Rose Brooks Quotes & Sayings

I am not a thing. I am not your possession. I am a human being."
- CBI Agent Sam Rose — Liana Brooks

I just want to do as much as I can while I can, because none of us are promised anything. — Wes Moore

The full-blown rose, mid dewy sweets Most perfect dies. — Maria Gowen Brooks

I am actually for the first time looking forward to a litigation. — O.J. Simpson

The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in proportion as the fortress is the less menaced. — Victor Hugo

There was a big possibility that I would have had to leave Newcastle had Ruud Gullit stayed as manager. — Alan Shearer

Bud forth as the rose planted by the brooks of waters. Give ye a sweet odor as frankincense. Send forth flowers, as the lily ... and bring forth leaves in grace, and praise with canticles, and bless the Lord in his works. - Ecclesiasticus 39:17-19 — Douai-Rheims Bible

I'm turning off; rebelling against rebellion. — Hanif Kureishi

It's the age-old tale of complacency, Shea." The tall warrior sighed deeply and stretched as he rose. "We may be standing on the brink of the greatest war in a thousand years, but no one wants to accept the fact. Everyone gets in the same rut - let a few take care of the gates to the city while the rest forget and go back to their homes. It becomes a habit - depending on a few to protect the rest. And then one day ... the few are not enough, and the enemy is within the city - right through the open gates ... — Terry Brooks

One thing we must understand, that if we have to change the world, we have to change human beings. People think by giving lectures, having conferences and this and that, peace will come. It will never come. A global transformation has to come for peace, for wisdom and for joy. — Nirmala Srivastava

The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts — Max Brooks

With Rue My Heart Is Laden
With rue my heart is laden
For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
And many a lightfoot lad.
By brooks too broad for leaping
The lightfoot boys are laid;
The rose-lipt girls are sleeping
In fields where roses fade. — A.E. Housman

I had opened the obvious drawer, the top drawer of the room's only dresser, and found myself gazing into a masculine cache of compressed, crumpled things. Wash-worn Brooks Brothers white cotton shorts now a pale shade of gray. Snake-tangled, unpaired argyle socks, all in bright Easter colors like clover ad mauve which still showed fairly crisp near the tops, but down toward the heels were marred by thread pills and snags, and at the toes by the outright abjection of holes. To see laid bare in their entirety those socks, of which I'd heretofore glimpsed only brief merry stripes, when a pant cuff rose up from the rim of a shoe, was like seeing the man himself fully exposed to me
naked. — Susan Choi

Those who are entitled to it get it sooner or later. — George Ade

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own. — Theodor Adorno