Tangle Quotes
72 quotes by 64 authors
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This silence, this moment, every moment, if it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There's nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in…
— Rumi
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In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which…
— John Updike
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Humor, danger and a twisted tangle of unlikely prophecies make for a page-turning adventure.
— Gail Z. Martin
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Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgement, bears the light beneath the rifted…
— Denise Levertov
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The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace. This understanding is expressed in the…
— Joan Halifax
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English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core…
— Roy Blount, Jr.
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If the cells and fibres in one human brain were all stretched out end to end, they would certainly reach to the moon and back.…
— Colin Blakemore
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If some of our teenage thrill seekers really want to go out and get a thrill, let them go up into the Northwest and tangle…
— Fred Bear
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With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of gems. Beneath the…
— Charles Tilly
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Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices
— Shana Alexander
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Everyone will recognize that each sound carries with it a tangle of sensations, already well-known and exhausted, which predispose the listener to boredom, in spite…
— Luigi Russolo
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When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same.
— Heraclitus
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Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the…
— Eudora Welty
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Cities are beautiful because they are created slowly; they are made by time. A city is born from a tangle of monuments and infrastructures ,…
— Renzo Piano
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Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle.
— Judy Davis
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Tangle me up like Grandma's yarn,
— Luke Bryan
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So it is with life. Those thorns, the prickly problems of life, cause us to strive to rise above them and then, as we do,…
— James Michael
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It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Who Wrote These Tangle Quotes
64 authors contributed a total of 72 Tangle Quotes, led by these top contributors: