Thread Quotes

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.

I had a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving: O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied, With a silken thread of my own hands' weaving.

Healthy choices thread through every aspect of life.

We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

Life is a very thin thread and it only takes a second to snap it

Much like a subtle spider which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide; If aught do touch the utmost thread of it, She feels it instantly on every side.

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.

I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

Energy is the golden thread that connects economic growth, increased social equity, and an environment that allows the world to thrive.

There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel.

The African-America n experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.

The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.

However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.

Thread of Selfishness in Web of Life.—Deuteronomy contains much instruction regarding what the law is to us, and the relation we shall sustain to God as we reverence and obey

Our great Constitution has been beaten and torn until now it hangs by a single thread, and that thread is our franchise to vote.

I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.

I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress.

These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.

I’m going to untangle her deadly scheme, even if it leaves my love affair hanging by a thread.

There is a sort of Neo-Confederate thread that runs through these sort of pro-gun movements and the NRA movement.

The troubles came and I saved what I could save. A thread of light, a particle, a wave.

No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace.

All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead. Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief Shore his old thread in twain.

I was working with mud and photographs and thread, eyelashes, carrots and acetone... I was throwing radios off buildings and... remember floating styrofoam commas down the Milwaukee River.

Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.

Ah, in this world, where every guiding thread Ends suddenly in the one sure centre, death, The visionary hand of Might-have-been Alone can fill Desire's cup to the brim!

It's a very common belief [among Mormons] that the Constitution will hang by a thread and the Church will save it.

Promises retain men better than services; for hope is to them a chain, and gratitude a thread.

People don’t just disappear. There’s always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There’s always a loose thread that starts to unravel.

The common thread in all of my climbing is it was something new, something never done before. That commonality is more important than the discipline.

For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.

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 threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.

Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent thread through my poem-creation process.

Your twisting is done--you have the last thread of my heart. I wonder: when the thread grows slack, will you feel it?

Sense of humor: A thread of illuminated intelligence that links two opposite ideas.

Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads.

Children...they string our joys, like jewels bright, upon the thread of years.

Not only must we follow the golden thread towards spiritual freedom, but we must also unravel the garden-variety twine that is wrapped tightly around our hearts and minds.

Life is a thread that someone entangled.

The one common thread is purity. I created a look that highlights the innate beauty of the face from the eyes to the lip to clear, shiny skin.

You're easily distracted by the pattern of the cloth and can't see the quality of the threads.

Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.