Quotes and Sayings About Tangled
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A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand.
-- Ann Brashares -
Oh, the inmates and the prisoners I found they were my kind And it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind But the jails they were too crowded Institutions overflowed So they turned me loose to walk upon Life's hurried tangled road
-- Bob Dylan -
So now I'm going back again I got to get her somehow All the people we used to know They're an illusion to me now Some are mathematicians Some are carpenter's wives Don't know how it all got started I don't what they're doing with their lives But me I'm still on the road Heading for another joint We always did feel the same We just saw it from a different point of view Tangled up in Blue.
-- Bob Dylan -
Europe is not a bright spot; it's all tangled up in its knickers with all that regulation.
-- Bobby Miller -
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The honeysuckle was everywhere the day the letter arrived, like heat. Wild roses bloomed in hedges of tendrils and perfume. There were fat bees, dirigible bees, plump and miniature. It was a sweet, tangled morning, and the sun rose, leisurely, in a spectacular blush.
-- Cathleen Schine -
Here was my first lesson on the resolutely maintained untidiness and ill-health of the English upper orders. In baggy evening dress and old before their time, they displayed gapped and tangled teeth in loosely open mouths. Gently shedding dandruff, they lurched across the lawn. When they stood at the bar they looked like Lee Trevino Putting.
-- Clive James -
I know already that I will return to this day whenever I want to. I can bid it alive. Preserve it. There is a still point where the present, the now, winds around itself, and nothing is tangled. The river is not where it begins or ends, but right in the middle point, anchored by what has happened and what is to arrive.
-- Colum McCann -
I get all tangled up in your ribbons.
-- Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry -
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It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass, till they could crowd no more, and the plant was dying. Now quietly, subtly, she was unravelling the tangle of his consciousness and hers, breaking the threads gently, one by one, with patience and impatience to get clear.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate Level
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History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.
-- Eamon DuffySource : Eamon Duffy (2006). “Faith of Our Fathers”, p.77, A&C Black
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A gentleman can hardly continue to sit,' he explained, in his serenest and most level voice, 'when he asks a very remarkable young lady to do him the honor of marrying him. And - 'he somehow contrived to grin at me wickedly, 'I usually get what I want, Miss Grahame,' he added, and pitched over in a tangled heap on the floor.
-- Elizabeth Marie Pope -
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Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble. He takes particular delight in reminding us how easily fools are parted from their money and how many of them there are.
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I can see no practical application of molecular biology to human affairs... DNA is a tangled mass of linear molecules in which the informational content is quite inaccessible.
-- Frank Macfarlane BurnetSource : "Immunological Surveillance". Book by Burnet, F.M., Pergamon Press, pp. 240-241, 1970.
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This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.
-- Haruki Murakami -
It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened. Some tangled knots only made sense once unraveled.
-- Hugh HoweySource : Hugh Howey (2013). “Wool”, p.479, Simon and Schuster
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Biblical references about knowledge and good and evil often get tangled up.
-- James Rollins -
And the sun had on a crown Wrought of gilded thistledown, And a scarf of velvet vapor And a raveled rainbow gown; And his tinsel-tangled hair Tossed and lost upon the air Was glossier and flossier Than any anywhere.
-- James Whitcomb RileySource : James Whitcomb Riley (2010). “Riley Child-Rhymes with Hoosier Pictures”, p.106, Indiana University Press
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They leave things behind sometimes, the guests. A bottle of scent. A crumpled handkerchief. A pearl button that fell off a dress and rolled under a bed. And sometimes they leave other sorts of things. Things you can't see. A sigh trapped in a corner. Memories tangled in the curtains. A sob fluttering against the windowpane like a bird that flew in and can't get back out. I can feel these things. They dart and crouch and whisper.
-- Jennifer Donnelly -
Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.
-- John CarrollSource : John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.119, Taylor & Francis
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Every heart is a package tangled up in knots someone else tied.
-- Josh RitterSource : Song: Kathleen, Album: Hello Starling
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I pulled Lena's necklace out of my pocket. I let the charms roll around in my palm, but they were tangled and meaningless without her. The necklace was heavier than I imagined, or maybe it was the weight of my conscience.
-- Kami Garcia -
I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.
-- Karen AllenSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
-- Kate ChopinSource : 1899 The Awakening, ch.6.
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Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.
-- Kiera Cass -
Your hair is a tangled mess,"he said, thinking he liked it that way, like a lion's mane.
-- Kim Harrison -
Forgetting your mission leads, inevitably, to getting tangled up in details-details that can take you completely off your path.
-- Laurie Beth JonesSource : Laurie Beth Jones (1998). “The Path: Creating Your Mission Statement for Work and for Life”, Hyperion
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Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose adjustment so that it may be endurable is an extraordinarily troublesome matter.
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Hangovers are a vivid form of vengeance. Last night my apartment became the venue for a small, introverted chardonnay festival. A melancholy choir of Bulgarians provided the entertainment, via a set of headphones that ended up irredeemably tangled beneath the bed. Part of me just watched. The other part was in charge.
-- Liz JensenSource : Liz Jensen (2009). “The Rapture”, p.101, A&C Black
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Spending some time getting quiet can really be the best remedy for tangled situations. Taking a step back from all the emotion, frustration, and exhaustion to sit quietly with Jesus will do more to untangle a mess than anything else I've ever found.
-- Lysa TerKeurst