Thread Quotes
512 quotes by 443 authors
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You have to be nicer to me," I said. Again he laughed. "What? I'm the King of nice. What are you talking about?" "You have…
— Lauren Myracle
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I take this for myself, and you take up the thread of my life between your teeth, tin thread and tarnished with abuse, you shall…
— Frank O'Hara
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Thanks to His Majesty," the magus said, and my father seemed startled at the correction but not displeased. He looked thoroughly satisfied and very much…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain…
— Cormac McCarthy
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We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Truth usually makes no sense. If your desire is for everything to make perfect sense, then you should take refuge in fiction. In fiction, all…
— Peter David
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I think that when two people are able to weave that kind of invisible thread of understanding and sympathy between each other, that delicate web,…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives.…
— Ann Brashares
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When you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, And what is it to work…
— Khalil Gibran
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I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The Way It Is There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you are…
— William Stafford
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A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Perhaps he could still weave together the broken threads of his life. And yet, I wanted him here now. I needed him here. In the…
— Juliet Marillier
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He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong.
— Antonio Porchia
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People don’t just disappear. There’s always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There’s always a loose thread that starts to unravel.
— Jodi Picoult
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There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.
— Dennis Lehane
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Everyone knows how to love,because we are all born with that gift.Some people have a natural talent for it but the majority of us have…
— Paulo Coelho
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The Hopi Indians thought that the world’s religions each contained one spiritual thread, and that these threads are always seeking each other, wanting to join.…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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