Knots Quotes - Page 2

• Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

  Jean Cocteau

  Life, Art, Children

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• Looking back over sixty-odd years, life is like a piece of string with knots in it, the knots being those moments that live in the mind forever, and the intervals being hazy, half-recalled times when I have a fair idea of what was happenng, in a general way, but cannot be sure of dates or places or even the exact order in which events took place.

  George MacDonald Fraser

  Order, Years, Ideas

  George MacDonald Fraser (1992). “Quartered safe out here: a recollection of the war in Burma”, Harvill Press

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• Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.

  Fred Rogers

  Different, Problem, Seems

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.78, Penguin

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• Chance. It weaves through our lives like a golden thread, sometimes knotting, tangling, and breaking along the way. Loose threads are left hanging, but the in and out, the back and forth continues, the weaving goes on. It doesn't stop.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Left Hanging, Goes On, Golden

  Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Miles Between”, p.212, Macmillan

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• Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.

  Kiera Cass

  Taken, Tangled, Sometimes

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• When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

  Jennifer Stone

  School, Dark, Rope

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• But courage wasn't an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.

  Ann Aguirre

  Fighting, Absence, Stomach

  Ann Aguirre (2014). “The Razorland Trilogy”, p.871, Macmillan

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• God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him.

  Meister Eckhart

  Cutting, Knowing Who You Are, Drawing

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• All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.

  A. E. Housman

  Lying, Ties, Lovers

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.24, Delphi Classics

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• But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life - find the knot - untangle it.

  Martha Ostenso

  Thread, Threads Of Life

  Martha Ostenso (1929). “The Young May Moon”

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• And I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

  Edith Wharton

  Marriage, Pain, Ties

  "The letters of Edith Wharton".

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• With knot of one, the spell's begun. With knot of two, the spell be true. With knot of three, the spell is free. With knot of four, the power is stored. With knot of five, the spell with thrive. With knot of six, this spell I fix.

  Deborah Harkness

  Two, Three, Four

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• In this age of video games and cell phones, there must still be a place for knots, tree houses, and stories of incredible courage.

  Conn Iggulden

  Cells, Games, Phones

  "The Dangerous Book for Boys". Book by Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden, June 2006.

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• Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.

  Ted Shackelford

  I Love You, Romantic, Short Love

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• Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing.

  Ted Shackelford

  Landing

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• I have discovered the value of psychology and psychiatry, that their teachings can undo knots in us and permit life to flow again and aid us in becoming more truly human.

  Jean Vanier

  Teaching, Psychology, Flow

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• If you're at the end of your rope . . . untie the knot in your heart.

  Cooper Edens

  Heart, Rope, Ends

  Cooper Edens (2007). “If You're Afraid of the Dark, Remember the Night Rainbow/Add One More Star to the Night”, p.4, Chronicle Books

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• To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Cutting, Men, Simplicity

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• There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface. When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet

  Adrienne Rich

  Unseen, Looks, Patterns

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of subject must be introducted; verbs must be shifted to unsuspected localities; short words must be excised with ruthless hand; archaisms must be sprinkled like sugar-plums upon the concoction; the fatal human tendency to say things straightforwardly must be detected and defeated by adroit reversals; and, if a glimmer of meaning yet remain under close scrutiny, it must be removed by replacing all the principal verbs by paraphrases in some dead language.

  Aleister Crowley

  Hands, Plums, Verbs

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• Either things happen for a reason, or they happen for no reason at all. Either one's life is a thread in a glorious tapestry or humanity is just a hopelessly tangled knot.

  Neal Shusterman

  Tangled, Humanity, Life Is

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnWholly”, p.382, Simon and Schuster

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• Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then I was born...Yet that is not so. Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole. - Vida Winter

  Diane Setterfield

  Winter, Thinking, Important

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Edgar Friedenberg

  Teenage, Patterns, Life Is

  Edgar Z. Friedenberg (1965). “Coming of Age in America”

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  Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.

  Laozi

  Education, Tao Te Ching, Intelligence

  Laozi, Lao-Tzu, Stephen Addiss, Stanley Lombardo (2007). “Tao Te Ching”, p.55, Shambhala Publications

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• The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.

  Anita Diament

  Beautiful, Necklaces, Painful

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