Weaving Quotes - Page 4

• Genius has no taste for weaving sand.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Genius, Taste, Sand

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.96, University of Georgia Press

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• By mid-morning a rain as fine as silk spills was weaving over the lake.

  Martha Ostenso

  Morning, Rain, Lakes

  Martha Ostenso (1937). “The Stone Field”, New York, Dodd

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• God is weaving His tapestry according to his own grand design. All flesh is in His hands. We have no need to fear. We have no need to worry. Our imperative need is to be found doing our duty.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Hands, Worry, Design

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• I love to see those paragliders weaving softly around Moon Point, their legs floating above you in the air. When they drift in for a landing, their feet touch the ground and they trot forward from the continued motion of the glider, which billows down like a setting sun. I never get tired of watching them and I've seen them thousands of times. I always wondered what that kind of freedom would feel like.

  Deb Caletti

  Tired, Moon, Air

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Queen of Everything”, p.333, Simon and Schuster

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• I've been a witness to unfairness in society all my life. To the conditions under which my mother worked all her life, working in an industrial weaving shed in the north of England. And it has been this feature of unfairness that has motivated me in all of my political thinking.

  Patrick Stewart

  Mother, Thinking, Political

  Source: time.com

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• Liesel shrugged away entirely from the crowd and entered the tide of Jews, weaving through them till she grabbed hold of his arm with her left hand. His face fell on her. It reached down as she tripped, and the Jew,the nasty Jew, helped her up. It took all of his strength.

  Markus Zusak

  Hands, Left Hand, Crowds

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.488, RH Childrens Books

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• If it were not for the outside world, we would have no inside world to understand things by. Least of all could we understand God without these millions of sights and sounds and scents and motions, weaving their endless harmonies. They come out of His heart to let us know a little of what is in it.

  George MacDonald

  Heart, Sight, Environmental

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.5600, e-artnow

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• That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and knotting an endless rope. Then, no matter how dark or terrible the pit she found herself in, she could pull herself out, inch by inch and hand over hand, on the long rope of stories.

  Lauren Oliver

  Dark, Hands, Long

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• The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the world over and at all times there have been practical men, absorbed in 'irreducible and stubborn facts'; all the world over and at all times there have been men of philosophic temperament, who have been absorbed in the weaving of general principles. It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty of our present society.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Men, Mind, Principles

  "Science and the Modern World". Book by Alfred North Whitehead. Chapter 1: "The Origins of Modern Science", 1925.

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• I had a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving: O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied, With a silken thread of my own hands' weaving.

  John Keats

  Sweet, Grieving, Hands

  'I had a dove and the sweet dove died' (written 1818)

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• What is magic? In the deepest sense, magic is an experience. It's the experience of finding oneself alive within a world that is itself alive. It is the experience of contact and communication between oneself and something that is profoundly different from oneself: a swallow, a frog, a spider weaving its web.

  David Abram

  Communication, Magic, Different

  Interview with Derrick Jensen, www.derrickjensen.org. July 1, 2000.

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• The passionate reactions of people to a painting, the exclamation, 'Oh, this is wonderful,' may, even if meant in a positive way, entirely destroy the chiaroscuro, the mystical hidden weaving of fantasy which the artist needs.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Artist, People, May

  Marie-Louise von Franz (2017). “The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition”, p.106, Shambhala Publications

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• Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night, The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go -- the pains of Day to soothe, console -- Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.

  Bram Stoker

  Sweet, Art, Pain

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• Withdraw now from the invisible pounding and weaving of your ingrained ideas. If you want to be rid of this invisible turmoil, you must just sit through it and let go of everything. Attain fulfillment and illuminate thoroughly. Light and shadow altogether forgotten. Drop off your own skin, and the sense-dusts will be fully purified. The eye then readily discerns the brightness.

  Hongzhi Zhengjue

  Letting Go, Eye, Light

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• I have once more taken up things that can't be done: water with grasses weaving on the bottom. But I'm always tackling that sort of thing!

  Claude Monet

  Taken, Water, Done

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• Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.

  John Suckling

  Sorrow, Spinning, Eloquence

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• The poet’s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. We’re hunched and weaving over the keys of our green our grey or pink blue manual typewriter maybe a darker stone cold thoritative selectric with its orgasmic expectant hum and us popping pills and laughing over what you or I just wrote, wondering if that line means insult or sex. Or both. Usually both.

  Eileen Myles

  Sex, Mean, Past

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• We are talking about an awesome power. It is the power to weave illusions that appear real as long as they last. That is the very core of the Fed's power. Of course not everyone is instinctively against this illusion-weaving power, and many even welcome it. Tragically, the innocent who understand little about the complexity of the monetary system suffer the most, while those who are in the know reap great profit whether the market is going up or down.

  Ron Paul

  Money, Real, Power

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• You never know!” Neith snapped. “The point is, I’ll survive the apocalypse. I can live off the land!” She jabbed a finger at me. “Did you know the palm tree has six different edible parts?” “Um—” “And I’ll never be bored,” Neith continued, “since I’m also the goddess of weaving. I have enough twine for a millennium of macramé!” I had no reply, as I wasn’t sure what macramé was.

  Rick Riordan

  Land, Bored, Tree

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• Looking back into childhood is like looking into a semi-transparent globe within which people and places lie embedded. A shake - and they stir, rise up, circle in inter-weaving groups, then settle down again.

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Lying, Past, Circles

  Rosamond Lehmann (1975). “The ballad and the source”, Harvest Books

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• Jane Kindred’s THE HOUSE OF ARKHANGEL'SK dazzles with its surreal blending of worlds. Lost angel Anazakia, last survivor of her murdered family, finds herself in the hands of demons with suspect motives, betrayed by her own kind, stranded in the world of Man—21st century St. Petersburg, Russia, to be exact. Weaving startling visuals with compelling characters, Kindred reveals parallels in the two worlds that are ‘neither haphazard chance nor calculated design.’ It’s a dizzying, vibrant read.

  Lynn Flewelling

  Character, Angel, Men

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• Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed to incorporate this crucial innovation, weaving it into daily life. And if you disagree with this... say so!

  David Brin

  Civilization, Giving, Innovation

  Orbit Interview, www.sffworld.com. July 19, 2002.

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• A mortal had woven it, a man who, having caught sight of the Seelie queen, had spent the remainder of his short life weaving depictions of her. He had died of starvation, raw, red fingers staining the final tapestry.

  Holly Black

  Queens, Short Life, Men

  Holly Black (2002). “Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale”, Simon Pulse

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• It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable—like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us.

  Jane Hamilton

  Strong, Forgiving, Understood

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• The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Facts, Possibility, Existence

  Jorge Luis Borges, Calin Andrei Mihailescu (2002). “This Craft of Verse”, p.100, Harvard University Press

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