Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr
He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.
Benjamin Franklin
You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.
Bethenny Frankel
My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.
Bret Michaels
My very first tattoo was a crown of thorns around my upper left arm that I have since gotten covered up, because I got it right before Pamela Anderson came out with 'Barb Wire.'
Brett Young
Some people are near- or farsighted - I'm thorn-sighted. The thorns on the rose are in really sharp definition for me, the rose petals a little fuzzier.
Danny Meyer
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
Ellen Key
And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.
Francis Quarles
There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.
Gerald Massey
There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.
Grantland Rice
Truths and roses have thorns about them.
Henry David Thoreau
The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
Hugh Miller
Give me your crown, Jesus. Give me your cross, your thorns, so that I may bleed. But give me life, because I have more to do for this country and these people.
Hugo Chavez
If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
Isaac Hayes
I was this Catholic kid, and I never really lost that. I loved the rituals of Catholicism. The mass is a magic ritual; it's a transubstantiation, and the stations of the cross - I mean, a crown of thorns? Getting whipped? It's punk rock.
Jim Carroll
I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.
John Bachman
How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
John Burroughs
There was a 'Wired' cover that had a big Apple logo with a crown of barbed wire as thorns, and underneath it just said, 'Pray.' I remember this because of how upsetting it was. Basically saying either it's going to just go out of business or be bought.
Jonathan Ive
Entering politics would be like donning a crown of thorns.
Kamal Haasan
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not.
My favourite thorn belongs to the rose with a name like a mouthful of broken teeth, Rosa sericea pteracantha. It is grown almost entirely for its astonishing ruby-red shark's fin thorns that are at their lapidary best in early summer, especially when backlit by a low setting sun.
The Hawthorns has a good atmosphere, like many of the Premier League stadiums.
Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?
Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.
The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.
Multiculturalism is a bed of beautiful roses that has some thorns, so we just have to be careful not to get pricked or to prick one another.
The motto was 'Pax', but the word was set in a circle of thorns.
'A Court of Thorns and Roses' was actually inspired by three of my all-time-favorite fairy/folktales: 'Beauty and the Beast,' 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon' and 'Tam Lin.' I got the kernel of inspiration by wondering: 'What if 'Beauty' was a huntress?'
'A Court of Thorns and Roses,' big surprise, was inspired by music. By actually listening to the 'Princess Mononoke' soundtrack.
The cycle of jobless youth, uncertainty about the future, depressing consumption, and weak investment and stresses on both the supply and demand side of economies are all thorns in the wheel of capitalism.
Sculptures created from found materials like ice and thorns, driftwood, and even bleached kangaroo bones all presuppose that artistic design will yield to the cycles of time and climate, whether over an hour or a decade.
As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
I want my music to be accessible to every listener because I know that I really have something to say in terms of really, you know, removing thorns from people, thorns that really makes us unaware that we are bleeding with these thorns, like pain, grief, jealousy and so on.
