Tangled Quotes

• The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Perception, Mind, Pieces

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• Every heart is a package tangled up in knots someone else tied.

  Josh Ritter

  Heart, Knots, Packages

  Song: Kathleen, Album: Hello Starling

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• Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Wings, Entanglement

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• This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.

  Haruki Murakami

  Patience, Blow, Long

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  If you get all tangled up, just tango on.

  Al Pacino

  Tango, Ifs

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• You only see the top of a lily pad, but if you pull the lily pad out of the water, it has roots and tangled weeds and all the stuff that comes with it.

  Trevor Hall

  Weed, Roots, Water

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• Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think that their children are naive.

  Ogden Nash

  Family, Children, War

  1940 The Face Is Familiar,'Baby, What Makes the Sky Blue'.

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• O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

  Walter Scott

  Wisdom, Truth, Lying

  Marmion canto 6, st. 17 (1808)

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• I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 04, 2013

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• When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

  Dan Quayle

  Here And There, Speech, Politics

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• Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

  Virginia Woolf

  Hate, Women, Heart

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• I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Second Chance

  Twitter post from Mar 03, 2013

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• I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.

  Karen Allen

  Jobs, Yarn, Life Is Hard

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Motivations are too tangled and complex.

  Russell Banks

  Motivation, Complexes

  Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.

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• The tears, when they come to some men, are worse than beatings. They're wounded worse by sobbing, men like that, than they are by boots and batons. Tears begin in the heart, but some of us deny the heart so often, and for so long, that when it speaks we hear not one but a hundred sorrows in the heartbreak. We know that crying is a good and natural thing. We know that crying isn't a weakness, but a kind of strength. Still, the weeping rips us root by tangled root from the earth, and we crash like fallen trees when we cry.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Rip, Heart, Men

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.563, Macmillan

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• Spiritual growth is more than procedure, it’s a wild search for God in the midst of the tangled jungle of our souls, a search for which involves a volatile mix of messy reality, wild freedom, frustrating stuckness, increasing slowness and a healthy dose of gratitude

  Mike Yaconelli

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Reality

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• I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• Frying pans! Who knew, right?

  Walt Disney

  Frying Pans, Riders, Frying

  "Fictional character: Flynn Rider". "Tangled", www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• You can tell a lot about a person by what’s on their playlist.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Rainy Day, Learned Person, Forget Everything

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• You can tell a lot about a person by who his or her heroes are.

  Steve Jobs

  Hero, Rainy Day, Forget Everything

  "The Seed of Apple's Innovation". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. October 12, 2004.

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• You can tell a lot about a person from his underwear.

  Rachel Bilson

  Rainy Day, Learned Person, Forget Everything

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• I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.

  Ted Lindsay

  Player, Ideas, Brilliant

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• But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!

  Kate Chopin

  Soul, Murmuring, World

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.34

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• It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass, till they could crowd no more, and the plant was dying. Now quietly, subtly, she was unravelling the tangle of his consciousness and hers, breaking the threads gently, one by one, with patience and impatience to get clear.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Roots, Dying, Together

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3759, Delphi Classics

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• The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess. Its billions of nerve cells - called neurons - lie in a tangled web that displays cognitive powers far exceeding any of the silicon machines we have built to mimic it.

  William Allman

  Beautiful, Lying, Cells

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