#rose

There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't. ↗

— John M. Ford

#believe #clarity #every #expression #i

I was a prosecutor and an FBI agent for many, many years. ↗

— Louis Freeh

#fbi #i #many #prosecutor #years

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. ↗

— Christopher Fry

#attention #being #drawback #full #give

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#because #concentrating #effort #novels #prose

I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury. ↗

— George Galloway

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I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man? ↗

— Jim Garrison

#derive #even #guilty #hounded #i

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#like #roses #treaties #while #young

Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#like #roses #see #treaties #while

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee. ↗

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#buds #fragrant #harvest #honey #rose

Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment. ↗