Thornes Quotes & Sayings

We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world. — Bill Russell

These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love. — Barack Obama

Something given, something taken away. Does it always have to work like that? — Gayle Forman

And then, I made myself sick to my stomach for an apologie that never came. — Lena Dunham

Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes. — George Herbert

The question of whether women should be made bishops once they had been ordained is absolutely pivotal. It seems to me absolute nonsense for women to be ordained to the priesthood but not to the episcopacy because the two are inextricably linked. — David Hope, Baron Hope Of Thornes

We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. - 1 John 4:16 — Gary Chapman

There is a time to speak and a time to listen, and sometimes people need to shut up. — David Hope, Baron Hope Of Thornes

Never sleep with a lady only once, especially in the case of an older lady.
-'Rhett — Rowena Cherry

If only one person in the world held down a terrified, struggling, screaming little girl, cut off her genitals with a septic blade, and sewed her back up, leaving only a tiny hole for urine and menstrual flow, the only question would be how severely that person should be punished, and whether the death penalty would be a sufficiently severe sanction. But when millions of people do this, instead of the enormity being magnified millions-fold, suddenly it becomes "culture," and thereby magically becomes less, rather than more, horrible, and is even defended by some Western "moral thinkers," including feminists. — Steven Pinker

You've got to go where the work is. My mom got a job somewhere else so I went and lived with her and then I just bounced all over going to school, chasing rainbows and all that. — Nikki Jean

Hee that goes barefoot, must not plant thornes. — George Herbert

Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing,
where something might be planted,
a seed, possibly, from the Absolute. — Rumi

Things like depression and obesity are global challenges. — Jane McGonigal

I have always hoped that it might be possible to conclude my ministry as I had begun it, as a parish priest, and this I believe to be the call of God. — David Hope, Baron Hope Of Thornes

I don't mind my friends calling me "Thornes," but the fact of people calling me "Prickly Thornes" draws the line. — Simi Sunny

A morning later, Nancy described her first dream, the first remembered dream of her life. She and Judy Thorne were on a screened porch, catching ladybugs. Judy caught one with one spot on its back and showed it to Nancy. Nancy caught one with two spots and showed it to Judy. Then Judy caught one with three spots and Nancy one with four. Because (the child explained) the dots showed how old the ladybugs were. She told this dream to her mother, who had her repeat it to her father at breakfast. Piet was moved, beholding his daughter launched intoanother dimension of life. Like school. He was touched by her tiny stock of imagery the screened porch (neither they nor the Thornes had one; who?), the ladybugs (with turtles the most toylike of creatures), the mysterious power of numbers, that generates space and time. Piet saw down a long amplifying corridor of her dreams, and wanted to hear her tell them, to grow older with her, to shelter her forever." John Updike, Couples, 1968. — John Updike

I would always say to anyone, you make choices that are important to you. Don't allow yourself to be exploited by something as fleeting as fame and fortune. If you're presenting yourself in a way that important to you in communicating your vision, then so be it. No one should allow themselves to be exploited ever. — Patti Smith

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

In death, as in sleep, I am all things. — Melissa Pritchard

My fans aren't obsessed. They're just incredible and devoted. — Justin Bieber