Loosened As A Knot Quotes & Sayings

Isaac Watts, of course, is a hymn writer in the tradition of Congregationalism who lived in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century. He is very interesting and important because he was also a metaphysician. He knew a great deal about what was, for him, contemporary science. He was very much influenced by Isaac Newton, for example. There are planets and meteors and so on showing up in his hymns very often. But, again, the scale of his religious imagination corresponds to a very generously scaled scientific imagination. — Marilynne Robinson

Kadyn groaned. "I cannot believe this. I'm on lockdown over here, Patrick. I can't leave."

"I know," Patrick responded. "I've seen the news." Patrick lowered his voice to a whisper. "You don't think there's a connection, do you?"

Kadyn's eyes locked on Phil's as he collapsed into the chair across from Phil's desk. "Kri has a stalker with terrorist connections, the Pentagon has been peppered with bombs, and Kri's gone missing. Of course there's a connection. — K.S. Ruff

Don't be outraged, be outrageous. — Tom Robbins

I was basically raised to look for chances to get even with several families for stuff that happened 30 or 40 years before I was born. — Daniel Woodrell

'The grief didn't fade, but it changed into something I could carry around with me, a noose I wore around my neck. It wasn't until I saw you that the knot loosened.' — Sara Bell

We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city. — Michael Bloomberg

I was too much taken up with another interest to care; I felt beneath my feet the threshold of the strange door, in my life, which had suddenly been thrown open and out of which came an air of a keenness I had never breathed and of a taste stronger than wine. I had heard all my days of apparitions, but it was a different thing to have seen one and to know that I should in all likelihood see it familiarly, as I might say, again. I was on the lookout for it as a pilot for the flash of a revolving light and ready to generalise on the sinister subject, to answer for it to all and sundry that ghosts were much less alarming and much more amusing than was commonly supposed. There's no doubt that I was much uplifted. I couldn't get over the distinction conferred on me, the exception - in the way of mystic enlargement of vision - made in my favour.
("Sir Edmund Orme") — Henry James

From our myopia arose our dystopia. — Anthony Marais