Thread Quotes

He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong. (Antonio Porchia)
He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life. View quote
Victor Hugo
Habit is a cable we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it. View quote
Horace Mann
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn. View quote
John Buchan
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. View quote
Chief Seattle
No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread. View quote
Robert Burton
These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread. View quote
James Russell Lowell
There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another. View quote
Derek Jacobi
Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological relationships is - or should be - the basis of modern conservation programs, for it is useless to attempt to preserve a living species unless the kind of land or water it requires is also preserved. So delicately interwoven are the relationships that when we disturb one thread of the community fabric we alter it all - perhaps almost imperceptibly, perhaps so drastically that destruction follows. View quote
Rachel Carson
For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours. View quote
Michael Pollan
Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things which exist; observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web. (Marcus Aurelius)
Life is a thread that someone entangled. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
Separation isn't time or distance it's the bridge between us finer than silk thread sharper than swords. View quote
Nâzım Hikmet
Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day. View quote
George Foreman
We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us - the labyrinth is thoroughly known. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path, and where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world. View quote
Joseph Campbell
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. View quote
Neal Stephenson
A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread. View quote
George Herbert
I have gathered a posy of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls," and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and God is the thread that runs through all of them; most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it. (Swami Vivekananda)
My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love what the people abhor and to show good will toward the one they hate. It showed me that Love is a property not of the lover but of the beloved. Before my Soul taught me, Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs, but now it has been transformed into a halo; its first is its last, and its last is its first. It encompasses every being, slowly expanding to embrace all that ever will be. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. View quote
Victor Hugo
Finally, two days ago, I succeeded- not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle was solved. I am unable to say what was the conducting thread that connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Truth is a golden thread, seen here and there In small bright specks upon the visible side Of our strange being's party-coloured web. View quote
Arthur Hugh Clough