Thread Quotes - page 2

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread. (Thomas Hood)
No experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide fabric in which every thread is guided by an infinitely tender hand and laid alongside another thread and is held and supported by a hundred others. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakably tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there. View quote
Ernst Gombrich
Words from the thread on which we string our experiences. View quote
Aldous Huxley
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. View quote
Neal Shusterman
[Percy] kept hoping things would get better for Annabeth and him, but their lives just got more dangerous, as if the Three Fates were up there spinning their futures with barbed wire instead of thread just to see how much two demigods could tolerate. View quote
Rick Riordan
Every thread you discover in the local web of life leads beyond your place to life elsewhere. View quote
Scott Sanders
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. View quote
Suzanne Somers
Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage. View quote
Walter Lord
You may not become a celebrity. You may even experience lots of illness or divorce, or unhappiness. But I think there is still a thread of individual character that determines how you live through those things. (James Hillman)
Death did not play favorites-He loved all equally. What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure. The god's voice-not quite words, just a thread of meaning laid in my receptive mind. View quote
Lilith Saintcrow
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness. View quote
B.K.S. Iyengar
You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It`s you who makes me a person. View quote
Ann Brashares
I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative. View quote
Carmen Laforet
Pull a thread here and you'll find it's attached to the rest of the world. View quote
Nadeem Aslam
Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. View quote
W.S. Merwin
I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common thread linking deep ecology and animal rights, the love and money we lavish on pets, the uneasy longing for extraterrestrials to be meddling with us. View quote
Annie Gottlieb
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. View quote
Arthur Erickson
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization. View quote
Arthur Erickson
Nothing is more gratifying as a Christian believer than being able to thread my faith and love for Jesus into my music. (Chynna Phillips)
I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues. View quote
Edgar Winter
I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children. View quote
Ednita Nazario
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. View quote
Fred L. Turner
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. View quote
Hamlin Garland