Thread Quotes
The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.
There is one single thread binding my way together...the way of the Master consists in doing one's best...that is all.
As long as the mind is there, your body and your world are there. Your world is mind-made, subjective, enclosed within the mind, fragmentary, temporary, personal, hanging on the thread of memory.
Without my relatives, I am but a thread; together, we form a colorful and elaborate Persian carpet.
The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.
You know, I'm very particular about my sheets. They have to be one hundred percent cotton, with a high thread count. Only cotton. No flannel.
There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society
By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.
The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life.
I get good vibes from people. There is a thread of DNA that runs from the days that I was a young teenager to these days. It feels good to go back there.
I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life - find the knot - untangle it.
All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sortsof difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.
First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck.
The thing I absolutely love about food is it's a common thread that connects us no matter what culture we come from.
We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.
Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.
Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.
When composing music, I just start spilling things out and then wait until they take form, you know what I mean, until I see like a common thread or something.
To yearn for a single, and usually simple, explanation of the chaotic materials of the past, to search for a single thread in that most tangled of all skeins, is a sign of immaturity.
As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel.
Oh, heart, let's never grow too old To smile anew, when Christmas comes, At tassels red and tinsel thread, And tarlatan bags f sugarplums.
Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.
The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.
I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there.
You've got to figure out which end of the needle you're gon' be, the one that's fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth.
The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization...
Needle and thread flesh and bone Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home. Your suture lines, they sparkle like diamonds Bright stars to light my confinement "Stitch.
A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.
The pattern's laid out on the bed With dozens of colors of thread But you've got the needle I guess that's the point in the end
We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.
Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness.
The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
