#thread

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. ↗

— Gustave Meyrink

#earth #hidden #like #maintaining #read

Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together. ↗

— Robert Musil

#closer #drew #endless #glittering #like

My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread. ↗

— Rafael Palmeiro

#everything #hanging #here #i #life

There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#any #been #career #character #game

Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#down #endless #hands #into #little

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#events #find #happen #lives #order

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread. ↗

— Robert Burton

#cable #cord #draw #fast #forcibly

I have gathered a posy of other men's flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own. ↗

— John Bartlett

#ownership #thread #men

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years. ↗

— Simone Signoret

#chains #hold #hundreds #marriage #people