“Opportunities, like roses, come with a beautiful fragrance, but also with thorns.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed! — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose. — Cate Tiernan 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
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
I know I am dying, but my deathbed is a bed of roses. I have no thorns planted upon my dying pillow.… — John Pawson Copy Share Image
Don't judge from the outside. Like any beautiful rose has thorns... the more a person appears nice on the outside, the more… — Gosho Aoyama Copy Share Image
“Compassion only plagues those with hearts, much like a field of thorns only troubles those who bleed.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Oh Lord! Hedge my path with thorns, that I may not go to the left or right, for your name's sake. Selah!” — Dr. Lucas D. Shallua Copy Share Image
Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
I wear this crown of thorns Upon my liar's chair Full of broken thoughts I cannot repair Beneath the stains of time… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
“The magical force that had sundered everything in the castle had occasionally made some very odd choices in its destruction—Sand found a… — Merrie Haskell Copy Share Image
“He picked up one of Lorna's roses and set it in my lap. "Here." I picked it up and smelled it. He… — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
Oh that it were with me As with the flower; Blooming on its own tree For butterfly and bee Its summer morns:… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it.… — Abraham Lincoln 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
“Nobody’s going to save you. No one’s going to cut you down cut the thorns around you. No one’s going to storm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was born to fight devils and factions. It is my business to remove obstacles, to cut down thorns, to fill up… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“His work is as it were, a sacred object and the true fruit of his life, and his aim in storing it… — Arthur Schopenhaur Copy Share Image
... continual hard labor deadens the energies of the soul, and benumbs the faculties of the mind; the ideas become confined, the… — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
So it is with life. Those thorns, the prickly problems of life, cause us to strive to rise above them and then,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ME AND YOU When I hold a rose, I see the soft, velvety petals and smile, because tucked between… — Lisa Schroeder Copy Share Image
“You came to tell us that the great cities are in favour of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
“A falcon. I can see that. I thought you said nothing lived here?” Sand’s face went blank. “There was nothing alive, except… — Merrie Haskell Copy Share Image
In each of us lies sleeping beauty, wasted potential, dying dreams. We sleep and live in dormant twilight, never knowing what it… — Kay Thompson Copy Share Image
Fashion is not public opinion, or the result of embodiment of public opinion. It may be that public opinion will condemn the… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears. — Isaac Hayes Copy Share Image
That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields - harvests grace with joy. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Life with love will have thorns but life without love will have no roses. — Anonymous Copy Share Image