When Roses Should Be Trimmed Quotes & Sayings

I gotta do what I think is right, and if enough people like it, I'm a winner. And if they don't, I'll open a bookstore. — Warren Spector

All the bands get along really well. That's one of the biggest things on a tour. It's great to get all these cool bands together, but if they don't get along it sucks. — Brandon Thomas

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication. — George Gordon Byron

What I want to write about today is the sea. It contains so many colors. Silver at dawn, green at noon, dark blue in the evening. Sometimes it looks almost red. Or it will turn the color of old coins. Right now the shadows of clouds are dragging across it, and patches of sunlight are touching down everywhere. White strings of gulls drag over it like beads. It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. — Anthony Doerr

As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium. — Lois Lowry

As long as I am this or that, or have this or that, I am not all things and I have not all things. Become pure till you neither are nor have either this or that; then you are omnipresent and, being neither this nor that, are all things. — Meister Eckhart

The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing. — Ramakrishna

When you're trying to solve a problem on a new product type, you become completely focused on problems that seem a number of steps removed from the main product. That problem solving can appear a little abstract, and it is easy to lose sight of the product. — Jonathan Ive

Today Amanda was dressed in a gown of soft pink wool trimmed in corded silk ribbon of a deeper shade. She had worn a bonnet adorned with China roses, which now reposed on the side of his desk, a pair of velvet ribbons draping gently toward the floor. The pink shade of the gown brought out the color in Amanda's cheeks, while the simple cut displayed her generous figure to its best advantage. Aside from Jack's considerable regard for her intelligence, he couldn't help thinking of her as a tidy little bonbon. — Lisa Kleypas

If you have suffered more than your fair share of difficulties in life, perhaps you are being prepared to serve some greater purpose that will require you to be equipped with the wisdom you have acquired through your trials. — Robin S. Sharma

The author's projected intellectual climate nearly 500 years in the future proclaims itself too pragmatic to consider living well as important as material satisfaction. This reminds us, ironically, that choosing NOT to consider life's deeper questions is in itself a choice with profound and lasting consequences. — Bryan M. Litfin

There is a difference between correlation and causation - many people mistake one for the other — Steven D. Levitt

Although our eyes can not penetrate the darkness of the future, scientific geopolitical analysis enables us to make certain predictions. — Karl Haushofer

There is no peace that cannot be found in the present moment. — Tasha Tudor

Governments, whether right or left, have become commissioners-in-chief, nudging and cajoling networks into preferred business models without the slightest sensitivity or awareness of what the public wants or the TV industry is capable of. — Armando Iannucci