Quotes About Not Being Tied Down

#1. Side? I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side, little orc.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down
and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.

C.S. Lewis

#3. I thought of telling her that I was seeing a boy, too, or at least that I'd watched a movie with one, just because I knew it would surprise and amaze her that anyone as disheveled and awkward and stunted as me could even briefly win the affections of a boy.

John Green

#4. In our youths, many of us suspected that being tied down to a partner and family might constrain us. But after 40, even that landscape starts to shift. Many singletons turn inward and start longing for the things so many of us longed to be free of in our 20s.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#5. Because you see, when you're a strong person, people often look to you to take care of them. People look to you for help. People look to you for strength.
And when your life spins out of control, it's as if their lives are tied to your own and will come crashing down with yours.

Nessie Q.

#6. I really kind of liked the fluidity and not really being tied down. I saw the kind of people that were tenured and what happened to them there and I thought it was kind of death, really.

Robert Barry

#7. Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top of her contact lenses so that other traffic loomed menacingly out of nowhere like alien space cruisers.

David Nicholls

#8. The prey of fear, he, always curtailed, extinguished, thwarted by the dusk, work partly done, says to the alternating blaze, "Again the sun! anew each day; and new and new and new, that comes into and steadies my soul."

Marianne Moore

#9. Even to smile at the misfortunes of others is to do an injury.

Publilius Syrus

#10. We must get rid of the idea of fulfilling what people expect us to do, and start to do what we expect from our lives.

Paulo Coelho

#11. The great vicarious work for our kindred dead in our temples demonstrates both the justice and the fairness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

James E. Faust

#12. I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.

Mick Jagger

#13. [American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over.

Alec Baldwin

#14. My favorite college experience was probably leaving college.

Marshawn Lynch

#15. That boy was going to be the death of me.

Jessica Prince

#16. Some men just don't cotton to the notion of being tied down to one woman

Julie Garwood

#17. Why would anyone wish to be provincial in time, any more than being tied down to one place through life, when the whole reach of the human drama is there to experience in some of the greatest books ever written.

David McCullough

#18. Security was a mirage; being
tied down hardly counted when the other end of the rope had unraveled.

Jodi Picoult

#19. If I was told to sacrifice something to prove my devotion to God , if I was told to do what all monotheists are told to do and admire the man who said 'Yes I'll gut my kid to show my love of God.

Christopher Hitchens

#20. God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends.

Mackenzi Lee

#21. I was trying to find ways of not being pigeon-holed like that. I didn't want to be tied down by my accent. I wanted to play Americans. I don't want to ever be doing the same thing twice, and I just didn't want to repeat myself.

Carey Mulligan

#22. The deepest regret of yesterday can be made right by following the Savior today.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#23. My grandmother and both my parents worked in Bollywood.

Rohit Shetty

#24. Pay close attention to detail in whatever it is you are doing. Be specific and expect quality from your performance.

Robert Cheeke

#25. In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more freedom in fiction writing.

Maria Semple