#beads

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#finance #follow #heroes #like #off

I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#beads #board #came #directed #dozen

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#control #crow #dropping #golden #important

Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#american #american culture #baskets #beads #contemporary

The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing. ↗

— David Selby

#because #had #hung #i #i wish

Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety. ↗

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

#changes #day #form #like #only

Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#babbling #beads #believe #consists #many

I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material. ↗

— Emmylou Harris

#band #beads #gives #i #like

When I was a kid, I was trendier. I'd wear anything. I was in love beads and platforms. ↗

— Michael Kors

#beads #i #kid #love #platforms

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#another #beads #byron #child #feel