Top 31 Quotes About Skein
#1. A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.
Giovanni Ruffini
#2. As to the most prudent logicians might venture to deduce from a skein of wool the probable existence of a sheep; so you, from the raw stuff of perception, may venture to deduce a universe which transcends the reproductive powers of your loom.
Evelyn Underhill
#3. Life's final lesson,the only truthful one buried beneath a layered skein of delusions.
Sooner or later,she now understood,we are all naught but food.Wolves or worms,the end abrupt or lingering,it matter not in the least.
Steven Erikson
#4. History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough.
Henry Adams
#5. One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of a March thaw, is the spring.
Aldo Leopold
#6. Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One, Who sees the end from the beginning: He shall unravel all.
Alexander Smith
#7. When you're dying, even your unhappiest memories can induce a sort of fondness, as if delight is not confined to the good times, but is woven through your days like a skein of gold thread.
Cory Taylor
#8. Life is a smoke that curls-
Curls in a flickering skein,
That winds and whisks and whirls,
A figment thin and vain,
Into the vast inane.
One end for hut and hall.
William Ernest Henley
#9. And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning.
Edith Pattou
#10. The writer, in order to proceed, is theoretically trying to predict where his complex skein of language and image has left his reader, who he has likely never met and who is actually thousands of readers.
George Saunders
#11. If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!
G. M. Trevelyan
#12. A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#13. He leapt onto the cushion now and curled into a skein of snoring yellow fur.
Molly MacRae
#14. The unspooling of the skein of the genome has effectively abolished racism and creationism, and the amazing findings of Hubble and Hawking have allowed us to guess at the origins of the cosmos. But how much more addictive is the familiar old garbage about tribe and nation and faith.
Christopher Hitchens
#15. I can't believe this," I muttered, cradling the skein of water up close to my chest. "Two weeks in the desert all on account of some assassin who doesn't know how to look out for snakes."
"If you hadn't killed that snake," Naji said calmly, "I would have killed you."
" Oh, shut up.
Cassandra Rose Clarke
#16. I
love's skein upon the ground,
My body in the tomb
Shall leap into the light lost
In my mother's womb.
William Butler Yeats
#17. There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.
Wallis Simpson
#18. It is a tangled skein, you understand, and I am looking for a loose end.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#19. It is pure potential. Every ball or skein of yarn holds something inside it, and the great mystery of what that might be can be almost spiritual
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#20. I'm someone who is very supportive of us eliminating all discrimination.
Angela Merkel
#21. There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
Adyashanti
#22. When Silas said Gabriel was a priest, I assumed he meant to a real congregation, not the caretaker of an empty building threatening to send the entire street of people to meet Jesus literally at any moment, and not just emotionally.
Rachel Higginson
#23. No one is truly lost when they remain in the hearts and minds of those wwho love them
Kirsten Beyer
#24. The great task of our time is to build a global society, where people can live together in peace
Karen Armstrong
#25. To have not shot his friend in the face would have sent a message to the quail that America is weak.
Jon Stewart
#26. I see fighters make funny videos about me and stick them on Facebook and get 20 likes. When I make a video, I sell it to Fox and make seven figures. That's the difference.
Conor McGregor
#27. Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#28. Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool.
Paul Begala
#29. The greatest and most inspiring mountain climbing achievements in history are not so much stories of individual achievement, but are stories of the extraordinary power of a unified, talented, prepared team that stays loyally committed to one another and to their shared vision to the end.
Stephen Covey
#30. You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
Orlando Bloom
