Warp Quotes

• The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Past, Made

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Two, Twists

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.94, Harvard University Press

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• I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Yarn, Broken

  Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

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• I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.

  Patrick Stewart

  Space, Bed, Continuum

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• Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As mans ingratitude Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. Heigh-ho sing, heigh-ho unto the green holly Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. Then heigh-ho the holly This life is most jolly. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friend rememberd not.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Art, Winter

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 174

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• We were so wholly one I had not thought That we could die apart. I had not thought That I could move,—and you be stiff and still! That I could speak,—and you perforce be dumb! I think our heart-strings were, like warp and woof In some firm fabric, woven in and out; Your golden filaments in fair design Across my duller fibre.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Moving, Heart, Thinking

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2007). “The Collected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay”, p.25, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.

  Theodore Bikel

  Movement, States, Caught

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• Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship. . . .It does not warp or shape or wrench a person to be anything other than what they are.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Real, Acceptance, Doe

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• Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds.

  Colin Greenwood

  Years, Two, Important

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.

  J. G. Holland

  Life, Running, Eternity

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 380), 1895.

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• Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor the woof of existence, but only the flowery edging upon its borders.

  Horace Mann

  Taken, Borders, Literature

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.105

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• Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

  Stephen Hawking

  Travel, Space, Rockets

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• By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Delight, Facts, Invention

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• By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Creative, Delight, Observation

  Letters and Social Aims "Quotation and Originality" (1876)

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• Words were dangerous when loosed. They were more powerful than cannon and more unpredictable than storms. They could turn men’s heads inside out and warp their destinies. They could pick up kingdoms and shake them until they rattled.

  Frances Hardinge

  Powerful, Destiny, Men

  Frances Hardinge (2011). “Fly By Night”, p.433, Pan Macmillan

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• Actively we have woven ourselves with the very warp and woof of this nation, - we have fought their battles, shared their sorrow, mingled our blood with theirs, and generation after generation have pleaded with a headstrong, careless people to despise not Justice, Mercy and Truth, lest the nation be smitten with a curse. Our song, our toil, our cheer and warning have been given to this nation in blood-brotherhood. Are not these gifts worth the giving? Is not this worth the striving? Would America have been America without her Negro People?

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Song, Cheer, Blood

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• I don't want to get too dippy about all this. If you take the view of the scientist and everything is in a state of vibration, then every note is a vibration, which has a certain frequency, and you know that if you put 40 beats into a frequency it's going to be the same note every time. You take that into infrasound and people can be made to be sick, actually killed. Taking it the other way, not to be too depressing, what about euphoria, etc., and what about consciousness being totally... no, I won't go into that one. Time warps.

  Jimmy Page

  Depressing, Views, People

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• All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. We quote not only books and proverbs, but arts, sciences, religion, customs, and laws; nay, we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs, by imitation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Book, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.94, Harvard University Press

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• How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Creativity, Ideas

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• If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Fall, Night, Men

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1941). “Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture: selected writings 1894-1940”

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• The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth.

  Ella Maillart

  Running, Dying, Woven

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• The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or the breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail nicked in the garden soil.

  John Steinbeck

  Girl, Garden, Sight

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.33, Penguin

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• Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

  Henry Ford

  Success, Business, Work

  Henry Ford (1922). “Ford Ideals: Being a Selection from "Mr. Ford's Page" in The Dearborn Independent”

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• What affects one thing affects, in some way, all things: All is interwoven into the continuous fabric of being. Its warp and weft are energy, which is the essence of magic.

  Starhawk

  Essence, Magic, Energy

  Starhawk (1999). “Spiral Dance: Slipcase”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.

  Marge Piercy

  Happiness, Strong, Work

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