A Quote by Ovid

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.

Ovid

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Ovid
Roman - Poet
43 BC - 17 AD

All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.

Ovid

All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

Edmund Waller

Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here? What was it about? Was it her smile? Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle, the poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists? What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart? That's an age-old question. It's perfect food for thought on a bright midsummer's night.

Sybil Adelman

All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sortsof difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.

Ivan Turgenev

I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Christie Brinkley

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.

Alexandre Dumas

The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Incredible what slender threads you begin to hang your hopes on.

Elizabeth Wein

[Joseph Smith] foresaw the time when the destiny of the nation would be in danger and would hang as by a thread. Thank God he did not see the thread break. He also indicated the important part that this people should yet play in standing for the principles embodied in these sacred documents - the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

Ezra Taft Benson

There is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter.

John Steinbeck

Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous.

Gary Ross

The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.

George Will

The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it.

Kenneth Grahame

I hang by a thread, but it is (if I may so speak) of Christ's spinning

Samuel Rutherford

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of Divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for until the cord be broken, the bird cannot fly.