Spun Quotes

108 quotes by 96 authors

Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their… — Henry Ward Beecher
Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts; They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs,… — Clifford Geertz
The gossamer web of life, spun on the loom of sunlight from the breath of an infant Earth, is nature's crowning achievement on this planet. — Preston Cloud
The public discourse on global warming has little in common with the standards of scientific discourse. Rather, it is part of political discourse where comments… — Richard Lindzen
It sometimes takes a while for executives to figure out that the reporters they think of as little bugs to be squashed or spun can… — Jonathan Alter
Now the Fates are here on the beach, three shadows blacker than black, walking through the dunes and looking for their own. Just shadows, lamb-white… — Janet Morris
CSPS is a breath of musical fresh air. With a whale sized hooks and neck wrenching riffs youâ€™ll have more than you need to fall… — Brett Hestla
I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest. — Eric Roberts
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we… — Philip K. Dick
Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes events? — Joseph Bruchac
What I remember best from those times is the music itself. When it succeded, we took hold of the audience's attention, working it from a… — Andromeda Romano-Lax
Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate. — Marcus Aurelius
In spite of our sinfulness, in spite of the darkness surrounding our souls, the Grace of the Holy Spirit, conferred by baptism in the name… — Seraphim of Sarov
The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine. — Benjamin Franklin
Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us,… — Mark Nepo
It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together. — Laurence Sterne
...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic, especially in its… — Charles Sanders Peirce
There had been a frozen mist here, and the trees were spun into feathers. Their fragile brilliance made me wonder why, into the spotlessness of… — Maria McCann
(That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to… — John Milton

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