Fabric Quotes - Page 5

• The chain that's fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends, One link dissolved, the whole creation ends.

  Edmund Waller

  Our World, Thrones, Links

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.54

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• As a kid, I used to come to our offices and play under the desks of people I now work with, or who work for me. I would come in and play with fabrics and make little clothes for my Snoopy. People here feel like family. But if I couldn't make a difference, I wouldn't be here. My father wouldn't want me to be here.

  David Lauren

  Father, Kids, Play

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• Photographic cropping is always experienced as a rupture in the continuous fabric of reality.

  Rosalind E. Krauss

  Reality, Rupture

  Rosalind E. Krauss (1986). “The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths”, p.115, MIT Press

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• The fabric of society is woven together by the needle of suppression and denial.

  Dov Davidoff

  Society, Together, Woven

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Feb 13, 2012

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• I’m a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it’s valuable. My husband used to say I look at a piece of fabric and listen to the threads. It tells me a story. It sings me a song. I have to get a physical reaction when I buy something. A coup de foudre – a bolt of lightning. It’s fun to get knocked out that way!

  Iris Apfel

  Song, Falling In Love, Fun

  " "Iris Apfel: the muse of New York" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2012.

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• Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of my painting background.

  Lillian Bassman

  Long, Way, Necks

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• We're taught that domestic life is not a "serious" political topic, like war and peace, but the fact is that we spend most of our lives doing everyday things: at the dinner table, in the kitchen, washing dishes, grocery-shopping, commuting. These things make up the fabric of our lives.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  War, Shopping, Everyday Things

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We evolved as creatures knitted into the fabric of nature, and without its intimate truths, we can find ourselves unraveling.

  Diane Ackerman

  Unraveling, Intimate, Creatures

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• People are wearing fleece, which is a hard fabric to be angry in.

  Carrie Brownstein

  People, Angry, Fleece

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• Muslims are a part of the fabric of this country. By the way, they always have been, and more so now than ever.

  Steve King

  Country, Way, Has Beens

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Engaging the body in acts of being present with God, including certain ceremonial practices, opens us up to God in new ways. People of faith in ancient times understood that such physical acts and practices as rest and worship, dietary restrictions, and mandated fabric in their wardrobes were of great value to their faith and life.

  Doug Pagitt

  Practice, People, Body

  Doug Pagitt, Kathryn Prill (2013). “BodyPrayer: The Posture of Intimacy with God”, p.12, WaterBrook

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• We see ourselves as inhabiting a complex social world that has some capitalist things going on in it as well as some socialist ones, some communist ones, and many where economics are not separated out of the broader fabric of life (such as sharing and gift giving, and mutual support).

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Mutual Support, Fabric Of Life, Giving

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The way we get past capitalism is by building on the healthy non-capitalist aspects of our world while we also do pitched battle with the capitalist ones that we have a fair chance of winning against. In that way we build a better world and shrink the destructive capitalist practices that are part of the social fabric.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Winning, Past, Our World

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I'm required to do every job well enough that I'd use it as evidence in court - that doesn't come cheaply! Property is a critical asset for individuals. Maintaining the cadastre (legal survey fabric) is an important job and a valuable service.

  Mark Mason

  Jobs, Important, Maintaining

  "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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• Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Greatest Treasure, Abuse

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.78, Pan Macmillan

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• I have fond memories of growing up in beautiful England. It is very much a part of the fabric of me, even though I left when I was quite young. It's just a very different culture over there, filled with a profound depth of history.

  Samantha Newark

  Beautiful, Growing Up, Memories

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• I really wanted to make a nonpolitical political film. I wanted something that folks in red states and blue states could look at and not ask if this is the right thing to do to be in this war, but what this war is doing to the fabric of our society.

  Paul Haggis

  War, Blue, Political

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• Through its interpretation of the Constitution, the Supreme Court hugely shapes the fabric of our society for us and for future generations.

  Herb Kohl

  Generations, Shapes, Our Society

  "U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court". www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire. Or, if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes - perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars: how they will wield The mighty frame: how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the Sphere With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and Epicycle, Orb in Orb.

  John Milton

  Stars, Laughter, Moving

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 8, l. 76

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• People buy very badly made furniture and fabric. Instead, buy a beautiful dining table, well-made upholstery. It's almost like dressing for success.

  Michael S. Smith

  Beautiful, People, Dining

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• If consciousness is the ground of being rather than an epiphenomenon of physical processes, we may find that a basic question asked by modern astronomy and space science- 'Is there life out there?'- should be rephrased. Organic life, as well as intelligence, may already be a property enmeshed in the fabric of the cosmos, brought to fruition through the spiraling dynamics of the solar system and the galaxy, built into the structure of the universe itself.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Space, Growth, Fruition

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2014). “2012: The year of the Mayan prophecy”, p.182, Hachette UK

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• Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed, and so, too, for the Tiwis, who dissolve the distinction between themselves and the cosmos. In quantum physics, subatomic particles influence each other from a distance, and this tallies with the aboriginal view, in which people, animals, rocks, and trees all weave together in the same interwoven fabric.

  Huston Smith

  Distance, Animal, Rocks

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• What evolution tells us is that we are part of a grand, dynamic, and ever-changing fabric of life that covers our planet. Even to a person of faith, in fact especially to a person of faith, an understanding of the evolutionary process should only deepen their appreciation of the scope and wisdom of the creator's work.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Fabric Of Life

  "Seals, evolution, and the real 'missing link'" by Kenneth R Miller, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2009.

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• Not stories told by wolf or man to frighten children, of Wolfbane and of werewolves, of grasht and goblins and of silly vampires, fables to frighten cowards with the threat of evil and of sin. But the power that lives beyond those stories, and makes them strong indeed, that lives in nightmares and in sleep. That is ribbed into the very fabric of conscious being. The power of love and hate.

  David Clement-Davies

  Strong, Children, Hate

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• I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.

  Khalil

  Eye, Reality, Looks

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