Thread Quotes
512 quotes by 443 authors
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Boredom is what you fight. Constant, ever-present boredom. So you learn to look forward to small things. Sunlight glimpsed through a cloud, an extra piece…
— Valerie Wilson Wesley
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Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that…
— Michel de Montaigne
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There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his…
— Gordon Brown
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Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Attributing global climate change to human COâ‚‚ production is akin to trying to diagnose an automotive problem by ignoring the engine (analogous to the Sun…
— Timothy Ball
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It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to…
— Sidney Blumenthal
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My soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love. Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs, but now it…
— Rumi
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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon…
— Hamlin Garland
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The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with small rents in…
— Gerald Durrell
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Apart from thought, there is no independent entity called "world." Just as the spider emits the thread (of the web) out of itself and then…
— Ramana Maharshi
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Though, technically, I'm shooting on location, my films are actually based inside a woman's heart. I think women are more emotional than men, and that's…
— Yash Chopra
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Karma is the tension of the thread in the human tapestry.
— Jeffery Taylor
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Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained.
— Grant Morrison
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And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now succeed more than…
— John F. Kennedy
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These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.
— Ovid
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The madhouse is in a lot of places, not just a hospital, not just a palace, but also a pattern woven from threads so fine…
— Einar Mar Guðmundsson
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Nailing him was like trying to thread a needle in a high wind.
— Jack Dempsey
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In my commencement address I gave the language and sources of the prophetic utterance made by the Prophet Joseph that the Constitution of the United…
— Ernest L. Wilkinson
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There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.
— Derek Jacobi
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