Strands Quotes

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For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create… — John Banville
There are certain fundamental requisites for wise and resolute democratic leadership. It must build on hope, not on fear; on honesty, not on falsehood; on… — Edmund Ezra Day
For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant… — Geoffrey Chaucer
The core strands of my involvement in public life are a belief in the need to strive wherever possible for equality of treatment and opportunity,… — Peter Garrett
America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the great truth of… — Ralph Ellison
The strands of spaghetti were vital, almost alive in my mouth, and the olive oil was singing with flavor. It was hard to imagine that… — Ruth Reichl
There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
But, today, the idea of faith returns to me. Faith defies logic and propels us beyond hope because it is not attached to our desires.… — Terry Tempest Williams
There were horrendous, dramatic, violent quantities of green slimeâ€”oodles of it. It covered Howl completely. It draped his head and shoulders in sticky dollops, heaping… — Diana Wynne Jones
All any feeling wants is to be welcomed with tenderness. It wants room to unfold. It wants to relax and tell its story. It wants… — Geneen Roth
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
This web of time--the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore eachother through the centuries--embrace every posibility. — Jorge Luis Borges
His leaving had been like snipping off the end of a rope - leaving two unraveling strands. — Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from… — Hubert H. Humphrey
The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads… — Victor Hugo
The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There love ennobles all.… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make, As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse, Thread by… — John Boyle O'Reilly
I got my hair highlighted because I felt some strands were more important than others. — Mitch Hedberg
By this he meant that all events, therefore, all men, are interconnected in an unbreakable web. What man does, no matter how seemingly insignificant, vibrates… — Philip Jose Farmer
Im loving the ingredients that are in Pantene, and it smells so good, and thats important to me. It has cassia and aloe vera. The… — Sanaa Lathan

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