#rose

One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#breaking #get #i #law #learned

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#gave #god #memory #might #roses

We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves. ↗

— Clive Bell

#art #beautiful #because #else #i

After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#appreciation #attorney #both #deep #defense

For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it. ↗

— Camilla Belle

#becoming #building #drained #emotional #emotionally

We were five heterosexual, good-looking men. We competed against each other for the sexiest girls... I won. ↗

— Simon Le Bon

#competed #each #five #good-looking #heterosexual

There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on both sides of the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia in the fourth millennium B.C. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#arose #between #both #both sides #bridge

Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#beyond #earth #flower #hour #little

But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose. ↗

— Anne Bronte

#dares #grasp #never #rose #should

Whenever the occasion arose, he rose to the occasion. ↗

— Jonathan Brown

#occasion #rose #whenever