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Rose Quotes - Page 19

Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.

Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.218, Anchor

You follow the same paths of thought as before. Only, they appear strewn with roses.

Walter Benjamin (2006). “On Hashish”, p.22, Harvard University Press

Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

Tom Stoppard (2013). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”, p.106, Faber & Faber

It was not in the winter Our loving lot was cast! It was the time of roses, We plucked them as we passed!

Thomas Hood (1871). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood, ed. by W.M. Rossetti”, p.252

It used to be you rose up through the ranks, and by the time you got a job as a boss, you had done the work of everybody beneath you.

"Jack and Suzy Welch: Why Strong Leadership Is about Truth and Trust". Knowledge@Wharton Interview, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. May 8, 2015.

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

Siri Hustvedt (2011). “The Summer Without Men: A Novel”, p.84, Macmillan

Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Seed Market”

It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities.

Rebecca Latimer Felton (1919). “Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth: Also Addresses Before Georgia Legislature Woman's Clubs, Women's Organizations and Other Noted Occasions”