Threads Quotes
158 quotes by 147 authors
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But...books are so much more. Some of them are webs; you can feel your way along their threads, but just barely, into strange and dark…
— Lauren Oliver
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Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt…
— H. Rider Haggard
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How evanescent those loves and friendships seem at this distance in time…We move on, make new attachments. We grow old. But sometimes, we hanker for…
— Ruskin Bond
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Most of the time-- 99 percent of the time-- you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do…
— Lauren Oliver
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A spider lives inside my head Who weaves a strange and wondrous web Of silken threads and silver strings To catch all sorts of flying…
— Shel Silverstein
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Like delicate lace, So the threads intertwine, Oh, gossamer web Of wond'rous design! Such beauty and grace Wild nature produces... Ughh, look at the spider…
— Bill Watterson
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I felt as if there were invisible threads connecting us - I felt the invisible strands of her hair still winding around me - and…
— Edvard Munch
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Silence emerges from the sound of rain and spreads in a crescendo of gray monotony over the narrow street I contemplate. I’m sleeping while awake,…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Incredible what slender threads you begin to hang your hopes on.
— Elizabeth Wein
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As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others…
— Isabel Allende
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History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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Christmas reminds us we are not alone. We are not unrelated atoms, jouncing and ricocheting amid aliens, but are a part of something, which holds…
— Donald E. Westlake
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Little self-denials, little honesties, little passing words of sympathy, little nameless acts of kindness, little silent victories over favorite temptations-these are the silent threads of…
— Frederic Farrar
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Principles are deep fundamental truths... lightly interwoven threads running with exactness, consistency, beauty and strength through the fabric of life.
— Stephen Covey
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I always love writing the third book in a series because you get to tie up all the threads that you put out in the…
— Trudi Canavan
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I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities…
— Edmund White
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Kmart uses such mass production that they are able to lower their prices. My hose, for instance, is made by the same factory, the same…
— Jaclyn Smith
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Early 2000s, we get Enron, which tells us the books are dirty. And what is our repeated response? We just keep pulling the threads out…
— Elizabeth Warren
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The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
— Bill Frist
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