a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls. — Leonard Cohen
I only tie up woman's body because I know I cannot tie up her heart. Only her physical parts can be tied up. Tying up a woman becomes an embrace. — Nobuyoshi Araki
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years. — Simone Signoret
Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings. — Rumi
Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me. — Ted Shackelford
A fool cannot untie the knot tied by a wise man. — African Proverbs
Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know. — Lao Tzu
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. — William Congreve
We learn the rope of life by untying its knots. — Jean Toomer
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. — Jean Cocteau
This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted. — Frederick Leboyer
Writing a poem is unwriting a knot, like untying a shoelace that is clubbing your foot. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being. — Rumi
You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots. — Willie Stargell
Knot Image Quotes
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
Tied The Knot Quotes
I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds. — Hunter S. Thompson
When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There are millions of people in the world, and the spirits will see that most of them you never have to meet. But there are one or two you are tied to, and the spirits will cross you back and forth, threading so many knots until they catch and you finally get it right. — Jodi Picoult
The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure ... Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot.
God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him. — Meister Eckhart
People always tend to identify, instinctively, freedom with abandon.But the type of abandon that seeks personal gratification always gets you "tied up in a knot."Abandon instead your personal fears and desires...and you, the real you, will become freed, released from the bonds of your own mind. — Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
So sweet and delicious do I become, when I am in bed with a man who, I sense, loves and enjoys me, that the pleasure I bring excels all delight, so the knot of love, however tight it seemed before, is tied tighter still. — Veronica Franco
Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot. — Jodi Picoult
Matt and I have set a date. Matt and I will tie the knot New Years Day in the town of Swampscott, Massachusetts. Reserve your hotel rooms now. I will be having a gay marriage. — Ben Affleck
Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible. — Leo Tolstoy
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Love Knot Quotes
It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way. — Lucretius
we love what we love and who we love who we love and why we love why we love and find a falling shoelace knotted and strung between the fingers of strangers — Kami Garcia
How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart! How many a solitary place would be made glad if love were there, and how many a dark dwelling would be filled with light! — Orville Dewey
Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love. — Frederick Lenz
I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot, which I do not wish to untie. — Mary Wollstonecraft
How I would love to be transported into a scented Elizabethan garden with herbs and honeysuckles, a knot garden and roses clambering over a simple arbor. — Rosemary Verey
How delicious is the winning
Of a kiss at Love's beginning,
When two mutual hearts are sighing
For the knot there's no untying! — Thomas Campbell
Life is probably a tangle of love and hate permanently knotted together. — Gao Xingjian
Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him. — Dean Koontz
When we found out Blackburn's owners wanted us to do a chicken advert for Venky's, we didn't really know what to think. I had to pretend to love it, but the truth is, one bite and my stomach was in knots. — Michel Salgado
Untie The Knot Quotes
A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie. — Siri Hustvedt
Close your mouth,
block off your senses,
blunt your sharpness,
untie your knots,
soften your glare,
settle your dust.
This is the primal identity. — Lao Tzu
Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue. — Ambrose Bierce
If you're at the end of your rope . . . untie the knot in your heart. — Cooper Edens
Seal the openings, shut the doors, dull the sharpness, untie the knots, dim the light, become one with the dust. This is called the profound union. — Lao Tzu
Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you make the big leap; the opportunity to express yourself is offered that once, and you untie the knot within you then or never again. — Italo Calvino
How the purer spirit is united to his clod, is a knot too hard for fallen humanity to untie. — Joseph Glanvill
I double-knot my shoe laces. It's a pain untying your shoes afterward-particularly if you get them wet-but so is stopping in the middle of a race to tie them. — Hal Higdon
When we forgive someone, the knots are untied and the past is released. — Reshad Feild
Knitting Quotes
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. — George Burns
Marriages should culminate on account of the wishes of the couple. It is their knitting of the hearts that should lead to marriages. — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine. — Ray Charles
You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends. — Robert Anton Wilson
Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either. — Elizabeth Zimmermann
Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair. — John Milton
Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting. — Benjamin Franklin
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. — Alphonse De Lamartine
My immediate family is real close-knit. — Kenan Thompson
Now, let us all take a deep breath and forge on into the future; knitting at the ready. — Elizabeth Zimmermann
If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully. — Matthew Fox
Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown. — Corrie Ten Boom
These seven centers, these seven chakras Yoga and Tantra have talked about down the ages, are nothing but five knots in your body electric current. They can be changed; they can be rearranged. They can be given a new shape, form. Two lovers can be transformed so deeply that all their seven centers can start meeting. — Osho
Chance. It weaves through our lives like a golden thread, sometimes knotting, tangling, and breaking along the way. Loose threads are left hanging, but the in and out, the back and forth continues, the weaving goes on. It doesn't stop. — Mary E. Pearson
The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.
The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master's whiplash. — Franz Kafka
I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking... my stomach would just be in knots. — Nicholas Brendon
Jace,” she said. “Why are you doing this to me?” “Because you’re lying to me. And you’re lying to yourself.” Jace’s eyes were blazing, and even though his hands were stuffed into his pockets, she could see that they were knotted into fists. — Cassandra Clare
Jem knotted his fingers in the material of Will's sleeve. "You are my parabatai," he said, "You said once I could ask anything of you. — Cassandra Clare
It's too hot for me to bother with wearing my hair down in the summer. I'd rather pin it up in braids, or throw it in a top knot so I don't have to think about it the rest of the day. — Mia Moretti
Every time I wake up I have this huge dreadlock in the back, and I don't know why. It's not like I sleep like a maniac or anything. It gets knots out really easy, and it's handy. — Lara Stone
The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright — William Hurt
You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to take the unknown road blindly, stubbornly, and to search for words rooted like the knotted olive tree- let them laugh. And to yearn for the other world to inhabit today's suffocating loneliness, this ravaged present- let them be. — Giorgos Seferis
Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up. — Margaret Atwood
Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. If I had lived in China, I would have been an outlaw knot-maker. — Maxine Hong Kingston
We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding. — Vernor Vinge
If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and the bad are mingled in every action we take, and what a compromising hostess Our Lady of Truth is, we haven't grown old to much purpose. — John Cowper Powys
Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate; And many a Knot unravel'd by the Road; But not the Master-knot of Human Fate. — Omar Khayyam
Either things happen for a reason, or they happen for no reason at all. Either one's life is a thread in a glorious tapestry or humanity is just a hopelessly tangled knot. — Neal Shusterman
Knit your hearts with an unslipping knot. — William Shakespeare
You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces. — Suzanne Collins
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