Fastens Quotes

#1. If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. The iron bolt which so mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in gloomy prison, needs a heavenly hand to push it back.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#3. Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies.

Socrates

#4. The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

Rachel Cusk

#5. Prayer is the deliberate and persevering action of the soul. It is true and enduring, and full of grace. Prayer fastens the soul to God and makes it one with God's will.

Julian Of Norwich

#6. Writing stays. It fastens words down. A man can speak his mind and some nasty wee scuggan will write it down and who knows what he'll do with those words? Ye might as weel nail a man's shadow tae the wall!

Terry Pratchett

#7. Every one fastens where there is gaine.

George Herbert

#8. It is the hour of departure, the hard cold hour which the night fastens to all timetables.

Pablo Neruda

#9. Ashes have no fear to burn in hell
In your heart's paradise angels dwell
Rib cage fastens all sins of the wrong
Your bones will sing you mortality's song

Munia Khan

#10. A cabinet is a combining committee, a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the state to the executive part of the state. In its origin it belongs to the one, in its functions it belongs to the other.

Walter Bagehot

#11. I always knew one thing, that life is made bearable and possible and liveable by the relations of one human being to another, the individual love and gentleness between persons, or in any case, the unbreakable bond that grows and fastens lives together in all sorts of mysterious ways ...

Katherine Anne Porter

#12. The defect which one period of life fastens upon us, another will remove.

Publilius Syrus

#13. The iron bolt ... mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison.

Charles Spurgeon

#14. Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears.'
Well, she has opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say she blinds people. What she does is the contrary-she fastens their eyelids open, so they're never again in the blessed darkness.

Edith Wharton

#15. Flesh. The word must become flesh; the soul thirsts. On whatever crumb my eye fastens,

Anonymous

#16. I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.

Ehud Olmert

#17. Transition isn't pretty, but stagnation is hideous.

Nikki Rowe

#18. That has never been the question.
The question has never been to see,
how to turn good luck into misfortune,
but how to let good luck be.

Ian Hutton

#19. In many places an administrative approach prevails over a pastoral approach, as does a concentration on administering the sacraments apart from other forms of evangelization.

Pope Francis

#20. The club scene is terrible.

Ansel Elgort

#21. When I was young, men like my father would often come home and put on their smoking jacket over their perfectly ordinary trousers, as a way of relaxing in the evening.

Julian Fellowes

#22. I've found that when you roll up your sleeves and join people in their daily work, they tend to open up quite a bit and let you know what they really think about the issues facing our country and what kind of job they think the government is doing.

Bob Beauprez

#23. I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.

Joseph Stiglitz

#24. Miss Aubrey, come and have pity on us. We are reading novels and feel our manliness diminishing by the moment. Come restore our vanity, do, and tell us we look the dashing officers we once were.

Julie Klassen

#25. Cracking the Ice scores the literary equivalent of a hat-trick: funny, harrowing and finally, heartfelt. This book is a winner.

Gregory Neri

#26. In a foolish and loud manner he had argued politics; he had been rude in his disagreeing, and only the adroit tact of his host had sufficed to save the evening. How much I have to learn, Childan thought. They're so graceful and polite. And I - the white barbarian. It is true.

Philip K. Dick

#27. If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.

Jeff Beck

#28. Gratitude is what you feel. Thanksgiving is what you do.

Timothy J. Keller

#29. Where they come in the spirit of perpetual giving - the house that love built.

T.F. Hodge

#30. Thus I urge you to go onto your greatness if you believe it is in you. Think deeply and separate what you wish from what you are prepared to do.

Percy Cerutty