Quotes About Thread

I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

Dilly reckons it would be difficult to thread those needles, the eyes so small, especially with her cataracts.

What was the thread that held together the scattered beads of experience if not the pressure of interpretation? The meaning of life was whatever meaning one could thrust down its reluctant throat.

For me, the other compelling thread, which dates back to my college days in the 1980s, has been my growing recognition that liberalism—the political ideology I was raised in and still am most generally attracted to—has a serious elitism problem that needs correcting.

yank out one thread from the fabric of human destiny, and everything unravels.

Because yank out one thread from the fabric of human destiny, and everything unravels. Though it could also be said that things have a tendency to unravel regardless.

Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

The pattern's laid out on the bedWith dozens of colors of threadBut you've got the needleI guess that's the point in the end

Sense of humor: A thread of illuminated intelligence that links two opposite ideas.

Yes I know: the thread you have to keep finding, over again, to follow it back to life; I know. Impossible, sometimes.

In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.

the rules of transcendence insist that you will not advance even one inch closer to divinity as long as you cling to even one last seductive thread of blame.

Then she told George that the story of the minotaur was one about facing what mazes you. She made it very clear that she was using the word maze, not amaze. Then, when you'd faced it, she said, the thing to do to get out of the labyrinth was to go back the way you'd come, follow your own thread, the thread you'd left behind you, and that this had a lot to do with knowing where we come from and what our roots are –

As a great devotee, I consider a Brahmin who wears the sacred thread as God.

An invisible thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, and circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but it will never break.

We wire the sky for comfort; we thread it through our lungs for a perfect fit. We've arranged this calm, though it is constantly unraveling. Where does it go then, atmosphere suckered up an invisible flue? How can we know where it goes?

It seemed to be suspended by some invisible thread, like a toy bird hanging from the ceiling.

Just when I seemed about to learn ! Where is the thread now ? Off again ! The old trick ! Only I discern ? Infinite passion and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

Where do you feel your soul inside you?" Stretched between my mouth-hole and my asshole, a white thread, not transparent mist, cramped in some corner between two bones, in pain. When it is full it disappears, like a cat.

The moon climbed out of the ravine, blue, skinny, as if it had been fed on nothing but skimmed milk. It climbed out, and quickly slithered up and up along the finest thread-away from trouble, and on the very top it huddled, crouching on thin legs. ("The Protectress Of Sinners")

The thread of human hope is spun with the flax of sorrow.

The moon climbed out of the ravine, blue, skinny, as if it had been fed on nothing but skimmed milk. It climbed out, and quickly slithered up and up along the finest thread--away from trouble, and on the very top it huddled, crouching on thin legs.

Love is the thread with which we connect to the world.

You let people hope," Sharon said firmly, "because hope is the very strong thread between earth and heaven.