Strings Quotes - Page 32

• I give you the end of a golden string, Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven's gate Built in Jerusalem's wall.

  William Blake

  Wall, Wind, Giving

  "I give you the end of a golden string" (1815)

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• And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Sea, Voice, Steps

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.141, eBookIt.com

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• It was clear to me that it wouldn't matter what I did - they would never truly appreciate me or learn what I had to offer. They were far beyond fickle - they were insensible, like kittens,predatory little things, distracted by the first bit of string or shiny bauble that rolled across the floor, and nothing I could ever say or do could possibly make any kind of dent in their willful ignorance.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Ignorance, Appreciate, Fickle

  Jeff Lindsay (2010). “Dexter Is Delicious: Dexter Morgan (5)”, p.209, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• There's a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master plan. History is His story. God is pulling the strings.

  Rick Warren

  Fate, Luck, Stories

  "Purpose Driven Life". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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• World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings.

  Denis Healey

  Money, Issues, Political

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• Imagine craving absolutely nothing from the world. Imagine cutting the invisible strings that so painfully bind us: what would that be like? Imagine the freedoms that come from the ability to enjoy things without having to acquire them, own them, possess them. Try to envision a relationship based on acceptance and genuine care rather than expectation. Imagine feeling completely satisfied and content with your life just as it is. Who wouldn't want this? This is the enjoyment of non-attachment.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Inspirational, Life, Relationship

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• Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

  Sean Wilentz

  Reading, Kids, Library

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• Without question, the balance of power on the planet today lies in the hands of business. Corporations rival governments in wealth, influence, and power. Indeed, business all too often pulls the strings of government. Competing institutions-religion, the press, even the military-play subordinate roles in much of the world today. If a values-driven approach to business can begin to redirect this vast power toward more constructive ends than the simple accumulation of wealth, the human race and Planet Earth will have a fighting chance.

  Ben Cohen

  Lying, Military, Fighting

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• People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought.

  Richard Mitchell

  Educational, Writing, Technology

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• Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one.

  Rumi

  Knots, Thousand, Stills

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• Just like an ordinary guitar string, a fundamental string can vibrate in different modes. And it is these different modes of vibration of the string that are understood in string theory as being the different elementary particles.

  Lee Smolin

  Guitar, Words Of Wisdom, Ordinary

  Lee Smolin (1999). “The Life of the Cosmos”, p.65, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Arsene Wenger has got to unlock the purse strings

  John Motson

  Wenger, Purses

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• The cruelest thing, hope, the way it strings you along, the way it makes you believe.

  Jackson Pearce

  Believe, Way

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• In prayer, something like an echo takes place. When you strike a note on the piano, corresponding strings in all the other pianos in the room start to vibrate. It is just the same when we express a pure wish in our ardent prayers: all around us we mobilize angels who are inspired by the same wish.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Prayer, Angel, Echoes

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• Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Eye, Rocks, Self

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• My life is a blank check before God... No strings attached.

  David Platt

  Strings Attached, Life Is, Checks

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• I've often said, not totally jokingly, that screenwriting doesn't really qualify as real writing at all. You don't string sentences into paragraphs. You don't maintain a constant breath, or create internal rhythms, or even develop a fully-formed thought. The camera does all that work for you!

  Jonathan Raymond

  Real, Writing, Cameras

  "Jon Raymond’s Californian Epic". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 1, 2017.

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• The purse strings tie us to our kind.

  Walter Bagehot

  Ties, Purses, Kind

  Walter Bagehot (1858). “Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen”, p.60

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• Water and air He for the Tenor chose,
  Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
  To th' active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave,
  To Saturn's string a touch more sore and grave.
  The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow,
  And short and long, were mixt and woven so,
  Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall,
  As made this decent measur'd dance of all.
  And this is Musick.

  Abraham Cowley

  Music, Fall, Moon

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• If we can string together some wins this year, maybe I'll be a close second-or third behind Bart Starr-on their favorite quarterback list.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Winning, Years, Nfl

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• A hippo sandwich is easy to make. All you do is simply take one slice of bread, one slice of cake, some mayonnaise, one onion ring, one hippopotamus, one piece of string, a dash of pepper. That ought to do it. And now comes the problem... biting into it!

  Shel Silverstein

  Food, Cake, Cooking

  Shel Silverstein, “Recipe For A Hippopotamus Sandwich”

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• ... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!

  Margaret Deland

  Safety, Aprons, Unsafe

  Margaret Deland (2015). “The Awakening of Helena Richie”, p.164, The Floating Press

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• Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight.

  Elizabeth I

  Strong, Two, May

  Elizabeth I (2002). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.262, University of Chicago Press

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• When I had a few francs, I spent them at a café on the Place de Longchamps, a block or so from my pension, where I could order a glass of Beaujolais and a plate of string beans in vinaigrette for the equivalent of fifteen cents.

  Paula Fox

  Block, Paris, Glasses

  Paula Fox (2006). “The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe”, p.35, Macmillan

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• The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony.

  Saadi

  Heart, Musical, Harmony

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