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• The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma. If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.

  Ramakrishna

  Desire, Trying, Way

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• [Percy] kept hoping things would get better for Annabeth and him, but their lives just got more dangerous, as if the Three Fates were up there spinning their futures with barbed wire instead of thread just to see how much two demigods could tolerate.

  Rick Riordan

  Fate, Two, Get Better

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• I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.

  Fred L. Turner

  Running, Successful, Thinking

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• Comment threads are the new therapy for people. They just go and post the worst things they can think of because they feel bad, and then other people start attacking them, and then they attack back.

  Chris Hardwick

  Thinking, People, Attacking

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. April 12, 2012.

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• I think love is the through line and it's universal and it doesn't matter what period of time, time or place, or people, that's something we all connect to. That's the thin thread that I think keeps it altogether.

  Rachel McAdams

  Love Is, Thinking, People

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• My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.

  Thomas Hood

  Tears, Needles, Hinder

  Thomas Hood (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood: With a Biographical Sketch and Notes”, p.149

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• Threads that drift alone will sometimes simply twine themselves together, without need for spindle or distaff: brought into each other’s ambit, they bind themselves tight with the force of their own torsion. And this same torsion can, in the course of things, bundle the resulting cord back upon itself, ravelling it up into a skein, returning to the point of its beginning.

  Jo Baker

  Together, Needs, Sometimes

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• Nothing is more gratifying as a Christian believer than being able to thread my faith and love for Jesus into my music.

  Chynna Phillips

  Christian, Jesus, And Love

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• I am a glutton for a beautiful hotel. I am so easily smitten by high thread counts.

  Gail Simmons

  Beautiful, Smitten, Hotel

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• I was given life because it was my time, and now I take leave of it according to the same law. Content with the natural sequence of these events, I am touched neither by joy nor by grief. I am simply hanging in the air ... incapable of freeing myself, tied by the threads of things.

  Zhuangzi

  Death, Grief, Air

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• Art is personal, originating from dreams, ideas, neuroses; art is shared, harkening back to the humans around the fire; art imbues pleasure and power by enabling people to know reality...Art is a necessity because it is a way of knowing...Is the need for truth physiological? Art exists out of time...images may be different bu there is always a repetition- a thread.

  Zelda Fichandler

  Dream, Art, Reality

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• Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness.

  Gustav Meyrink

  Running, Writing, Earth

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• Monofilament is what you use to go fishing. The line on your fishing rod is probably going to be black. You get to the end of the line and you tie on this clear plastic, thin thread called monofilament.

  John Badham

  Fishing, Ties, Black

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• This whole electric universe is a complex maze of similar tensions. Every particle of matter in the universe is separated from its condition of oneness, just as the return ball is separated from the hand, and each is connected with the other one by an electric thread of light which measures the tension of that separateness.

  Walter Russell

  Light, Hands, Oneness

  Walter Russell (1947). “The Secret of Light”, p.140, Рипол Классик

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• So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out.

  Michael York

  Destiny, Two, Titles

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• There are those who hold that there is a pattern to all that is said and done in this world, that no thing happens without reason nor out of time. As to that, I cannot speak, for I have seen too many threads cut short to believe it, but of a surety, I have seen too the weft of my fate shuttled on the loom. If there is a pattern, I do not think there is anyone among us who can stand at a great enough distance to discern it; yet I will not say that it is not so.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Distance, Believe, Fate

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.228, Macmillan

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• I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.

  Edgar Winter

  Love, Running, Common Threads

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• Questions are far more effective than defensive statements. They do not imply agreement, but they do convey interest and a desire to understand and facilitate an environment for peak performance, a central thread of effective leadership.... The next time someone accuses you of virtually anything, ask some questions. Resolving the situation may take more time, but the outcome will likely be more productive for both of you.

  Stephen Young

  Agreement, Desire, May

  Stephen Young (2006). “Micromessaging: Why Great Leadership is Beyond Words: Why Leadership is Great Beyond Words”, p.17, McGraw Hill Professional

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• It makes us a thread in a tapestry that has unrolled for centuries before us, and will unroll for centuries after us. We're midway through the loom, that's the present, and what we do casts the thread in a particular direction, and the picture of the tapestry changes accordingly. When we begin to to try to make a picture pleasing to us and to those who come after, then perhaps you can say that we have seized history.

  Kim Stanley

  Trying, Century, Midway

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• It's destiny! Perhaps it is the energy that pulls on the threads and, well, I'm just leaving it as it is meant to be.

  Liu Dan

  Destiny, Leaving, Energy

  Interview with Jane DeBevoise, www.aaa-a.org. March 25, 2010.

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• The beginning is never the clear, precise end of a thread, the beginning is a long, painfully slow process that requires time and patience in order to find out in which direction it is heading, a process that feels its way along the path ahead like a blind man the beginning is just the beginning, what came before is nigh on worthless.

  Jose Saramago

  Men, Order, Long

  "The Cave" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costa, Vintage, (p. 54), 2003.

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• Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic element, and the cross-threads as the technical, architectural, or abstract element. These threads are interdependent and complementary, and if one set is lacking the fabric does not exist. A picture with no representational purpose is to my mind always an incomplete technical exercise, for the only purpose of any picture is to achieve representation.

  Juan Gris

  Exercise, Mind, Doe

  "On the Possibilities of Painting". Lecture, Sorbonne, May 15, 1924.

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• I'm not religious, but I am spiritual. I have my own relationship with a being that I consider to be everywhere. All and everything. I don't need a church or a synagogue or a mosque. I don't need to kneel down, I don't need to stand up, I don't need to be hanging from a thread.

  Ron Perlman

  Spiritual, Religious, Church

  Source: variety.com

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• Think of all your experiences as a huge tapestry that can be laid out in whatever pattern you wish. Each day you add a new thread to the weaving. Do you craft a curtain to hide behind, or do you fashion a magic carpet that will care you to unequaled heights?

  Tony Robbins

  Fashion, Thinking, Magic

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Oct 21, 2014

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• Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.

  Jeanne Calment

  Parent, Excuse, Clinging

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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