The Thread Quotes

#1. Is it possible to live reasonably without lying? Do lies form the natural foundation of all human relationships, the thread that stitches our individual selves together?

William Boyd

#2. You brought the needle & I brought the thread. We meant to mend our two broken hearts, but we ended up stitching them together.

Amanda Lovelace

#3. Look for the silver lining in every cloud and those revelations will create the thread to weave the fabric of a renewed and joyous life.

Joy Smith

#4. 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.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#5. Home is where we tie one end of the thread of life.

Martin Buxbaum

#6. I don't like sewing machines. I don't understand how a needle with a thread going through the tip of it can interlock the thread by jamming itself into a little goddamn spool. It's contrary to nature and it irritates me.

Neal Stephenson

#7. We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#8. A lover ties the world together with the thread of pure love.

Debasish Mridha

#9. Hope is the thread between life and death,
As long as hope is alive we take breath.

Debasish Mridha

#10. A poet is someone whose words can grasp & pull the thread of a person's soul & make them unravel with delight.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#11. Merry kept talking, but he lost the thread. She wandered closer. With the knots banished, she gripped the tail of the rope in her fist, making an L of her arm and winding the length around her elbow in uniform loops. Rough, rasping rope against that smooth, perfect skin. And Rob on his knees.

Cara McKenna

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

Edgar Guest

#13. The events of that day would forever be remembered, and they stood together as a united Marridon, a nation that would lead in innovation and liberality, taking up the thread that had been left for them, the essence of selfless love woven along a national loom.

Michelle Franklin

#14. Our lives make awesome stories, especially if you don't get too attached to the thread of your own narrative.

Michelle Tea

#15. The thread of will-they-or-won't-they was the real driver of every word and glance and shift of body.
So ... this was a date, Blay thought. A subtextual negotiation slipcovered in talk of books read and music enjoyed.

J.R. Ward

#16. We are like the caterpillar which takes the thread out of his own body and of that makes the cocoon, and behold, he is caught.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Carmen Laforet

#18. Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.

Marcus Aurelius

#19. Humanity could be more humane if we can tie everyone with the thread of love.

Debasish Mridha

#20. Isn't that the goal, as you grow older? That you start reclaiming those parts of yourself you didn't recognize or didn't think were there all along? That's what happened when I made The River and the Thread record.

Rosanne Cash

#21. But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life - find the knot - untangle it.

Martha Ostenso

#22. If I had to come up with a single metaphorical device to express what is missing in childhood now it would be something on the order of string: the tie that binds, the thread of connection, the weave of narrative, the web of life." NOAH'S CHILDREN

Sara Stein

#23. Karma is the tension of the thread in the human tapestry.

Jeffery Taylor

#24. The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma. If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.

Ramakrishna

#25. Words are the thread in the fabric of the universe.

Tiffany Reisz

#26. Maybe what I want is to cut all ties with everybody. The thread or something that keeps me connected to the world, the worthless proof that I exist.

Natsuo Kirino

#27. Truth is the thread that separates true spirituality from false spirituality.

Ravi Zacharias

#28. You don't understand how fragile life is. You don't realize that the thread breaks between one moment and the next.

Julia Quinn

#29. Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.

Italo Calvino

#30. Love is the thread with which we connect to the world.

Debasish Mridha

#31. She has that something, like the thread in a crystal-bead necklace. She holds it all together.

Amish Tripathi

#32. The glittering filament, finer than a hair, is far less than a denier in thickness. When a ray of sunlight struck it at the window at which I was examining it, I saw the thread blaze with all the colours of the spectrum.

Leena Krohn

#33. The Sewing Machine Charm

To A Life Bound by Family, The Thread That Ties Us All Together

Viola Shipman

#34. When man spoke his first word he became the thread that quivers eternally between evil and goodness, Heaven and Hell.

Jon Kalman Stefansson

#35. The two of us were bound together by the thread of grief, but it wasn't just our mutual losses that united us. We'd survived them, found each other, and discovered that sometimes, from darkness can come light.

Brenda Rothert

#36. However often the thread may be torn out of your hands, you must develop enough patience to wind it up again and again.

Walter Gropius

#37. 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.

George Herbert

#38. More than anything, that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.

Patti Smith

#39. I am the thread that runs through all these pearls, and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and God is the thread that runs through all of them; most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.

Swami Vivekananda

#40. Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

Victor Hugo

#41. Not where. When." The Elemental brand on my chest pulses, his rumbling voice tugging at the thread of old magic. "It is the start of another day.

Emma Raveling

#42. I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art. I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live.

Yayoi Kusama

#43. I want to say something to you men. You cannot destroy the appointment of a prophet of God, but you can cut the thread that binds you to the prophet of God, and sink yourselves to hell.

Harold B. Lee

#44. The stories she'd read of others' lives over these last few months had left her with a greater appreciation for the thread of her own life.

Masha Hamilton

#45. I shall think myself blessed only when I see Him in every one of my daily acts; Verily He is the thread which supports Muktanand's life.

Mahatma Gandhi

#46. I picked at one of the buttons on my vest until the thread unraveled and it fell into my palm. Memo to self- buy a sewing kit to stitch my life back together.

Anita Higman

#47. Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

Homer

#48. Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken.

Mary Balogh

#49. I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back.

Steve Jobs

#50. I once read that there is an invisible thread that connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but will never break. [ ... ] Please don't let it break, I silently plead to him. I need to know that some cords can't be cut.

Tarryn Fisher

#51. I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.

Michel De Montaigne

#52. Love that only which happens to thee and is spun with the thread of thy destiny. For what is more suitable? In

Marcus Aurelius

#53. Fate doesn't care about family. When the time is up, she nicks at the thread

Cecilia Robert

#54. Art is like a kite. You have to pull the string hard in order to stretch it to its limit, but you don't want to pull it so hard that you break the thread, because the thread connects you to the land and its peoples.

Wu Guanzhong

#55. He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong.

Antonio Porchia

#56. I am dwelling on things I love, even if a measure of tragedy is stitched into everything, if you follow the thread long enough

Sebastian Barry

#57. We can only connect the dots we collect, which makes everything you write about you ... your connections are the thread that you weave into the cloth that becomes the story that only you can tell.

Amanda Palmer

#58. However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#59. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

William Shakespeare

#60. Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on?

James Richardson

#61. The thread breakes, where it is weakest.

George Herbert

#62. Don't allow yourself to become disheartened when the thread doesn't suit or seems unsightly to you. Wait and watch. Be patient and devoted. As the threads twist and turn, you will begin to understand, and you will see the pattern finally materialize in all its splendor.

Colleen Houck

#63. Out of the rhythm and sound of the sea that beat through the orchestra, something moved
pressing toward death with quiet insistent joy
the thread through the maze
the soul behind the toil and the crime and longing.

Jeanette Lee

#64. Grief was just the moment before you tied the thread and began the next one

Elizabeth Chadwick

#65. 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.

Anonymous

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

Gregory Orr

#67. It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.

Sidney Blumenthal

#68. Our love has been the thread through the
labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust.

Audrey Niffenegger

#69. Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates.

Victor Hugo

#70. It's something I call an invisible thread. It is, as the old Chinese proverb tells us, something that connects two people who are destined to meet, regardless of time and place and circumstance. Some legends call it the red string of fate; others, the thread of destiny.

Laura Schroff

#71. I wanted to pull the thread, unravel the scarf of my silence and start again from the beginning.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#72. At the same time, most of what government does that helps them is now so deeply woven into the thread of daily life that it's no longer recognizable as government.

Robert B. Reich

#73. Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.

Oprah Winfrey

#74. Saying no", argues the author Kevin Ashton, "has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined. No guards time, the thread from which we weave our creations. The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know.

Kevin Ashton

#75. He believes that this man has looped a bit of the thread-leash through a corner of his soul.

Diana Abu-Jaber

#76. As far as I'm concerned, story is everything. It is why we get up in the morning and how we choose who to take to bed at night. Story is the thread that weaves together the very fabric of reality.

J.K. Norry

#77. Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

Aldous Huxley

#78. The path Jesus takes you on may look like it's taking you to one dead end after another. Nevertheless, the thread does not work in reverse. If you just obey Jesus and follow it forward, it will do its work.

Timothy J. Keller

#79. People wander about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread.

William Stafford

#80. Quoting Father Seraphim:
Our life hangs only by a breath. It is the thread that links you to the Father, the Source, which brought you into being. Be conscious of this thread, and go where you will. (27)

Jean-Yves Leloup

#81. The trouble with his daughter, though, was not ordinary naughtiness but the infuriating way she had of relentlessly pursuing the thread of an argument long after she should have put it down. It always flustered him. She

Terry Pratchett

#82. Fall the deep curtains,
delicate the weave,
fair the thread.

Hilda Doolittle

#83. The gene 'klotho' was named after the Greek Fate purported to spin the thread of life, because it contributes to longevity.

Craig Venter

#84. Pain reconciles one to existence. Infinite resignation is that shirt in the old fable. The thread is spun with tears, bleached by tears, the shirt sewn in tears, but then it also gives better protection than iron. The secret in life is that everyone must sew it for himself.

Soren Kierkegaard

#85. There's a thread that binds all of us together; pull one end of the thread, the strain is felt all down the line.

Rosamond Marshall

#86. He kept walking, stopping and then setting off again more quickly like a man in search of memories which he sorts out, challenges and compares, ponders on, thinks he has discovered, and then the thread breaking the search begins once more . . .

Alain-Fournier

#87. For the heart was both key and lock, and he who could master the hearts of men and learn their secrets was well on the way to mastering the Fates and controlling the thread of his own destiny.

Margaret Atwood

#88. You always come back to Duke Ellington - he's kind of like the thread that holds everything together from the big band descending to lots of jazz, actually.

Herbert

#89. He was not going to move on until she let go of him, of her guilt. And that was one thing she could not do. If she lost that, she would lose the thread that had sewn her new life together. She would become that careless, cruel person she had been before.

Sarah Addison Allen

#90. I waited for him to pick up the thread again - and when he didn't, we sat there peacefully, while I sipped my cooling tea (Lapsang Souchong, smoky and peculiar) and felt the strangeness of my life, and where I was.

Donna Tartt

#91. Father Brown looked him full in his frowning face. "Yes," he said, "I caught him, with an unseen hook and an invisible line which is long enough to let him wander to the ends of the world, and still to bring him back with a twitch upon the thread.

G.K. Chesterton

#92. Among the millions of nerve cells that clothe parts of the brain there runs a thread. It is the thread of time, the thread that has run through each succeeding wakeful hour of the individual.

Wilder Penfield

#93. He spoke slowly; I had a sense he was groping between words for the thread of his own thoughts.

Leah Hager Cohen

#94. All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.

Morihei Ueshiba

#95. Whatever may happen to you, it was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being, and of that which is incident to it.

Marcus Aurelius

#96. If there is a thread that unites all of our work, whether it's in Iowa or whether it's in Maryland or whether it's among our young men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan, I believe that it's the thread of human dignity.

Martin O'Malley

#97. You must learn to take a step back and visualize the whole piece. If you focus only on the thread given to you, you lose sight of what it can become.

Colleen Houck

#98. The thread of culture that runs through the entire history of punk is also a dedication to challenging the authoritarian.

Greg Graffin

#99. It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a diminishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread an not the interval between.

William Faulkner

#100. If we look at our work immediately after completing it, we are still too involved; if too long afterwards, we cannot pick up the thread again. It

Blaise Pascal