Quotes of Woven - somelinesforyou

“ The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect. ”

- Carson McCullers

“ Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited. ”

- Margaret Mead

“ Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn. ”

- A. J. Liebling

“ Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven. ”

- Walter Benjamin

“ What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof. ”

- Marge Piercy

“ Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living. ”

- Agatha Christie

“ There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people. ”

- Jean Giraudoux

“ The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ The fabric of American life is woven around our tens of thousands of voluntary associations. ”

- Herbert Clark Hoover

“ Our humility rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited. ”

- Margaret Mead

“ In the fabric of gratitude are woven the threads of humility. ”

- Steven Vitrano

“ Hope is the golden thread that should be woven into every experience of life. ”

- Unknown

“ 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

“ Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. ”

- Walter Benjamin

“ America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth. ”

- Jesse Jackson

“ A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them. ”

- George Eliot

“ Souls woven together by the gods can never be unraveled. ”

- Jose Raul Bernardo

“ Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. ”

- Anais Nin

“ To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times? ”

- Cicero

“ The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work. Many of those who fail most ignominiously do enough to achieve grand success but they labor haphazardly at whatever they are assigned, building up with one hand to tear down with the other… ”

- Og Mandino

“ A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. It is right it should be so; Man was made for Joy and Woe; And when this we rightly know, Thro' the world we safely go, Joy and woe are woven fine, A clothing for the soul divine. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ A spiritually optimistic point of view holds that the universe is woven out of a fabric of love. Everything that is happening is ultimately for the good if we're willing to face it head-on and use our adversities for soul growth. ”

- Joan Borysenko

“ CHRIS: The bane and blessing of human nature. That old cat killer, curiosity. Something so deeply embedded in our psyches that it screams to us from ancient myths of Pandora. Eve. Lot's wife. JOEL: Eve lost paradise, Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt… ”

- Jeffrey Vlaming

“ You can expect to find these four priorities - education, economic vitality, efficiency in government and the protection of families - woven into my decisions as Governor. They will serve as my compass as I work with you to chart a future course for our state. ”

- Dave Heineman

“ Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up. ”

- Walter Benjamin
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