Fabric Quotes - Page 2

Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture.

Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.

I'll always have songs with a farm connotation on my albums. It's in the fabric of my music, and I plan to keep it that way.

The surface of the Earth itself is an immense loom upon which the sun weaves the fabric of existence.

In an arch each single stone which, if severed from the rest, would be perhaps defenceless is sufficiently secured by the solidity and entireness of the whole fabric, of which it is a part.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being little. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. Modest humility is beauty's crown.

When you buy a piece of vintage clothing you're not just buying the fabric and thread - you're buying a piece of someone's past

I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric.

Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics and that there are no easy shortcuts to success. Their companies need ethics carefully sewn into their fabric.

Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.

Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life.

I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start.

The fabric of my faithful love No power shall dim or ravel Whilst I stay here - but oh, my dear, If I should ever travel!

I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.

Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously we weave the narratives of myth and folk tale into our daily existence.

Let us pick up again these lost strands and weave them again into the fabric of America, sort out the music from the sounds and again respond to the trumpet and the steady drum.

True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.

In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered to him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and chemically testing before purchasing, the dozens of soaps or fabrics or brands of bread which are for sale, economic life would become hopelessly jammed.

Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.

African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against her very existence. Strike down the institution of African slavery and you reduce the South to depopulation and barbarism.

People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.

Principles are deep fundamental truths... lightly interwoven threads running with exactness, consistency, beauty and strength through the fabric of life.

I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.