Other Poems" by Nathalia Crane, ("Tadmore"), 1928.

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• Roses by the head, jasmine at the feet so appear the longings that have passed without being satisfied, not one of them granted a night of sensual pleasure, or one of its radiant mornings.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Morning, Night, Feet

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