Thorn Quotes

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

I’ve learned that empowered thinking is a choice- a state of mind.

It’s the ability to enjoy a rose with no mind of the thorn. It’s the ability to celebrate a life even though it has passed. It’s seeing the flowers even during a rainstorm.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.

Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.

The dead have been awakened -- shall I sleep? The world's at war with tyrants -- shall I crouch? the harvest's ripe -- and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, its echo in my heart.

The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi.

We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars, because they told us to do it. Why aren't they paying for it? They don't like Qaddafi, Qaddafi's been a terrible thorn in their side.

I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist.

I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing.

So sweet love seemed that April morn.

When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not strange We thought that love could never change.

I never found either this or the Northern Shrike return to such prey for food.

I have seen them alight on the same thorn bush afterwards, but never made any use of this kind of food.

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.