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Quotes About Threads

D'Artagnan admiró de qué hilos frágiles y desconocidos están a veces suspendidos los destinos de un pueblo y la vida de los hombres.
~ Alexandre Dumas
D'Artagnan was amazed to note by what fragile and unknown threads the destinies of nations and the lives of men are suspended. He
~ Alexandre Dumas
D'Artagnan wondered at the fragile and unknown threads from which the fates of nations and the lives of men are sometimes hung.
~ Alexandre Dumas
A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.
~ Richard Hell
Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
I felt as if there were invisible threads connecting us - I felt the invisible strands of her hair still winding around me - and thus as she disappeared completely beyond the sea - I still felt it, felt the pain where my heart was bleeding - because the threads could not be severed.
~ Edvard Munch
The sky drops silver threads of sleet.
~ Anthony Doerr
???? is the gods, ??????????? means they spun, ??????? is death, plague, destruction. Ruin. That's what the gods do, they spin threads of ruin through the fabric of our lives, all to make a song for generations to come.
~ Anthony Doerr
y con sólo algunas hebras como vestigio de la noche.
~ Rodrigo Rey Rosa
I saw this moment as attached by threads to eternity and woven between all the other braided moments of my past and my future.
~ Roman Payne
We can open a window on a world where all is sound, our creative powers are formidable, and unseen threads connect us all.
~ Rosamund Stone Zander
Sa come è la vita, è come una tessitura, tutti i fili si intrecciano, è questo che un giorno vorrei capire, vedere tutto il disegno.
~ Antonio Tabucchi
I can only assume that he must have dreamed it up at the last minute and ad-libbed it—and on just such foolish, tenuous, holy threads as that, I suppose, hang the destinies of us all.
~ Frederick Buechner
What mysteries remain to be revealed in the nervous system, that web of structures both material and ethereal, that network of threads that runs throughout the body, composed of a thousand Ariadne's clues, all leading to the brain, that shadowy central den where the human bones lie scattered and the monsters lurk
~ Margaret Atwood
Your clothes are worn to the woof.
~ Anne McCaffrey
The threads of your life, they aren't woven into any certain fabric.
~ Anne Rice
Then he told David, in a confiding tone, "I'm scared of banana threads, too." "Banana threads. I see. Well, I can understand that," David said. He couldn't help feeling honored.
~ Anne Tyler
how are you sacred to me? your lines are golden threads - your patter, my patten - I explore the liturgy of your words...
~ John Geddes
In a city the multiplicity of threads forced a whirling confusion on the loom but here the simple pattern and the slow weaving made purpose more discernible.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
You think that time is a single thread. It is a weaving, a tapestry that extends forever in all directions.
~ Gene Wolfe
Life is an overwhelming bundle of loose threads. The ones you can hang on to are precious.
~ Carole Radziwill
I had a great grandmother who believed in so many strange superstitions. She used to tell the future from the things that catch on to the hem of your skirt when you've been sewing, and different colored threads would mean different things... Of course, all that influenced me quite a lot as a child.
~ Joanne Harris
I tend to write the episodes in the middle of the season, which can be a challenge because you've got to balance all these threads that have begun - and also make sure they will make sense with the overall plan going forward.
~ Bryan Cogman
I always love writing the third book in a series because you get to tie up all the threads that you put out in the first two books. You finally let people know what really happens and reveal all the secrets and bring certain characters together.
~ Trudi Canavan