Beads Quotes

Beads Quote of the day

People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.

On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . .

Should you desire the great tranquility prepare to sweat white beads.

Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary.

We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love.

Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered.

I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads.

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.

It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.

Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy.

Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field.

The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.

When I was a kid, I was trendier. I'd wear anything. I was in love beads and platforms...

The beads around my neck [at Olympics in 1968] indicated that there were so many Blacks throughout the history of this country that have been maimed and killed by way of hangings.

Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love.

I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.

When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.

The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.

Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.

If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.

Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.

It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever.

I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.

Three things to never leave home without: your keys, birdseed for the birds, and your mala beads to chant through difficulties.

How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime.

Go over and over your beads, paint weird designs on your forehead, wear your hear matted, long, and ostentatious, but when deep inside you there is a loaded gun, how can you have God?

Fool indeed is he, who, living on the banks of the Ganga, digs a little well for water. Fool indeed is the man who, coming to a mine of diamonds, begins to search for glass beads.

Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.

Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show.

There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.

Bright beads of red are rising through the ink, Hearts-blood bubbles smearing out into the black stream

One night I looked down and my rosary beads were glowing. And I realized that I did not want to see the blessed Virgin - I was terrified.

Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace.

In the early Seventies, I had shoulder-length hair, bell-bottom pants, love beads and shirts that laced up at the front. But then I smartened up.

Wearing love beads and touting our sincerity will not make this a safer world.

Connie drove a silver Camry with rosary beads hanging from her rearview mirror and a Smith& Wesson stuck under the seat. No matter whatwent down, Connie was covered.

Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty.

The turning of the charkha in a lifeless way will be like the turning of the beads of the rosary with a wandering mind turned away from God.

I was going to be a teacher and improve the world. Teach people with hooks for hands to fingerpaint, and teach bums to draw happy faces on beads.

The Shobogenzo is an enormous work that captures the vastness of Dogen's realization. Kaz, over many years, threaded the beads of these many fascicles into a great mala of wisdom.

Then, when people saw you strolling around at high noon holding your rosary beads, they’d think, ‘Well, that can’t be a vampire.

I love a bit of a sequin and a bead. I do, even though I usually wear trousers, when I put a frock on. I like a bead or a sequin.

The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule; he offers himself.

And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

slowly the pale dew-beads of light lapped up from flowers can thicken, darken to gold: honey of the human.

I wear a necklace of hope with pearly beads. When I met you, it broke, and the beads spilled all over the floor, into the gutters.