Gauntlet Quotes
20 quotes by 19 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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[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
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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
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There is such a gauntlet of risk that you go through when you climb up to Everest.
— Conrad Anker
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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
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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
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The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill you. As the…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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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
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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: