Needles Quotes

• Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

  Jewel

  Hypocrisy, Know How, Knows

  Song: Under The Water, 2009

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• No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Eye, Men, Rich

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• Fierce was her needle, and she wore it like a sword.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Fierce

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.83, Macmillan

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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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• If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

  Timothy Leary

  Moving, Doing You, Groove

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• Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Thread, Needle And Thread, Handle

  Ernst Hans Gombrich (1977). “Art and illusion: a study in the psychology of pictorial representation”

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• I boil my tears in a twisted spoon
  And dance like an angel on the point of a needle.

  Etheridge Knight

  Angel, Tears, Spoons

  Etheridge Knight (1973). “Belly song and other poems”, Broadside Pr

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• Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.

  Adolf Hitler

  Eye, Men, Discovery

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Having an exciting destination is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point - its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms

  Daniel Boone

  Night, Goal, Storm

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• No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.

  Myrtle Reed

  Men, Sea, Forever

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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• History is a needle
  for putting men asleep
  anointed with the poison
  Of all they want to keep.

  Leonard Cohen

  Men, History, Poison

  Leonard Cohen (2010). “Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs”, p.65, Random House

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• Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Funny, Dope, Political

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

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• Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.

  Charles Simic

  Firefighter, Poetry, Enough

  Charles Simic (1990). “Selected Poems, 1963-1983”, George Braziller

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• I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my scope now. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes.

  Sheena Easton

  Eye, Trying, Sticks

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• Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.

  Nell Carter

  Medicine, People, Sticks

  "Actress-singer Nell Carter dies", www.cnn.com. January 23, 2003.

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• I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

  Maria Mitchell

  Girl, Giving, Closets

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on.

  Gwen Ifill

  Country, Moving, People

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• We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use.

  Donna Shalala

  Encouragement, Drug Use, Program

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• If anyone ever boos you off stage, that is simply applause from ghosts.

  Sharon Needles

  Strong Women, Ghost, Applause

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• I'm scared of needles.

  Dwyane Wade

  Scared

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• I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. I did absolutely nothing.

  William S. Burroughs

  Taken, Years, Clothes

  "Naked Lunch". Book by William S. Burroughs, 1959.

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• I look for people who have a slightly different perspective and are trying to move the needle a little bit and push boundaries.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Moving, People, Perspective

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.

  James Hastings

  Fear, Heaven, May

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• To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle.

  Louise Erdrich

  Prayer, Men, Stitches

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• I recently forced myself to read a book on quantum physics, just to try and learn something new. I was confused by the middle of the first sentence and it all went downhill from there. The only thing I can remember learning is that a parallel universe can theoretically be contained on the head of a needle. I don't really know what that means, but I am now more careful handling needles.

  Stephan Pastis

  Confused, Book, Mean

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