Quotes of Fiber - somelinesforyou

“ We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects. ”

- Herman Melville

“ I can eat a man, but I'm not sure of the fiber content. ”

- Jenny Eclair

“ I am a man of substance and bone, fiber and liquids — and I might even be said to posses a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. ”

- Ralph Ellison

“ Travel seems not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant. ”

- Jan Morris

“ The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing. ”

- John Muir

“ Hair is another name for sex. ”

- Vidal Sassoon

“ Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. ”

- Bible

“ Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. ”

- Unknown

“ But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. ”

- Bible

“ She hath more hair than wit, and more faults than hairs, and more wealth than faults. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold. ”

- Richard Hovey

“ Movin' to Montana soon Gonna be a dental floss tycoon. ”

- Frank Zappa

“ Never floss with a stranger. ”

- Joan Rivers

“ Before I ever think of a design I have to select the fabrics, so fabrics actually are the inspiration for any collection. ”

- Geoffrey Beene

“ The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth. ”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ Always do what you say you are going to do. It is the glue and fiber that binds successful relationships. ”

- Jeffry A. Timmons

“ The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all, tet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, giveing us manhood or womanhood fiber. ”

- Frank Crane

“ Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself, and passion has its dreams. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“ Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market. ”

- E.M. Bounds

“ Drinking freshly made juices and eating enough whole foods to provide adequate fiber is a sensible approach to a healthful diet. ”

- Jay Kordich

“ If a child sees his parents day in and day out behaving with self-discipline, restraint, dignity and a capacity to order their own lives, then the child will come to feel in the deepest fibers of his being that this is the way to live. If a child sees his parents day in and day out living without self-restraint or self-discipline, then he will come in the deepest fibers of being to believe that that is the way to live. ”

- M. Scott Peck

“ My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness — if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor — but as I am I must call it laziness… ”

- John Keats

“ And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which we go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. ”

- Bible

“ Trials, temptations, disappointments — all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. ”

- James Buckham

“ One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fiber of normal life… ”

- Jonathan Raban

“ Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated — serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type. ”

- Gandhi

“ I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids — and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. ”

- Ralph Ellison
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