Thread Quotes
In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.
It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together.
From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.
We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.
Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.
With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.
In the beginning, sin is like a thread of a spider's web. But in the end, it becomes like the cable of a ship.
However often the thread may be torn out of your hands, you must develop enough patience to wind it up again and again.
Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.
The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.
Consistency: It's the jewel worth wearing; It's the anchor worth weighing; It's the thread worth weaving; It's a battle worth winning.
Among the millions of nerve cells that clothe parts of the brain there runs a thread. It is the thread of time, the thread that has run through each succeeding wakeful hour of the individual.
The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels.
This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.
There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.
We follow a path of discovery, strung like pearls on a thread of curiosity, lending richness to our work.
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.
I started reading and talking and interviewing nutritionists and a thread was starting to form for me which is - a protein digests in a different rate of speed than a carbohydrate.
America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven together by a common thread.
In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.
When you buy a piece of vintage clothing you're not just buying the fabric and thread - you're buying a piece of someone's past
There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.
It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.
Either things happen for a reason, or they happen for no reason at all. Either one's life is a thread in a glorious tapestry or humanity is just a hopelessly tangled knot.
Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.
Faith is the silver thread upon which the pearls of the graces are to be hung. Break that, and you have broken the string - the pearls lie scattered on the ground.
If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is as thread. You must practice constantly.
The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure.
Separation isnt time or distance its the bridge between us finer than silk thread sharper than swords
There is one single thread binding my way together...the way of the Master consists in doing one's best...that is all.
Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting can be the magic thread which links the girls of the world together.