Best Barbs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When the time has come to confront the hard truth, we may have to rewire our brains to ensure the healing from subversive mental barbs of aching incidents. ("Lost dreams")”

Healing Mental Subversive Brains Hard Truth Barbs Aching Lost Dreams Ensure Rewire

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“Greed, fear, lust, hate, jealousy, these are part of reality too ... bundles of consciousness wrapped tightly, barbs on which you can injure yourself, volatile energies that serve as separations between yourself and perfect stillness.”

Reality Hate Energy Perfect Consciousness Buddhism Greed Separation Lust Purity Stillness Bundles Barbs

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure of FREEDOM, and make 'em work. Work, you free jewel, WORK! shouts the liberator, cracking his whip.”

Men Fellows Rounds Ems Jewels Wire Fellow Man Whips Liberators Enclosure Barbs

Book:Studies in Classic American Literature

Source: Studies in Classic American Literature

“If you got to castrate your miser'ble self with a piece o' rusty barb wire, do it.”

Ifs Self Pieces Scary Wire Misers Barbs

Author:Fred Phelps

“Christians must deplore unfair and deprecating barbs regularly aimed our way.”

Way Christian Religious Unfair Barbs

Author:David R. Mains

“The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.”

Should Fishes Blackness Barbs

Author:John Hawkes

“There was a whole group that really welcomed me: George Mitchell was one, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, the reformers were really delighted to see me. So if you were one of those squeaky clean, shiny bright, let's reform the world, you were very glad to see Barb Mikulski, and George Mitchell was in that category.”

Ifs World Whole Groups Clean Glad Reform Categories Delighted Reformers Ted Kennedy Barbs

Author:Barbara Mikulski

“He who would lay hands upon us will encounter thorns and barbs!”

Hands Lays Encounters Thorns Barbs

Author:Adolf Hitler

“Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.”

Ifs Heart Long Dies Childhood My Heart Sorrow Ironic Sorrow And Happiness Barbs

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.”

Love Anger Flames Anger Management Barbs

Book:Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)

“How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?”

May Wish Lessons Painful Flesh Heal Memories Of A Geisha Barbs

Author:Arthur Golden

“No touching Baby Jesus.” “But we’re his parents!” proclaimed Mary Beth, who was being generous to include poor Joseph under this appellation. “Mary Beth,” Barb Wiggin said, “if you touch the Baby Jesus, I’m putting you in a cow costume.”

Ifs Said Jesus Parent Poor Baby Generous Touching Cows Mary Costumes Beth Being Generous Baby Jesus Barbs

Book:A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel

“No matter the barbs of fate that frustrate you, no matter how stacked against you the cards of fortune. . . . There is a liberating law in the universe, and you can become the highest of the high, wisest of the wise.”

Matter Law Universe Wise Fate Highest Fortune Cards Liberating Wisest Barbs

Author:Uell Stanley Andersen

“There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.”

Littles Possibility Good Things Sticks Ill Witty Tongue Malice Barbs

Book:The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Complete in One Volume

Source: The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Complete in One Volume

“There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.”

Giving Years Children Suffering Deals Fate Childhood Loneliness Ignorance Blow Intense Hardest Arrows Barbs

Book:The Story of an African Farm

Source: The Story of an African Farm

“Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth.”

Scar Ciphers Landmines Barbs Self Mutilation

Author:J. L. B. Smith

“Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points.”

Folks Fence Wire Barbs

Author:Texas Bix Bender

“When did "sentimental" become a pejorative barb? I do not at all share the notion that a piece of music, or a poem, or a film that bypasses the brain and aims straight for the heart . . . should automatically be heaped with scorn. I think it is symptomatic of a sad and dangerous impoverishment of spirit.”

Thinking Should Heart Film Spirit Brain Pieces Share Dangerous Aim Notion Sentimental Scorn Bypass Barbs

Author:Bill Richardson

“I've been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every woman. She's incredibly strong; she's incredibly generous. She's seemingly insane because she is in the situation of a polygamous relationship, but she had definite reasons to do it.”

Reason Strong Situation Relationship Insane Generous Definite Barbs

Author:Jeanne Tripplehorn

“With a click of the Post Comment button, Netizens can quickly bring down the level of dialogue. Bloggers lob zingers, commenters trade barbs, and bullies target kids in the cyber schoolyard. Mudslinging - a time-honored political tradition - thrives on the Web.”

Kids Political Levels Tradition Trade Dialogue Posts Thrive Target Comment Buttons Bully Honored Clicks Cyber Bloggers Barbs

Author:Willow Bay

“Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.”

Mind Ideas Happens Form Meditation Strikes Proverbial Javelin Barbs

Book:The Adages of Erasmus

Source: The Adages of Erasmus

“There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.”

Literature Infinite Infinity Barbs

Book:My Heart Laid Bare, and Other Prose Writings

Source: My Heart Laid Bare, and Other Prose Writings