Best 41 quotes in «thread quotes» category

Great leaders are most wanted. They are most wanted for what they do with their gifts and talents. Their dreams are so unique in such a way that their presence becomes a source of hope and courage for others to thread on along. Why won't they look for them?

I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart—so hard, it hurt me.

I may not have any power over it at the moment, but at some point that must change. I can be very patient. I am the end of all things, nephew mine. I shall be the last. When birth has ended, I wil cut Clotho's cord, and she will be no more. The time will come when every last thread has been measured, and I will snip Lachesis from the great weave. In the end only Death and I will remain. Then I will cut his thread, and it will be me alone. With my last strength I will close the shears on my own life. I am the end of everything, including you.

I walked towards her. Jean-Claude grabbed my arm. "Do not harm her, Anita. She is under our protection." "I swear to you that I will not lay a finger on her tonight. I just want to tell her something." He released my arm, slowly, like he wasn't sure it was a good idea. I stepped next to Monica, until our bodies almost touched. I whispered into her face, "If anything happens to Catherine, I will see you dead." She smirked at me, confident in her protectors. "They will bring me back as one of them." I felt my head shake, a little to the right, a little to the left, a slow precise movement. "I will cut out your heart." I was still smiling, I couldn'tseem to stop. "Then I will burn it and scatter the ashes in the river. Do you understand me?" She swallowed audibly. Her health-club tan looked a little green. She nodded, staring at me like I was the bogey man. I think she believed I'd do it. Peachy keen. I hate to waste a really good threat

The will of this boy thief flows in golden streams. It is the thread with which I weave, the colors with which I paint, the element with which I create.

Live every day as if it were your last. Spend your life hanging by a thread. Accept that you can fall from one moment to the next. And when that moment comes, rejoice, because the last day will be the first, and you will become the thread itself.

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order, a timetable not necessarily - perhaps not possibly - chronological. The time as we know it subjectively is often the chronology that stories and novels follow: it is the continuous thread of revelation.

You are sled kite that flies in all directions. I can't catch up with you and be the infinite thread tied along.

This is not a sweet skein of thought. Unthread it, Rachel.

All religions are like precious pearls strung on the golden thread of divinity.

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life - find the knot - untangle it.

Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.

For every worm beneath the moon Draws different threads, and late and soon Spins, toiling out his own cocoon.

All that I am hangs by a thread tonight

Every thread you discover in the local web of life leads beyond your place to life elsewhere.

Health is the greatest of God's gifts, but we take it for granted; yet it hangs on a thread as fine as a spider's web and the tiniest thing can make it snap, leaving the strongest of us helpless in an instant.

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.

I was a terrible student in high school and the thing that the auto accident did - and it happened just as I graduated, so I was at this sort of crossroads - but it made me apply myself more, because I realized more than anything else what a thin thread we hang on in life, and I really wanted to make something out of my life.

However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith.

It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

It's destiny! Perhaps it is the energy that pulls on the threads and, well, I'm just leaving it as it is meant to be.

I don't like sewing machines. I don't understand how a needle with a thread going through the tip of it can interlock the thread by jamming itself into a little goddamn spool. It's contrary to nature and it irritates me.

I don't trust happiness. I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at a souk, looking for chipped rims or loose threads.

If you're working with a spreadsheet or a thread of correspondence or a set of data, I'm not sure you're doing your best work if you're doing it on an iPhone.

Life resembles Gobelin tapestry; you do not see the canvass on the right side; but when you turn it, the threads are visible.

Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.

Our great Constitution has been beaten and torn until now it hangs by a single thread, and that thread is our franchise to vote.

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.

Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.

The universe is bound by unseen threads. We have only to untangle them a little to see a pattern unfold.

The tapestry of history is woven of many threads.

The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.

Don’t challenge everything which challenges you! Don’t take every funny challenge serious and don’t see every weak menace as a big threat, keep your energy for the powerful challenges, for the big menaces!

Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead.

Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.

Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement.

You're easily distracted by the pattern of the cloth and can't see the quality of the threads.

Be afraid in proportion to the threat.

Without my relatives, I am but a thread; together, we form a colorful and elaborate Persian carpet.