Thorny Vines Quotes

#1. He considers it for a moment and spits out the seeds, which sprout, quickly, into tiny junkblossoms sizzling with recursive algorithms. The algorithms wriggle through thorny vines, veins of clotted pink juice.

Catherynne M Valente

#2. Letting go looks different for everyone, I think. Sometimes it's as simple as waking up one day and deciding not to let your past rule you. Other times it's a process; slow moving and painful, like trudging through a forest of thorny vines in hopes that you'll find freedom on the other side.

Allison J. Kennedy

#3. Deep down under where his heart resided, strangled up in thorny vines of guilt, anger, fear and longing, there lay something deeper in him, something that he couldn't see but she could.

Carol Oates

#4. Sadly, it has often been said that my rear is better than my front, so thank you very much indeed.

Anton Du Beke

#5. Over the years, however, the research evidence keeps piling up, and it points strongly to the conclusion that a high degree of empathy in a relationship is possibly the most potent and certainly one of the most potent factors in bringing about change and learning.

Carl Rogers

#6. If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight - they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.

Cesare Pavese

#7. Soul music is timeless.

Alicia Keys

#8. I'm forty-six years old and I don't care who knows it, but what I will tell you is that when a woman is forty-six and has lived her life the way she's wanted to live it, she knows everything there is to know about what to do in the sack.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#9. Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.

Damien Rice

#10. She didn't want to go to Levi's party. Even though she liked him, she didn't like parties. And she didn't want the first time she saw him after what had happened to be at a party. With party people. With any people.

Rainbow Rowell

#11. Some days I make 20 bets. Some days, I make none ... so I wait, plan, marshal my resources. And when I finally see an opportunity and there is a bet to make, I bet it all,

Arnold Rothstein

#12. Olivia imagined a D-day-style invasion of the island, gardeners with saws and shovels parachuting out of the sky and storming the beaches - and were being liberated from the thorny or flowery embrace of climbing vines, deratted, reroofed, fixed up, and condoized. Her apartment

Neal Stephenson

#13. She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines.

Nenia Campbell

#14. Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them - a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.

Gerald R. Ford

#15. I wanted each woman to be a rebellious Vashti, not an Esther.

Margaret Sanger

#16. We have power over nothing except our will.

Michel De Montaigne

#17. Not what hatches out is the face to the world.

Amit Abraham

#18. A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.

Malcolm X