The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
You know what’s a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
If you don't sow your field what harvest other than thorns and weeds can you anticipate? — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The end for which we are created invites us to walk a road that is surely sown with a lot of thorns,… — Pier Giorgio Frassati Copy Share Image
This is not the way these tales end," Calliope said firmly. "This is not the way that things end when they get… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
So there you have it: Nature is a rotten mess. But that's only the beginning. If you take your eyes off it… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image
God has not made this world to be a nest for us, and if we try to make it such for ourselves,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There is nothing more distressing ... than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the… — Samuel Griswold Goodrich Copy Share Image
I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilight No I was all horns and thorns sprung out… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
You have it in your power to make your days on Earth a path of flowers, instead of a path of thorns. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Thunder rumbled. My heart beat faster. I turned away from Evernight for the last time and looked back at the flower as… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns. — Olga Broumas Copy Share Image
If you want to win hearts, sow the seeds of Love. If you want heaven, stop scattering thorns on the road. — Rumi Copy Share Image
The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose. — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
“I thought that a fairer era of life was beginning for me, one that was to have its flowers and pleasures, as… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
