Fabric Quotes - Page 3

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.

Men's fashion has a certain heaviness in the fabrics and construction. But also there is a heaviness in the mentality.

When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

Faith ... is a conscious apprehension of something inevident, something which unlike this desk and this chair is not seen to be there, even if it enters into the fabric of our personal relations to reality with at least as much force, relevance, and moment as things which are seen to be there.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

Photographic cropping is always experienced as a rupture in the continuous fabric of reality.

We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.

As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.

My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place [cell 54 of Cairo Central Prison] taught me that he who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never, therefore, make any progress.

The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in them, but he isn't part of whatever the fabric is that makes a nation.

When learning is recognized in the fabric of life and encouraged, when families make their decisions based on what leads to more interesting and educational ends, children learn without effort, often without even knowing it, and parents learn along with them.

A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.

Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

We evolved as creatures knitted into the fabric of nature, and without its intimate truths, we can find ourselves unraveling.

We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.

The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority.

Everyone is the fabric and structure of existence.

Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.

Only an excellent fabric can originate an excellent fashion

If I want to calm down, I'll buy some fabric, get a pattern, shut myself in a room and stay there for days, really happy. And at the end of it, you get a bedspread or some curtains or something to wear - it's lovely.

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

Even an obvious fabrication is some comfort when you have few others.

I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.