Quotes About Being Tethered

#1. It's like being tethered to an angel. Hell keeps calling me but I can't let go.

Tess Oliver

#2. She touched his hand for the last time. "Oh, Karim, that we have already done. But always there was a problem between us. How can I explain? I wasn't me, and you weren't you. From the very beginning to the very end, we didn't see things. What we did
we made each other up." p. 382

Monica Ali

#3. Yeah," he said, eyelashes lowering as his gaze traced the movement of her fingers. "It hurt me being away from you. It feels like there's a hook dug in under my ribs, and there's something pulling at the other end. Like I'm tethered to you, no matter the distance.

Cassandra Clare

#4. We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

William Ewart Gladstone

#5. I'm very pleased how my children have turned out.

Carol Vorderman

#6. And thank you for not putting it in your book.
And fuck you for not putting it in your book.

Lynn Coady

#7. Did you ever think, Clarice, why the Philistines don't understand you? It's because you are the answer to Samson's riddle. You are the honey in the lion.

Thomas Harris

#8. The weirdest love stories are always the best

Margaret Mazzantini

#9. A human being can spend only so much time outside her comfort zone before she realizes she is still tethered to it.

Sloane Crosley

#10. Once we realize that our essential sweetness is in our minds, and that each of us has unique life-path potential not fully tethered to a body-determined route, then it is as sensible to be transhuman as it is to be transgendered. The being is mightier than the gene.

Martine Rothblatt

#11. Without a doubt, the prospects (of China-US economic and trade relationship) are bright,

Patricia Russo

#12. People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim.

Amity Shlaes

#13. Despite outsiders being invited to write software, the iPhone thus remains tightly tethered to its vendor - the way that the Kindle is controlled by Amazon.

Jonathan Zittrain

#14. In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#15. Screwing business as usual fundamentally recognises that doing good is good for business.

Richard Branson

#16. I guess that's the difference in being loved the right way and the wrong way. You either feel tethered to an anchor ... or you feel like you're flying.

Colleen Hoover

#17. I don't think any human being is truly free. We're so tethered to our own insecurities and hampered by our fears and our prejudices. I think it's human nature that we're never going to be free.

Emily Saliers