Top 100 Quotes About Binding
#1. What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and binding and shipping, renewed and available whenever we open it.
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
#2. I'll be a straitjacketed bookworm burrowed into the binding of an insane, homicidal book, staring helplessly out from the pages of my own life, as they're writ by someone else, and I'd commit atrocities that would damn a saint's soul.
Karen Marie Moning
#3. Blame is a human concept, one of its blackest and most selfish and self-binding.
Patrick Ness
#4. Whenever a great thinker wants to make of himself a binding institution for future mankind, one may be certain that he is past the peak of his powers and is very weary, very close to the setting of his sun.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#5. It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment.
Swami Vivekananda
#6. I'll show that religion is (probably) an evolutionary adaptation for binding groups together and helping them to create communities with a shared morality. It is not a virus or a parasite, as some scientists (the "New Atheists") have argued in recent years.
Jonathan Haidt
#7. Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You're putting more of your attention into the transient world.
Frederick Lenz
#8. "In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#9. A promise is a commitment to do something later, and a vow is a binding commitment to begin doing something now and to continue to do it for the duration of the vow. Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.
Myles Munroe
#10. This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.
Malcolm Miller
#12. Paper Covers Rock is dazzling in its intensity and intelligence, spell-binding in its terrible beauty.
Kathi Appelt
#13. At early morn, with eager wills they rise, A shar'd endeavor binding them anew. The fast landspeeder o'er the desert flies - They go to find the errant droid R2.
Ian Doescher
#14. Religion means a binding. If a man does not feel himself a part of the Universe, and does not hear its pulse, he is not religious. But once he has heard that pulse, he will be hearing it always. Every day his life will replenish itself from this inexhaustible source, eternal and powerful as the sun.
Svetlana Alliluyeva
#15. It also bugs me when I hear about "Angelina's adopted son" or "Rosie's adopted children"
as if that word will always separate them instead of binding them together. Angelina's son and Rosie's kids and I sould get a regular apostrophe-plus-s like everybody else.
Kristin Chenoweth
#16. Destiny is like a book. It needs manufacturing, the pulp process, the glue fixed tightly
and it requires a binding, to hold it together, lest it fall apart.
Lavie Tidhar
#17. Love does not come to those who seek it, but to those who give love. It is a binding force between souls who have nothing to give but themselves to one another.
Harold Klemp
#18. And if they break their pledges -after the treaty they have made with you- and assail your religion, then fight the heads of disbelief - Lo! They are indeed not entitled to any binding oath.
Qur'an
#19. This must be what an addict feels like, I think,
trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story.
Jodi Picoult
#20. Affection expressed physically made friendship so complete and binding.
Gordon Merrick
#21. It may be a lot more personally rewarding to focus on the marvelous new equipment, but the focus should be on customers - attracting them, courting them, rewarding them, understanding them and binding them to you.
John Romero
#22. When any practice is proposed and enforced as a binding duty, we have a right to examine the grounds of the alleged obligation.
Adoniram Judson
#23. With a beautiful girl I could have consoled myself that she was out of my league; that I was so haunted and stirred even by her plainness suggested - ominously - a love more binding than physical affection, some tar-pit of the soul where I might flop around and malinger for years.
Donna Tartt
#24. Do not weep; for, look you, all Desire is Illusion and a new binding upon the. wheel.
Rudyard Kipling
#25. A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.
Thomas De Quincey
#26. I'd done such a foolish thing in binding myself to Rhysand. Rhysand, with the wings and talons lurking beneath that beautiful, flawless surface; Rhysand, who could shatter minds. I did it for you, I wanted to shout.
Sarah J. Maas
#27. Mona ... lots of things are more binding than sex. They last longer too.
Armistead Maupin
#28. People from context cultures tend to view personal bonds and informal agreements as far more binding than any formal contract. People from content cultures don't believe the deal is finalized until everyone has signed on the dotted line. And therein lies the potential for conflict.
Carol Kinsey Goman
#29. Being open is happiness and being closed is sadness. So free your mind from the prison of binding ideas and thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#30. What I'd truly been avoiding was love, the strongest binding there is, and the pain that scrapes at your insides when the bond is forcefully broken.
Kevin Hearne
#32. The Constitution itself, plainly written as it is, the safeguard of our federative compact, the offspring of concession and compromise, binding together in the bonds of peace and union this great and increasing family of free and independent States, will be the chart by which I shall be directed.
James K. Polk
#33. The warding off of anxiety is central to the time-binding, action-delaying, and cerebral functions of the human animal.
Ernest Becker
#34. He may not have yet seduced her into his bed, but he'd succeeded in seducing her into his life in countless other ways, each an invisible, silken knot, binding her to him as he lured her deeper into his world.
Karen Marie Moning
#35. Piter spoke to Jessica. "I'd thought of binding you by a threat held over your son, but I begin to see that would not have worked. I let emotion cloud reason. Bad policy for a Mentat."
-Piter De Vries
Frank Herbert
#36. Politics in America is the binding secular religion.
Theodore White
#37. Agreements have to be made in the dark for them to be binding.
Glenn Haybittle
#38. Like immense time-binding discussions, genres allow ideas to be developed and traded, and for variations to be spun down through decades.
Gregory Benford
#39. Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.
Jane Swisshelm
#40. Break free from the chains which shackle each soul through the binding links of fear, greed and indifference?
Bryant McGill
#41. A Supreme Court decision does not establish a "supreme law of the land" that is binding on all persons and parts of government, henceforth and forevermore.
Edwin Meese
#42. And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
Alexander Pope
#43. And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian.
Hjalmar Branting
#44. In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.
Charles Lamb
#45. I very much love a physical book myself. I think people who have had this experience of also seeing a book come together, from sitting down and writing the first word, to holding the binding in your hand, we have a deeper sentimental attachment to it than others might.
Edwidge Danticat
#46. Fear not; only believe. This is a time to make resolutions that will be binding upon you. This is a season to set standards that will hold you to the right course and make you happy now and in the years that follow.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#47. There should be resolutions adopted in top international institutions, which are binding on all states and governments in the world, to forbid the defamation of religions.
Hassan Nasrallah
#48. Now I feel adrift - except for the tether binding me here, to this girl at my side.
Amie Kaufman
#49. When I see an actress or actor drag deeply in a movie, I imagine the pyrenes and phenols ravaging the tender epithelial cells and hardworking cilia of their bronchi, the monoxide and cyanide binding to their hemoglobin, the heaving and straining of their chemically panicked hearts.
Jonathan Franzen
#50. A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.
Michael Howard
#51. Sun, moon, and stars, I told him. He inclined his head. Of all the years, this one with you has been my finest. Fire to my ice, Mac. Frost to my flame, Jericho. Forever, we said, and it was a vow far more powerful and binding than any ring or piece of paper.
Karen Marie Moning
#52. When I was at Berkeley, the framework of quantum field theory could calculate the dynamics of electromagnetism. It could roughly describe the motion of the weak nuclear force, radiation. But it hit a brick wall with the strong interaction, the binding force.
David Gross
#53. How can a governing party propose to its people a referendum that won't be binding? Is that a serious political programme? No it is not. It's the final option that will end up with upset, at a dead end, reflecting the last 4 years of the Ibarretxe Plan
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
#54. FURIES:
Over the beast doomed to the fire
this is the chant, scatter of wits,
frenzy and fear, hurting the heart,
song of the Furies
binding brain and blighting blood
in its stringless melody.
Aeschylus
#55. The identity of Hinduism lies in its wide-open structure which allows and let develop diverse and distinct ideologies and practices. With no governing body and no binding scriptures studies in Hinduism are individual exposures and understanding of its spiritual thoughts.
Promod Puri
#56. The Son of God took our nature, and in it took upon himself to teach us by both word and example even to the point of death, thus binding us to himself through love.
Peter Abelard
#57. One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.
Ken Livingstone
#58. The same ones who brought the children physically in the world have the natural obligation binding in the natural law to provide for the mental, moral and social upbringing of their offspring.
John Hardon
#59. All laws that are proper and correct, and all obligations entered into which are not violative of the constitution should be kept inviolate. But if they are violative of the constitution, then the compact between the rulers and the ruled is broken and the obligation ceases to be binding.
John Taylor
#60. All people are bound by ties and obligations, and the most binding ties of all are those between kin.
Kate Elliott
#61. We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding.
Deb Caletti
#62. Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.
Thomas Aquinas
#64. The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.
Beatrice Lillie
#65. For though the law of nature be plain and intelligible to all rational creatures; yet men, being biased by their interest, as well as ignorant for want of study of it, are not apt to allow of it as a law binding to them in the application of it to their particular cases.
John Locke
#66. Our thoughts and actions must in no way be determined by the approval or disapproval of our time, but by the binding obligation to a truth which we have recognized.
Adolf Hitler
#67. Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love.
Timothy Keller
#68. The law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole globe, is everywhere and at all times binding upon mankind.
Rufus King
#69. It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what are commonly called his 'natural, inherent, inalienable rights.'
Lysander Spooner
#70. They say that even a hateful connection is still binding.
Jo Min-Hyuk
#71. No oath can be too binding for a lover.
Sophocles
#72. There is something about libraries, old libraries, that makes them seem almost sacred. There's a smell of paper and must and binding stuff. It's like all the books are fighting against decay, against turning into dust, and at the same time fighting for attention.
Carrie Jones
#73. No man ever freely surrendered a portion of his own liberty for the sake of the public good; such a chimera appears only in fiction. If it were possible, we would each prefer that the pacts binding others did not bind us; every man sees himself as the centre of all the world's affairs.
Cesare Beccaria
#74. The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act of the whole people, the adoption of the Constitution was the merest farce and imposture, binding upon nobody.
Lysander Spooner
#75. It is precisely by binding things together that traditional visions perpetuate themselves and the prejudgments contained within them; and it is by insisting on prising things apart that we have liberated ourselves from them
Ernest Gellner
#76. He faced one last door. It swung open, and a hand on his back thrust him into the small room. The leg constraints were removed, and then the cuffs binding his wrists. Finally,
Rayven T. Hill
#77. An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes.
Thomas Southerne
#78. Love is the binding force of the universe. It is an ongoing flow that unites all of creation.
Victor Shamas
#79. All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
Otto Von Bismarck
#80. I am only a child yet I know if all money spent on war was spent on finding environmental answers, ending poverty, and binding treaties, what a wonderful place this Earth would be.
A. Zampolli
#81. understood the larger picture they were all participating in. Jesus was binding the principalities and powers over the land, and his next target was at Caesarea Philippi.
Brian Godawa
#82. The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to be bound by them.
Dahlia Lithwick
#83. It is perfectly evident ... that to thank the Lord in all things is not merely a courtesy, it is a commandment as binding upon us as any other commandment
Marion G. Romney
#84. In Paris extremes are made to meet by passion. Vice is constantly binding the rich to the poor, the great to the mean.
Honore De Balzac
#85. She waited. She waited so excruciatingly long that she could physically feel the time pass; a binding in her chest, her breath shallow and raspy. Silence seemed to stuff itself in her ears like cotton balls.
Daniel Younger
#86. Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
Henry Ward Beecher
#87. In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#88. We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.
Alan Chadwick
#89. Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined beings. Out of a mob a society has developed, chaos has been transformed into a manifold world.
Novalis
#90. But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
William Robertson Smith
#91. Duress impacts relationships in one of two ways. It either tears people apart... binding them tightly in a common objective.
Emily Thorne
#92. Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.
Sara Sheridan
#93. What is lawful is not binding only on some and not binding on others. Lawfulness extends everywhere, through the wide-ruling air and the boundless light of the sky.
Empedocles
#94. Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.
Wallace Stegner
#95. They say in the old tales that when a man and woman exchange looks the way we did, their spirits mingle. their gaze is a rope of gold binding each other. even if they never meet again, they carry a little of the other with them always. they can never forget, and they can never be wholly happy again
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#96. Mencheres dragged her screaming from me only an hour after our binding!" Gregor said. "I don't give a rot if Mencheres yanked her off your throbbing, rigid cock," Bones snarled. "Go dream a little dream, you sod!
Jeaniene Frost
#97. He really didn't like doing this to her, he was truly put off by the idea of binding such a free spirit. But
Erica Stevens
#98. Those who turn things around by themselves do not rejoice at gain or grieve over loss; the whole world is the range they roam. Those who are themselves used by things hate it when events go against them and love it when they go their way; the slightest thing can create binding entanglements.
Zicheng Hong
#99. Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that exist between people that bind.
Alexander McCall Smith
#100. The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.
Donald Hall
