Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same. — Heraclitus
A broom is sturdy because its strands are tightly bound. — Filipino Proverbs
Every forest branch moves differently in the breeze,
but as they sway they connect at the roots. — Rumi
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains. — Tennessee Williams
A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. — James Joyce
A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans. — Aldo Leopold
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. — Norman Maclean
A hair divides what is false and true. — Omar Khayyam
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together. — Barry Lopez
These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end. — William C. Bryant
The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil. — Robert Frost
A good life is like a weaving. Energy is created in the tension. The struggle, the pull and tug are everything. — Joan Erikson
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. — Richard P. Feynman
Be like the rocky headland on which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and round it the seething waters are laid to rest. — Marcus Aurelius
Good luck comes in slender currents, misfortune in rolling tides — Irish Proverbs
Short Strand Quotes
You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love. — Al Yankovic
My wife says I'm making a noise like a stranded whale. I think I have a major snoring problem. — Rex Hunt
Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution. — Deepak Chopra
Even as a little seed, I could see his plan for me. Stranded on welfare, another broken family. — Tupac Shakur
I got my hair highlighted because I felt some strands were more important than others. — Mitch Hedberg
The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach. — Scott Westerfeld
Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung. — William Morris
I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump. — Al Yankovic
America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain. — Ralph Ellison
Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment — Owen Feltham
Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them. — Huey Newton
The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. — Chief Seattle
Many of us harbor hidden low self-esteem. We deem everything and everyone more important that ourselves and think that meeting their needs is more important than meeting our own. But if you run out of gas, everyone riding with you will be left stranded. — T. D. Jakes
We found that CAS9 has the ability to make a double-stranded break in DNA at sites that are programmed by a small RNA molecule. What was so important was that we could really show how the CAS9 protein worked. — Jennifer Doudna
America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description. — Ralph Ellison
Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. — Chief Seattle
Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history’s in a strand of your hair. Your fingernails. The forensic details. The lining of your stomach is a document. The calluses on your hand tell all your secrets. Your teeth give you away. Your accent. The wrinkles around your mouth and eyes. Everything you do shows your hand. — Chuck Palahniuk
My life and his were twisted into a single strand. Cut one, and you cut both. If he were gone, I would not be able to live through that. If I were gone, he wouldn't live through it, either. — Stephenie Meyer
The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can suddenly become someone else when previously hidden strands of his character are called to the fore by circumstance. — Elliot Perlman
Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.' — Steven Wright
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum. — Jonathan Safran Foer
If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I’d need: food, shelter, and a grip. — George C. Scott
NOT, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands of man In me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be. — Gerard Manley Hopkins
String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect. — Roy H. Williams
When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity. — Edwidge Danticat
I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic. — Martha Reeves
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 Swett Marden
I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies. — Bob Hawke
Today secular faith is ebbing, and it is the apostles of unbelief who are left stranded on the beach. — John Gray
Music should elevate you. You can be raised, or left stranded. You can't be raised all the time, in my experience. This might be a rare moment. You might just go up to that level but that's always good. — Mick Jagger
Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand! — Walter Scott
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership). — O. Henry Porter
A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh. — Kate Simon
I crossed the room, and what you did was to feel my hair over and over again and in different ways, touch it, with the palm of your hand... felt it, strands of hair, with your fingers, touched it as if it were cloth, the way a child touches its favorite surfaces. — Edna O'Brien
Bangkok 8 is one of the most startling and provocative mysteries that I've read in years. The characters are marvelously unique, the setting is intoxicating and the plot unwinds in dark illusory strands, reminiscent of Gorky Park. Once I started, I didn't want to put it down. — Carl Hiaasen
The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision. — William Arthur Ward
Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different. — Fred Rogers
We weren't getting a fair deal on the budget and I wasn't going to have it. There's a great strand of equity and fairness in the British people - this is our characteristic. There's not a strand of equity and fairness in Europe - they're out to get as much as they can. That's one of those enormous differences. So I tackled it on that basis. — Margaret Thatcher
Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression. — Sam Abell
From Greenland's icy mountains,
From India's coral strand,
Where Afric's sunny fountains
Roll down their golden sand;
From many an ancient river,
From many a palmy plain,
They call us to deliver
Their land from error's chain. — Reginald Heber
Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living. In an earthly tapestry hung from the skyline of smoldering cities so gray and so vulgar, as not to be satisfied with their own negativity, but needing to touch all the living as well. — Don McLean
I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are like snapshots, but I'm more interested in poetry that is like an endless film, long stories, things that weave together many different strands, like a big piece of cloth, not like a photograph. — Robert Bringhurst
The core strands of my involvement in public life are a belief in the need to strive wherever possible for equality of treatment and opportunity, to ensure all people have the means to a decent livelihood. — Peter Garrett
On rolls the stream with a perpetual sigh;
The rocks moan wildly as it passes by;
Hyssop and wormwood border all the strand,
And not a flower adorns the dreary land. — William C. Bryant
No one grows up. That's one of the sickest lies they ever tell you. People change. People compromise. People get stranded in situations they don't want to be in… and they make the best of it. But don't try to tell me it's some kind of… glorious preordained ascent into emotional maturity. It's not. — Greg Egan
For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands. — Geoffrey Chaucer
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