“ Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads sewing people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last — more than passion, or even sex! ”
- Simone Signoret- Copy
- 194
“ No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread. ”
- Robert Burton- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. ”
- Horace Mann- Copy
- 1.7K
“ 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. ”
- St. John of the Cross- Copy
- 2.8K
“ My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash. ”
- Joan Rivers- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards. ”
- William Whewell- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 2.3K
“ No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread. ”
- Robert Burton- Copy
- 712
“ Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy. ”
- Mark Helprin- Copy
- 3K
“ He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 942
“ The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord. ”
- John Gregory Dunne- Copy
- 1.9K
“ It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion. ”
- Sir Edward Coke- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it. ”
- Gail Hamilton- Copy
- 946
“ And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord, lest he be tempted to hang himself, and was afraid to go out with his gun, for fear of shooting himself. But Levin did not shoot himself, and did not hang himself; he went on living. ”
- Leo Tolstoy- Copy
- 3.1K
“ I got a phone call from a Twentieth Century-Fox producer… asking me to go to Hollywood to paint pictures of the stars… the commisssion was to paint portraits of nine stars-Ann-Margret, Bing Crosby, Robert Cummigs, Van Heflin, Mike Connors, Alex Cord, Slim Pickens, Stefanie Powers, and Red Buttons… painting six of them is a lot of work… ”
- Norman Rockwell- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Quotation … A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read… ”
- Henry W. Fowler- Copy
- 1.7K
“ I like classic cars, I've had some really good ones. A '66 Toronado, a black one - it's a very satanic-looking car. I have a coffin-nosed '37 Cord, white, I've had that one since 1956. I've had a '34 Deusenburg, a '48 Lincoln Continental with the squared-off windows… ”
- Anton LaVey- Copy
- 3.7K
“ I can see why many people would not want to wear the 'stereotypical' hearing aids of the bygone era, such as the hearing tube that looked like a trumpet coming out of your ear, or the wires and cords - but a lot of men nowadays have hearing loss. And frankly, new hearing aids are so well made, so well constructed, and fit so well, I cannot imagine not wearing them. ”
- George Kennedy- Copy
- 441
“ He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, have they? They are apostles, they are the descendants of priests; one can only wonder from what source they draw their indignation, and above all how much they have pocketed to do this, and in any case what it has done for them. ”
- Antonin Artaud- Copy
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