Quotes About Cutting Ties

#1. Even the greatest idea can become meaningless in the rush to judgement. To gauge an idea as feasible we must cut our ties to the status quo and find the balance between constructive criticism and judgment. Within that balance we will uncover crucial input for making our ideas a reality.

Shigeo Shingo

#2. I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.

Colin Firth

#3. I am succeeding quite well in my work and the future looks well. What special mission is God preparing me for? Cutting off all earthly ties and isolating me as it were.

Ellen Swallow Richards

#4. So this is goodbye?" he asked.
"No, goodbye was this morning." Harry's intake of air was audible. "This is cutting the majority of our remaining ties, I believe.

Zarah5

#5. It is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things.

Mary Martha Sherwood

#6. I am a dirty JEW.

Your Mom

#7. God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him.

Meister Eckhart

#8. You can cut the ties that bind but not without losing a part of yourself. You can walk away and hide from the people who made you, but you'll always hear them calling your name.

Lisa Unger

#9. Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful.

Haruki Murakami

#10. If an adversary didn't target our power plants but they did target the core routers, the backbones that tie our internet connections together, entire parts of the United States could be cut off. That would have a tremendous impact on us as a society and it would have a policy backlash.

Edward Snowden

#11. Quentin had told Spike that inking 'percussion' across your
knuckles was kind of lame. It takes more than ten letters to make
a badass knuckle tattoo. That was the problem with drummers.
They didn't listen. But they always seemed to get laid anyway.

Ros Baxter

#12. If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It's a huge responsibility.

Russell Crowe

#13. Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into.

Julio Cortazar

#14. There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.

Agnes De Mille

#15. Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,
the ties that have made others dependent on us,
and would cut them in two.

George Eliot

#16. The man who is free from credulity, but knows the uncreated, who has cut all ties, removed all temptations, renounced all desires, he is the greatest of men.

Max Muller