Thread Quotes
512 quotes by 443 authors
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Every place is a goldmine. You have only to give yourself time, sit in a teahouse watching the passers-by, stand in a corner of the…
— Tiziano Terzani
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How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!
— Samuel Griswold Goodrich
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Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the…
— Okakura Kakuzo
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Then, when the Fed's fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction and its balance sheet grew by $1.3 trillion…
— David Stockman
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I’m a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it’s valuable. My husband used…
— Iris Apfel
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It was a morning of ground mist, yellow sunshine, and high rifts of blue, white-cloud-dappled sky. The leaves were still thick on the trees, but…
— Flora Thompson
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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
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A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often…
— Alice Hoffman
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Without my relatives, I am but a thread; together, we form a colorful and elaborate Persian carpet.
— Firoozeh Dumas
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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
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What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is related?…
— Tony Hoare
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Listen. In every office you hear the threads of love and joy and fear and guilt, the cries for celebration and reassurance, and somehow you…
— James Autry
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No night so wild but brings the constant sun With love and power untold; No time so dark but through its woof there run Some…
— Christopher Pearse Cranch
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There is a sort of Neo-Confederate thread that runs through these sort of pro-gun movements and the NRA movement.
— Joy-Ann Reid
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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is attached to anything,…
— John of the Cross
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Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them through the labyrinth…
— Victor Hugo
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Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of…
— Robert Musil
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I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with…
— Illeana Douglas
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Sense of humor: A thread of illuminated intelligence that links two opposite ideas.
— Thomas Lansing Masson
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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
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443 authors contributed a total of 512 Thread Quotes, led by these top contributors: