Verbena Quotes

#1. Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

Hans Rosling

#2. He crowned her with roses, girded her with verbena, in the costume of an amorous holocaust.

Josephin Peladan

#3. My greatest fear is fear. Ooh, meta.

Miranda Hart

#4. I am 33 years old, and what can I have been doing that I still am in a muddle? But everyone else is, too; maybe our muddles are concurrent.

Louis MacNeice

#5. Don't assume your partner knows about everything you expect in a relationship. Let them know. A relationship should be based on communication, not on assumptions.

Turcois Ominek

#6. I pictured myself saying in a court of law, "Well, Your Honor, there was
this evil sorcerer's apprentice and a flesh-eating, power-granting demon
he summoned from a primordial dimension ... "
Even I couldn't see a way to make that script work.

Laura Resnick

#7. This world is not a place merely to live in, nor a place in which to do certain kinds of business; it is a great workshop in which to make godly men.

J.R. Miller

#8. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Ayn Rand

#9. It was lemon verbena day, so the house was filled with a sweet-tart scent that conjured images of picnic blankets and white clouds shaped like true-love hearts.

Sarah Addison Allen

#10. Indeed, I have been listed under Jesus' banner only for a few years, but I have enjoyed more solid pleasure in one moment's communion with my God than I should or could have enjoyed in the ways of sin, though I had continued to have gone on in them for thousands of years.

George Whitefield

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Anonymous

#12. Never give up. I do believe it is harder for female directors. I have been lucky to receive support from the Sundance Institute for my first film. I'm eternally grateful for their support. I think you need to be surrounded artistically and follow your intuition - always follow your intuition.

Sophie Barthes

#13. Some of the plants have obituary names: Iris, Basil, Rue, Rosemary, and Verbena. Some, like meadowsweet and cowslips, sweet flag and spikenard, are like the names of Shakespeare fairies.

Chuck Palahniuk

#14. I sometimes wonder how you live with such a modest sense of romance," Barrett says. "Superstition and romance are not the same thing.

Michael Cunningham

#15. The outside world might have finally turned into autumn, but inside the Waverley house it still smelled of summer. It was lemon verbena day, so the house was filled with a sweet-tart that conjured images of picnic blankets and white clouds like true-love hearts.

Sarah Addison Allen

#16. The faint of lemon verbena surrounded her, floating gently from Eleanor Butler's silk gown and silken hair. It was the fragrance that had always been part of Ellen O'Hara, the scent for Scarlett of comfort, of safety, of love, of life before the War

Alexandra Ripley

#17. Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.

John Frusciante