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Humanity could be more humane if we could tie everyone with the thread of love. – Debasish Mridha, M.D.	added by anonymous 9 years ago
We're starting to see more than general wear and tear. The seams are showing and you're seeing frayed edges. In some spots, it's so thread bear the underlying mat pokes through, it's been on the floor for more than 20 years. Someone did a calculation and figured about 300 million people have passed over it. – Ceara Chewning	Found on CNN 9 years ago
This happened to me, but it's really not about me, it's a warning to every American that freedom of speech and freedom of religion are hanging by a thread, which will snap if we don't fight to preserve these cherished protections. – Kelvin Cochran	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There doesn’t seem to be a common core or thread that runs through it, The critical thing is to find our niche and extrapolate and exploit it ... We're not going to do everything, soup to nuts. – Craig Cooning	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There doesn't seem to be a common core or thread that runs through it, The critical thing is to find our niche and extrapolate and exploit it ... We're not going to do everything, soup to nuts. – Craig Cooning	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth. – Jesse Jackson	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Creative ideas in people's minds, but they fall into the trap of fear or rejection. Create a free judgment Wednesday and you spawn a thread creation. – Alexander Osborn	added by anonymous 9 years ago
No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread. – Robert Burton	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spin The Thread of present Life away to win - What? for ourselves, who know not if we shall Breathe out the very Breath we now breathe in. – Mette Ljosland	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. – Horace Mann	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conlusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleages, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. – Leo Tolstoy	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. – Leo Tolstoy	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings. – Homer, The Iliad	added by anonymous 13 years ago
As a spider emits and draws in its thread, As plants arise on the earth, As the hairs of the head and body from a living person, So from The Eternal arises everything here. – Maitri Upanishads	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there. – E. H. Gombrich	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from. – John Still	added by anonymous 14 years ago
America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread. – Jesse Louis Jackson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
America is not like a blanket -- one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt -- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread. – Henry M. Jackson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth. – Gustave Flaubert	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world. – John Evelyn	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence. – Henri Estienne	added by anonymous 14 years ago
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique. – Anonymous	added by anonymous 14 years ago
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread. – Robert Burton	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Humanity could be more humane if we could tie everyone with the thread of love.

– Debasish Mridha, M.D.

added by anonymous
9 years ago

We're starting to see more than general wear and tear. The seams are showing and you're seeing frayed edges. In some spots, it's so thread bear the underlying mat pokes through, it's been on the floor for more than 20 years. Someone did a calculation and figured about 300 million people have passed over it.

– Ceara Chewning

Found on CNN
9 years ago

This happened to me, but it's really not about me, it's a warning to every American that freedom of speech and freedom of religion are hanging by a thread, which will snap if we don't fight to preserve these cherished protections.

– Kelvin Cochran

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There doesn’t seem to be a common core or thread that runs through it, The critical thing is to find our niche and extrapolate and exploit it ... We're not going to do everything, soup to nuts.

– Craig Cooning

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There doesn't seem to be a common core or thread that runs through it, The critical thing is to find our niche and extrapolate and exploit it ... We're not going to do everything, soup to nuts.

– Craig Cooning

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

– Jesse Jackson

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Creative ideas in people's minds, but they fall into the trap of fear or rejection. Create a free judgment Wednesday and you spawn a thread creation.

– Alexander Osborn

added by anonymous
9 years ago

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

– Robert Burton

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spin The Thread of present Life away to win - What? for ourselves, who know not if we shall Breathe out the very Breath we now breathe in.

– Mette Ljosland

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

– Horace Mann

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conlusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleages, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

– Leo Tolstoy

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

– Leo Tolstoy

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

– Homer, The Iliad

added by anonymous
13 years ago

As a spider emits and draws in its thread, As plants arise on the earth, As the hairs of the head and body from a living person, So from The Eternal arises everything here.

– Maitri Upanishads