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Quotes About Threads

History was a tapestry long in the making, and through time the threads would change.
~ Storm Constantine
No story sits by itself. Our lives connect like threads on a loom, interwoven in ways we never realise.
~ Mitch Albom
smoke came streaking upward. Then other threads of white began just outside the landing grid. They rushed after the first. The original rockets seemed to dodge. Others came up. There was an intricate pattern formed by the smoke trails of rockets rising and other rockets following, and some trails
~ Murray Leinster
Let me use a second metaphor. Imagine that you found a tangle of seaweed on the edge of the shore and lifted it. The heaviest parts rest on the sand in a mesh, but some skeins extend vertically. This neural network is shaped like that: it looks like a tangled skein of a hundred thousand golden threads that has been drawn upward. The mass of it gathers in the pelvis, but strands from the same network extend upward to the spinal cord and brain.
~ Naomi Wolf
Véletlen az, amikor egy-egy ponton felfeslik a sors szövete.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
And so, under cover of midnight, a couple of Sugus, and the spell of memories that were threatening to disappear in the mist of time, Fermin began to connect the threads that would weave the end and the beginning of our story....
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Mark, Reader, my cry! Bend thy thoughts on the Sky, And in the midst of prosperity, know thou may'st die. While the great Loom of God works in darkness above, And our trials here below are but threads of His Love.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Mark, Reader, my cry! Bend thy thoughts on the Sky, And in midst of prosperity, know thou may'st die. While the great Loom of God works in darkness above, And our trials here below are but threads of His Love.
~ Thomas Pynchonn
To me, chance isn't random. The universe is bound by unseen threads. We have only to untangle them a little to see a pattern unfold.
~ Kathleen Tessaro
Time has a texture. Each period of waiting looms its own design. For Abigail, this one was shot through with golden threads. -Those Who Love, p. 130
~ Irving Stone
As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I'm not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What's done is done; I have to look ahead.
~ Isabel Allende
La vida es una tapiceria que se borda dia a dia con hilos de muchos colores, unos pesados y oscuros, otros delgados y luminosos, todos los hilos sirven.
~ Isabel Allende
Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry
~ Isabel Allende
life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses.
~ Isabel Allende
Warp threads are thicker than the weft, and made of a coarser wool as well. I think of them as like wives. Their work is not obvious - all you can see are the ridges they make under the colorful weft threads. But if they weren't there, there would be no tapestry. Georges would unravel without me.
~ Tracy Chevalier
he liked his transcendence out in plain sight where he could keep an eye on it -- say, in a nice stained-glass window -- not woven through the fabric of life like gold threads through a brocade.
~ Neal Stephenson
But who among us is perfect? Even the greatest strategists have their eclipses, and the greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, 'That is all there was!' But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.
~ Victor Hugo
Do what we may to shape the mysterious stuff of which our lives are composed, the dark threads of our destiny will always re-emerge.
~ Victor Hugo
Every LWP has a kernel thread, but every kernel thread need not have an LWP:
~ Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci
I am Chun the Unavoidable. Tonight, O Lith, tonight it is two long bright threads for you.
~ Jack Vance
there is no saying how events in one place may affect what happens elsewhere, for the tapestry of history is woven of many threads.
~ Jacqueline Carey
The advantage of subdividing the heap is that multiple threads can each allocate objects at the same time without interfering with one another. Further, by allocating object used by the same thread from the same memory region, cache hit rates may improve.
~ thomas anderson
My destiny has been that I remember and must weave together, must plait into one cable the many threads, the thin, the thick, the broken, the enduring of our long history, of our tumultuous and varied day. There is always more to be understood; a discord to be listened for; a falsity to be reprimanded.
~ Virginia Woolf
The physical world is like an exquisite Persian Carpet, and Spirit is like the threads that make up the carpet. Spirit then is the ground of our being.
~ Laurence Galian