Top 23 Quotes About Briars
#1. Right. The Briars. Just a second, Princess. Hey, Rusty," he called, motioning to Ironhorse, who pinned back his ears, "why don't you walk ahead of us, huh? I want your big ugly ass where I can see it.
Julie Kagawa
#2. The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.
Washington Irving
#3. Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.
Samuel Griswold Goodrich
#4. 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
#5. 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 of sacrifice and adoration, or a thorny crown, filled with the cruel briars of unbelief, or selfishness, and sin ...
Aimee Semple McPherson
#6. Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.
Catherynne M Valente
#7. And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')
William Blake
#8. Just like Love is yonder rose,
Heavenly fragrance round it throws,
Yet tears its dewy leaves disclose,
And in the midst of briars it blows
Just like Love.
Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford
#9. Sometimes, when it seems like the pain is never going to end, I wish I'd gotten a different suite of magical talents from my mother. Like the power to avoid situations that end with me willingly jamming my arm into a door made entirely from animate, apparently angry rose briars.
Seanan McGuire
#10. First of all, there is no need to patronize me by implying that I'm Helen of Troy when it's clear that I'm no beauty.
Lisa Kleypas
#11. Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.
Robert Delaunay
#12. If you want to be wisely selfish, care for others
Dalai Lama
#13. The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.
David Hilbert
#14. Hangovers had a way of teaching people that drinking alcohol was not a good idea.
John Flanagan
#16. It is difficult to speak of the universal specifically.
Horace
#17. Evidently you think I'm a fool who will easily succumb to flattery, or else your standards are quite low.
Lisa Kleypas
#18. In looking back we remember only the triumphant consummations of each season. Failures and frustrations are forgotten; garden-memories are as perfect as garden-hopes.
Patience Strong
#19. I was excited about the fourth movie I guess conceptually because, what I felt we should do it, we should try to make it a conceptual jump like Terminator did to T2. It was still the Terminator franchise, but it was something kind of bigger and grander.
Paul W. S. Anderson
#20. Replacing half of the U.S. ground-transport fuels with hydrogen from wind power by 2050, for example, might require 1,400 gigawatts of advanced wind turbines or more ... replacing those fuels with electricity might require less than 400 GW.
Joseph J. Romm
#21. Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity.
And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues?
Lisa Kleypas
#22. I could have signed for Newcastle when I was 17, but I decided I would be better off at Carlisle. I'd had a drink that night.
Peter Beardsley
#23. If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.
Evelyn Waugh
