Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.
Entering politics would be like donning a crown of thorns.
To the stars through thorns.
Actually this is an ancient Roman Proverb.
Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.
The motto was 'Pax', but the word was set in a circle of thorns.
Water the fruit trees and don’t water the thorns.
You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.
If thou has a bundle of thorns in thy lot, there is no need to sit down on it.
But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.
It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then.
Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic.
I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Adolescence is like cactus.
You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.
There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
But the world turns, and even legends change; and somewhere there is a border, and sometime, perhaps, someone will decide to cross it, however well guarded its thorns may be.
If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips.
I have learned the difference between a cactus and a caucus. On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.
Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.
Self-inflicted misery smirks under its crown of thorns.
I am made Hand of the King which gives me an enormous amount of power, which I use quite ruthlessly - but skilfully - and Dame Diana Rigg joins us [playing political mastermind the Queen of Thorns] and we have a couple of really good sparring moments.
