Untethered Quotes

#1. 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

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

Cedric Nye

#3. 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

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

James Comey

#5. 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

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

Lidia Yuknavitch

#7. 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

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

Hampton Sides

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Anthony Burgess

#13. 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

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

Timothy Keller

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#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. 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

#20. When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.

Richard Gere

#21. But to a bureaucrat paper was never just paper. Paper was life!

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#22. The role of a leader is to serve his people. We absolutely must first serve the people who we want to lead. They must be able to rely on the leader as much as we hope to rely on them.

John Fairclough

#23. Please Mia, don't make me write a song ... - Adam Wilde, If I Stay

Gayle Forman

#24. Good thing or bad thing must surely come to an end but absoluety nothing last forever

Maryann

#25. That's the thing with you people. You think you could love someone one second and hate them the next. Well, you can't.

Diyar Harraz

#26. Man, life was complicated. But the truth was simple. He was her home. He was where she belonged.

J.R. Ward

#27. Spirituality lies in what you do and how you do it and not what result you get.

Kapil Dev

#28. I never know exactly where I'm going with a story, whether it's a short story or a novel. If I did I'd soon grow bored of it. The fun, for me, is in the finding out and the making sense of it.

Nicholas Royle

#29. 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

#30. I do believe in sending positive messages. I am a Christian, so I do believe in a lot of positive messages.

Quinton Aaron

#31. If you pivot, do it fully and with conviction. The worst thing is to try to do a bit of the old and the new-it's hard to kill your babies.

Sam Altman

#32. Brushes..? Nah. Hit 'em as hard as you can.

John Bonham

#33. When we hesitate to change on time, we predispose ourselves to miss the boat that would take us to our envious future...

Assegid Habtewold

#34. Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make bored.

Ian Fleming

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

S.W. Southwick

#36. In Africa you have space ... there a profound sense of space here, space and sky

Thabo Mbeki