Gauntlet Quotes:

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

topic: Death, Fate, Honor, Gauntlet

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

source: 'Aurora Leigh' (1857) bk. 2, l. 952

topic: Faith, God, Religious, Praying To God, Our Prayers

See thou, whatsoever be thy name -- whether Fate, Life, or Devil! I cast thee down my gauntlet, I challenge thee to battle! Men of faint heart may bow before thy mysterious power, thy face of stone may inspire them with dread, in thy unbroken silence they may discern the birth of calamity and an impending avalanche of woe. But I am daring and strong, and I challenge thee to battle! Let us draw our swords, and join our bucklers, and rain such blows upon each other's crests as shall cause the very earth to shake again! Ha! Come forth and fight with me!

- Leonid Andreyev

topic: Strong, Rain, Heart, Gauntlet

I might have been eleven years old and a little socially immature, but I recognized a gauntlet being thrown down when I saw it, and I had no choice but to take it up.

- Gayle Forman

source: Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.37, Penguin

topic: Years, Choices, Immature, Gauntlet

I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.

- George C. Wallace

source: First Inaugural Speech as Governor of Alabama, January 1963.

topic: Dust, Tyrants, Feet, Racial Segregation, Gauntlet

People used to call me Bond in the street. It was impossible to avoid crowds of people all over the place and blinding flashguns. The Beatles had to run the gauntlet as well, but at least there were four of them!

- Sean Connery

topic: Running, People, Four, Gauntlet

Gauntlets are the stuff of every life, but when you learn young how to pick them up, how to work them against the demons, and finally how to outlast if not escape those same demons, life can seem more merciful. It's that long, smooth, false swanning through life that seems to drive a person, sooner or later, into the wall.

- Marlena De Blasi

source: Marlena de Blasi (2013). “A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance”, p.34, Algonquin Books

topic: Wall, Long, Experience, Gauntlet, Merciful

I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the canvas. Spilling a little turpentine can also be helpful.

- Joan Miro

topic: Example, Littles, Chance, Spilling, Gauntlet

With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant. Then will I wander god-like and victorious through the ruins of the world. And giving my words an active force, I will feel equal to the Creator.

- Karl Marx

topic: Giving, Atheism, Facts, Disdain, Gauntlet

Once that Gauntlet is on, as the poster of Doctor Strange says, "the impossibilities are endless."

- Kevin Feige

source: Source: www.slashfilm.com

topic: Doctors, Strange, Posters, Gauntlet

Those original, black, spirited, defiant, rebellious musical masters. Chuck Berry was one of the first masters of Les Paul's new electric guitar; he pretty much laid down the gauntlet, and I don't think anybody's ever beat him since. Way before the British Invasion, I was tuned into the black guys that created the British Invasion. Without Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Lightnin' Hopkins, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry and the Motown hits, there would be no Beatles.

- Ted Nugent

source: "Ted Nugent & Henry Rollins: American Flag/Black Flag". Elmore Magazine Interview, www.elmoremagazine.com. November 3, 2013.

topic: Thinking, Guitar, Water, Electric Guitar, Howlin Wolf

I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school.

- Owen Hart

topic: Running, Children, Taken, Gauntlet

I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide.

- Voltaire

topic: Running, Cutting, Pirate, Bulgarians, Candide

A professor is not one who knows, but one who professes to know, and [thus] is constantly in the position of inviting challenge. . . . He professes publicly where everyone is invited to come and challenge, [and] at any time he must be willing and able to defend it openly against all comers. The degree is originally a chivalric device-a gauntlet of defiance to all rivals-and not a safe rampart or dug-out for a scholar to hide behind in safe immunity from any challenge.

- Hugh Nibley

topic: Challenges, Degrees, Rivals, Inviting, Gauntlet

A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A place like that cries out to be conquered and civilised.

- John C. Wright

source: John C. Wright (2012). “The Hermetic Millennia”, p.116, Macmillan

topic: Men, Challenges, Cry, Empty Places, Gauntlet

The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.49, Harvard University Press

topic: Men, Ideas, University, Gauntlet

All too often, parents and kids struggle to find an empathetic ear when confronting bullying situation; these escalate and too often result in marginalization, on top of what may well be a daily gauntlet of harassment and abuse that is fundamentally torture.

- Lee Hirsch

topic: Bullying, Struggle, Kids, Marginalization, Harassment

A girl conceived in China has to run an eerie kind of gauntlet if she is to survive. many parents will use the ultrasound technique. and, if it reveals. a girl, they'll abort her. If it reveals the baby is a boy, they'll celebrate.

- Steven W. Mosher

topic: Girl, Running, Baby, Ultrasounds, Gauntlet

There is such a gauntlet of risk that you go through when you climb up to Everest.

- Conrad Anker

topic: Risk, Everest, Climbs, Gauntlet

[The GOP] must decide soon where they stand on the issue of socialized medicine. President Clinton threw down the gauntlet in his State of the Union address, when he proposed guaranteeing health insurance for at least half of the 10 million American children who have none.

- Tony Snow

topic: Children, Medicine, Issues, Socialized Medicine, Gauntlet

You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill you. As the child outlives the father, so must the character bury the author. If you are, in fact, my continuing author, then killing you will end my existence as well. Small loss. Such a life, as your puppet, is not worth living. But… If I destroy you and your dreck script, and I still exist… then my existence will be glorious, for I will become my own master.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.242, Random House

topic: Gauntlet

The members of the department became like the Athenians who, according to the Apostle Paul, "spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing." Anyone who thought he had a bright idea rushed out to try it out on a colleague. Groups of two or more could be seen every day in offices, before blackboards or even in corridors, arguing vehemently about these 'brain storms.' It is doubtful whether any paper ever emerged for publication that had not run the gauntlet of such criticism. The whole department thus became far greater than the sum of its individual members.

- Joel Henry Hildebrand

topic: Running, Ideas, Two, Department, Publication

As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that a fully-human person can seem like a miracle, so improbable a happening as to be awe-inspiring. And simultaneously one is heartened by the fact that self-actualizing persons do in fact exist, that they are therefore possible, that the gauntlet of dangers can be run, that the finish line can be crossed.

- Abraham Maslow

topic: Running, Self, Miracle, Saddened, Human Potential

The idea that writing about characters of another race requires a passage through a critical gauntlet, which involves apology and self-examination of an almost punitive nature, as though the act of writing race was somehow morally suspect, is a dangerous one. This approach appears culturally sensitive, but often it reveals a failure of nerve. I believe the demand that we ought to reveals a species of fascism within the left - an embrace of political correctness with its required silences, which has left people afraid to offend or take a stand.

- C.E. Morgan

source: Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

topic: Believe, Writing, Character, Gauntlet

One agonizing journey down the gauntlet of youth is enough for any man.

- Zedd

topic: Journey, Men, Agonizing, Gauntlet

If the present White House leadership runs the gauntlet of common sense and the people's will for peace and challenges us by starting MX missile deployment, then the Soviet Union will respond by deploying a new intercontinental ballistic missile of the same class, with its characteristics in no way inferior to those of the MX.

- Dmitriy Ustinov

source: "The Arms Control Reporter: A Chronicle of Treaties, Negotiations, Proposals" by Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies (U.S.), (p. 57), 1982.

topic: Running, Class, White, Deploying, Gauntlet

I run the gauntlet of a file of doubts, Each one of which down hurls me to the ground.

- Philip James Bailey

topic: Running, Doubt, Gauntlet

And, quite frankly, I fully expected to be charged with murder, because they weren't charging anybody. I did it in terms of, I felt like I was throwing down the gauntlet saying look, this is what happened. There's a family out there that needed to know what happened.

- Patty Hearst

topic: Looks, Murder, Throwing, Charging, Gauntlet

Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet. They, because they want to get their films made, they censor it.

- Terry Gilliam

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Running, Self, Want, Gauntlet