But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life - find the knot - untangle it.
Time doth run with calm and silent foot,
Shortening my days and thread of vital life.
The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu.
He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.
Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.
In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.
Olive oil is the cornerstone of Mediterranean cuisine. This tree is the thread from which the tapestry of the Med has been woven.
Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away.
It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together.
He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.
Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living.
Nothing is more gratifying as a Christian believer than being able to thread my faith and love for Jesus into my music.
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.
Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.
Racism is a common thread among people of color, even though each experience with it is different.
When I was very young, it was Guns N' Roses and Metallica. I'd play air guitar on my bed. They've been the thread throughout my life.
In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.
With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.
Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread.
The pattern's laid out on the bed With dozens of colors of thread But you've got the needle I guess that's the point in the end
Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or I lose the thread.
I have gathered a posy of other men?s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life.
Without my relatives, I am but a thread; together, we form a colorful and elaborate Persian carpet.
For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain,
And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!
The thing I absolutely love about food is it's a common thread that connects us no matter what culture we come from.
Promises retain men better than services; for hope is to them a chain, and gratitude a thread.
We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.
Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead.
The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!
Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
I hope that I can find the common thread that connects us all and say: We can build a better Canada together.
I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.
I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.
TV can be a thread between all of us, and it can be a powerful tool to examine life and love and what we all have in common as humans.
I think that America is a nation of faith. I do believe that. Certainly by way of heritage - there's a powerful Christian thread through all of American history.
Energy is the golden thread that connects economic growth,
increased social equity, and an environment that allows the world to thrive.
There is a thread connecting you no matter how far away you are from someone and you know I have two or three relationships in my life that are like that.
I try to do as many of my own stunts as possible. If you keep on taking yourself out of the role you play, you lose the thread of the character.
The gene 'klotho' was named after the Greek Fate purported to spin the thread of life, because it contributes to longevity.
Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go.
Events can neither be regarded as a series of adventures nor strung on the thread of a preconceived moral. They must obey their own laws.
I'd found heaven and grabbed it as tightly as I could, but it was unraveling, an insubstantial thread sliding between my fingers, too fine to hold.
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace.
Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.
Cancer has been a dark thread that has run throughout my life. It's taken my friends, my parents. My beautiful son.
All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.
There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.
Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread.
The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.
Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.
We follow a path of discovery, strung like pearls on a thread of curiosity, lending richness to our work.
The thread of culture that runs through the entire history of punk is also a dedication to challenging the authoritarian.
Agitators, organizers, activists, intellectuals aren't bound by those rules. We're not trying to figure out, how do I thread this particular needle?
Remodeling is like pulling a loose thread on a cheap sweater - the job keeps unraveling.
I’m going to untangle her deadly scheme, even if it leaves my love affair hanging by a thread.
For the longest time, I never thought I was intimidating to guys, but I'm kind of finding out that maybe there is some tiny thread of intimidation.
Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly
Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.
If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is as thread. You must practice constantly.
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