Threshing Floor Quotes

#1. But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.

Kahlil Gibran

#2. The more the wicked abound, so much the more must we suffer with them in patience; for on the threshing floor few are the grains carried into the barns, but high are the piles of chaff burned with fire.

Pope Gregory I

#3. If he was wood, he was a flail, and I was grain on the threshing floor.
I was a thousand grains, my thoughts blown like chaff. All that was left was the taste of salt.

Sarah Micklem

#4. If a pig goes upon the threshing-floor, or a field, or a garden, and the owner of the meadow, or the field, or the garden smites it so that it die, he shall give it back to its owner; but if he does not give it back, he becomes a thief.

Orson Scott Card

#5. Autumn arrives like a warrior with the stain of blood upon his brazen mail. His crimson scarf is rent. His scarlet banner drips with gore. His step is like a flail upon the threshing floor.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#6. Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.

Horace

#7. 6So she went down to the threshing floor and did just as her mother-in-law had commanded her. 7. And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and o his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. Then she came softly and uncovered his feet and lay down.

Anonymous

#8. I can't help teasing people. That's the way that I am, and I hope that nobody takes it too personally.

Tim Daly

#9. Beside us, Robin was in a lip lock with Jeremy, kicking off

Rebecca Phillips

#10. All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film.

Steve Buscemi

#11. I'm always standing on the edge of something bad.

David Levithan

#12. I had just wanted to be part of a story; I wanted to be a person who had a story to tell.

Julie Schumacher

#13. It wasn't that I didn't understand Jeremy getting a new band while I was missing/dead/etc. I was sure I would have done the same thing in his position. Well, I would have started one, not joined one, because I don't really like team sports unless I've invented both the team and the sport.

Maggie Stiefvater

#14. If I got a missed call, there wasn't money involved

Lil Debbie

#15. Eric pulled a drumstick from the inner pocket of his leather vest and held it across his chest like a sword. "I shall guard this dwelling, m'lady, and vanquish all who dare to trespass." He took a stab at Sed with his improvised weapon. "Back, foul beast

Olivia Cunning

#16. I work myself into the ground.

Mariah Carey

#17. And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Anonymous

#18. I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.

Viggo Mortensen

#19. In religious matters it is now fashionable to define tolerance as the absence of criticism of any standard religion. All too often, this absence of criticism degenerates into a conspicuous absence of thought.

Paul Blanshard

#20. The success of strategy management undoubtedly lies in the "timely execution.

Pearl Zhu

#21. Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.

Daniel Woodrell

#22. Any time you get into a presidential campaign and the stakes are so high, all candidates - they want to be in complete control whenever they can. And you can't blame them for that.

Bob Schieffer