Where the needle goes, the thread follows. — Indian Proverbs
Among the millions of nerve cells that clothe parts of the brain there runs a thread. It is the thread of time, the thread that has run through each succeeding wakeful hour of the individual. — Wilder Penfield
However often the thread may be torn out of your hands, you must develop enough patience to wind it up again and again. — Walter Gropius
There is one single thread binding my way together...the way of the Master consists in doing one's best...that is all. — Confucius
Life and death are one thread,
the same line viewed from different sides. — Lao Tzu
There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.' — Jean-Michel Basquiat
A single thread doesn’t make a cloth A single tree doesn’t make a forest. — Tibetan Proverbs
A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread. — George Herbert
From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts. — Honore de Balzac
The fabric of existence weaves itself whole. — Charles Ives
Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern. — Albert Einstein
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
Short Thread Quotes
Giving yourself threads doesn't mean you don't believe in yourself in my opinion. — Valentino Rossi
We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly
Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky. — Dante Gabriel Rossetti
A lazy tailor finds his thread too long — Greek Proverbs
I see people with Asperger's syndrome as a bright thread in the rich tapestry of life. — Tony Attwood
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together. — Muhammad Yunus
Necessity teaches naked woman to spin thread. — Icelandic Proverbs
My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread. — Thomas Hood
Freindshipp is beyond all relations of flesh and blood, because it is less materiall. — John Evelyn
The composer...joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds. — Alan Hovhaness
Thread Image Quotes
A single thread of hope is still a very powerful thing.
Common Thread Quotes
While every refugee's story is different and their anguish personal, they all share a common thread of uncommon courage - the courage not only to survive, but to persevere and rebuild their shattered lives. — Antonio Guterres
The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. — Erma Bombeck
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric. — Wislawa Szymborska
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
There are a very few consistent, common threads among the most successful NFL quarterbacks. Most of them are intangibles, which you can't measure with a physical test. You need leadership ability, competitiveness, drive, and will. You need focus, poise, and charisma. — Drew Brees
I realized in all the cases where I was happy with the decision I made, there were two common threads: Surround myself with the smartest people who challenge you to think about things in new ways, and do something you are not ready to do so you can learn the most. — Marissa Mayer
The thing I absolutely love about food is it's a common thread that connects us no matter what culture we come from. — Poh Ling Yeow
When composing music, I just start spilling things out and then wait until they take form, you know what I mean, until I see like a common thread or something. — J. Cole
I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children. — Ednita Nazario
The common thread in all of my climbing is it was something new, something never done before. That commonality is more important than the discipline. — Kevin Jorgeson
I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common thread linking deep ecology and animal rights, the love and money we lavish on pets, the uneasy longing for extraterrestrials to be meddling with us. — Annie Gottlieb
Hanging By A Thread Quotes
All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything. — Napoleon Bonaparte
If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a wisp of gossamer, perhaps we would be kinder to them and more grateful for the love and friendship they give to us. — Dean Koontz
First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck. — A. I. Bezzerides
I’m going to untangle her deadly scheme, even if it leaves my love affair hanging by a thread. — Jennifer Estep
I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress. — Illeana Douglas
All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins. — Ovid
Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go. — Dean Koontz
I hang by a thread, but it is (if I may so speak) of Christ's spinning — Samuel Rutherford
Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken. — Mary Balogh
It's a very common belief [among Mormons] that the Constitution will hang by a thread and the Church will save it. — Jan Shipps
Needle And Thread Quotes
It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together. — Julia Alvarez
With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. — Thomas Hood
Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there. — Ernst Gombrich
Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid. — Michel de Montaigne
Needle and thread flesh and bone Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home. Your suture lines, they sparkle like diamonds Bright stars to light my confinement "Stitch. — Gayle Forman
Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation. — Caitlin Thomas
By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on. — George Herbert
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. — Neal Stephenson
I have invited our little seamstress to take her thread and needle and sew our two mouths together. — Harry Crosby
I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture. — Olivier Theyskens
Red Thread Quotes
Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness. — Gustave Meyrink
Oh, heart, let's never grow too old To smile anew, when Christmas comes, At tassels red and tinsel thread, And tarlatan bags f sugarplums. — Nancy Byrd Turner
Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness. — Gustav Meyrink
Love ambushed you, it lay in wait, dormant for days or years. It was the red thread, the peach stone, the kiss, the forgiveness. It came after you, it escaped you, it was invisible, it was everything. — Alice Hoffman
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. — Chief Seattle
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. — Chief Seattle
I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art. I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live. — Yayoi Kusama
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. — Henry Melvill
Love is our true essence. Love has no limitations of caste, religion, race, or nationality. We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love. To awaken this unity-and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature-is the true goal of human life. — Mata Amritanandamayi
In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself. — Rod Serling
We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color. — Maya Angelou
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. — Hamlin Garland
When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep...that have taken hold. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Pain is an inextricable thread in the fabric of life, and to tear it out is not only impossible but destructive: attempting to tear it out unravels everything else with it. To try to avoid pain is to give too many fucks about pain. — Mark Manson
Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. — W. S. Merwin
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
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
IN ALL MY FILMS, IT SEEMED IMPORTANT TO ME TO REMIND THE AUDIENCE TO THE FACT THAT THEY ARE NOT ALONE, LOST IN AN EMPTY UNIVERSE, BUT THAT THEY ARE CONNECTED BY INNUMERABLE THREADS WITH THEIR PAST AND PRESENT, THAT THROUGH CERTAIN MYSTICAL WAYS, EVERY HUMAN BEING REALIZES THE RAPPORT WITH THE WORLD AND THE LIFE OF HUMANITY. — Andrei Tarkovsky
Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads — Mother Jones
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else. — Italo Calvino
This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time. — Haruki Murakami
I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish. — Marcel Marceau
What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos. — Anselm Kiefer
When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves. — Albert Einstein
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years. — Simone Signoret
Think of all your experiences as a huge tapestry that can be laid out in whatever pattern you wish. Each day you add a new thread to the weaving. Do you craft a curtain to hide behind, or do you fashion a magic carpet that will care you to unequaled heights? — Tony Robbins
The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Moment by moment throughout our lifetime, our brains hum with the work of making meaning: weaving together many thousands of threads of information into all manner of thoughts, feelings, memories, and ideas. — Daniel Tammet
It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else. — Veronica Roth
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