Top 287 Tangled Webs Quotes & Sayings

Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

A despairing heart is the true prophet of approaching evil; his actions may weave the webs of Fortune, but not break them.

Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.

I get all tangled up in your ribbons.

I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People need to accept once and for all that there is only one life and each of us is free to shape it through the choices we make. Seeking can’t get anyone out of the tangle because everything is tangled up…it’s much easier to keep up the fight between good and evil, holy and profane, us and them. But as awareness grows, these opposites begin to calm down in their clashes, and something else emerges- a world you feel at home in.

An organsation's results are determined through webs of human commitments, born in webs of human conversations.

If you get all tangled up, just tango on.

If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.

Europe is not a bright spot; it's all tangled up in its knickers with all that regulation.

I was disappointed that 'Tangled' didn't get nominated for Best Animated Film.

I honestly thought that 'Tangled' was going to be my Disney legacy.

Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.

I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.

Every heart is a package tangled up in knots someone else tied.

In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot.

In 'A Scanner Darkly,' as in 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,' all intersubjective relations devolve into webs of suspicion and betrayal.

Of my Disney material, 'Tangled' is my most pop-oriented.

There’s a great scene in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [1974] that I’m obsessed with: Sally is being chased by Leatherface with a chainsaw... And she runs into thorn bushes. And she’s getting tangled up in it because she’s running fast... But Sally needs to move slowly in order to get through the bushes - she will get farther faster by going slowly because her hair and clothes won’t get tangled and caught. There’s something really beautiful about understanding that, while someone’s chasing you with a chainsaw, you have to move more slowly in order to get away.

As technology has improved, our digital lives have only grown more tangled and cluttered.

I've said many times that I might as well have webs between my toes.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

When life gets tangled there's something so reassuring about climbing a mountain. The challenge is unambiguous.

Are you shooting webs of stupid at me?

He pulled himself out of hard times, dealt with the scars from it, pushed himself to make a mark. A little bit of the wild side there, always. I told myself, oh no, I won't get tangled up with this one. And I said it again, even when I was tangled up.

In the tangled hierarchy sinner and saint, divine and diabolical, sacred and profane are different faces of our collective Being. Therefore angry activism driven by rage, however justified it seems, is really not going to work. I believe that the tangled hierarchy wants us to move to the next state of evolution and very strongly desires us to take that quantum leap of creativity.

No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy words like unicorn and soul and infinity that have now passed into language.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.

All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter.

When I go to the garage to pick up my clubs, I clean the spider webs off.

If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.

Motivations are too tangled and complex.

Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.

Before I found out you couldn't get bitten by a radioactive spider and shoot webs out of your wrist, I wanted to be a superhero when I grew up - until I was, like, 8.

These decrees of yours are no different from spiders' webs. They'll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in them, but they'll be torn to shreds by people with power and wealth.

We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq.

Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

Stars got tangled in her hair whenever she played in the sky.

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.

Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning.

"Tangled Up in Blue," shifts perspective several times during the song to tell a "tangled" version of [Bob] Dylan's marriage and dissolution.

The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations. The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.

I'm nothing if not a tangled, colorful ball of contradictions.

Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time, Tiering the same dull webs of discontent, Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think that their children are naive.

Those flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought, attain not to the dignity of thought.

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.

Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.

Puccini - silver macaroni, exquisitely tangled.

History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.

A woman's hair net tangled in a man's spectacles on top of the bedroom dresser.

Theoretical webs, dirty webs, fusty webs, old and shrivelling away into nothingness, a fine dust.Who needs that kind of stuff. Far far better getting out into the open air and doing it, actually doing it, something solid and concrete and unconceptualisable.

Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night.

Lord knows I've paid my dues getting through, tangled up in blue.

There's something about shooting webs out of my wrists and climbing up things that just makes me happy.

Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate Level