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“One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true”

Order Opposites Rose Chaos Our Time Liberalism Nazi Fallacy

Book:The Magus

Source: The Magus

“The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew.”

Imagination Rose Instant Scent

Book:The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962

Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962

“Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.”

Grows Rose Honey Thorns

Book:Horæ Lyricæ: Poems, Chiefly of the Lyric Kind, in Three Books, Sacred : I. To Devotion and Piety, II. To Virtue, Honour and Friendship, III. To the Memory of the Dead

Source: Horæ Lyricæ: Poems, Chiefly of the Lyric Kind, in Three Books, Sacred : I. To Devotion and Piety, II. To Virtue, Honour and Friendship, III. To the Memory of the Dead

“I struggled with being in the public eye, losing my anonymity when my star rose quickly in the late 90's. But I need the challenge of showing up and getting up there to spill my guts and connect with my loyal folks.”

Needs Eye Stars Challenges Late Losing Rose Folks Guts Loyal Spills Anonymity Showing Up Public Eye

Author:Paula Cole

“To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one”

Should Self Impossible Claims Rose Saint Cures Temples Princess Scholar Bowls Medieval Dissatisfaction Eleanor

Author:Joan Didion

“Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.”

May Rose Legs Countenance Hounds

Author:Geoffrey Chaucer

“I have a faithful joy and a joy that is lost. One is like a rose, the other, a thorn. The one that was stolen I have not lost.”

Joy Lost Rose Faithful Stolen Lost Ones

Book:Selected poems of Gabriela Mistral

Source: Selected poems of Gabriela Mistral

“Who's the new Ramones, who's the new Guns 'N Roses, who's the new Motley Crue, who's the new Black Sabbath? They're coming, they're on the street, they're 16, 17 years old.”

Years Black Streets Gun Rose Sabbath Ramones Black Sabbath Guns N Roses Motley Crue

Author:Nikki Sixx

“I'm constantly pitching one episode where we see life through Castle's eyes. I think Castle's just a little off as far as his perception goes. A very, very clever man, but I want to see the world as Castle sees it - kind of a rose-colored glasses, all the women find him irresistible, all the guys find him super cool and do whatever he says.”

Thinking Men World Want Kind Littles Eye Guy Perception Rose Glasses Clever Episodes Castles Irresistible Pitching Very Clever Clever Man Colored Glass Rose Colored Glasses Super Cool

Author:Nathan Fillion

“A story must be told in such a way that it constitutes help in itself. My grandfather was lame. Once they asked him to tell a story about his teacher. And he related how the holy Baal Shem used to hop and dance while he prayed. My grandfather rose as he spoke, and he was so swept away by his story that he himself began to hop and dance to show how the master had done. From that hour he was cured of his lameness. That's how to tell a story.”

Way Done Helping Stories Shows Used Hours Teacher Masters Rose Related Hops Spokes Grandfather My Grandfather Lame Swept Away

Author:Martin Buber

“A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.”

Knows Looks Strong White Sadness Rose Flames Heat Steel Grey Midnight Hammers

Author:Johnny Cash

“You can hide beneath the covers and study your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain. Waste your summer praying in vain, for a savior to rise from these streets.”

Pain Study Sadness Streets Praying Lovers Waste Summer Rain Crosses Rose Vain Savior These Streets

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one can unite them if painted separately. Keep the impression of your subject as one thing!”

Ifs Trying One Thing Subjects Painting Rose Impression Colour Expenses

Book:William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing

Source: William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing

“Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youths sweet-scented Manuscript should close!”

Should Youth Sweet Spring Rose Alas Manuscripts

Book:Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

Source: Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

“It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground?”

Ifs Would Be Fall Example Stones Miracle Rose

Author:Alfred Polgar

“People who have never had a broken heart will never understand dead roses, Tolstoy, airport lounges, Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor, neat brandy, the moon and drizzle.”

People Heart Broken Moon Rose Minors Airports Neat Brandy Drizzle Adagio

Author:Wendy Harmer

“I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote "The Rose," and through a series of divine things that I had no control over and had no idea were going to happen, it got in the movie, and that changed everything.”

Writing Littles Ideas Happens My Own Changed Divine Singing Rose Series Clubs No Idea Los Angeles Amusement

Author:Amanda McBroom

“In me the tiger sniffs the rose.”

Opposites Rose Tigers Duality

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“A woman at the Limited once asked me, 'Why do you work?' She said, 'You made a lot of money as a young man, so why are you still working?' I had never thought about it before. Forced to consider it, I told her, 'You know why? Because I think that if you stop to smell the roses, you'll get hit by a truck.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Made Said Stills Young Rose Smell Young Man Lots Of Money Truck

Author:Les Wexner

“I want to be remembered like Pete Rose. 'Charlie Hustle.' I want people to say, 'Wherever he was, he was always giving it his all.”

People Want Giving Rose Remembered Charlie Hustle

Author:Walter Payton

“You look at a Pete Rose to be the terrific athlete he is and then he falls on hard times, but when he played the game, I got something from the way he played the game because he hustled every play, and just because he had one mistake in his life, am I supposed to throw back everything that I gained from him?”

Way Looks Hard Play Fall Games Mistake Rose Athlete Hard Times Terrific One Mistake

Author:Walter Payton

“When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.”

Want Shows Watches Relationship Television Rose Work Out Sunshine Blossoming Watching Television

Author:Candice Accola

“I can't have white roses. They symbolize death.”

I Can White Rose White Rose

Author:Nina Arianda

“We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.”

Needs Giving Suffering Levels Party Poverty Records Rose Hunger Inequality Lectures

Author:Artur Davis

“With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.”

Writing Produce Direct Paid Rose Hotel Fees

Author:Abel Ferrara

“I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden. Along with sunshine, there's got to be a little rain sometime.”

Littles Relationship Rain Garden Rose Sunshine Pardon Rose Garden

Author:Lynn Anderson

“Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on, could it be a faded rose from days gone by?”

Gone Flower Rose Dawn Faded Delta Days Gone By

Author:Tanya Tucker

“Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.”

War Conflict England Rose

Book:The House: Its Origins and Evolution

Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution

“Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his songs so well.”

Wells Song Clothes Rose Lovely Slippers Chamberlain

Author:Julie Harris

“A personal highlight was probably when we got a No. 1 in the U.K. and when the album went to No. 1 in America. The top four that week was us, Adele, Guns N' Roses and Bruce Springsteen. It was ridiculous seeing those names there. Being the first band from the U.K. and Ireland to go to America and debut at No. 1 is just unbelievable.”

Firsts America Names Four Seeing Week Band Gun Rose Albums Ridiculous Ireland Unbelievable Highlights Debut Springsteen Guns N Roses

Author:Niall Horan

“Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.”

People Knows Needs Important Problem Young Life Is Realizing Mistake Drug Bed Rose Alcohol Ruins Perceive Discouraged Hooked Insurmountable Bed Of Roses

Author:Maureen Forrester

“Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.”

Joy Wise Wise Words Red Tables Wine Rose Now And Then

Book:De Profundis

Source: De Profundis

“The first time I ever saw your face, I thought the sun rose in your eyes and the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave to the dark and empty sky, my love.”

Firsts Eye Faces Stars Dark Sun Saws Sky Moon First Time Romantic Empty Rose Your Face Romantic Love Love At First Sight Beautiful Eyes

Author:Ewan MacColl

“I can't feel bad about being who I am, just like the girl next to me can't feel bad about being who she is. Because a rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose.”

Feels I Can Girl Next Rose Who I Am Sunflower

Author:Miranda Kerr