It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable—like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us.
Already the dream was coming apart, its bright silk strands unwinding into nebulous emotions, little coloured clouds of feeling being dispersed by the movement of my waking-up mind. This is how it's always been with Light Bulb Fragment dreams; by the time I'm fully awake, they're gone.
Tears stung her eyes. She sank her knees next to the sleeping bench and gently raked strands of golden hair from him forehead. "Don't you die. don't you dare. I forbid it. " As if Han Alister had ever listened to anything she said.
I sense a thousand strands of sorrow are sewn into an inch of my spirit.
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.
By this he meant that all events, therefore, all men, are interconnected in an unbreakable web. What man does, no matter how seemingly insignificant, vibrates through the strands and affects every man.
The strands are all there; to the memory nothing is ever lost.
I got my hair highlighted because I felt some strands were more important than others.
String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect.
America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
Connection to Buddhism is strand in my life.
Jonathan Edwards developed a Calvinistic strand of the doctrine.
Contradictory strands create an essay that's richly ambivalent.
When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.
We should all oppose - as Darwin did - views manifestly in conflict with the evidence, such as creationism. . . But we shouldn't set up this debate as 'religion v science'; instead we should strive for peaceful coexistence with at least the less dogmatic strands of mainstream religions, which number many excellent scientists among their adherents.
The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can suddenly become someone else when previously hidden strands of his character are called to the fore by circumstance.
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.
The absence of a focal enemy, which is what the Cold War had provided; the complexity of the developments that are occurring that mean that the world is just extremely complicated - lots of different and competing stories and strands; the continuing reality of megaterrorism; and the dysfunctionality of our politics that has neglected the foundations of the U. S. role in the world; have altogether left us somewhat confused.
Climate change, demographics, water, food, energy, global health, women's empowerment - these issues are all intertwined. We cannot look at one strand in isolation. Instead, we must examine how these strands are woven together.
