“ 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
- 36
“ 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- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. ”
- Horace Mann- Copy
- 2.7K
“ 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. ”
- Eudora Welty- Copy
- 748
“ Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. ”
- Sydney Joseph Perelman- Copy
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“ If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of humn thought. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
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“ There is nothing higher than Brahman. Everything in the universe is strung on Brahman like jewels on the thread of a necklace. ”
- Bhagavad Gita- Copy
- 2.4K
“ There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising. ”
- Wynton Marsalis- Copy
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“ Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do — can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do. ”
- Barbara Sher- Copy
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“ The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act. ”
- Orison S. Marden- Copy
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“ 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
- 166
“ I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations which merely circle the ineffable idea I seek to express. ”
- Caldwell O’Keefe- Copy
- 3.8K
“ After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string. ”
- Spike Milligan- Copy
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“ Hope is like a piece of string when you're drowning; it just isn't enough to get you out by itself. ”
- Robert Jordan- Copy
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“ Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude! ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them! ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string. ”
- George Dennison Prentice- Copy
- 904
“ Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight. ”
- Ishikawa Takuboku- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. ”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, if one must speak out, the real man. ”
- Marcus Aurelius- Copy
- 3.7K
“ The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 2.7K
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