Rosas Quotes & Sayings

Charles Darwin, who had witnessed the
atrocities perpetrated against Argentina's native
Indians by Juan Manuel de Rosas, had predicted
that the country will be in the hands of white
Gaucho savages instead of copper-coloured Indians.
The former being a little superior in education,
as they are inferior in every moral virtue. — Jon Lee Anderson

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts. — Stephen King

If life is a waltz then we need to enjoy each turn, savor each step, and not miss out on a single beat. — Alberto Rosas

I buy vintage - mainly Alaia and some Westwood - but 90 per cent of the time, I wear my own designs. — Alice Temperley

It was wearisome to contemplate that animate protoplasm, reasonable by courtesy only, shut up in a car by an incomprehensible civilization, taken somewhere, to do a vague something without aim or significance or consequence. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government. — Marty Meehan

In the future, you'll live astride the line separating life from death. You'll become experienced in the wisdom of grief. You won't wait until people die to grieve for them. You'll give them their grief while they are still alive, for then judgement falls away, and there remains the miracle of being. — Rana Dasgupta

Life is like swordplay. Grip it, hold it tightly, then make your move. — Louis Edward Rosas

It was the coldest winter ever! I thought last winter was the coldest winter ever, but I was wrong now wasn't I? You see because I travel all the time. So last winter, I'd be in the midwest, and the blizzard would hit. And then I'd fly home, AND THE BLIZZARD WOULD HIT AGAIN! — Lewis Black

Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses — Ovid

When government does more than guard against the initiation of force, inevitably it becomes a means of theft and bamboozlement. — Donald J. Boudreaux

Joe Calzaghe is next. If he gets himself out that armchair, gets himself back in the gym, let's have a fight for the British fans and the rest of the world. — Carl Froch

I'm on the road right now ... all is well ... Dr.Ducks Ax Wax is great, loved it ... — Cesar Rosas

Honor knows no birthright. — Louis Edward Rosas

In a wood they call the Rouge Bouquet,
There is a new-made grave today,
Built by never a spade nor pick,
Yet covered with earth ten meteres thick.
There lie many fighting men.
Dead in their youthful prime. — Joyce Kilmer

If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems? — Ethan Zuckerman

In inventing [General Juan Manuel de] Rosas' self-justification, I have taken the liberty of drawing almost exclusively on the words of Tony Blair, and the various self-justifications he produced to defend his foreign policy adventures with George Bush in the Middle East and the Central Asia. — Harry Thompson

If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time, not tomorrow or next year ... Today should always be our most wonderful day. — Thomas Dreier

We are East & West looting each other. — Deborah Levy

I get a lot of questions about hair color. People are very into talking about hair. — Emma Stone

When the plot is discovered no one suspects him and he remains close to Rosas for a while, then decides to flee, even though his life is not really in danger; he takes refuge in the house of his cousin Amparo Escalada. He lives hidden in the cellar of her house for some six months. The woman will have a son by him, a child Ossorio will never know. In 1842 he crosses to Montevideo. The exiles are fearful; they think he is a double agent. Isolated and disillusioned with politics, he goes to Brazil, where he settles in Rio Grande do Sul, lives with a black woman slave, and devotes himself to writing poetry and contracting syphilis. — Ricardo Piglia

Without challenge we become too comfortable with life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music. — Aaron Copland