With thoughtless and impatient hands We tangle up the…

God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot.…

— Meister Eckhart

“When we are grappling with misery and our heart is in a knot, we may well do better to snap back to a new…

— Erik Pevernagie

Victory won't come to me unless I go to it; a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times

— Marianne Moore

A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“How quietly experience slips away unnoticed, camouflaged by it relative unimportance. Then at some point you step back and take a look and what's…

— Todd Johnson

“a twenty-knot streak looked like; if there weren’t”

— Winston Groom

When I was little, my friends would gush over wedding gowns and honeymoons. But I saw too many people flush decades together down the…

— Ellen Hopkins

“Satan puts three knots at the back of the head of any of you if he is asleep. On every knot he reads and…

— Abu Huraira

Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Mike was right: the pattern of life isn't a straight line; it crosses and recrosses, drawing in and tying together other lives, as I…

— Benedict Freedman

If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the…

— Hilaire Belloc

In my whole life, I've worn black tie three times. I can't tie the knot myself. Once, at the premiere of the opera, I…

— Stefano Gabbana

“What a knot of history one mistake can become.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

When you come to the end of your rope.. Tie a knot and hold on

— Franklin Roosevelt