Strings Quotes - Page 37

• The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in a crib, the continuing Christ under the appearance of bread on an altar, and a meditation and a prayer on a string of beads

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Christian, Prayer, Meditation

  Fulton J. Sheen (2010). “The World's First Love”, p.211, Ignatius Press

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• Faith is the silver thread upon which the pearls of the graces are to be hung. Break that, and you have broken the string - the pearls lie scattered on the ground.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Faith, Lying, Broken

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1963). “The New Park Street Pulpit: Containing Sermons Preached and Revised”

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• Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Writing, Together, Using Words

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• Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.

  Marya Mannes

  Inspirational, Generosity, Deals

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• I excel at pulling strings!” said Arachne. “I’m a spider!

  Rick Riordan

  Spiders, Said, Pulling

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• There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart. One sound comes from a chamber orchestra, the other from the beating of the heart's chamber. One comes from an instrument of graphite and wood, the other from an organ of flesh and blood. This loftier music I speak of tonight is more pleasing than the notes of the most gifted composers, more moving than a marching band, more harmonious than a thousand voices joined in hymn and more powerful than all the world's percussion instruments combined. That sweet sound of love.

  Michael Jackson

  Sweet, Powerful, Moving

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• What mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Knowing, Giving, Expectations

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Dec 16, 2011

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• I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Humanity, Holiness, Pearls

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Chicago Addresses”, p.21, Advaita Ashrama

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• Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.

  Tom Waits

  Ocean, Rocks, Hands

  Song: There's Only Alice, Album: Alice, 2002

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• You can have a silence full of words. A lute retains, in its bowl, the notes it has played. The viol, in its strings, holds a concord. A shriveled petal can hold its scent, a prayer can rattle with curses; an empty house, when the owners have gone out, can still be loud with ghosts.

  Hilary Mantel

  Prayer, Silence, House

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• Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspiring, Leadership, Fear

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• I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That's technical talk.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Play Hard, Guitar, Tunes

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• When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Kids, Cutting, Records

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• Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. But it could blow everybody's head off.

  Mary Karr

  Blow, Air, Hands

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• Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. If I had lived in China, I would have been an outlaw knot-maker.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Long Ago, Order, Buttons

  FaceBook post by Maxine Hong Kingston from Dec 10, 2012

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• Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Men, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.118, Penguin

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• It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself up out of the dark abyss of pish and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dog, Humor, Dark

  "On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1956.

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• You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

  Alan Cohen

  Delight, Kites, Littles

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• Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?

  Jules Shear

  Lows, Bottom

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• No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the case, they have a constitutional check upon the administration, which may thereby by brought into order without violence. But when such a power is not lodged in the people, oppression proceeds uncontrolled in its career, till the governed, transported into rage, seek redress in the midst of blood and confusion.

  John Dickinson

  Order, Careers, Blood

  John Dickinson (2009). “The Writings of John Dickinson”, p.364, Applewood Books

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• In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation as music.

  Roy H. Williams

  Music, Light, Essence

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• The Mandolin is the bottom four strings of the guitar, backwards...so a person with dyslexia has no problem learning to play the Mandolin.

  Steve Goodman

  Guitar, Play, Four

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• I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual. Thought after thought feeling after feeling action after action had H. for their object. Now their target is gone. I keep on through habit fitting an harrow to the string then I remember and have to lay the bow down. So many roads lead through to H. I set out on one of them. But now there's an impassable frontier-post across it. So many roads once now so many culs de sac.

  C. S. Lewis

  Grief, Thinking, Frustration

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.24, Faber & Faber

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• I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Black, Wish, Pearls

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don't allow the happy moment, because they're so busy trying to get a happy life.

  Esther Hicks

  Happy Life, People, Trying

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