Untie The Knot Quotes & Sayings

It is easy to tie someone with love, but it takes a lifetime to untie the knot of love. — Debasish Mridha

O time, thou must untangle this, not I.
It is too hard a knot for me t'untie. — William Shakespeare

Let silence in.
She will rarely speak or mew,
She will sleep on my bed
And all I have ever been
Either false or true
Will live again in my head.
For it is now or not
As old age silts the stream,
To shove away the clutter,
To untie every knot,
To take the time to dream,
To come back to still water. — May Sarton

Each piece of the set was on a winch and pulley, bag-dropped, counterbalanced by nests of fifty-pound bags of sand. The setup was called a "Fairbanks," for the reason that when a stagehand so wanted, he could stand upon a knot on the rope, untie as few or as many bags of sand as he wanted, and ride nearly to the rafters like Zorro as the scenery lowered.
There was no particular reason to ride that way, but because Carter allowed it, the team of men did so all night long, trading places at the top, jumping onto the ropes and riding back down later. With the mighty Egyptian set descending in its many pieces, the audience was deprived of a behind-the-scenes tableau of beauty: Carter's team swiftly riding ropes up to the catwalk and down to the stage again, simply because they could. — Glen David Gold

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. — Jean Cocteau

We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie. — Michael Ondaatje

A change in thought can change a lot. A change thought can untie and untangle the knot — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for this life. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Batter my heart, three-person'd God ; for you
As yet but knock ; breathe, shine, and seek to mend ;
That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend
Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
I, like an usurp'd town, to another due,
Labour to admit you, but O, to no end.
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
But is captived, and proves weak or untrue.
Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,
But am betroth'd unto your enemy ;
Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me. — John Donne

Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you make the big leap; the opportunity to express yourself is offered that once, and you untie the knot within you then or never again. — Italo Calvino

I begin to love this creature, and to anticipate her birth as a fresh twist to a knot, which I do not wish to untie. — Mary Wollstonecraft

If you're at the end of your rope ... untie the knot in your heart. — Cooper Edens

Worship is directed to the Other in himself, to his all-sufficiency, but now it refers itself to the Other who alone can extricate me from the knot that I myself cannot untie. — Pope Benedict XVI

You know he was dealing drugs?' asked Hunter. 'Yes, small time, I'm told.' 'I wonder whether that could be related though, if he was murdered, that is?' 'It's certainly one line of enquiry but we have several at the moment and, as I say, I have no real evidence that he was murdered. All I have is the knowledge that his knot wouldn't just untie itself.' Hunter agreed to — Damien Boyd

I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot which I do not wish to untie. Men are spoilt by frankness, I believe, yet I must tell you that I love you better than I supposed I did, when I promised to love you forever ... I feel it thrilling through my frame, giving and promising pleasure. — Mary Wollstonecraft

A good mooring needs no knot, still no one can untie it. — Laozi

But how did you do that? How did two people move backward through time and untie a knot that had tangled through every moment of their lives? — Kristin Hannah

Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being. — Rumi

With thoughtless and impatient hands We tangle up the plans The Lord hath wrought. And when we cry in pain He saith, "Be quiet, man, while I untie the knot." (Author unknown, in Jack M. Lyon et al., Best-Loved Poems of the LDS People [1996], 304) — Boyd K. Packer