We learn the rope of life by untying its knots. — Jean Toomer
We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie. — Michael Ondaatje
Even though you tie a hundred knots, the string remains one. — Rumi
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
Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles. — Jean Toomer
If you get all tangled up, just tango on. — Al Pacino
Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam. — Michael Chabon
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up. — Mae West
A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread. — George Herbert
It's so long since I've had sex I've forgotten who ties up who. — Joan Rivers
Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust. — Margery Allingham
When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on. — Theodore Roosevelt
You will not break loose until you realize that you yourself forge the chains that bind you. — Gary Renard
Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings. — Rumi
If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after? — Kabir
Short Untying Quotes
A fool cannot untie the knot tied by a wise man. — African Proverbs
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. — Jean Cocteau
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
To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied. — Henri Frederic Amiel
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
The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie. — William Shakespeare
At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied. — Christopher Hitchens
For me, bondage makes me feel powerless and annoyed. It's like, can you untie me? — Dian Hanson
Untying Image Quotes
Never cut what you can untie
My Life Journey Quotes
Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land. — Walt Whitman
Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station. — Lisa St. Aubin de Terán
I don't have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of my life. — Kerry Washington
The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure ... Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot.
You begin your journey not knowing where it will take you. You have plans, you have dreams, but every now and again you have to take uncharted roads, face impassable mountains, cross treacherous rivers, be blocked by landslides and earthquakes. That's the way my life has been. — Lee Kuan Yew
One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives. — Mike DeWine
It took a lot of time and constant feedback to realize what wasn't working in my life, and it will be an ongoing journey until the day I die. — Lewis Howes
100 million means so much. I've been making videos since I was 11 years old. This number in a way represents everything I've ever done in my life and I'm so grateful to everyone who's ever watched a video. — MrBeast
NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself. — Walt Whitman
I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life. — Donny Robinson
In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again. — Zygmunt Bauman
In a sense, a cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense – a ‘final’ irony since the cyborg is also the awful apocalyptic telos of the ‘West’s’ escalating dominations of abstract individuation, an ultimate self untied at last from all dependency, a man in space. — Donna J. Haraway
I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, "That must have been the sun! — Emily Dickinson
Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks. — Julio Cortazar
When great individuals move so marvelously along the straight and narrow path, it is unseemly of us to call attention to the fact that one of their shoelaces is untied as they make the journey. — Neal A. Maxwell
Dear God, Please untie the nots. All of the can nots, should nots, may nots and have nots. Please erase from my mind the thoughts that I am not good enough. — Iyanla Vanzant
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
Renounce to the desire of possessing worldly things: this is the first step in the path of perfection; by mean of this absolute untie is how the passions can be fought. — Eliphas Levi
People want you to be happy. Don't keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves. — Rumi
Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand! — Walter Scott
An untied shoelace can be dangerous,' he said. 'I could have tripped.' She stared at him. A moment dragged by. 'I'm joking,' he said at last. She relaxed. 'Really?' 'Absolutely. I would never have tripped. I'm far too graceful. — Derek Landy
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
Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie. — Siri Hustvedt
The United States' credibility is at an all-time low. So, this war is against the interest of the Untied States. — Bashar al-Assad
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
Each day of the holidays comes bringing its own gifts.
Open your heart,
Untie the ribbons,
and enjoy the contents!
Were earth a thousand times as fair
Beset with gold and jewels rare
She yet were far too poor to be
A narrow cradle,
Lord, for Thee. — Martin Luther
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
On a matchday, I like tie-up my right boot on the pitch before kick-off. I ll tie my laces in the changing room, walk out and then untie my right boot and tie it up again. It s one of those things - I ve always done it! I do it before every match. — Peter Crouch
Revolution? Unscrew the flag-staff, wrap the bunting in the oil covers, and put the thing in the clothes-chest. Let the old lady bring you your house-slippers and untie your fiery red necktie. You always make revolutions with your mugs, your republic--nothing but an industrial accident. — Alfred Doblin
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
I just meant as far as coming to the games on time; it was just like I was under the microscope, every little thing, it was like they were looking for me to come in here with my shoes untied. — Latrell Sprewell
Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don't know how awful it is unti you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die. — Roald Dahl
Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content. — John Dykstra
I caused my husband's heart attack. In the middle of lovemaking I took the paper bag off my head. He dropped the Polaroid and keeled over and so did the hooker. It would have taken me half an hour to untie myself and call the paramedics, but fortunately the Great Dane could dial. — Joan Rivers
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
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
And then it was between Shane and Claire on who retreated first. "Uou go," he said. "Why?" Shane and Pete exchangedblooks. "Seriously?" Pete asked. "Yeah, she's like that," Shane said, and turned to her. "Because you're my girlfriend, and I'm not going unti; I know you're safe. How's that? — Rachel Caine
The morning air was like a new dress. That made her feel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flung it on a low bush beside the road and walked on, picking flowers and making a bouquet… From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything. — Zora Neale Hurston
Don't untie me," she said, "no matter what happens or how much I plead. I'll want to go straight over the edge and drown myself." "Are you trying to tempt me?" "Ha-ha. — Rick Riordan
Since I've met you, everything I've done has been in part because of you. I can't untie myself from you, Clary- not my heart or my blood or my mind or any other part of me. And I don't want to." ~Jace Wayland — Cassandra Clare
Letting go, it's so hard The way it's hurting now To get this love untied So tough to stay with this thing 'cos if I follow through I face what I denied I'll get those hooks out of me And I'll take out the hooks that I sunk deep in your side Kill that fear of emptiness, that loneliness I hide. — Peter Gabriel
A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone. — Aesop
Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust. The end is gain, of course. Blessed are they that mourn, for theyshall be made strong, in fact. But the process is like all other human births, painful and long and dangerous. — Margery Allingham
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