Net Quotes

565 quotes by 448 authors

So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all. — William Shakespeare
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days. — Annie Dillard
Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world… — Arianna Huffington
I am not the river I am the net. — Frank Herbert
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break… — John Adams
My chest feels full of glitter and helium, the way it used to when I was little and riding my father's shoulders at twilight, when… — Jodi Picoult
You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch… — Julian Barnes
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of… — Vita Sackville-West
The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder… — Umberto Eco
Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has… — Milan Kundera
I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the Internet. Three companies… — Ray Bradbury
Clare, I want to tell you, again, I love you. Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker,… — Audrey Niffenegger
The terrible thing about love is that it takes away your safety net, your balancing pole. Even the tightrope you walk upon will disappear beneath… — Christopher Barzak
Watch out, I have a large, very large fur, with which I could cover you up entirely, and I have a mind to catch you… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net… — Yann Martel
Llonio said life was a net for luck; to Hevydd the Smith life was a forge; and to Dwyvach the Weaver-Woman a loom. They spoke… — Lloyd Alexander
He wished she knew his impressions, but he would as soon as thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey… — Thomas Hardy
Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively,… — Robert A. Heinlein
In that one slight motion, I see the end of hope, beginning of destruction of everything I hold dear in the world. I can't guess… — Suzanne Collins
I walked around as you do, investigating the endless star, and in my net, during the night, I woke up naked, the only thing caught,… — Pablo Neruda

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