Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one."
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Strings
113 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Vladimir Nabokov
Novelist
"if a violin string could ache, i would be that string."
W. Somerset Maugham
Novelist, Playwright
"[Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Even though you tie a hundred knots, the string remains one."
Aldous Huxley
Novelist, Essayist
"Words form the thread on which we string our experiences."
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"One's whole being vibrates like strings brushed by an invisible wind."
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"If a string has one end, it has another."
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"I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly."
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"No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully."
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"I have sounded the very base-string of humility."
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"Nobody heard records of you playing whatever the melody was on those low strings. It worked out good, you know, about 25 or 26 million records later. I guess it worked out alright."
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"There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string."
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"Nearly every major breakthrough innovation has been preceded by a string of failed or misguided executions."
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"Take but degree away, untune that string, and hark, what discord follows!"
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"Unused power was like a marionette with visible strings, nobody holding them. A compelling attraction: I could make it dance."
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"I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you."
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"It's weird. I guess I got so used to [g-strings] when I was really young that I just couldn't stand it anymore."
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"I felt as out of place as a left-handed violinist in a crowded string section."
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"Lay down the song you strum, And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum."
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"Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves."
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"Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents"
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"The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us."
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"I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its concepts."
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"As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music."
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"But once that string gets cut, kid, you can't uncut it. Do you get what I'm saying?"
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