Top 88 Quotes About Tethered
#1. Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.
Anne Lamott
#2. We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
Agnes Repplier
#3. Josh joined her at the window. She let him look. He should know that the world was not all lessons and iguanas and Nintendo. It was also this muddy simple boy tethered like an animal.
George Saunders
#4. That beast inside you, the one you think is tethered tightly to the post, the one you've tamed with art, love, prayer, meditation: it's barely muzzled. The knot is weak. The post is brittle. All it takes is two words and a siren to cut it loose.
Adrian J. Walker
#5. He tethered me to him, my magnetic north, while my mind went here or there. I always knew. Somehow I always knew.
T.J. Klune
#6. After so many years drifting, not connected to anything, I'm finally tethered. Safe and loved, in the middle.
We start senior year like kings, like nothing can ever tear us apart.
We're wrong.
Abigail Haas
#7. It felt great to be loved. Children... Children are a hazard to your life... As they'd got older they had become more expensive. But it was worth it. If she didn't have her children her life would be empty. And even though your children leave your nest, they always have one foot tethered to you.
Cindy Vine
#9. Before digital and mobile communications effectively tethered us to an invisible, infinite 'wire,' even those with the most hectic schedules were usually willing to answer the phone if they happened to be home when it rang.
Meghan Daum
#10. And the boy whose temper seemed tethered to the air itself ... they didn't know what to make of him.
Victoria Schwab
#11. ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination ...
Ambrose Bierce
#12. She soared above the ground, and he kept her tethered to the earth. Without him she would be lost among the clouds.
Cassandra Clare
#13. I have lived my life defined as a refugee in Nepal and India, a resident alien and immigrant in the United States. At last, I am a Tibetan in Tibet, a Khampa in Kham, albeit as a tourist in my occupied and tethered country.
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
#14. It's like being tethered to an angel. Hell keeps calling me but I can't let go.
Tess Oliver
#15. For where shall a man turn who has no money? Where can he go? Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand. Like a tethered goat, so far and no farther. Only money can make the rope stretch, only money.
Kamala Markandaya
#16. Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.
Mary Matalin
#18. His mind seemed barely tethered to his body, much less the earth.
Dave Eggers
#19. I'll give him the good Normal world where we're tethered beside them - blinking our nights away in a non-stop drench of cathode-ray over our shrivelling heads!
Peter Shaffer
#20. We're like Pavlov's dog with these mammary glands, and it's only the threat of jail or some other unthinkable repercussion that keeps us tethered.
Jack Dancer
#21. A human being can spend only so much time outside her comfort zone before she realizes she is still tethered to it.
Sloane Crosley
#22. Many of us are tethered to bodies that sabotage us in our struggle to keep from getting fat, or to slim down when we do.
Robin Marantz Henig
#23. 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
#24. She'd always envied beautiful women. Not solely for the beauty itself but because when attributes were parceled out by whatever deity assigned them, beauty seemed to come tethered to confidence. She craved that more than anything.
Tessa Dare
#25. He'd grown eager to hand off his things, as if the weight of his possessions kept him tethered to this earth, and by giving them away, he could snip those strings.
Karen Thompson Walker
#26. If you happen to be one of the people who has a split zygomaticus major muscle, where the lower part of it is tethered to the overlying skin, this will create a dimple in your cheek when you smile.
Alice Roberts
#27. As if there's some invisible string that kept us tethered the entire time he was away and that's tightening now ...
Katie Cotugno
#28. Instead, ourselves the beneficiaries of this kind of benign neglect, we now measure success as the extent to which we manage to keep our children monitored, tethered, tied to us.
Joan Didion
#29. Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.
John Mayer
#30. The discordant principals' duet is like the nocturnal emission of a cancerous horse tethered in its dolorous slumber to a barbed aluminum fence during an electrical storm.
Sophie McManus
#31. I like to believe prayers aren't tethered to semantics.
P.C. Cast
#32. The calves' flesh color is very light because they're exclusively fed an iron-deficient milk replacement; their flesh is very tender because most veal calves are tethered at the neck in small stalls so they can't turn around and develop their muscles.
Brenda Davis
#33. Spacewalking is a little like rock climbing in that everything, including and especially oneself, must be tethered or docked at all times. If you forget to tether a tool, it's gone. Ditto yourself.
Mary Roach
#34. I know, child. What do you think's keeping me on this earth? Not easy to let go that kind of love. That kind of love's got the power to hold you tethered to a world you should have left a long time ago.
Kristen Ashley
#35. He was like a seed still tethered to the withered flower, just waiting for the dead air of the late summer evening to break, for the storm to begin.
Ken Liu
#36. Show dogs and their handlers remind me of Brooke Shields and her mother: an incredibly disheveled person tethered to an impeccably groomed animal.
Margo Kaufman
#37. His words filled my heart to the brim. I loved him in a way I'd never be able to express in words. He was part of me. And I was part of him. Tethered together for the rest of eternity.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#38. Something inside her recognized the potential for more with him. Either they fell in love and she became tethered to him, or a broken heart was in her future. Better to stop anything from developing at all. Before love became too messy, too addicting, too complicated to escape.
Beth Caudill
#39. From two niches (to use Barber's word), North and South, we've splintered into hundreds of thousands, a nation of tribes connected not by kinship or even creed. We're merely tethered together by the Internet, by our brand loyalties and shared consumer obsessions.
Lisa Samson
#40. Dogs change lives. Half Buddha, half Bozo, they keep us tethered to the earth, and teach us to fly. Our dogs are our sanity keepers.
Pam Houston
#41. Tethered to the ground by quotidian conversation.
... the window rosy with anemic November light.
Lauren Slater
#42. I stand here without rope or chains, Liv, tethered to you by my own will." His blood beat with the ferocity of his words. "I won't be free until you are.
Pam Godwin
#43. Not all eagles can be trained, but those who take to life with a master display intense loyalty. Although they are not tethered, they always return after killing their prey.
Stephen Kinzer
#44. I always saw novels as an outlet for which the mind can escape this world, not be tethered to it." "I
Charlie N. Holmberg
#45. The ocean turns cold, dark, pressing around me, but the deeper I go the more the iron inside of me twists and pulls and I know that I'm tethered to the boat, that even now the men pull the rope tighter and drag me back to the surface.
Kendall Kulper
#47. Why do I hunger for significant barometers but find myself tethered to banality instead?
Leslie Jamison
#48. We were two halves to a whole. Water, the mother of creation. Land, the father who supported it. We were forever joined, our souls tethered. In this moment, the truth came to life: Whether the gate closed or not, I would never be whole without this man by my side.
Denise Grover Swank
#49. Vegetarianism is a conscious effort, a deliberate effort, to get out of the heaviness that keeps you tethered to the earth so that you can fly - so that the flight from the alone to the alone becomes possible.
Rajneesh
#50. Imagination might not be limitless. It's still tethered to the universe of what we know.
Chang-rae Lee
#51. It's a strange thing to be a so-called alternative cartoonist, because in the early part of my career, I was really tethered to the superhero world.
Adrian Tomine
#52. There is a gap between what we know and what we want to experience. Either, fear will keep us tethered to the familiar or plung us into the sea. The bridge is either God or ourselves, and with each big decision we must choose who we trust the most.
Shannon L. Alder
#53. 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
#54. It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are.
Alain De Botton
#55. I don't know why I always feel like crying when I'm around him. When I think about him. When I read about him. It's like my emotions are still tethered to him somehow and I can't figure out how to cut the strings.
Colleen Hoover
#56. 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
#57. I am not a person that is particularly tethered to fashion, which I think is obvious to anyone who's seen me.
Janeane Garofalo
#58. When I did my spacewalks, it was during space station construction. So the shuttle was docked to the fledgling ISS at the time. So we would always stay tethered.
Chris Hadfield
#59. People tethered to God by faith can let themselves go because they know they will get themselves back.
Cornelius Plantinga
#60. If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
Adlai E. Stevenson II
#61. You don't want to be on a show that no one wants to see, and then think your phone is going to be ringing off the hook to do other jobs. I'm not tethered to the fact that my demise may be reached this season or next season, or whatever.
Isaiah Washington
#62. A life well-lived in the present is all but impossible when you are tethered to your past.
Tucker Elliot
#63. It's almost like you're not tethered to the earth anymore. You're just flying, nothing but space around you." Landon
Riley Hart
#64. How tall is it?" [The Harps]
"according to the sagas, it links through time and space and keeps our world and your world tethered together"
"Pretty big, then
Kathryn James
#65. It was cruel. Like opening a birdcage to let the bird fly out, whilst all the while it's tethered by the leg, and freedom is only an illusion.
Laini Taylor
#66. 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
#67. I didn't squawk about the steak, dear. I merely said I didn't see that old horse that used to be tethered outside here.
W.C. Fields
#68. We will always be tethered. The End
L.D. Davis
#69. People do affect us. But the peace of our souls is tethered to all that God is.
Lysa TerKeurst
#71. but sometimes the things that matter to you most are also the things that hurt you the most. And in order to get over that hurt, you have to sever all the extensions that keep you tethered to that pain.
Colleen Hoover
#72. It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by time to the city behind her, so that the minutes stretched out taut as she moved away, and slowed the farther she got, dragging out her little voyage.
China Mieville
#73. We all lose people. We all have to live in the aftermath. It's how we move forward that counts, but sometimes we are tethered to something in our past that won't let us move forward.
Tucker Elliot
#74. favorite spectre of Sleepy Hollow, the Headless Horseman, who had been heard several times of late, patrolling the country; and, it was said, tethered his horse nightly among the graves in the churchyard.
Washington Irving
#75. But for now Anders can still make time. Time for the shadows to lengthen on the grass, time for the tethered dog to bark at the flying ball, time for the boy in right field to smack his sweat-blackened mitt and softly chant, They is, they is, they is.
Tobias Wolff
#76. Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.
Kara Swisher
#77. In the voyage of your worldly existence, the sails at which your life float upon, are tethered by the thoughts and emotions that which you harbor. Expand.
Will Barnes
#78. 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
#79. When our identities are tethered to externals, our sense of self-worth is always in danger. In the end, we become hypersensitive, insecure, and discontent, always comparing ourselves to the next parent, the next young professional, the next pastor across town. But
David Hickman
#80. Once we become tethered to the network, we really don't need to keep computers busy. THEY KEEP US BUSY.
Sherry Turkle
#81. ...There's no possible way I won't find you. Our hearts are tethered by love & fate. I'm tugging on that string-feel me?...
J.A. Huss
#82. My sexual arousal had always been tightly tethered to love, romance, the promise of something more. A future.
C.D. Reiss
#83. Maybe growing up was really nothing more than growing away: from your old life, from your old self, from all those things that kept you tethered to your past.
Jennifer E. Smith
#84. F(r)iction is the best of everything we've ever loved. F(r)iction is experimental. F(r)iction is strange. F(r)iction pokes the soft spots, touches nerves most would rather remain protected. F(r)iction is secrets and truths and most importantly - stories. F(r)iction is weird, in every respect.
Tethered By Letters
#85. Soul Sister
Evoking all my inner goodness
with bastions of time
I cradle your heart
sisterly into mine ...
Muse
#86. Writing might never be an easy act, but with TBL, writers don't have to go at it alone.
Tethered By Letters
#87. Chains
chains that hold me to the ground
chains that keep me solidly bound
chains that tether my heart to you
chains that only one truth ...
Muse
#88. He couldn't prevent her from feeling any pain, but he could stand beside her through it.
Meljean Brook
