A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than to snatch the knotted cords from the hand of God and deal out murderous blows.
The greatness of common sense, and its title to reverence, appear in this, that it deals with vast complexity, that is, with the innumerable elements of a situation. Common sense discerns and judges a path through this knotted and tangled maze.
Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.
The task of the teacher of the Bible is to open up what’s closed, to make plain what is obscure, to unravel what is knotted and to unfold what is tightly packed.
Victory won't come to me unless I go to it; a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times
In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.
Whatever the mind does, the soul has perforce to suffer the consequences of it, because the soul and the mind are knotted together.
I met a solid rowing friend and asked about the Race. "How fared it with the wind," I said, "When stroke increased the pace? You swung it forward mightily, you heaved it greatly back. "Your muscles rose in knotted lumps, I almost heard the crack. "And while we roared and rattled too, your eyes were fixed like glue. "What thoughtwent flying through your mind, how fared it, Five, with you?" But Five made answer solemnly, "I heard them fire a gun, "No other mortal thing I heard until the Race was done. "
Go softly by that river side Or when you would depart, You'll find its every winding tied; And knotted round your heart.
Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown.
This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.
Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh has gone through; I dream of what it may go through.
we love what we love and who we love who we love and why we love why we love and find a falling shoelace knotted and strung between the fingers of strangers
