R. Rose Quotes

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

the position of women, that sad and well-nigh universal blot on civilizations, was never far from her mind.

Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.

The last sin, the sin against the Holy Ghost - to lie to oneself. Lying to other people - that's a small thing in comparison.

Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.

Love's a disease. But curable.

what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?

miss my daily Mass, and have a superstitious feeling that anything may happen on the days I don't go. However, nothing in particular has.

Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of the truth.

When I have eaten mangoes, I have felt like Eve.

There have been a lot of murders and suicides in my family; it's like the primary cause of death. I wonder if there's a certain energy that attracts that.

There's nothing wrong with being an agitator.

The fact that I still want the best for the world is kind of amazing. People slandered me for years and years and years. I would say to them, "Thanks for having a closed mind".

Heterosexual men terrified me. I found them to be dangerous. Not all of them, of course, but it took me some time to learn to be comfortable.

Some people do have a very innate sexuality to them. I may or may not have it, but it makes people see you in a certain light that has nothing to do with me.

Hollywood is all about making an entrance. I don't want to be a walking advertisement for anyone other than myself.

I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life.

One of my goals is to create more art to put out there in the world.

There are some movies that I absolutely hate but someone else loves - people love things for different reasons.

I live a very international life, but when I come back to Hollywood, a town I love in a lot of ways, I have to wonder, "What decade are you in? Like, seriously, what decade? It's not this one."

The fear is that talking back, that engaging at all, is to open the door for god-knows-what.

I was never nervous directing. Not once. I'm more nervous acting. I'm far more nervous on set, before I say my lines, than I ever have been, as a director.

Why are women still this underclass? If we all banded together...

Short-sightedness is killing us.

It's interesting when you go out into the world and see which of your roles have affected people.

I see so much beauty in people and in the world and when I see ugliness I try to either expose it or fight but also remind myself that it's mostly just people who can't spell who say mean things.

I really prize my freedom more than work. I prize just being human and doing other things.

I love shooting guns. I would never shoot an animal or hunt, but I probably would be a very good hit woman. It's hand-in-glove for me.

I don't mind being disliked - I will be the one to step up and say what needs to be said if it helps one woman who comes after me.

You have to be at the forefront of culture to create art, which they call "product," and Hollywood is not. It's this very old business model, which I think is dying in a lot of ways.

You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I'm certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to make a dent. I just hope I don't get brain-damaged before I get there

I realized a career is built as much on what you don't do as what you do do.

I love Cate Blanchett: she takes risks, but is still refind.

I would like Obama to be tougher on going up against the Republicans, I don't think he should try to be so moderate.

I like people who are fit. I figure if I work out, you can at least return the favor. Would I go out with a meathead? No.

Gosh, if I'm gonna take a big stand on something I would hope it would be for more than flip flops!

I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.

I'm not attracted to dangerous men. I'm attracted, apparently, to height. One ex was 6'6; the one before was 6'4, then 6'3. I like freakishly tall people.

I think listening to people is helpful.

It is so important to remember that, while I love my job, there are other fantastic avenues to explore in my life.

I don't know what another actor is going to give me, on the day, and I don't want to be so hard and fast in my technique that I'm not open to what's coming.

I know that I don't have a perfect performance that I bring to set. I bring ideas to set, and I'm more than willing for those to be affected and be malleable, based on what the other person gives me.

As an actor, I was taught, from an early age, that secrets are the most powerful thing that you can have on screen, and that what you withhold is as important as what you share.

It's great to do theater and have the live response and know what that can bring to a performance. I like to juggle as many mediums as I can.

Exercise is great for endorphins, and I come from a very outdoorsy upbringing, so that means a lot to me.

My ideal is that we all be economically interdependent. We should not be independent like millionaires, nor dependent like laborers. My ideal is that we all be interdependent.

We are entirely in the care of Divine Providence, and it is very sweet to remain so in peace. The Cross is never lacking; may it be our consolation.

My grandmother would croon over every scrap of meat on a sparerib like a medieval relic hunter musing on the knucklebone of a saint.

You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also.