Untie Quotes
34 quotes by 29 authors
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
— Jean Cocteau
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Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.
— Rumi
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I begin to love this creature, and to anticipate her birth as a fresh twist to a knot, which I do not wish to untie.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.
— William Shakespeare
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Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!
— Walter Scott
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While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can untie in a common objective and…
— Franklin Pierce
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The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly…
— Samuel Johnson
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One day people will touch and talk perhaps easily, and loving be natural as breathing and warm as sunlight, and people will untie themselves, as…
— A. S. J. Tessimond
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Seal the openings, shut the doors, dull the sharpness, untie the knots, dim the light, become one with the dust. This is called the profound…
— Laozi
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A good mooring needs no knot, still no one can untie it.
— Laozi
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Around your skin, I tie and untie mine.
— Miguel Hernandez
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Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your…
— Laozi
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If you're at the end of your rope . . . untie the knot in your heart.
— Cooper Edens
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Never cut what you can untie.
— Joseph Joubert
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Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you make…
— Italo Calvino
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People want you to be happy. Don't keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you…
— Rumi
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Mrs. Murdo, walkind even more briskly to keep her spirits up, was crossing Harken Square when something fell to the pavement just in front of…
— Jeanne DuPrau
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Since I've met you, everything I've done has been in part because of you. I can't untie myself from you, Clary- not my heart or…
— Cassandra Clare
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Don't untie me," she said, "no matter what happens or how much I plead. I'll want to go straight over the edge and drown myself."…
— Rick Riordan
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Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.
— Siri Hustvedt
Who Wrote These Untie Quotes
29 authors contributed a total of 34 Untie Quotes, led by these top contributors: