Cobwebs famous quotes
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Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck' - a world of evolution 'and unchanging causation'. It invited new ways of thinking. It demanded a new rationale for belief. With science's truths the only accessible ones, 'blind faith' was no longer admirable but 'the one unpardonable sin'.
-- Adrian Desmond -
I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven.
-- Augustus William Hare -
Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.
-- David Allen -
Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.
-- Diogenes -
A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.
-- John Fowles -
To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.
-- Margaret Deland -
He spoke so slowly, cobwebs could have formed between his words.
-- Scott Heim -
You're paved in my heart like an old road. Like the pebbles in a pebble field, dirt in dirt, dust in dust, cobwebs in cobwebs.
-- Shin Kyung-sook -
Ah, Meese has brought us her finest goblets! A moment, whilst Kruppe sweeps out cobwebs, insect husks and other assorted proofs of said goblets' treasured value.
-- Steven Erikson
