Knots Quotes - Page 9

• Oh thrice fools are we who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle know not that there is a kingdom before them then let our Lord's sweet hand square us and hammer us and strike off the knots of pride self-love and world-worship and infidelity that He may make us stones and pillars in His Father's house.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Sweet, Father, Pride

  Samuel Rutherford, Hamilton Smith (2008). “Extracts from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford”, p.49, Scripture Truth

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• They tied me back together, but they didn't use double knots. My insides are draining out of the fault lines in my skin, I can feel it, but every time I check the bandages, they're dry.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Together, Skins, Faults

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• A good mooring needs no knot, still no one can untie it.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Needs, Stills

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• Let people return to making knots on ropes, instead of writing.

  Laozi

  Writing, People, Taoism

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• All my life, up until that moment, I'd had a warm, protective blanket wrapped around me, knitted of aunts and uncles, purled of first and second and third cousins, knot-tied with grandmas and grandpas and greats. That blanket had just dropped from my shoulders. I felt cold, lost and alone.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Cousin, Uncles, Grandma

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.169, Dell

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• i laced my shoes with sorrow and walked a weary road dead end streets don't come undone with double knots wing tipped shoes that walk on air through vacant lots

  Saul Williams

  Air, Wings, Shoes

  Saul Williams (2012). “She”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• You sure you don't need your Prince Charming to come and save you?" The knot in my stomach evaporated. My Prince Charming huh. "Sure, do you have one handy?

  Ilona Andrews

  Needs, Charming, Stomach

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.31, Penguin

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• Where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Science, Ties, Atoms

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• That is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the mesh as strong as our own believing. Our own fears.

  Peter Heller

  Strong, Fear, Believe

  Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.218, Vintage

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• Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made of light, or what it meant to be the only person in the room who wasn't noticed--weren't sentences; they were knots in the wood of our bodies, places where our blood flowed backward. If you asked me, not that anyone ever did, the only words worth saying were I'm sorry.

  Jodi Picoult

  Sorry, Boys, Light

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.397, Simon and Schuster

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• Your fear remains strong. You are not ready to face your story, preferring instead to surround yourself with knots. Someday, they will strangle you.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Strong, Fear, Stories

  "Magic Study". Book by Maria V. Snyder, 2006.

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• In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Cutting, Soul, Progress

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• The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity. The wits of these happy days have discovered a way to fame, which the dull caution of our laborious ancestors durst never attempt; they cut the knots of sophistry, which it was formerly the business of years to untie, solve difficulties by sudden irradiations of intelligence, and comprehend long processes of argument by immediate intuition.

  Samuel Johnson

  Cutting, Years, Long

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.237

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• Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which-miraculously, it seems-merge into a significant event. It provides the neatest paradigm of the bisociation of previously separate contexts, engineered by fate. Coincidences are puns of destiny. In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot; in the coincidental happening, two strings of events are knitted together by invisible hands.

  Arthur Koestler

  Fate, Destiny, Hands

  "Bricks to Babel". Book by Arthur Koestler, 1980.

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• There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.

  Don DeLillo

  Taken, Thinking, Years

  "Mao II". Book by Don DeLillo, 1991.

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• Friends, you are lucky you can talk about what you did as lovers; the tricks, laughter, the words, the ecstasy. After my darling put his hand on the knot of my dress, I swear I remember nothing.

  Vidya Balan

  Laughter, Hands, Sensual

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• you shall tie the marriage knot with the ropemaker's daughter and the cawing of the crows will be your wedding song.

  Jacob Grimm

  Daughter, Song, Ties

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• If I spray it on the seat, lady gonna tie a big knot in the meat.

  Alice Cooper

  Ties, Meat, Bigs

  Song: I Better Be Good, Album: Zipper Catches Skin, 1982

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• But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would surely kill us.

  Glenway Wescott

  Men, Laughing, Silence

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• The woman who opens the door has a blue stain on her shirt and dark hair wound into a messy knot and the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. They're pale, like a lioness's, nearly golden, but they also look like they've done their fair share of crying, and we all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any.

  Jodi Picoult

  Beautiful, Eye, Dark

  "House Rules". Book by Jodi Picoult, March 2, 2010.

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• A double-edged sword One side destroys One releases I am your Gordian knot Will you release or destroy me? Follow truth and you shall: Find me on water Purify me through fire Trapped by earth nevermore Air will whisper to you What spirit already knows: That even shattered anything is possible If you believe Then we shall both be free.

  P. C. Cast

  Believe, Fire, Air

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Burned: A House of Night Novel”, p.161, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Knot the tie and go to work, unknot the tie and go to sleep. I sleep. I dream. I wake. I sing. I get out the hammer and start knocking in the wooden pegs that affix the meaning to the landscape, the inner life to the body, the names to the things. I float too much to wander, like you, in the real world. I envy it but that’s the dealio—you’re a train and I’m a trainstation and when I try to guess your trajectory I end up telling my own story.

  Richard Siken

  Dream, Real, Sleep

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• But you have to understand, American democracy is not like the system you have. We're not an ocean liner that sails across the ocean from point A to point B at 30 knots. That's not American democracy. American democracy is kind of like a life raft that bobs around the ocean all the time. Your feet are always wet. Winds are always blowing. You're cold. You're wet. You're uncomfortable -- but you never sink.

  Colin Powell

  Ocean, Wind, Feet

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• In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot.

  Arthur Koestler

  Two, Tangled, Coincidence In Life

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• Nothing great or new can be done without enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the fly-wheel which carries your saw through the knots in the log.

  Harvey Cushing

  Done, Enthusiasm, Saws

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