Wild Thorns Quotes

#1. When I talk to students or young writers about the importance of being unafraid to take controversial positions, I'm struck by the degree to which they can't entertain a thought, much less commit one to paper, without imagining the cacophony of snark they'll get in response.

Meghan Daum

#2. Only last week I went out among the thorns and said
to the wild roses:
deny me not,
but suffer my devotion.
Then, all afternoon, I sat among them.

Mary Oliver

#3. At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

Richard Paul Evans

#4. I put a new engine in my car, but forgot to take the old one out. Now my car goes 500 miles per hour. The harmonica sounds amazing.

Steven Wright

#5. There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion.

Arthur Middleton

#6. Sylvia Day is the undisputed mistress of tender, erotic romance. Her books are a luxury every woman deserves.

Teresa Medeiros

#7. Lirralei was a girl of storm
winds and thorns, the musk of the wild rose and the flight of the falcon.

Rosamund Hodge

#8. I think it's good to surround yourself with people you care about and that care about you, and you all trust each other, and then you don't have to worry about problems and shitty stuff happening.

Nate Diaz

#9. He used the haunting phrase, Alas for what has been lost.

Mitch Albom

#10. Out here the wild things are healthy, the old trees whose roots find sustenance far below the ill-used layer of topsoil, the occasional rosebush gone to green thicket and thorns, the unstoppable kudzu. It is as if they have decided to take back the land for their own.

Poppy Z. Brite

#11. I am a man of peace, God knows how I love peace; but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.

Lajos Kossuth

#12. In battle, if you you make your opponent flinch, you have already won.

Miyamoto Musashi

#13. It takes a tremendous amount of strength to be a single mother. To hold down the forte of a home, a life and your child's entire happiness.

Nikki Rowe

#14. Stripping for cash is yet another of my many talents

Murdoc Niccals

#15. You make it so hard to breathe.

Colleen Hoover

#16. Suppression means only trying to hide certain energies that are there, not allowing them to have their being, not allowing them to have their manifestation. Transformation means changing energies, moving them toward a new dimension. There

Osho

#17. When Rydstrom shut the door, Cade stared at it for long moments.
At length, he turned for the steps. "Fuckall," he said on a stunned breath. "Does this mean I'm no longer the bad brother ... ?

Kresley Cole

#18. I thought I was rescuing her ... I thought I was the knight in shining armor ... But it turns out; she was the badass princess that was rescuing me.

Steve Maraboli

#19. Good Shepherd, You have a wild and crazy sheep in love with thorns and brambles. But please don't get tired of looking for me! I know You won't. For You have found me. All I have to do is stay found.

Thomas Merton