Strings Quotes - Page 26

• As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the repetitious plucking of a single overwound string.

  Arthur Nersesian

  Ambition, Self, Components

  Arthur Nersesian (2009). “The Fuck Up”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• It's the devil who pulls the strings that make us dance

  Charles Baudelaire

  Devil

  Charles Baudelaire (1961). “Baudelaire: Introduced and edited by Francis Scarfe, with plain prose translations of each poem”

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• History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Passion, Men, Thinking

  R. Scott Bakker (2010). “The Darkness That Comes Before: Book 1 of the Prince of Nothing”, p.265, Hachette UK

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• I am a kite in a tornado but I have a long string. There is tension in my line. Somewhere, someone is holding onto the other end and, although it cannot spare me this storm, it will not let me be lost while I regain my strength. It is enough.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Long, Storm, Kites

  Karen Marie Moning (2009). “Dreamfever: Fever Series”, p.42, Delacorte Press

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• Every paper girl needs at least one string.

  John Green

  Girl, Needs, Paper

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.467, Penguin

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• You could string a hundred endless days together, My soul would find no comfort from this pain. You laugh at my tale? You may be educated But you haven’t learned to love till you’re insane

  Rumi

  Pain, Laughing, Soul

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• We saw too much beauty to be cynical, felt too much joy to be dismissive, climbed too many mountains to be quitters, kissed too many girls to be deceivers, saw too many sunrises not to be believers, broke too many strings to be pro's and gave too much love to be concerned where it goes.

  Glen Hansard

  Girl, Cynical, Joy

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• I'm not saying I wouldn't play a seven-string. It's just that I've never needed one. Most dudes who play seven-strings don't sound any different than someone playing a six-string that's tuned down.

  Dimebag Darrell

  Play, Sound, Different

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• Revival, as contrasted with a Holy Ghost atmosphere is a clean- cut breakthrough of the Spirit, a sweep of Holy Ghost power, bending the hearts of hardened sinners as the wheat before the wind, breaking up the fountains of the great deep, sweeping the whole range of the emotions, as the master hand moves across the harp strings, from the tears and cries of the penitent to the holy laughter and triumphant joy of the cleansed.

  Norman Grubb

  Laughter, Moving, Heart

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• First think of the person who lives in disguise, Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies. Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend, The middle of middle and the end of end? And finally give me the sound often heard During the search for a hard-to-find word. Now string them together, and answer me this, Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Kissing, Thinking

  J. K. Rowling, “Sphinx's RIDDLe”

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• Some men […] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced. A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.

  Robert Jordan

  Greatness, Men, Wheel Of Time

  Robert Jordan (2009). “The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.253, Tor Books

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• I like the strings. I always have. Because that's how it feels. But the strings make pain seem more fatal than it is, I think. We're not as frail as the strings would make us believe. And I like the grass, too. The grass got me to you, helped me to imagine you as an actual person. But we're not different sprouts from the same plant. I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well – but never quite perfectly, you know?

  John Green

  Pain, Believe, Thinking

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.301, A&C Black

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• For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else might be possible? Water may be older than light, diamonds crack in hot goat's blood, mountaintops give off cold fire, forests appear in mid-ocean, it may happen that a crab is caught with the shadow of a hand on its back, and that the wind be imprisoned in a bit of knotted string. And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.

  Annie Proulx

  Pain, Ocean, Fire

  "The Shipping News". Book by Annie Proulx, 1993.

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• Extending his senses, Lorkin tried again to hear his mother’s surface thoughts. What he picked up seemed too out of character, however. He must be imagining it. Though…it was also odd that he would imagine his mother thinking such a string of curse words.

  Trudi Canavan

  Mother, Character, Thinking

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• Always face what you fear. Have just enough money, never too much, and some string. Even if it’s not your fault, it’s your responsibility. Witches deal with things. Never stand between two mirrors. Never cackle. Do what you must do. Never lie, but you don’t always have to be honest. Never wish. Especially don’t wish upon a star, which is astronomically stupid. Open your eyes, and then open your eyes again.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stars, Lying, Stupid

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• A spider lives inside my head Who weaves a strange and wondrous web Of silken threads and silver strings To catch all sorts of flying things, Like crumbs of thoughts and bits of smiles And specks of dried-up tears, And dust of dreams that catch and cling For years and years and years...

  Shel Silverstein

  Dream, Dust, Years

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• My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge.

  Dick Dale

  Philosophy, Gauges, Woods

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• When you see contention amongst your enemies, go and sit at ease with your friends; but when you see them of one mind, string your bow, and place stones upon the ramparts.

  Saadi

  War, Mind, Enemy

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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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• hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.

  Robert Jordan

  Pieces, Enough, Drowning

  Robert Jordan (2000). “The Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.315, Macmillan

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• Success goes to those who dare to dream. And sometimes you have to take a little "scary action," as well. - Joe Vitale
  True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Success, Dream, Scary

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• If you know the music the moment the violin string begins to vibrate, then you know how to navigate through the forest of brambles and entanglements with freedom and ease. If, on the other hand, you think that with practice the forest of brambles and entanglements will altogether disappear, then right from the beginning you are hopelessly entangled and won't find your way.

  John Daido Loori

  Music, Freedom, Thinking

  John Daido Loori (2009). “The True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Three Hundred Koans”, p.169, Shambhala Publications

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• In all my life, I'd never been as sure of anything, and as much as I hoped to one day hear Savannah say these words to me, what mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Knowing, Giving, Expectations

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• Lookin back on it at least my pride is in tact cause we said no strings attached and I still got tied up in that

  Drake

  Life, Breakup, Pride

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• The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent of how I react to it. And so it is with you. we are in charge of our attitudes.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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