Quotes about Thread

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread. Votes: 6

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation. Votes: 6

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life. Votes: 6

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. Votes: 6

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep...that have taken hold. Votes: 5

Invisible threads are the strongest ties. Votes: 4

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. Votes: 4

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth. Votes: 4

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. Votes: 4

In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running. Votes: 4

Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern. Votes: 4

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. Votes: 4

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know. Votes: 4

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread. Votes: 4

Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. Votes: 4

Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown.. Votes: 4

Today, let's set our minds and hearts on feeling more thankful for what we are than guilty for what we're not. Let's cut the threads of guilt with grace. Votes: 4

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. Votes: 4

If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a wisp of gossamer, perhaps we would be kinder to them and more grateful for the love and friendship they give to us. Votes: 4

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. Votes: 4

If one stretches out the DNA contained in the nucleus of a human cell, one obtains a two-yard-long thread that is only ten atoms wide. This thread is a billion times longer than its own width. Relatively speaking, it is as if your little finger stretched from Paris to Los Angeles. Votes: 4

Each of us has a purpose for living beyond our own survival and pleasure. Every individual is like a thread in a beautiful tapestry with a vital contribution to make, not only to the sustenance of life as we know it, but in the creation and development of more beneficial expressions of life. Votes: 4

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. Votes: 3

Instead of taking a year off, I started Dreamers of the Day exactly 36 hours after I sent the manuscript for A Thread of Grace to the publisher! Votes: 3

Instead of taking a year off, I started 'Dreamers of the Day' exactly 36 hours after I sent the manuscript for 'A Thread of Grace' to the publisher! Votes: 3

Thread of Selfishness in Web of Life.—Deuteronomy contains much instruction regarding what the law is to us, and the relation we shall sustain to God as we reverence and obey Votes: 3

Isn't that the goal, as you grow older? That you start reclaiming those parts of yourself you didn't recognize or didn't think were there all along? That's what happened when I made The River and the Thread record. Votes: 3

Thread count is actually a lie. Just because a thread count is 1,500 on a set of sheets doesn't mean that they're well-made sheets. Truly, the quality of the cotton and the quality of the way something is woven is much more important than thread count. Votes: 3

How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make, As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse, Thread by thread the strands we twist Till they bind us neck and wrist, Thread by thread the patient hand Must untwine ere free we stan Votes: 3

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. Votes: 2

Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day. Votes: 2

Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness. Votes: 2

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled. Votes: 2

I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children. Votes: 2

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread. Votes: 2

I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all. Votes: 2

When topics are complex and meaty, don't create a never-ending email thread. It's amazing how much time people waste composing and reading carefully-worded essays, when a 5 minute in-person chat would resolve the whole thing. Votes: 2

All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together. Votes: 2

However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums. Votes: 2

The biggest lesson that I've learned is that fashion is this tightrope where you have to be consistent but inconsistent. You need the connective thread but at the same time you need a sense of surprise. Votes: 2

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. Votes: 2

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn. Votes: 2

The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people. Votes: 2

I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common thread linking deep ecology and animal rights, the love and money we lavish on pets, the uneasy longing for extraterrestrials to be meddling with us. Votes: 2

If there is a thread that unites all of our work, whether it's in Iowa or whether it's in Maryland or whether it's among our young men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan, I believe that it's the thread of human dignity. Votes: 2

The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to. Votes: 2

Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are compelled to think about motivation. Votes: 2

I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back. Votes: 2

The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems. Votes: 2

So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot in terms of the actual experience and actually enjoy it more and enjoy the people more. Votes: 2

There's something about the Pacific Northwest, the scale of it, and the fact that not so long ago people came here and died getting here, and then died the first winter they were here. There's this breathtaking beauty, just a little bit of moss on the tree, just this little thread of danger, and the sinister. And I really like that. Votes: 2

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. Votes: 1

But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life - find the knot - untangle it. Votes: 1

Our great Constitution has been beaten and torn until now it hangs by a single thread, and that thread is our franchise to vote. Votes: 1

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life. Votes: 1

Spirituality is like a thin-thin thread, that if delicately followed guides us from darkness to light; from poverty to abundance and from destruction to safety. Votes: 1

I want to say something to you men. You cannot destroy the appointment of a prophet of God, but you can cut the thread that binds you to the prophet of God, and sink yourselves to hell. Votes: 1

Now what has happened in our country during the time we have been plunging toward socialism? Are we actually at that point where the Constitution may be hanging by a single thread and we need to step in to save it? Votes: 1

Life and death are one thread... Votes: 0

Life is a thread that someone entangled. Votes: 0

The thread breakes, where it is weakest. Votes: 0

NATO has been a thread throughout my life. Votes: 0

Healthy choices thread through every aspect of life. Votes: 0

True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness. Votes: 0

All that I am hangs by a thread tonight Votes: 0

He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase. Votes: 0

Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together. Votes: 0

Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing. Votes: 0

I've always had a teenage thread running through my music. Votes: 0

Fall the deep curtains, delicate the weave, fair the thread. Votes: 0

Every night is different, a ball of thread that unrolls differently. Votes: 0

To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread. Votes: 0

May a thread of comfort be woven through your difficult days. Votes: 0

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread. Votes: 0

Karma is the tension of the thread in the human tapestry. Votes: 0

Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown. Votes: 0

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative. Votes: 0

Un-thread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith. Votes: 0

All religions are precious pearls strung on the golden thread of divinity. Votes: 0

Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct. Votes: 0

The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government. Votes: 0

We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love. Votes: 0

Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Votes: 0

Children...they string our joys, like jewels bright, upon the thread of years. Votes: 0

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world. Votes: 0

Every question was like the snapping of a little thread about my heart. Votes: 0

Sense of humor: A thread of illuminated intelligence that links two opposite ideas. Votes: 0

Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on? Votes: 0

I thought a thread of notable quotes relating to coffee may be interesting. Votes: 0

Nailing him was like trying to thread a needle in a high wind. Votes: 0

People wander about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. Votes: 0

We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs. Votes: 0

Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. Votes: 0

The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together. Votes: 0

Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another. Votes: 0

Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread. Votes: 0

He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong. Votes: 0

The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man. Votes: 0

There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.' Votes: 0

Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread. Votes: 0

In visual futurism, the line between total fantasy and futuristic is a thread of reality. Votes: 0

Once spun,The silken thread of all our aspirationsRemains intact,It can never be broken. Votes: 0

Truthfulness is the golden thread that binds good lives, good relationships, and our very legacy. Votes: 0

The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. Votes: 0

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash. Votes: 0

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. Votes: 0

Life is a very thin thread and it only takes a second to snap it Votes: 0

Pull a thread here and you'll find it's attached to the rest of the world. Votes: 0

I hang by a thread, but it is (if I may so speak) of Christ's spinning Votes: 0

Remodeling is like pulling a loose thread on a cheap sweater - the job keeps unraveling. Votes: 0

However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith. Votes: 0

Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs. Votes: 0

Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky. Votes: 0

Time doth run with calm and silent foot, Shortening my days and thread of vital life. Votes: 0

I see people with Asperger's syndrome as a bright thread in the rich tapestry of life. Votes: 0

Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread. Votes: 0

No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace. Votes: 0

Hope, in general, is dangerous. Hope can be the loose thread that pulls apart your sanity. Votes: 0

People stagger, but they pick up a tattered thread and wind it back onto a spool. Votes: 0

Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect. Votes: 0

Trust is a gossamer thread, and it takes only a breath of suspicion to break it. Votes: 0

Every thread you discover in the local web of life leads beyond your place to life elsewhere. Votes: 0

Promises retain men better than services; for hope is to them a chain, and gratitude a thread. Votes: 0

Without my relatives, I am but a thread; together, we form a colorful and elaborate Persian carpet. Votes: 0

[On the movie "American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread a needle with it. Votes: 0

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven. Votes: 0

Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light. Votes: 0

Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away. Votes: 0

I am a glutton for a beautiful hotel. I am so easily smitten by high thread counts. Votes: 0

Separation isnt time or distance its the bridge between us finer than silk thread sharper than swords Votes: 0

Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there. Votes: 0

I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting. Votes: 0

I'm going to untangle her deadly scheme, even if it leaves my love affair hanging by a thread. Votes: 0

I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere. Votes: 0

Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet. Votes: 0

The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread. Votes: 0

The troubles came and I saved what I could save. A thread of light, a particle, a wave. Votes: 0

Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead. Votes: 0

Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting can be the magic thread which links the girls of the world together. Votes: 0

I have invited our little seamstress to take her thread and needle and sew our two mouths together. Votes: 0

Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven. Votes: 0

There is a sort of Neo-Confederate thread that runs through these sort of pro-gun movements and the NRA movement. Votes: 0

Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life. Votes: 0

We follow a path of discovery, strung like pearls on a thread of curiosity, lending richness to our work. Votes: 0

No one can tear your thread out of himself. No one can tie you down or set you free. Votes: 0

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth. Votes: 0

I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own. Votes: 0

He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together. Votes: 0

The thread of culture that runs through the entire history of punk is also a dedication to challenging the authoritarian. Votes: 0

The secrets of evolution, are time and death. There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us. Votes: 0

Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity. Votes: 0

Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread. Votes: 0

For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man! Votes: 0

Consistency: It's the jewel worth wearing; It's the anchor worth weighing; It's the thread worth weaving; It's a battle worth winning. Votes: 0

The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze. Votes: 0

If you mention Adolf Hitler or Nazis within a discussion thread, you've automatically ended whatever discussion you were taking part in. Votes: 0

One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it. Votes: 0

The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life. Votes: 0

It's a very common belief [among Mormons] that the Constitution will hang by a thread and the Church will save it. Votes: 0

Energy is the golden thread that connects economic growth, increased social equity, and an environment that allows the world to thrive. Votes: 0

All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins. Votes: 0

My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread Votes: 0

We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know. Votes: 0

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. Votes: 0

The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu. Votes: 0

Nothing is more gratifying as a Christian believer than being able to thread my faith and love for Jesus into my music. Votes: 0

There is one single thread binding my way together...the way of the Master consists in doing one's best...that is all. Votes: 0

Your twisting is done--you have the last thread of my heart. I wonder: when the thread grows slack, will you feel it? Votes: 0

The thing I absolutely love about food is it's a common thread that connects us no matter what culture we come from. Votes: 0

Truth is a golden thread, seen here and there In small bright specks upon the visible side Of our strange being's party-coloured web. Votes: 0

Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead. Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief Shore his old thread in twain. Votes: 0

However often the thread may be torn out of your hands, you must develop enough patience to wind it up again and again. Votes: 0

There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another. Votes: 0

I always quit while I am still inspired, while I could still write more. Never let the thread run all the way out. Votes: 0

There's a thread that binds all of us together; pull one end of the thread, the strain is felt all down the line. Votes: 0

People don't just disappear. There's always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There's always a loose thread that starts to unravel. Votes: 0

From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts. Votes: 0

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization. Votes: 0

The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels. Votes: 0

Oh, heart, let's never grow too old To smile anew, when Christmas comes, At tassels red and tinsel thread, And tarlatan bags f sugarplums. Votes: 0

In the beginning, sin is like a thread of a spider's web. But in the end, it becomes like the cable of a ship. Votes: 0

I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other. Votes: 0

Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone. Votes: 0

When you buy a piece of vintage clothing you're not just buying the fabric and thread - you're buying a piece of someone's past Votes: 0

I am dwelling on things I love, even if a measure of tragedy is stitched into everything, if you follow the thread long enough Votes: 0

I always had a good dexterity. The story in my family goes that at the age of 3 I could thread needles faster than anybody. Votes: 0

Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia. Votes: 0

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together. Votes: 0

... the scarlet thread,the red clay from which we were made, runs in tiny streams through all our veins, reminding us of where we began... Votes: 0

Our hair can be a fun outlet for self expression. I love wearing cornrows and getting my hair thread-wrapped because it feels ancient and African. Votes: 0

By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on. Votes: 0

The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected. Votes: 0

You know, I'm very particular about my sheets. They have to be one hundred percent cotton, with a high thread count. Only cotton. No flannel. Votes: 0

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause. Votes: 0

It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together. Votes: 0

Needle and thread flesh and bone Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home. Your suture lines, they sparkle like diamonds Bright stars to light my confinement "Stitch, Votes: 0

The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature. Votes: 0

Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being. Votes: 0

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society Votes: 0

There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that. Votes: 0

She saw the scarlet thread of her lips, the light in her eyes, the family through their love, their children running barefoot in a fresh field. Votes: 0

I always felt that the most common thread in my life from when I was young until now has been a highly observant, very analytical mind. Votes: 0

I'd found heaven and grabbed it as tightly as I could, but it was unraveling, an insubstantial thread sliding between my fingers, too fine to hold. Votes: 0

The pattern's laid out on the bed With dozens of colors of thread But you've got the needle I guess that's the point in the end Votes: 0

Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or I lose the thread. Votes: 0

I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught. Votes: 0

Our days and years are strung upon The thread that runs so true. The game of life is played and Lost to love. -Nancy JanesNancy Janes Votes: 0

What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread. Votes: 0

The unifying thread through all these different aspects of music business is just my attraction toward working with sounds and designing new scary, evil, dark sounds. Votes: 0

No man may be so cursed by priest or pope but what the Eternal Love may still return while any thread of green lives on in hope. Votes: 0

Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness. Votes: 0

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order: the continuous thread of revelation Votes: 0

I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening. Votes: 0

I love dishes and house things so I kind of lost it a little bit on the house ware. One-thousand thread-count sheets, that's what I indulged in. Votes: 0

The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things. Votes: 0

For the longest time, I never thought I was intimidating to guys, but I'm kind of finding out that maybe there is some tiny thread of intimidation. Votes: 0

Business deals are successfully negotiated every day throughout America. The common thread is a mutual desire to reach an accord. And the media business is no different. Votes: 0

Each Middle East country has their own unique kinds of challenges; but the fundamentals, the desire for democracy and freely elected governments is a common thread throughout. Votes: 0

You've got to figure out which end of the needle you're gon' be, the one that's fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth. Votes: 0

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage. Votes: 0

Not only must we follow the golden thread towards spiritual freedom, but we must also unravel the garden-variety twine that is wrapped tightly around our hearts and minds. Votes: 0

You always come back to Duke Ellington - he's kind of like the thread that holds everything together from the big band descending to lots of jazz, actually. Votes: 0

I was working with mud and photographs and thread, eyelashes, carrots and acetone... I was throwing radios off buildings and... remember floating styrofoam commas down the Milwaukee River. Votes: 0

He had to die someday too. He might do it on sheets with a six-hundred-plus thread count, but he'd die just the same. Death wouldn't forget about him. Votes: 0

If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is as thread. You must practice constantly. Votes: 0

Silk scarves are my thing. I tie them to my handbag or thread them through belt loops or wear them in my hair. Never round my neck, though. Votes: 0

And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single thread making my life into a coherency. Votes: 0

She waited for him with shallow breaths, head thrown back, eyes half closed, completely exposed in her trust of him, and it unravelled the last thread holding him together. Votes: 0

Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent thread through my poem-creation process. Votes: 0

I don't affiliate myself with any specific religious group. I connect to different ritualistic aspects of different belief systems, and I see the connecting thread between all religious beliefs. Votes: 0

Ah, in this world, where every guiding thread Ends suddenly in the one sure centre, death, The visionary hand of Might-have-been Alone can fill Desire's cup to the brim! Votes: 0

The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who can we depend on? Only God knows. Votes: 0

... the rules of transcendence insist that you will not advance even one inch closer to divinity as long as you cling to even one last seductive thread of blame. Votes: 0

Our love has been the thread through thelabyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust. Votes: 0

She has her gown nicely in place tonight, doesn't she? Black velvet and sparkles, not a thread left hanging. Clever girl, this city. Even the sky is her friend. Votes: 0

He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. Votes: 0

Sometimes, as I'm following a story thread to its ultimate conclusion, I find that I start swimming in deep water and need to run an idea by Steve [King]. Votes: 0

I started reading and talking and interviewing nutritionists and a thread was starting to form for me which is-a protein digests in a different rate of speed than a carbohydrate. Votes: 0

...the worst aspect of our time is prejudice... In almost everything I've written, there is a thread of this - man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself. Votes: 0

It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book. Votes: 0

I'd been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle and thread. Mostly, they were about my pets. Votes: 0

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else. Votes: 0

If we can put the names of our faiths aside for the moment and look at principles, we fill find a common thread running through all the great religious expressions. Votes: 0

For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours. Votes: 0

I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there. Votes: 0

The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational. Votes: 0

Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others. Votes: 0

These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread. Votes: 0

I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there. Votes: 0

I try to do as many of my own stunts as possible. If you keep on taking yourself out of the role you play, you lose the thread of the character. Votes: 0

If you're working with a spreadsheet or a thread of correspondence or a set of data, I'm not sure you're doing your best work if you're doing it on an iPhone. Votes: 0

There is a thread connecting you no matter how far away you are from someone and you know I have two or three relationships in my life that are like that. Votes: 0

First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck. Votes: 0

Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go. Votes: 0

Either things happen for a reason, or they happen for no reason at all. Either one's life is a thread in a glorious tapestry or humanity is just a hopelessly tangled knot." Votes: 0

Faith is the silver thread upon which the pearls of the graces are to be hung. Break that, and you have broken the string - the pearls lie scattered on the ground. Votes: 0

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority. Votes: 0

The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web. Votes: 0

America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven together by a common thread. Votes: 0

Either things happen for a reason, or they happen for no reason at all. Either one's life is a thread in a glorious tapestry or humanity is just a hopelessly tangled knot. Votes: 0

Much like a subtle spider which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide; If aught do touch the utmost thread of it, She feels it instantly on every side. Votes: 0

I believe that we're all connected to each other with an invisible spiritual thread through which we can transmit energy emissions and positive thinking. I want you to use your visualization techniques. Votes: 0

As long as the mind is there, your body and your world are there. Your world is mind-made, subjective, enclosed within the mind, fragmentary, temporary, personal, hanging on the thread of memory. Votes: 0

She was not granted the luxury of forgetting her lower middle-class existence where life hangs by an unseen thread to every hope and where every slash of disappointment shrinks the life further. Votes: 0

Leonardo DiCaprio is a rare phenomenon. Whereas for so many celebrities an interest in the environment is a fashionable accessory, for DiCaprio it is a thread that runs through everything he does. Votes: 0

Without just cause of reason, without legal or moral justification, and without a thread of proof that Iraq directly threatens the security of the United States, the Bush administration has headed to war... Votes: 0

The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure. Votes: 0

You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It`s you who makes me a person. Votes: 0

I get good vibes from people. There is a thread of DNA that runs from the days that I was a young teenager to these days. It feels good to go back there. Votes: 0

Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever. Votes: 0

Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken. Votes: 0

Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence. Votes: 0

To yearn for a single, and usually simple, explanation of the chaotic materials of the past, to search for a single thread in that most tangled of all skeins, is a sign of immaturity. Votes: 0

All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sortsof difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives. Votes: 0

Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost. Votes: 0

I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image. Votes: 0

The rationality of our universe is best suggested by the fact that we can discover more about it from any starting point, as if it were a fabric that will unravel from any thread. Votes: 0

This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended ... Votes: 0

As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel. Votes: 0

While every refugee's story is different and their anguish personal, they all share a common thread of uncommon courage - the courage not only to survive, but to persevere and rebuild their shattered lives. Votes: 0

With words we begin to leave traces behind us like breadcrumbs: memories in symbols for others to follow. Ants deploy their pheromones, trails of chemical information; Theseus unwound Ariadne's thread. Now people leave paper trails. Votes: 0

All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything. Votes: 0

Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the surroundings, the artist, his work and everyone who comes to it. Votes: 0

I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress. Votes: 0

Out of the rhythm and sound of the sea that beat through the orchestra, something moved--pressing toward death with quiet insistent joy--the thread through the maze--the soul behind the toil and the crime and longing. Votes: 0

We can only connect the dots we collect, which makes everything you write about you... your connections are the thread that you weave into the cloth that becomes the story that only you can tell. Votes: 0

Maybe, if I had lied all those years ago, my life could have followed a very different path. But as it is I faithfully follow the long, long thread the Fates have woven for me. Votes: 0

Among the millions of nerve cells that clothe parts of the brain there runs a thread. It is the thread of time, the thread that has run through each succeeding wakeful hour of the individual. Votes: 0

I see Donald Trump as a phenomenon of an expression of certain fears, certain resentments, that have been a running thread in American history. Votes: -1