Gauntlet Quotes

20 quotes by 19 authors

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The members of the department became like the Athenians who, according to the Apostle Paul, "spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that a fully-human person… — Abraham Maslow
With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant. Then will I… — Karl Marx
[The GOP] must decide soon where they stand on the issue of socialized medicine. President Clinton threw down the gauntlet in his State of the… — Tony Snow
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
There is such a gauntlet of risk that you go through when you climb up to Everest. — Conrad Anker
A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A place like that… — John C. Wright
A girl conceived in China has to run an eerie kind of gauntlet if she is to survive. many parents will use the ultrasound technique.… — Steven W. Mosher
The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn… — Owen Hart
I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the canvas. Spilling a… — Joan Miro
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. — Robert Green Ingersoll
I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. — George C. Wallace
I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the… — Voltaire
I might have been eleven years old and a little socially immature, but I recognized a gauntlet being thrown down when I saw it, and… — Gayle Forman
Youâ€™ve thrown down the gauntlet. Youâ€™ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill you. As the… — Chuck Palahniuk
Conservative women in politics run a punishing gauntlet. They endure psychological evaluations and near-gynecological exams their male and liberal counterparts do not. — Mark McKinnon
And, quite frankly, I fully expected to be charged with murder, because they weren't charging anybody. I did it in terms of, I felt like… — Patty Hearst

Who Wrote These Gauntlet Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 20 Gauntlet Quotes as follows: