R. Rose Quotes

It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly.

Every time that God gives us a child, it's His way of saying He trusts us-trusts us to offer love and to guide the child toward Him.

Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.

We need to develop people rather than process them.

The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.

Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.

Like every poor person, I used to dream about winning the lottery. I didn't just get money, though. I got fame. And I got fame before I got money, and it was scary.

My mom, who gave me my confidence growing up. She's the one that always told me that I could be great and to never stop. And myself. Because I came such a long way.

I like to dominate powerful men..Black men aren't good at oral $ex”

I don't smoke. Smoking will hurt you when you try to run out a triple.

I rock because sometimes I'm scared and that's alright. I rock because I'm not afraid to cry. I rock because I'm loved and I'm able to love. I rock...I rock.

For a long time a very strong and deep attraction has drawn me to missionary life.

Hitting. That's what I enjoy most. Realistically, it's probably the hardest thing to do in all of sport. Think about it. You've got a round ball, a round bat, and the object is to hit it square.

If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.

I welcome challenges. I like challenges. It gives me a reason to keep going.

It is easy to be popular. It is not easy to be just.

I was born on the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank.

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'

When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.

There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.

If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God.

I live a great life. I can't complain. I'm healthy, my family's good and there's nothing I can really complain about.

Knowing a lot...is a springboard to creativity.

Why should I downplay myself to make someone else more comfortable?

...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else." -Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New Orleans

Sometimes you lose some tournaments you should win and you win some you should lose.

It wasn't that I was shy to go out with him, I just didn't want people with preconceived notions to assume anything about why we were together. I was pretty careful for a while.

I'm a pussycat unless you do something to one of my friends. Then I'll think of unique ways to get back at you. I'm more creative than your average bear.

To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence by default.

I would love to have a long and serious conversation with the Pope. And Woody Allen, whom I have never interviewed. Then, after those two? Steve Jobs.

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

I love my solitude, and I would love it still more if I had more of it.

Writing fiction is an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

An Old World revolution is only a movement around a motionless center; it never breaks out of the circle. Firm in the center is belief in Authority.

I do know that for all the artists it's very important to speak in a vernacular that can be understood by everyone.

I'd be willing to bet you, if I were a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.

Plant medicine does not just improve symptoms; it approaches healing the whole of the body - as opposed to Western medicine, which may just approach the symptom.

I think you need a very strong mind to be on social media because people are mean and ignorant out there.

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.

Kept falling in and out of it [sleep] like out of a boat or a tipping hammock.

When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.

Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average.

There are fairies at the bottom of our garden.

My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it.

With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.

There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias.

It's fine to pretend that people are one-dimensional, like in body size; the problem comes when you forget that you are just pretending.

All desire but that of doing God's holy will has been extinguished in me.