Thorny Quotes

33 quotes by 29 authors

We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden, divine love, studded with gems… — Aimee Semple McPherson
In the wake of her indispensable textbook, Janet Burroway now offers a splendid and concise guide to the thorny task of revision. Writers, young and… — Margot Livesey
While good business ideas are plentiful, many entrepreneurs struggle to understand payroll taxes, health care and other thorny issuesâ€¦ In other words, they don't have… — Daymond John
When John Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my South End studio at five o'clock on a May morning in 1916, neither of us had… — George Grosz
Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and then rewrote their… — Unknown Author
There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must… — George Eliot
This book is unique. I know of no other which so artfully tackles two of the greatest mysteries of modern science, quantum mechanics, and consciousness.… — George Greenstein
Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement. If it was, no artist would be able to paint inhumane… — Kathryn Bigelow
The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road. — Michel de Montaigne
Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path. — Michel de Montaigne
For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness… — Michael K. Simpson
It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the… — Michel de Montaigne
Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends… — Marquis de Sade
I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is. — Amanda Plummer
The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that… — Thomas Carlyle
Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away; Plucking up the weeds of sin, Letting heaven's warm sunshine in. — John Greenleaf Whittier
I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this… — Theodore Dreiser
For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That… — Paul Engle
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way. — Michel de Montaigne
Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars. — Gregory Maguire

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29 authors contributed a total of 33 Thorny Quotes, led by these top contributors: