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Quotes About Fold

Gandhi's fast unto death to keep the Depressed Classes in the Hindu fold was to begin at 12 noon on 20 September 1932.
~ Ramachandra Guha
The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your back pocket.
~ Will Rogers
How to double your money: Fold it over once and put it back in your pocket.
~ Jim Dodds
We . . . exercise on earth the power of our Lord and seek with all our might to bring those sheep of His flock who are outside into the fold committed to our charge . . .
~ Pope Paul III
The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket.
~ Will Rogers
Like the boy who drives his little Indian pigs to the fold, whose obstinacy impels them divers ways, and thus obliges him first to apply to one and then to another till he can succeed in penning them all, so are we obliged to play the same game with the personages of our story.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
Timpul îmbrac? forme ciudateîn ochii amintirii. El se destinde sau se chirce?te, se multiplic? sau se pliaz?.
~ Jean d'Ormesson
I found that joy can be acquired like a habit, in the same way as a folded sheet of paper falls naturally into the same fold.
~ Richard Wurmbrand
There are stars, stars, scattered stars, blackness all between. They ripple and fold and bend, and they rush toward him, rush by him. Their colors are blazing and pure as angels' eyes.
~ zelazny roger
Time will fold over the past if you let it.
~ Jenna Blum
She would almost prefer to fold her arms and sink into an eternal slumber, so that the great longing of her soul for peaceful rest would at last be gratified.
~ Jennifer Chiaverini
I never developed hard cartilage in my ears because I played with them since I was a baby. I can fold my ear entirely inside out, and I can put the whole thing inside itself.
~ Evangeline Lilly
The danger of paired flops is directly related to how high the pair is: there's less risk in a flop like 2-2-7 than Q-Q-8. Why? Because most players will fold a hand that contains a deuce but will play hands that contain a queen like A-Q, K-Q, Q-J, or Q-10.
~ Daniel Negreanu
Sow the seeds of life — humbleness, pure-heartedness, love; and in the long eternity which lies before the soul, every minutest grain will come up again with an increase of thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold.
~ Frederick William Robertson
It was possible to throw a little fold of space-time around yourself like a vampire vanishing into his swirl of cloak.
~ Elizabeth Bear
We've all made selfish, bad decisions We've all tried dishing out the blame Convinced our selves of our own actions My problem is I'll never change In doubt, some good comes out I'll fold before it's time Can't promise you that it's my last time, yeah.
~ Avenged Sevenfold
he was not the first general to welcome statistics he wanted to hear—but the numbers emerged from an intricate origami of war bureaucracy: South Vietnamese, North Vietnamese, and American. The truth was bent at every fold for reasons that went beyond propaganda to self-interest, sycophancy, and wishful thinking.
~ Mark Bowden
These corners are getting a bit bulky. Mum looks consideringly at the catalog. Maybe we should fold down if we're not interested in the page.
~ Sophie Kinsella
The star that bids the shepherd fold.
~ John Milton
Feeding troughs for the sheep there might be many in the fields, and they might or might not be presided over by servants of the true Shepherd, but the fold they were not!
~ George MacDonald
Meanwhile the thinking person, by intellect usually left-wing but by temperament often right-wing, hovers at the gate of the Socialist fold.
~ George Orwell
If you lived in a city for long enough, the streets and the places where life happens fold inwards, like paper, making space for new memories. Yet visiting old haunts and a long forgotten road was like stretching the concertina out again - the memories leap out, fresh as the day you folded them away.
~ Sarah Morgan
One of those cases where you couldn't just fold. God, across the table of Fate, was picking His nose, scratching His ear, laying on tells with a prodigal hand, it had to mean something, and a faulty guess would be better than none.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Recall that the Platonic fold is where our representation of reality ceases to apply—but we do not know it.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb