Twining's Quotes

#1. Have you by chance brought some real British tea? Twining's? Or from Jackson's in Piccadilly?

Anthony Burgess

#2. Curling leaves and twining branches outside my bay window look like a Van Gogh in the starlight - there is a river out there somewhere

Jeffrey Rasley

#3. If our airforces are never used, they have achieved their finest goal.

Nathan Farragut Twining

#4. It's not easy to shout against real elements. The elements are big, and the human voice is very small.

Ian Holm

#5. Nesta looked at the king with death twining around his hands, then down at Cassian. And covered Cassian's body with her own. Cassian went still - then his hand slid over her back. Together. They'd go together.

Sarah J. Maas

#6. It is not enough to get things done; they must be done right.

Arthur Twining Hadley

#7. A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin.

Samuel Johnson

#8. A top World War II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out to kill and those who, secretly, desperately, know they are going to get killed-the hunters and the hunted.

Nathan Farragut Twining

#9. Yearning for love made her feel like a cat that was always twining around ankles, meowing Pet me, pet me, look at me, love me.

Laini Taylor

#10. I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.

Billy Eichner

#11. I spoke it soft, but close enough to brush against her lips. I spoke it quiet, but near enough so that the sound of it went twining through her hair. I spoke it hard and firm and dark and sweet.

Patrick Rothfuss

#12. Your soul stained my shoulders. my whole life smells like you. this will take time. undoing you from my blood.

Nayyirah Waheed

#13. We held each other in silence for minutes. Hours. Two souls, twining in the dark.

Sarah J. Maas

#14. Would you stay and be next to me, just because I need you close?"
He looks down at my fingers twining with his ... "There's no way I could say no.

Mila Ferrera

#15. Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.

A. E. Waite

#16. An idea fell like a seed and over the next weeks it went on growing like a fig vine lush and conquering twining round her old beliefs and covering them in new growth until they were as invisible as a tiger in a thicket and just as deadly.

Laini Taylor

#17. The fashion accessories of Justitia, the Roman goddess of justice, express the logic succinctly: (1) scales; (2) blindfold; (3) sword.

Steven Pinker

#18. So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.

Plutarch

#19. People just tell me I'm supposed to be sensitive, and I'm not. But I think I'm very emotional. I'm very caring.

Vince Staples

#20. Time spent in the company of remarkable men is time well spent.

Ian McDonald

#21. The hurt she suffered has encircled her, it seems: it is the virgin's bower, that vine that cannot bear its own weight but lives by twining itself around another, making it's host unrecognizable.

Christina Meldrum

#22. That is faith, cleaving to Christ, twining round Him with all the tendrils of our heart, as the vine does round its support.

Alexander MacLaren

#23. Warning: I may contain more than a trace amount of nut.

Stephen Colbert

#24. Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts.

Arthur Twining Hadley

#25. If you value the world simply for what you can get out of it, be assured that the world will in turn estimate your value to it by what it can get out of you ... If you pursue truth, people will be true to you.

Arthur Twining Hadley

#26. Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time. The twining strands of fate wove both of them together: your own existence and the things that happen to you

Marcus Aurelius

#27. I think I'll always base myself out of Toronto. I don't have any plans to move to L.A.

Sarah Gadon

#28. The allure is a passage behind the parapet of a castle wall. Great for defense when the enemy is approaching. You know you're safe on the allure." She tucks her head beneath my chin, twining her hand with mine. "Like we're safe with each other.

Nina Lane

#29. I have watched independent record stores evaporate all over America and Europe. That's why I go into as many as I can and buy records whenever possible. If we lose the independent record store, we lose big. Every time you buy your records at one of these places, it's a blow to the empire.

Henry Rollins

#30. Dear papa, I love you so much!' she replied, twining her arms around his neck. 'I love you all the better for never letting me have my own way, but always making me obey and keep to rules.

Martha Finley

#31. Pursue truth and people will be true to you.

Arthur Twining Hadley

#32. Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice; a man is lost due to ignorance; an army is lost without a commander; and a woman is lost without a husband.

Chanakya

#33. Salvation was mysterious, wasn't that always true?

Alice Hoffman

#34. The world is more than a game of cards. History is more than a record of gambling operations.

Arthur Twining Hadley

#35. This 'flying saucer' situation is not at all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something is really flying around. The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious.

Nathan Farragut Twining

#36. When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait, And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat. Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line! How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!

John Gay

#37. How many times have you heard a person in a workplace say, "I wasn't trained for this!" That's an impossible reaction from a physicist, who would say, instead, "Cool. A problem I've never seen before. Let's see how I can figure out how to solve it!".

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#38. And now, when I have summed up all my store, Thinking (so I myself deceive) So rich a chaplet thence to weave As never yet the King of Glory wore, Alas! I find the serpent old, That, twining in his speckled breast, About the flowers disguised does fold With wreaths of fame and interest.

Andrew Marvell

#39. Twining his fingers through her ponytail, he cradled the back of her head, seducing her nearly senseless with a single kiss - on a mountainside covered in wildflowers, under the summer sun and an endless sky.

Tracy March

#40. How infinite was love, twining in and out of hope and memory like a braid with three strong strands, so much the Bright Tower of every human's life and soul.

Stephen King

#41. Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace.

Langston Hughes