Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.
– EH Gombrich
Related Quotes:
- He felt like a compass needle. The needle knows nothing about magnetic north; it only knows it must point in a certain direction, like it or not. – Stephen King
- To patch up a relationship, understanding is the needle, and love is the thread. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- I lie more convincingly than I tell the truth. – Simona Panova
- Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly. – Stephen King
- Stuffed cats are able to creep more convincingly than live ones. – Gnter Gr
- Denial is the way people handle what they cannot handle. – Shannon L Alder
- To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. – Eleanor Roosevelt
- Well to be fair, I said, I mean she probably can’t handle it. Neither can you, but she doesn’t have to handle it. And you do. – John Green
- Strength of character isn’t always about how much you can handle before you break, it’s also about how much you can handle after you’ve broken. – Robert Tew
- If a guy can’t even handle my words, I don’t think he can handle me as a person. – Anna Bayes
- Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. – Khaled Hosseini
- Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the needle. – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Jagged needle, wicked liesFrom under the skin, pluck evil eyes.Destiny change from pain and coldNow that you pay in blood and soul. – Lawren Leo
- Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle. – Veronica Roth
- The wealthy, Jesus says, can only get into heaven through the eye of a needle; the same applies to churches wealthy in numbers and programs. – Mark Galli
- Feeling my own humiliation in my heart like the sharp prick of a needle. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- When you prick a person with a needle, red blood comes out- that’s the real world. – Haruki Murakami
- He craved sex and chocolate. Chocolate was his heroin. Men were his needle. – Tom Cardamone
- She will not bow her head to any woman or man, so why, indeed, should she bow to a needle? – Libbie Hawker
- I am familiar with the phrase, -˜needle in a haystack’ and I think I understand its meaning more than I wish to. – David Sadler
- Wha…what are you smiling for…? If I’d swallowed that needle, I’d have died! It’s not like putting tabasco in ohagi!!! – Ryukishi
- They shared a sensation that was as addictive as a needle full of heroin to a street junkie. – Paige Dearth
- Push the needle into some middle range of guarded optimism. – Ron Suskind
- Again and again, the cicada’s untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth. – Yukio Mishima
- The thread connecting one person, one event, to another exists only in the imagination. – Marty Rubin
- That last bit of hope always lingered as a stubborn thread. Every time I would try to cut it I would feel it… a pulse. My pulse. My blood is hope. – Hubert Martin
- Not only are we not alone, we are a thread in a great tapestry that is rich, because we exist. – Lynne rumMurphy
- Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is thread, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. – Simone Signoret
- She will always be etched in my being, like thread sewn through the fibers of my very soul. – Trish Kaye Lleone
- Love is the thread with which we connect to the world. – Debasish Mridha
- Once spun,The silken thread of all our aspirationsRemains intact,It can never be broken. – Scott Hastie
- Carve your own adventure, bloom your own romance, thread your own signs – Noor Iskandar
- Words are the thread in the fabric of the universe. – Tiffany Reisz
- Trust is that tiny thread that holds your brand together; when trust is torn or tampered with, you will have a broken brand; your business will fall. – Bernard Kelvin Clive
- If you only attract Mr. Wrong or Ms. Crazy, evaluate the common thread in this diversity of people: YOU! – Valerie J Lewis Coleman
- Putting the past behind you isn’t like stuffing something in the back of a drawer or trimming a loose thread. The past has a life of its own. – Maggie Mitchell
- … the scarlet thread,the red clay from which we were made, runs in tiny streams through all our veins, reminding us of where we began… – John Geddes
- Only fools lay claims where lovers thread for when such love is renewed, lovers dance upon their heads. – Chinonye J Chidolue
- Our days and years are strung upon The thread that runs so true. The game of life is played and Lost to love. -Nancy JanesNancy Janes – Nancy Janes
- Each of us is a unique thread, woven into the beautiful fabric, of our collective consciousness. – Jaeda DeWalt