Fabric Quotes

• The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

  Charles Ives

  Existence, Whole

  Charles Ives (2004). “129 Songs”, p.30, A-R Editions, Inc.

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• Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

  Robert Fulghum

  Love, Grief, Adversity

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• People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.

  Andrew Vachss

  People, Pushing

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• Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.

  Terry Riley

  Play, Musician, Sound

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• If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans and the very dream that is America.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Peace, Thinking, Effort

  "A Parent, Community, and National Audit: It’s Time for Adults to Shape up and Close the Hypocrisy Gap" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2011.

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• I find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole of our lives with each other because of our music.

  Robin Gibb

  Teenager, Kids, Life Is Hard

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

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• People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.

  Ken Kesey

  Retirement, People, Getting High

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• The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.

  Stockwell Day

  Past, Government, Engineering

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• Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

  Walter Benjamin

  Life, Real, Advice

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith (2002). “Selected Writings: 1935-1938”, p.146, Harvard University Press

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• For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.

  Leonhard Euler

  Education, Wise, Perfect

  Leonhard Euler, C. Truesdell (1980). “The Rational Mechanics of Flexible Or Elastic Bodies 1638 - 1788: Introduction to Vol. X and XI”, p.200, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.

  Emma Goldman

  Strong, Expression, Poison

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.117, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.

  Donna Shalala

  Numbers, People, Social

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• Good schools underpin not only our economy, but the social fabric of our lives.

  Donald L. Carcieri

  School, Economy, Social

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• Because all of us believe and understand in the fabric of the common bond of why we call ourselves American is to care for the men and women who wear the uniform; and when they take off the uniform, we care for them when they are veterans.

  Steve Buyer

  Veterans Day, Believe, Men

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• A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.

  Jean-Francois Lyotard

  Islands, Self, Doe

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• When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

  John Boyd Orr

  Social Unrest, Revolution, Enough

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• Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

  Saint Augustine

  Humility, Thinking, Wish

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• Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.

  Terry Pratchett

  Humor, Goes On, Care

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• The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth.

  John Polkinghorne

  Years, Raw Materials, World

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• If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

  Margaret Mead

  Women, History, Diversity

  Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies conclusion (1935)

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• We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Doctors, America, Bankers

  This Week with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. September 12, 2010.

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• I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start.

  Issey Miyake

  Care, Cotton, Cold

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• What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time.

  John Gunther

  Men, Impact, Color

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• Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures.

  Francis Parkman

  Art, Men, Rude

  Francis Parkman (1991). “The Oregon Trail ; The Conspiracy of Pontiac”, p.63, Library of America

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• I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.

  Terry Brooks

  Magic, Want, Able

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