Thread Quotations | Page 2

It's very difficult for Specter to thread the needle, because of all the obligations he has, ... There's substantial pressure on him because of the issue of reproductive freedom.

It's like if you have a quilt and a thread is loose and they see that thread, they say, 'Forget the rest of the quilt. ... It's not guilty,'

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From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

Her artwork is so stunning. Just her ability to put thread together and bring such life to it. Her colors are so well suited to each other, and the art has such universal appeal. I think she's very talented.

I don't trust happiness. I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at a souk, looking for chipped rims or loose threads.

The tapestry of history is woven of many threads.

Our great Constitution has been beaten and torn until now it hangs by a single thread, and that thread is our franchise to vote.

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.

Life is a thread that someone entangled.

The thread breakes, where it is weakest.

Life is a very thin thread and it only takes a second to snap it

Every thread you discover in the local web of life leads beyond your place to life elsewhere.

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.

Most of the time-- 99 percent of the time-- you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes.

I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.

The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the two can help us thread a path between having all our secrets trivially discoverable and preserving nothing for our later selves for fear of that discovery.

A history that should pursue all the subtle threads from end to end might be eminently valuable, but not as a tribute to peace and conciliation.

All these artists are very different visually and they're all using photography in different ways. The common thread that connects each of the artists is the exploration of identity.

All these kids were around wearing face paint. The common thread is character and heart. It comes from the town. They've seen other kids do it and know what it takes. It's a very close-knit town and community.

Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.

Life resembles Gobelin tapestry; you do not see the canvass on the right side; but when you turn it, the threads are visible.

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

You've got to figure out which end of the needle you're gon' be, the one that's fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth.

If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.

But when I did it, the thread unraveled. So I ended up jabbing in the needle and pouring ink all over my arm.

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.

Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead.

She who reconciles the ill-matched threads Of her life, and weaves them gratefully Into a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hall And clears it for a different celebration.

Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.