Nettles Quotes

31 quotes by 29 authors

His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an aura… — William S. Burroughs
The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it is a taboo… — Richard Dawkins
Those of us placed in a position of leadership must be prepared to grasp the nettle if we unite in doing so, and if, in… — Obafemi Awolowo
With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How… — Victor Hugo
Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about and just fall into a… — Christopher McDougall
A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didnâ€™t know enough to stay in… — S. J. Perelman
Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful… — Henry Morton Stanley
What a time herbs and weeds, and such things could talk, A man in his garden one day did walk, Spying a nettle green (as… — John Heywood
WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO THE WHOLE. — Oliver Cromwell
As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower. — Edward Thomas
The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we… — Thornton Wilder
There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Angry men make themselves beds of nettles. — Samuel Richardson
My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will. — Fiona Wood
The world's a nettle; disturb it, it stings: Grasp it firmly, it stings not. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees. — Richard Louv
No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures and you weep for pain.… — Sathya Sai Baba
Leaders grasp nettles. — David Ogilvy
When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles. — Horace Walpole
Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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