Spider Web Quotes
22 quotes by 20 authors
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Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
— Honore de Balzac
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I guarantee if you walk into 100 spider webs, you will have changed your fundamental human behavior. And you can apply this to anything, And…
— Chris Hadfield
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Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
— Solon
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These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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When I go to the garage to pick up my clubs, I clean the spider webs off.
— John Ratzenberger
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I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which some authority may…
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor…
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and forth, attaching its fine threads…
— Max Stirner
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Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they…
— Johnnetta B. Cole
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Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing nets, twenty dolphin-lengths…
— Richard Dawkins
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Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended…
— Henry James
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The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
— Edwin Way Teale
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Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.
— Neil Gaiman
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Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men…
— Aldous Huxley
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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?" "Easy," said the cat. "Think of somebody walking around the world.…
— Neil Gaiman
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Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has passed…
— Ken Kesey
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In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
— Paul Eldridge
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A spider web of 'patriots for profit', operating from the highest positions of special trust and confidence, have successfully circumvented our constitutional system in pursuit…
— Bo Gritz
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I liked teaching Henry James. When you look down at a Henry James novel from a helicopter height, you find an intricate spider web that…
— Helen Vendler
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American families have always shown remarkable resiliency, or flexible adjustment to natural, economic, and social challenges. Their strengths resemble the elasticity of a spider web,…
— Ben Silliman
Who Wrote These Spider Web Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 22 Spider Web Quotes as follows: