Top 53 Tether Quotes
#1. True opinions are a fine thing and do all sorts of good so long as they stay in their place; but they will not stay long. They run away from a man's mind, so they are not worth much until you tether them by working out the reason. Once they are tied down, they become knowledge, and are stable.
Plato
#2. Everytime he brushes me with his fingers, time seems to tether for a second, like it is in danger of dissolving. The whole world is dissolving, I decide, except for us. Us.
Lauren Oliver
#3. A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back.
Ronald Reagan
#4. Maybe the point of I love you is that it is a tether. A connection so you can find your way back to someone even when shit seems huge and unmanageable on your own. A promise to help just because you care about someone, a promise to help that doesn't mean pulling away.
Roan Parrish
#5. And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
Umberto Guidoni
#6. trust the universe (or God), but tether your camel.
Teri Meehan
#7. I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me.
Nik Wallenda
#8. Good. While you're playing nurse to Cole, tell us another story about Jack. We need to get your tether back.
...
'What should I talk about?'
Cole looked at me with a suddenly hopeful face.
' Was there ever a time when he didn't resemble a white knight? That would be great about now
Brodi Ashton
#9. Tradition is like the tether which prevents an animal from getting a blade of grass beyond the length of that tether
E.W. Bullinger
#10. Homo sapiens Yuck You contemporary fools laugh at religious and political lies spewed by sociopaths, lies that tether you forever to poverty and mediocrity. Yet, when your ears come upon the truth, the facts of life, you hide your faces and cry, not able
Bobby Miller
#11. Deliberate motions are mistake free motions, she told herself as she angled in toward the tether. Mistake free motions are speed. Speed is life.
Evan Currie
#12. Now I feel adrift - except for the tether binding me here, to this girl at my side.
Amie Kaufman
#13. 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
#14. Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.
Thomas Carlyle
#15. Tether smartphones with laptops when you need a connection. Turn off updates to avoid exceeding plan data.
David Chiles
#16. I reach through our tether, and he shudders at my touch.
Do you remember, Enzo? I think sadly. You were the Crown Prince of Kenettra. All you ever wanted was to save the malfettos and rule this nation.
Marie Lu
#17. In all of its varied and protean forms, love is the tether binding our whirling lives. Without that biological anchor, all of us are flung outward, singly into the encroaching dark. (225)
Thomas Lewis
#18. I'm going to take you to the heavens, Angie. And I'm going to be your tether to this earth when you explode
J. Kenner
#19. In order to be not bound by the tether of time, we must have a relationship with the timeless.
Deepak Chopra
#20. In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars are drifted, Like foam or sand.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#21. 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
#22. How was one to lasso her mind, and tether it to this minute, unimportant spot?
Virginia Woolf
#23. Man is no island. We need those who love us. We need those who hate us. We need others to tether us to life, to give us a reason to live, to feel.
Pierce Brown
#26. Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, / Floats in the mist, a little cloud at tether.
Alice Meynell
#27. Dad the launching pad. Dad the landing zone. Dad the tether that kept Sams - and me - from hurtling into the nullity of deep space, a nullity himself now.
Rick Yancey
#29. I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity to reality.
Jason Bateman
#30. Identity was just a box people liked to put themselves in, a mast to tether to in a storm, a security blanket.
Leonardo Donofrio
#31. Away from home. Young children stray from their parents and are never seen again. Housewives reach the end of their tether and take the grocery money and a taxi to the station. International financiers change their names and vanish
Diana Gabaldon
#32. I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny, I worked so hard, didn't drink, didn't enjoy life.
Orhan Pamuk
#33. With a paring knife she hacked off her waist-length hair just below the chin. Kit felt a shiver of misgiving. How would she net a talking fish now, or tether a dragon? How would she escape from her tower?
Marina Fiorato
#34. Submission reaches the end of its tether when it becomes destructive.
Richard J. Foster
#35. Emotional awareness is the tether between our Awakened and Dream States. It is the bridge that connects our island in the physical realm to the unexplored Universes that are waiting for us.
Gary Hopkins
#36. Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approachesTam maun ride; That hour, o'night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hourTam mounts his beast in.
Robert Burns
#37. The arc of circling bodies is determined by the length of their tether, said the judge. Moons,coins,men.
Cormac McCarthy
#38. And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.
Umberto Guidoni
#39. You really can't see it, can you?"
"See what?"
"He has a tether too. And it points right at you.
Brodi Ashton
#40. 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion.
John Le Carre
#41. sometimes I feel my tether is too short." "You will lose that tether soon enough, and then someday when you are in a heap of hurt and trouble, you are going to reach for it and wish your mama was on the other end.
Ronald Yates
#42. They were full of light, of fire and starlight and sunshine. They over-flowed with it as they snapped the final tether on the king's power and cleaved his darkness away, burning it up until it was nothing.
Sarah J. Maas
#43. I felt it then, the vibration along that invisible tether. I pushed away from it. I would not go to the Darkling now. I wouldn't go to him ever again. But still, I knew wherever he was, he was grieving.
Leigh Bardugo
#45. She knew he meant it. He'd burn the library, the city or the whole world to ashes if she asked him. It was their bond, marked by blood and scent and something else she couldn't place. A tether as strong as the one that bound her to her parents. Stronger, in some ways.
Sarah J. Maas
#47. Trust your gut, and don't let fear get the best of you.
Anna Jarzab
#48. If you're going to have a life worth living, you have to take risks.
Anna Jarzab
#49. All tools are weapons in the hands of the wrong people.
Anna Jarzab
#50. You have to fight to hold on to the important things.
Anna Jarzab
#51. Perhaps it wasn't age but what you were capable of, the lengths to which you were willing to go to get what you wanted, that mattered most.
Anna Jarzab
#52. My life held endless prospects, and I could've lived it so many different ways.
Anna Jarzab
#53. Her excitement grew as she tried to cut the rope that fastened Leonard to the earth. Woven of bitter experience, it resisted her.
E. M. Forster