R. Rose Quotes

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

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

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.

There are fairies at the bottom of our garden.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students.

Character is incredibly jagged, and incredibly contextualized, even to the point where I still feel uncomfortable thinking about it.

Is it possible to say "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" without feeling like Snoopy?

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.

I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world.

Blind folk see the fairies. Oh, better far than we, Who miss the shining of their wings Because our eyes are filled with things We do not wish to see.

Whoever said "It's not whether you win or lose but how you play the game" is full of it! Winning makes all the difference in the world. Winning is fun. Losing is not. Losing sucks.

Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.

Teaching English is an intrinsically radical act. Is it possible to teach English so that people stop killing each other?

There's no one thing you can do to have success, but if you have a plan and you keep doing things, you'll eventually build to a success.

Needing someone doesn't make you weak, it makes you feel. And feeling is how you know you're alive.

When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.

I'm not bad (his speed). I'm no Joe Morgan, but I'm pretty good for a white guy.

The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.

I'm in love with the city. You can impress an Australian with a city, but you can't impress them with a beach.

Education and the workforce: I think these two things go together in terms of human potential.

Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.

Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?

Love is like a promise. Once you break it.. it doesn't come back unless you really fight for it.

As a clown, you're letting go of all of your bullshit.

Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

I am not willing to let the market-place determine the future of the animal kingdom.

The more patient we are, the closer the Iranians get to a nuclear weapon.

Richard Serra, the great sculptor, personifies an artist for me.

Right now my biggest thing is to improve my all-around game... If you don't win, something's wrong. Winning takes care of everything, so our biggest thing is winning.

I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.

there is ten times more in the world than would maintain all in yet unknown luxury. Yet how much misery there is in our midst; not because there is not enough, but owing to the misdirection of it.

I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.

Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing the will of the people. We're bound to be "anti-majoritarian."

I'm a GM in fantasy basketball and I'm a GM on PlayStation, so on PlayStation I probably would have got a little more, but this is real life, so I don't know.

I didn't really want to be a celebrity. It just kind of happened to me.

I'm a Libra. If someone compliments me, I'll say something nice to them. I like to give out compliments.