Quotes About Thorn

As a patient, he's as cooperative as a panther with a thorn in its paw. Eli and Tori have to hold his head steady or I might cut his throat by mistake. Or maybe it wouldn't be by mistake.

So sweet love seemed that April morn, when first we kissed beside the thorn, so strangely sweet, it was not strange we thought that love could never change.

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I'm here to heal you. If you want sympathy, go to the nursery." Jaypaw padded to the back of the den. Warriors! They might be brave in battle, but one thorn and they squealed like kits.

She kept her voice gentle and her eyes down, for without such softening traits, Haejung's mother had often said, a woman's presence would be like a thorn and not a flower.

Every leaf that taps against the attic window, every thorn that nestles against the bricks, is part of a barrier that keeps the twentieth century at bay. I have always taken a dim view of the twentieth century, so that I consider this to be a laudable amibition.

Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.

Just an idea." He waved a thick hand. "I think Auden meant that whenever there's a gift there's a guilty secret, a thorn in the flesh. Both things are given at once, and the nature of one depends on the other.

Un problema por el que no has orado es como una espina enterrada. Se encona y se infecta: primero el dedo, luego la mano, después el brazo entero. Mejor es ir directo a la persona que tiene las pinzas.

How quickly a person in pain whom you can't help becomes a reproach. And then, no doubt, a thorn.

Perché mi guardi così? Hai una spina in ogni occhio.

Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to penetrate more deeply therein.

My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.

I'm here, Satan," he said. "I can't see you, and maybe you can move faster than I can, but I'm still here, and by the grace of God and the power of the Holy Spirit I intend to be a thorn in your side until one of us has had enough!

I dislike a great deal of contemporary poetry — all of the past you read is usually quite great — but it is a useful thorn to have in one's side.

It is only by the sharp thorn of his [Christ's] suffering that the poisonous thorn of our sin is drawn.

it was considered a warrior's greatest challenge to rise beyond his own beliefs. Now it is seen as a tactless assault against one's identity. In my day, we would chase anger to its borders, cutting through thorn and weed until we found our way to the open fields of awareness.

Sweet love, sweet thorn, when lightly to my heart. I took your thrust, whereby I since am slain, And I lie disheveled in the grass apart, A sodden thing bedrenched by tears and rain.

Why is Thorn, a person with a noble heart made to wear the form of a monster, condemned to live here shackled to the shadows and the stone?

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

I was not sad to leave the banquet, for my evening had been poisoned at the thought of this thorn that had come to embed itself in Alofel's flesh.

If I am a thorn in your mattress, he will be a cage of briars around you.

The Puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.

Maybe you're the last thorn in my side I'll ever have to deal with." "Naah – there's always another thorn.