Quotes About Tethering

#1. The tethering of words to reality helps allay the worry that language ensnares us in a self-contained web of symbols.

Steven Pinker

#2. No matter how tough you think you are, thought you were, you haven't been around long enough to be tested in many, many ways.

John Varley

#3. My mother did not like children.

Karl Lagerfeld

#4. An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them.

Arthur Golden

#5. Problems are chances for us to do our best.

Duke Ellington

#6. Sometimes I felt like the mundane details of our lives were the only things tethering me to the world. I could hold onto them - distractions necessitating action. They gave me a sense of purpose. If not for the leaky faucet, the sandwiches, the bills, I might not know what to do with my hands.

T. Greenwood

#7. The object of the new school is to teach reasonable doubt. Not the unreasonable doubt of the wild-eyed heckler, but the evidence-based doubt of the questioning scientist and the reason-based doubt of the skilled debater.

Seth Godin

#8. Fiction inhabits the zone between the real and the impossible. The tug of those two poles is what gives it motion, vitality. Tethering fiction too tightly to the real produces plodding, lifeless stories. Letting it float too far from that anchor produces stories that are arbitrary and unpersuasive.

Vinnie Tesla

#9. An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black man from Africa.

James A. Baldwin

#10. No, the best thing to do was to get the heck out of the bathroom and find a teacher, or a cop, or an exorcist. I'd take anyone at this point.

Rachel Hawkins

#11. think you just like tethering goats." "Well, be sure to tell me when your rope begins

John Connolly

#12. BlackBerry required tethering for some routine operations, and for many, the only way to integrate corporate mail was to keep a PC running all the time.

Steven Sinofsky

#13. Words like anchors, tethering boats of memory that would otherwise be settled by the storm.

Robert Charles Wilson

#14. Writing is like bungee jumping for the soul ... you take a deep breath, plunge into the abyss and hope the rope tethering you to the real world doesn't snap.

Judy Croome

#15. There's nobody bigger or better at the military than I am.

Donald Trump

#16. It's enough just to speak when spoken to, to give some minimal reaction to a stimulus. But to actually be the stimulus doesn't even occur to me.

Martha Manning

#17. 1:1 Blessed is the man [1] who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; 2 but his delight is in the law [2] of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.

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