Quotes of Thread - 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

“ And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold. ”

- Richard Hovey

“ He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton. ”

- William Makepeace Thackeray

“ All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ 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

“ We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread. ”

- Paul Auster

“ There's a thread that binds all of us together, pull one end of the thread, the strain is felt all down the line. ”

- Rosamond Marshall

“ 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

“ He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase. ”

- Don Hewitt

“ Threads are more Goodwill the Gucci, something the actress, a vintage shop-aholic, can appreciate. ”

- Kathleen Robertson

“ It's like threading a needle while walking on a water bed. ”

- Phil Donahue

“ We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women. ”

- Mikhail Gorbachev

“ Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Words from the thread on which we string our experiences. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ Weave in faith and God will find the thread. ”

- Unknown

“ Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven. ”

- James Hastings

“ I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image. ”

- Leni Riefenstahl

“ The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, whose deeds both great and small are close-knit strands of an unbroken thread, where love enables all. ”

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

- Henry David Thoreau

“ You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves. ”

- Joseph Stalin

“ All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ 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

“ What is Egyptian cotton, and why would I travel with my own sheets? ”

- Russell Crowe

“ Never floss with a stranger. ”

- Joan Rivers

“ For is it not true that human progress is but a mighty growing pattern woven together by the tenuous single threads united in a common effort? ”

- Madame Chiang Kai Shek

“ He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there. ”

- E. H. Gombrich

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

- Orson Scott Card
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