When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I am not kind, I cut people off as with shears and I drop them like nettles. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Copy Share Image
The world's a nettle; disturb it, it stings: Grasp it firmly, it stings not. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Copy Share Image
My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will. — Fiona Wood Copy Share Image
Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear Of this vile politician,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Sweet to me was not the voice of man, But the wind's voice was understood by me. The burdocks and the nettles… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
I think that Jim Rice should be in the Hall of Fame. I think that Craig Nettles should be in the Hall… — Goose Gossage Copy Share Image
As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness… — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
“The creeks wend between beech trees, then end where freshets feed the meres (there, the speckled perch teem; there, the freckled newts… — Christian Bök Copy Share Image
Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as… — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
For a metaphysical treat stop at the Big Sur Inn, which is also a haven for stray cats and dogs. Life along… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
And when April like an over-lustful lover leaped upon the lush flanks of the Downs there would be yet another child in… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could… — Monte Irvin Copy Share Image
With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
He was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With bur-docks, hemlock,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Nettles' became a dream of losing the one you love, asking them to reassure you that it won't come true and to… — Ethel Cain Copy Share Image
The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A white truffle, which elsewhere might sell for hundreds of dollars, seemed easier to come by than something fresh and green. What… — Bill Buford Copy Share Image
No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures and you… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; There with fantastic garlands did… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
What a time herbs and weeds, and such things could talk, A man in his garden one day did walk, Spying a… — John Heywood Copy Share Image
Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about and just… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Take your nettles and sew my mouth shut but you well never here the last of me. — James Copy Share Image
WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
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