Warp And Woof Quotes

#1. I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Like warp and woof all destinies
Are woven fast,
Linked in sympathy like the keys
Of an organ vast.
Pluck one thread, and the web ye mar;
Break but one
Of a thousand keys, and the paining jar
Through all will run.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#4. It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this absorption with how men get out of difficulties, single-handedly and alone if possible, is the stuff of which we weave the warp and woof of our own better dramatic imaginings.

Humphrey Bogart

#5. The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. Would to God these blessed calms would last. But the mingled, mingling threads of life are woven by warp and woof: calms crossed by storms, a storm for every calm.

Herman Melville

#7. We're just dealing with the kind of warp and woof of television ratings.

Andrew Heyward

#8. If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#9. And still the Weaver plies his loom,
whose warp and woof is wretched Man
Weaving th' unpattern'd dark design,
so dark we doubt it owns a plan

Richard Francis Burton

#10. Bob-nodded toward the open module door. After you.

Iain M. Banks

#11. I used to think those were the barrio rules, Latinos and blacks in, whites out - a place we down cats weren't supposed to go. But love teaches you. Clears your head of any rules.

Junot Diaz

#12. Shaquille and I kind of joke we were the Christopher Columbus of social media. We're kind of out on a boat by ourselves going through these uncharted waters. But it's become more understood, embraced and accepted, and now it's pretty much expected by fans for athletes, leagues and teams to be there.

Amy Jo Martin

#13. Words and numbers are of equal value, for in the cloak of knowledge one is warp and the other woof.

Norton Juster

#14. The thing I worry about for myself is I spend a lot of time alone, and another person comes around and you're like, 'What are you doing here? Get out of here.'

Sarah Paulson

#15. What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.

Marge Piercy

#16. Preacher is an instrument of compassion, not an instrument of wrath.

Radhanath Swami

#17. My main interest ... is the love of truth, whether pleasant or not. Truth is self-sufficient, and there is nothing to which it can be subordinated without loss. When truth is made subservient to anything else, however great (say religion), it becomes impure and sordid.

George Sarton

#18. Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are free from the grasp, not of one mad master only, but of many.

Plato

#19. To stay alive, we just need to move on. Even breathing is one step to move on.

Cindy Pricilla

#20. Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor the woof of existence, but only the flowery edging upon its borders.

Horace Mann

#21. I've never gone back to the stacks after my book's expiration at the front of the store. Not because I'm above it or anything, but I'd be mortified if someone caught me looking for my own book.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

#22. The woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science is the life inherent in symbols; so that it is wrong to say that a good language is important to good thought, merely; for it is the essence of it.

Charles Sanders Peirce

#23. None of us lie or guard our secrets when we sing, and India is a nation of singers whose first love is the kind of song we turn to when crying just isn't enough.

Gregory David Roberts

#24. I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire ...

Thucydides

#25. Donald Trump tests the limits of campaign speech. He makes false statements and refuses to correct them. He attacks other religions and ethnic groups, inflaming domestic tension and foreign terrorist rage.

David Ignatius

#26. Hello, Hazel Levesque.

Rick Riordan

#27. With enough information, it is almost impossible "not" to predict people's action.

Idries Shah

#28. It is never a waste of time to study the history of a word.

Lucien Febvre