Strings Quotes
724 quotes by 577 authors
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change)…
— Heraclitus
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I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.
— Brooks Robinson
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A woman drew her long black hair out tight, And fiddled whisper music on those strings, And bats with baby faces in the violet light…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
— George D. Prentice
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What I tend to do is to wake about five in the morning-this happens quite often-think about the invention, and then image it in my…
— James Lovelock
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It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup,…
— H. L. Mencken
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Strings of coincidence can strengthen us in the determination to follow our deepest intuitions even when they run counter to conventional wisdom and logic and…
— Robert Moss
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Nada is found within. It is a music without strings which plays in the body. It penetrates the inner and outer and leads you away…
— Kabir
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A camera can get you close without the burden of commitment. It's a nifty device that way, a magical passport into people's lives with no…
— Nina Berman
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Our lives with all their miracles and wonders are merely a discontinuous string of incidents - until we create the narrative that gives them meaning
— Arlene Goldbard
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As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the repetitious plucking of…
— Arthur Nersesian
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Kate Boo's reporting is a form of kinship. Abdul and Manju and Kalu of Annawadi will not be forgotten. She leads us through their unknown…
— Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
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It was not the case that one thing morphed into another, child into woman. You remained the person you were before things happened to you.…
— Rachel Kushner
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In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is proof that out…
— Theodore E. Steinway
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I suspect most self-described 18-year-old Scandinavian women named Inga who collect and wear string bikinis are, in reality, more likely to be middle-aged, pot-bellied guys…
— Pat Sajak
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I just remember standing there, singing with the headphones on and the strings playing, just how wonderful that felt. But we so rarely got to…
— Ricky Skaggs
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I learned early that the richness of life is found in adventure. Adventure calls on all the faculties of mind and spirit. It develops self-reliance…
— William O. Douglas
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Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a…
— Lydia M. Child
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Different hearts beat on different strings
— Neil Peart
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