Knotted Quotes

41 quotes by 36 authors

You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to take the unknown… — Giorgos Seferis
We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition… — Vernor Vinge
A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than to snatch the knotted cords… — William McFee
We live by faith; but Faith is not the slave Of text and legend. Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds.… — John Greenleaf Whittier
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… — Corrie Ten Boom
I met a solid rowing friend and asked about the Race. "How fared it with the wind," I said, "When stroke increased the pace? You… — R. C. Lehmann
If attachment is the conditioning factor, then non-attachment will become the unconditioning factor. If expectation leads you in misery, then non-expectation will lead you into… — Rajneesh
This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted. — Frederick Leboyer
The task of the teacher of the Bible is to open up whatâ€™s closed, to make plain what is obscure, to unravel what is knotted… — Alistair Begg
I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart. — Janet Fitch
I have established the semaphore of Suprematism. I have beaten the lining of the colored sky, torn it away and in the sack that formed… — Kazimir Malevich
Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn. — Alexander Pope
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. — William Congreve
Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though I had a… — Charlotte Bronte
I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I… — Robertson Davies
How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every… — Jodi Picoult
In the construction of houses, choice of woods is made. Straight un-knotted timber of good appearance is used for the revealed pillars, straight timber with… — Miyamoto Musashi
Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their… — Jodi Picoult
I had been downright paranoid all afternoon, aware of everyone near me. By the time I went for the car, my neck and shoulders were… — Laurell K. Hamilton
The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I… — Janet Fitch

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