One agonizing journey down the gauntlet of youth is enough…

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

— Evelyn Waugh

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

— John Denham

It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity is forged.

— Witold Gombrowicz

A girl conceived in China has to run an eerie kind of gauntlet if she is to survive. many parents will use the ultrasound…

— Steven W. Mosher

A professor is not one who knows, but one who professes to know, and [thus] is constantly in the position of inviting challenge. .…

— Hugh Nibley

The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[The GOP] must decide soon where they stand on the issue of socialized medicine. President Clinton threw down the gauntlet in his State of…

— Tony Snow

“Oh, baby, we both know that if you throw down the gauntlet I'll be only too happy to pick it up".”

— E.L. James

With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant. Then will…

— Karl Marx

There is such a gauntlet of risk that you go through when you climb up to Everest.

— Conrad Anker

I run the gauntlet of a file of doubts, Each one of which down hurls me to the ground.

— Philip James Bailey

If the present White House leadership runs the gauntlet of common sense and the people's will for peace and challenges us by starting MX…

— Dmitriy Ustinov

“But do not take this responsibility lightly, my boy. The Gauntlet casts an ominous shadow.”

— Anonymous

The idea that writing about characters of another race requires a passage through a critical gauntlet, which involves apology and self-examination of an almost…

— C.E. Morgan

I love throwing down the gauntlet and trying our hand at that new tech.

— Hidetaka Miyazaki