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"Altogether, the task of estimating the length of human life is beyond our capacity, for directly we say that it is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground."
"I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal."
"The issue on which everything hangs is not whether you like His teaching but if He rose from the dead."
"All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves."
"Oh never star Was lost here but it rose afar."
"The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death."
"Daleks: [simultaneously] Exterminate! Exterminate! [They fire their weapons, none of which so much as touch the Doctor] The Doctor: Is that it? Useless! Nul points! [to Rose and Jack] It's all right, you can come out; that forcefield can hold back anything! Jack Harkness: Almost anything. [pause] The Doctor: Yes, but I wasn't going to tell them that. Thanks."
"Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently...Can words describe the indescribable?"
"I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare green knob of a rose that lost every leaf and petal to the morning wind."
"Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on, and it is never cast down."
"Why are they all staring?" demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students. "Don’t let it worry you," said Ron. "It’s me. I’m extremely famous."
"Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses"
"he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass."
"The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose."
"I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell."
"The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power."
"The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud."
"What mighty woes To thy imperial race from woman rose."
"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that we can know who we are. So that we can see, "Oh, that happened, and I rose. I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away; I rose right where I'd been knocked down." That's how you get to know yourself."
"Both my parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left."
