#roses

With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses. ↗

— James K. Polk

#exceptionally #me #presidency #roses #true

The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club? ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#ass #better #chair #club #down

And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#roses #sleeps #thorns

A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#ask #behind #feel #important #important questions

The beauty of his face, artfully shadowed and lit from the fading firelight, it fairly stunned me. ↗

— Juliette Miller

#juliette-miller #roses #wilkie #art

My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame. ↗

— Henry Constable

#blush #her #lady #lips #makes

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. ↗

— George Eliot

#more #must #never #plant #rain

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#conflict #continual #england #had #roses

I love to smell like roses, literally all day! ↗

— Rachel Roy

#day #i #i love #like #literally

The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual. ↗

— George Saunders

#fear #habitual #hurtful #i #i love