The only mistake you have made is asking the wrong question. It isn't about what you did wrong. It's what you have not yet done.
Katsa watched the long grass moving around them. The wind pushed it, attacked it, struck it in one place and then another. It rose and fell and rose again. It flowed, like water.
Before he could lose courage he flung himself back and slammed his sleep-inducer to full theta.
Loving for beauty is like vowing a lifetime commitment to a rose. No-matter how sweet-scented or pink "petald", every rose withers.
Pink, You are gentle and sweet just like this rose. When your rose pink lips smiled at me that first time I remembered how to smile. ~Riley
The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.
Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.
You can't stay here any more. My fears have been irrational and they've forced me to make unwise decisions and accept the unacceptable.
I'd spent so long trying to fit in,trying to be someone i wasn't,that i had no idea who i was any more.
I won't be affected by your charm nor I will trap you into marriage. I've been there once, never again. - Kristine
The sun shall always rise upon a new day and there shall always be a rose garden within me. Yes, there is a part of me that is broken, but my broken soil gives way to my wild roses.
I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor's office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey - 'Here's the lady who brought the roses' vs. 'Here's the lung cancer.'
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.
Voice of Adso as an Old Man: Who was she? Who was this creature that rose like the dawn, as bewitching as the moon, radiant as the sun, terrible as an army poised for battle?
Tom Baxter: It's so impulsive, but... I'll come. Why not? What's life without a little risk taking? Who knows?
Reporter: If he turns off the projector, you're liable to strand this, this Tom Baxter out in the world someplace. You want an extra guy running around?
Hooker: Do you wanna tie me up? Tom Baxter: [laughs] You're funny! She's funny! The absurd non-sequitur.
Rose: Teach me to ride like a man. Jack: And chew tobacco like a man. Rose: And spit like a man! Jack: What, they didn't teach you that in finishing school?
Ruth: You're not to see that boy again. Do you understand me? Rose, I forbid it. Rose: Oh stop it, mother. You'll give yourself a nose bleed.
When you have only two dollars left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a rose with the other.
