Top 262 Threads Quotes & Sayings

My career choice has largely been what I wanted to do. I always knew that technology would be one of the threads.

Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement.

I felt as if there were invisible threads connecting us - I felt the invisible strands of her hair still winding around me - and thus as she disappeared completely beyond the sea - I still felt it, felt the pain where my heart was bleeding - because the threads could not be severed.

It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together.

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

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

It's destiny! Perhaps it is the energy that pulls on the threads and, well, I'm just leaving it as it is meant to be.

It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass, till they could crowd no more, and the plant was dying. Now quietly, subtly, she was unravelling the tangle of his consciousness and hers, breaking the threads gently, one by one, with patience and impatience to get clear.

Today, let's set our minds and hearts on feeling more thankful for what we are than guilty for what we're not. Let's cut the threads of guilt with grace.

Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth.

It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

It feels like we have two threads running through our lives: one pulling us into the world to achieve, the other pulling us back to replenish us. These threads can seem at odds, but really, they enforce each other. It's not a trade-off between success and sleep.

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.

I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder.

The composer...joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.

Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life.

That is the gods' work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, an all to make a song for those to come.

Principles are deep fundamental truths... lightly interwoven threads running with exactness, consistency, beauty and strength through the fabric of life.

Invisible threads are the strongest ties.

Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.

The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.

The Hopi Indians thought that the world’s religions each contained one spiritual thread, and that these threads are always seeking each other, wanting to join. When all the threads are finally woven together they will form a rope that will pull us out of this dark cycle of history and into the next realm.

Whether it's spending more time and money at thrift shops for threads (anti-consumerist threads, mind you), or combing the record store for the most unknown/least coherent band they can find, there's one thing that hipsters constantly want you to know: that they are better than you.

I now found that the spider cannot fix its thread to anything without imprinting the hind part of its body on the place, by which pressure it emits an incredible number of excessively small threads diverging in every direction from whence we may conclude that as soon as the threads are exposed to the air, they lose their viscosity or gluey quality.

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

Baseball consists of a million threads of dullness, on a loom of ennui, woven into a tapestry of tedium.

Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads.

The tapestry of history is woven of many threads.

I don't trust happiness. I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at a souk, looking for chipped rims or loose threads.

You're easily distracted by the pattern of the cloth and can't see the quality of the threads.

Each and every event in the past is connected to the present by invisible threads.

Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown.

The African-America n experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.

Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.

And something like 'Unforgotten' is impressive with the myriad threads of people's lives so brilliantly woven together.

A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.

The universe is bound by unseen threads. We have only to untangle them a little to see a pattern unfold.

No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.

My work has threads of ideas from all over the place. I try to crystallise them in something simple and direct that the viewer can then take where they want.

For every worm beneath the moon Draws different threads, and late and soon Spins, toiling out his own cocoon.

You weave the threads and there is the cloth. If the threads are removed, there is no longer cloth. When there are Godly thoughts, there is peace of mind.

Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic element, and the cross-threads as the technical, architectural, or abstract element. These threads are interdependent and complementary, and if one set is lacking the fabric does not exist. A picture with no representational purpose is to my mind always an incomplete technical exercise, for the only purpose of any picture is to achieve representation.

A habit leads a man so gently in the beginning that he does not perceive he is led - with what silken threads and down what pleasant avenues it leads him! By and by, the soft silk threads become iron chains, and the pleasant avenues Avernus!

If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.

Weave your creative threads in the dark and then when the sun hits them, they will glisten with intricate beauty.

The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure randomness of existence.

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.

I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned.

Life resembles Gobelin tapestry; you do not see the canvass on the right side; but when you turn it, the threads are visible.

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.

There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.

never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human cruelty.

I think our lives are connected by threads. We're weaving our own quilts as we go along and it has been my experience that there are so many threads that connect people. Invisible threads, strong threads, sparkling threads, but I think there is so much interconnectivity between people and I acknowledge that and I see it all the time. I think some of that is divine.

As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done; I have to look ahead.

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.

Life is an overwhelming bundle of loose threads. The ones you can hang on to are precious.

Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained.