Quotes of Tangle - somelinesforyou

“ There's a lot of confusion. ”

- Robert Townsend

“ In all the mazes of metaphorical confusion. ”

- Junius

“ There was a lot of tabloid journalism about my supposed sex addiction. Bullshit. It's all bullshit. I mean, come on, I never pretended to be a saint. But give me a break. ”

- Michael Douglas

“ Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful. ”

- Anacharsis

“ The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion. ”

- Macneile Dixon

“ Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear their leading you out of the labyrinth, in the easiest manner possible. The knot which you thought a Gordian one will untie itself before you. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. ”

- Antoine de Saint Exupéry

“ All over the web there are some very good critics and it's become for people who are interested. It's become a very good way to get to reviews and involve yourself in discussions. ”

- Roger Ebert

“ By the end of the 1970s Britain was in a mess. ”

- Kenneth Baker

“ There's no turmoil. There is no confusion. ”

- Larry Brown

“ At this critical time, CMS should have a user-friendly, informative and easy to understand Medicare Web page,... Unfortunately, the only web at the current Medicare site is a web of confusion. ”

- Frank Lautenberg

“ Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk. ”

- Bible

“ Success can be wracking and reproachful, to you and those close to you. It can entangle you with legends that are consuming and all but impossible to live up to. ”

- Gordon Parks

“ Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity. ”

- Michael J. Gelb

“ You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing… ”

- Elwyn Brooks White

“ I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person. ”

- Martha Gellhorn

“ When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying… ”

- Antoine de Saint Exupéry

“ There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer, no disease that enough love will not heal, no door that enough love will not bridge, no wall that enough love will not throw down, no sin that enough love will not redeem… It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake… ”

- Emmet Fox

“ You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies… ”

- E. B. White

“ Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. ”

- Eudora Welty
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