Top 34 Loose Thread Quotes
#1. You know, it isn't that were particularly good at granting wishes, or finding things or, well, anything. Playing tricks, maybe. but we pay attention. We find the loose thread that everyone else misses and tug. It makes us look so very clever.
Carrie Vaughn
#2. I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a sharp tug on a loose thread will transform your warm sweater into a mangled heap of yarn that you can't reuse or repair.
Tayari Jones
#3. It was like pulling one loose thread on a sweater, and suddenly, poof, no sweater! And you're standing naked in a new hotel with terrible lighting.
Alice Clayton
#4. Raise them up, and watch them do the same thing, generation after generation, so that when you die you know you are permanently a part of the great web of life. That you are not a loose thread, snipped off.
Orson Scott Card
#5. Putting the past behind you isn't like stuffing something in the back of a drawer or trimming a loose thread. The past has a life of its own.
Maggie Mitchell
#6. We ascribe meanings because it is our nature to do so..We can no more see a thing without searching for a meaning than we can see a snag in a robe without pulling on the loose thread.
Kij Johnson
#7. Remodeling is like pulling a loose thread on a cheap sweater - the job keeps unraveling.
Margo Kaufman
#8. Hope, in general, is dangerous. Hope can be the loose thread that pulls apart your sanity.
Alessandra Torre
#9. We all leave behind bits of loose thread. Old operations, old enemies. They pull at you, like memories of old lovers.
Daniel Silva
#10. He summoned you into the circle, Scott. For whatever reason, I don't know. But now you've left, you've become a loose thread. He won't sit back with the possibility you might cause his whole world to unravel around him.
R.D. Ronald
#11. She was the scab he couldn't stop picking, the split lip he couldn't stop biting at, the loose thread he couldn't stop tugging
Joe Abercrombie
#12. She wanted to find a loose thread in the twilight. Pull it. See what shined so brightly behind it, through the snags.
Ainslie Hogarth
#13. It was a question I had worn on my lips for days - like a loose thread on my favourite sweater I couldn't resist pulling - despite knowing it could all unravel around me.
"Do you love me?" I ask.
In your hesitation I found my answer.
Lang Leav
#14. 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.
Jodi Picoult
#15. speckled spiders, indolent and fat with long security, swing idly to and fro in the vibration of the bells, and never loose their hold upon their thread-spun castles in the air,
Charles Dickens
#16. People can enjoy music everywhere. Therefore, music is more than a gift
because it represents a unique form of human freedom.
Eraldo Banovac
#18. There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other side of that translucent, semitransparent surface.
Bill Viola
#19. In its natural state, the child tells the literal truth because it is too naive to think of anything else. Blurting out the complete truth is considered adorable in the young, right smack up to the moment that the child says, 'Mommy, is this the fat lady you can't stand?
Judith Martin
#20. She could feel her mind pulling loose like knitting, the neat stitches of her artificial days unravelling to become one mangled thread.
Frances Hardinge
#21. The dead praetor raised his sword. 'Our desires reveal us. They show us for who we really are. Someone has come come for you, Jason Grace.
Rick Riordan
#22. A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered.
Moby
#23. Snowboarding allows you to create your own path, and for me it was awesome because no one was telling me what to do. I could go out on the mountain and try new things and learn for myself.
Mark McMorris
#24. Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
#25. But on one man's soul it hath broken, / A light that doth not depart; / And his look, or a word he hath spoken, / Wrought flame in another man's heart.
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
#26. The idea of America endures. Our destiny remains our choice. And tonight, more than two centuries later, it is because of our people that our future is hopeful, our journey goes forward, and the state of our union is strong.
Barack Obama
#27. Another thread snaps loose from my heart, the pain precise and acute. I embrace it, because it reminds me I'm still here. I'm alive. I'm empowered.
A.G. Howard
#28. We've been trained to squint into a legal microscope, hoping that we can judge any dispute against the standard of a perfect society, where everyone will agree what's fair, and where accidents will be extinct, risk will be no more.
Philip K. Howard
#29. The ego resists change. False pride is an impediment to change.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#30. I was held together by one thread that was black and frayed, and the end of it was tied to Maggie. She had unwittingly pulled on it, loosening the already loose knitting until I was nothing more than a pile of tangled string, completely unraveled.
Ashlan Thomas
#31. The thing about families, Arlo thought, was that there was always some question nobody wanted to answer for you, and it was like a stray thread pulling loose in a sweater. You could tug at it all you wanted, but in the end, all you'd have was a pile of twisted yarn.
Sarah Sullivan
#32. I think the best part of being an author is that I get to learn about anything I want and explain it away as research.
Patrick Rothfuss
#33. Wrong way down a one-way, women don't get saved 'round me even on a Sunday.
Drake
#34. Chance. It weaves through our lives like a golden thread, sometimes knotting, tangling, and breaking along the way. Loose threads are left hanging, but the in and out, the back and forth continues, the weaving goes on. It doesn't stop.
Mary E. Pearson
