The Untethered Quotes

#1. At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats, and mountains; the untethered balloon, the blue sky, the nude figure.

Robert Grudin

#2. When he was reading he could fly away into the wildest skies of imagination, untethered to the reality that his soul was trapped in a wretched creature cobbled together from meat and bone, like us all.

Christopher Moore

#3. When she had died, his anchor was gone and the world had burned from his untethered insanity.

Cedric Nye

#4. Being on her own had never been a burden. Instead of weighing her down, it buoyed her up; when she was alone, she was lighter. When she was by herself, she felt untethered and free.

Jennifer E. Smith

#5. The lesson is the importance of never becoming untethered to oversight and accountability.

James Comey

#6. In your arms I forget what the yarn knows of sweaters. I forget how to hold myself together. So if I unfold now like a love letter tell me you'll write back soon. Tell me you'll still come untethered.

Andrea Gibson

#7. But what use was the semblance of power without the substance?

Alison Weir

#8. Actually, I consider myself to be pretty politically conservative.

Winona LaDuke

#9. Then there is the way that was taught two thousand years ago - of overcoming evil with good, which is my way, the way Jesus taught. Never loose faith: God's way is bound to prevail in the end.

Peace Pilgrim

#10. We laughed the laugh of women untethered, finally, from their origins.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#11. So with the loss of my family as well as the man I had loved, every thread that had linked me to who I was had been abruptly cut. I felt as if I had simply floated off, untethered, to some unknown universe.

Jojo Moyes

#12. From his legs like an untethered weight. In their thousands the parasites

Hampton Sides

#13. Greatness untethered from God results in calamity unrestrained by men.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#14. Stigler's Law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.

George Stigler

#15. Untethered technology gives us the freedom to do nearly anything, anytime, anywhere. It can also enslave us - we feel compelled to use it where ever it is. Technology is neutral. How, when and where we use it is up to us.

Linda Stone

#16. In a dead white field an untethered goat gave them sardonic greeting.

Anthony Burgess

#17. In this,
journey,
of reaching,
to myself,
I have had,
many a,
thoroughfares,
goodbye affairs,
reality checks,
and,
lovely overwhelms.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#18. When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self. I had faith that I'm capable enough to handle any situation. There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and [that] I'm responsible.

Brad Pitt

#19. My words, thoughts and deeds have a boomerang effect. So be-careful what you send out!

Alan Rufus

#20. We live in an age where people are like, "I'd love to catch up. Maybe text me later? But don't call because I don't really listen to my messages. But if you text me ... " We've displaced interaction into sound bites and untethered phrases and sentences that come up on the phone as Twitter feed.

Marc Maron

#21. Have you ever seen a world so amazing you wanted to inhale it, like air sucking into a jet engine? And the more you inhaled, the faster you flew, until you knew, without having to ask anyone else, that you were living?

S.W. Southwick

#22. I could live here, I think. Live where gravity does not know my name. Here I am unbound, untethered by the chains of this life. I am a different body, a different shell, and my weight is carried by the hands of friends. So many nights I've wished I could fall asleep under this sheet.

Tahereh Mafi

#23. A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself - something almost inhuman.

Jerry Saltz

#24. Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising
I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing.
To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking:
Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#25. Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.

Timothy Keller

#26. Well, hell hath no motherfucking fury like a woman scorned.

Karina Halle

#27. We're so mixed up about religion in this culture. We say the Pledge of Allegiance, 'under God indivisible,' but there's no prayer in the schools. I would be so untethered without my personal faith. I wouldn't be able to go through a day - but that's my own experience.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

#28. I returned to my existence, the existence I had chosen instead of you.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#29. I find nothing to be more heroic than someone chasing their own dream against all odds.

S.W. Southwick

#30. And all that talk about the breakup being good for us- who am I trying to fool? I'm cut loose, untethered, not belonging to anything or anybody.

Amy Tan