Threads Quotes

158 quotes by 147 authors

Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped… — Mother Jones
I realized in all the cases where I was happy with the decision I made, there were two common threads: Surround myself with the smartest… — Marissa Mayer
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
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
Iâ€™m a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because itâ€™s valuable. My husband used… — Iris Apfel
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
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
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
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
If only [there] really was a door and [you] could walk through it into another life, where threads didn't snarl and stitches didn't go all… — Karen Hancock
Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and baffle historians. Harlan… — Janette Turner Hospital
The universe is bound by unseen threads. We have only to untangle them a little to see a pattern unfold. — Kathleen Tessaro
Today we see the steady stream from the countryside to the city, deadly for the Volk. The cities swell ever larger, unnerving the Volk and… — Alfred Rosenberg
Don't allow yourself to become disheartened when the thread doesn't suit or seems unsightly to you. Wait and watch. Be patient and devoted. As the… — Colleen Houck
Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a… — Corrie Ten Boom
If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than. — Rob Pike
Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. . . . Our thoughts, our words, and deeds are the threads of the net which we… — Swami Vivekananda
Today, let's set our minds and hearts on feeling more thankful for what we are than guilty for what we're not. Let's cut the threads… — Lysa TerKeurst
The composer...joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds. — Alan Hovhaness
I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change. — Harrison Birtwistle

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