Top 100 Binds Us Quotes
#1. Fate can save you and it can kill you. Either way, fate binds us through an invisible web of circumstances. Change one undesirable fate and another desirable fate is canceled out.
Cassia Leo
#2. I hear the beating of the waves you carry in your chest
That simple and that profound
This love that binds us
Folded in pieces inside love's soul.
Rachel Thompson
#3. Faith is the subtle chain which binds us to the infinite; the voice of a deep life within, that will remain until we crowd it thence.
Elizabeth Oakes Smith
#4. Everything that surrounds us becomes part of us, it seeps into us with every experience of the flesh and of life and, like the web of a great Spider, binds us subtly to what is near, ensnares us in a fragile cradle of slow death, where we lie rocking in the wind.
Fernando Pessoa
#5. Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. -Nelson Mandela
Michael Gallegos Borresen
#6. What shames us, what we most fear to tell, does not set us apart from others; it binds us together if only we can take the risk to speak it.
Starhawk
#7. If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.
Vaclav Havel
#8. It is knowledge that binds us; shared wisdom from ages past and new wisdom that we should all seek to embrace. Wisdom is our legacy; our refuge from the world of the ignorant and foolish. We chose this path that we might walk open-eyed into the future... undaunted by fear and lies.
Ted Naifeh
#9. There is more to this hijab than the whole modesty thing. These girls are strangers to me but I know that we all felt an amazing connection, a sense that this cloth binds us in some kind of universal sisterhood.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
#10. Bullshit is the glue that binds us as a nation.
George Carlin
#11. Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
Tryon Edwards
#12. And above all, clothe yourself with love, which binds us all in perfect harmony.
Colossians 3 14
#13. Love is everywhere. It is the tie that binds us each other, to the world we live in and to something above and beyond the world.
Morgan Scott Peck
#14. A glance, a word
and joy or pain befalls ... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny!
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#15. The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life
Orhan Pamuk
#16. Sorrow binds us - I will always cherish you - my only disillusionment is unspoken words ...
John Geddes
#17. The American Indians, the ancient Indians would say, the metaphysical ones would say: "Power binds us together." Power, for a while, makes us what we are, perceivers, luminous perceivers of reality.
Frederick Lenz
#18. Audiences respond in entirely different ways. One thing is unanimous - music binds us altogether.
Aleksey Igudesman
#19. It is the image in the mind that binds us to our lost treasures, but it is the loss that shapes the image. - Colette
Judith Viorst
#20. I profoundly believe that the power of food has a primal place in our homes, that binds us to the best bits of life.
Jamie Oliver
#21. When I am talking about "It Takes a Village", I'm obviously not talking just about or even primarily about geographical villages any longer, but about the network of relationships and values that do connect us and binds us together.
Hillary Clinton
#22. We have a stake in one another ... what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart.
Barack Obama
#23. I like to believe that we are more alike in our positive experiences than in our negative ones that what binds us is stronger than what separates us.
pg 139
Marcelo Figueras
#24. Hate binds us to the past and we're stuck in an unwanted emotion.
S.L. Scott
#25. It's the spark of love's memory inside your heart that recognizes them and most of the time they recognize you too. That spark is the magnet that always brings us back to each other. Like glue, it binds us together with an invisible cord from lifetime to lifetime, soul mate to soul mate.
Kate McGahan
#26. I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.
Khalil Gibran
#27. had given an oath and honor binds us to paths we might not choose.
Bernard Cornwell
#28. The feeling of having shared in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds us.
Alcoholics Anonymous
#29. Everyone is unique in every essence. Love binds us together in every sense.
Debasish Mridha
#30. This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document, of course, is the Constitution.
Mike DeWine
#31. It is the place of feeling that binds us or frees us.
Jack Kornfield
#32. We have one country, one Constitution and one future that binds us.
George W. Bush
#33. But now I'm wondering if I need it anymore, if we ever really need these words, "Dauntless," "Erudite," "Divergent," "Allegiant," or if we can just be friends or lovers or siblings, defined instead by the choices we make and the love and loyalty that binds us.
Veronica Roth
#34. It is an unfortunate discovery certainly, that of a law which binds us where we did not know before that we were bound.
Henry David Thoreau
#35. The good that binds us is Love, it comes from our Soul, it flows through our center, and connects us with everything.
Alex Grey
#36. It is still possible, after all, to forge a covenant that binds us not to God in obedience but to one another in mercy. We need only choose, this year, to keep the flame lit...
Emily Franklin
#37. Music offers the chords that binds us together.
Jeffrey Fry
#38. We both try to fight the rope that binds us, but the knots are too tight.
Corinne Michaels
#39. All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Benjamin Franklin
#40. Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side winning each battle. It blinds us to the fact that each team is composed of good people who have something important to say.
Jonathan Haidt
#41. Are you happy in your misery? Resting peaceful in desolation? It's the final tie that binds us The sole source of my consolation" "blue
Gayle Forman
#42. Genetically, 99.9% of the makeup of all human beings is identical, but we spend most of our time focusing on our differences. It may now be time for us to focus on what binds us together, such as our shared concerns.
Wilford Welch
#43. One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
Ralph Fiennes
#44. This is the land of dreamings, a land of wide horizons and secret places. The first people, our ancestors, created this country in the culture that binds us to it.
Hetti Perkins
#45. Habitual caution ties and binds us; it is as if we were dressed always in clothes and shoes that were several sizes too small.
Laura Huxley
#46. Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
Petrarch
#47. Faith is the sense of the soul that reaches out and perceives the mountain-moving, water-walking God. That touches the hem of the Healer. That confounds every other sense because it binds us to You.
Joan Campbell
#48. Love is what sometimes holds us and binds us when we're not so happy.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#49. You are the husband of my heart, and the love of my life. Wherever I am, whatever I do, you are joined with me and I with you. The part of me that matters will live with you forever. I accept the chain that binds us with joy, because in this unity I have known the purest freedom.
Madeline Hunter
#50. But if we believe that love is this powerful force that binds us together, and if this belief brings us happiness and stability in this tumultuous world, then what's the harm?
Cynthia Hand
#51. I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.
V.E Schwab
#52. What binds us together is love, and only love. For love is a Person. Love is God.
Catherine Doherty
#54. For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.
Bob Riley
#55. No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being ...
Benjamin Constant
#56. Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of the imagination. It binds us where we should be free.
Madeleine L'Engle
#57. We would also like you to know that the Church recognizes the riches of the Islamic faith - a faith that binds us to the one God.
Pope Paul VI
#58. It is said that blood is thicker than water. It is what joins us, binds us, curses us ...
Barnabas
#59. Right now we're both yard sales of emotions. A penny for pain. A dime for bitterness. A quarter for grief. A dollar for silence. It binds us together, but I don't want him to pay the price for the parts of me that are used and broken.
Courtney C. Stevens
#60. While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.
Bob Menendez
#61. No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
Emma Goldman
#62. We can wake up one morning and find that the technology of this virtual, inter-connected world wasn't the liberating force we thought, but binds us ever more tightly under the control of the money men.
Anita Roddick
#63. I steady him, he steadies me, the chain that binds us, the chain that sets us free.
- Ben Parish.
Rick Yancey
#64. Whatever binds us most, whatever is dearest to us, that is what we should offer the Lord. Doesn't a mother give her child whatever she thinks is the best?
Mata Amritanandamayi
#65. Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.
Annie Besant
#66. We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to your imperfections.
Donald Miller
#67. We call love what binds us to certain creatures only by reference to a collective way of seeing for which books and legends are responsible.
Albert Camus
#68. Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards.
Bradley Chicho
#69. Maybe we aren't so very different after all. There's good and bad in both of us, and that's what binds us together, for better or worse.
S.R. Grey
#70. The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.
Orison Swett Marden
#71. I would like to believe that the discovery of even a single fossil bacteria on Mars would teach us what we ought to know all along, and that is what binds us here on earth - all the diverse peoples here - is really much more profound than what seems to separate us.
Richard E. Berendzen
#72. Freedom is more than just a willingness to live; it is a force that binds us all. Being truly free is seeing America as our "heart and home." Uniting around a common good will help bring us together in true happiness into the future.
Phil Mitchell
#73. For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.
Helen Keller
#74. We're animals, I think we forget that. I think there is an ancient archetypal memory that still exists within us. If we deny that, what is the cost? So I do think it's what binds us as human beings.
Terry Tempest Williams
#75. Whatever binds us, ripples through us all. We might not all be shadow, but we are all human. I remind myself every night. I am a man. I always will be.
And I will always, fiercely, defend my loves, to the very end.
Let it come.
Carmen Dominique Taxer
#76. We are all American. If we believe that we are Americans, if we believe that what binds us together is what we have in common, then it must include the common language, and that common tongue is English.
Ernest Istook
#77. A banal mysticism, which is so banal that all the mysticism seems to have evaporated long ago, binds 'us' to the homeland - that special place which is more than a place, more than a geophysical area.
Michael Billig
#78. I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.
Sela Ward
#79. Americans seemed no longer united so much by common beliefs as by common images: what binds us became what we stand witness to. Nobody sees this as a good change.
David Foster Wallace
#80. Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.
Huston Smith
#81. God very commonly takes on the character of a husband to us. Indeed, the union by which he binds us to himself when he receives us into the bosom of the church is like sacred wedlock.
John Calvin
#82. When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty.
John Bates Clark
#83. In truth there is only one freedom - the holy freedom of Christ, whereby He freed us from sin, from evil, from the devil. It binds us to God. All other freedoms are illusory, false, that is to say, they are all, in fact, slavery.
Justin Popovic
#84. Here is what unsayable about us: Jonathan and I are members of a team so old nobody else could join even if we wanted them to. What binds us is stronger than sex. It is stronger than love. We're related. Each of us is the other born into a different flesh.
Michael Cunningham
#85. Why do we hold onto negativity? For some reason, we believe that others are affected by our experience of remaining upset, hurt or angry. Holding on to pain, anger, guilt or shame is the glue that binds us to the situation we want to escape.
Iyanla Vanzant
#86. Food binds us to our roots as strongly as any song or poem. Many of us have learned more about our ancestors in the kitchen than we ever will from a book.
Anna Thomas
#87. Ignorance is the root of everything that stands in the way of these attainments. Ignorance binds us to suffering; therefore ignorance has to be clearly identified.
Dalai Lama XIV
#88. A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#89. If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.
Madeleine L'Engle
#90. We learn the influence of our will from experience alone. And experience only teaches us, how one event constantly follows another; without instructing us in the secret connexion, which binds them together, and renders them inseparable.
David Hume
#91. There's a thread that binds all of us together; pull one end of the thread, the strain is felt all down the line.
Rosamond Marshall
#92. I would, but I can't. Like a cord between us, it binds me to you. where you go, i must follow. if you go to far, i am compelled to search for you until i find you. if i try to run, i would freeze in my steps and be made to turn back.
Alexia Purdy
#93. God's irresistible grace binds our wandering hearts to himself and frees us to love him back and overflow in love to our neighbors.
Gloria Furman
#94. The whole world believes that performing good deeds is dharma (religion). Performing good deeds is known as laukik dharma (worldly religion, that religion which does not lead us to self-realization but binds merit karmas).
Dada Bhagwan
#95. Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#96. Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.
Jonathan Haidt
#97. He knows of our anguish, and He is there for us. Like the Good Samaritan in His parable, when He finds us wounded at the wayside, He binds up our wounds and cares for us (see Luke 10:34). Brothers and sisters, the healing power of His Atonement is for you, for us, for all.
Sheri L. Dew
#98. Everyone has their weaknesses. What defines us is being able to acknowledge them and still find our strengths too.
Rebecca Espinoza
#99. Choice is the mortar that binds together the things that make us who we are.
Fennel Hudson
#100. I'm not a fan of religion. Religion ties people up and binds them and puts them back in chains but faith - true relationship - releases us to be all what God ever intended us to be. That's what I'm interested in.
Kathie Lee Gifford
