Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
You only have to glance at the daily news to see how passions are stirred by claims of exclusive loyalty to one's… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
The way in which we can promote peace, is by promoting sustainable management of our resources, equitable distribution of these resources, and… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
I didn't tie anybody up. And I was never on a scene where anyone was killed. I think the law says you… — Charles Manson Copy Share Image
I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
In 1650 Bishop Ussher dated the creation from the genealogy given in the Bible at 4004 B.C.; for a long time (even… — Leigh Page Copy Share Image
That there is a continuous link from humans to gorillas, with the intermediate species merely long dead, is beyond the understanding of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The marriage tie becomes possessed of a history and takes to itself traditions. This history and these traditions form a great fund,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
We must remember when we speak of the "negativism" of the toddler that this is also the child who is intoxicated with… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
I remember harrowing episodes. People who emigrated, people who didn't want to emigrate...Many Muslims didn't want to leave India to go to… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
I thought of all the others who had tried to tie her to the ground and failed. So I resisted showing her… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
We are social animals. We like to feel a part of something of beauty and power that transcends our insignificance. It can… — Bernd Heinrich Copy Share Image
And weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When that devil's bullet lodged itself inside the body of Martin Luther King, he had already begun an astonishing mobilization of poor,… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Life is like a piece of string with a lot of knots tied in it. The knots are the karma you're born… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
These observations tie in directly with the whole question of organizing. Why do we have leaders? We put some people out in… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Let us turn our thoughts today to Martin Luther King and recognize that there are ties between us, all men and women… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
[Steven Spielberg's films] are comforting, they always give you answers and I don't think they're very clever answers. The success of most… — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
On occasion I have observed parents shopping to clothe a son about to enter missionary service. The new suits are fitted, the… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
You know, this is why I just don't answer the door (unless I know who's arriving). I don't want to fend off… — Ann Althouse Copy Share Image
America should really wonder about a President Trump, who had a campaign manager with ties to Putin, pro-putin elements in the Ukraine… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
The thing that really struck me was how many firms that we think of as strictly civilian had ties to the Pentagon.… — Nick Turse Copy Share Image
As I've gone through life, I've found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
“We think that some ties are so strong that they can withstand anything, but it's not true. When trust is broken, weariness… — Guillaume Musso Copy Share Image
Mothers Who Know Honor God They bring daughters in clean and ironed dresses with hair brushed to perfection; their sons wear white… — Julie B. Beck Copy Share Image
What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Hmph," said Sharon . "Did you know that the numbers three and seven are sacred to vampires? There are seven vampire sects."… — Michele Bardsley Copy Share Image
Even Republicans seem to think that these undocumented Democrats could be made [GOP] voters...and what happens is that two out every three… — Steve King Copy Share Image
The domestic relations precede, and in our present existence are worth more than all our other social ties. They give the first… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Take the life issue. This issue requires a president and an administration leading our nation to understand the importance of life. This… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
A SWEET disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness : A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
We're not just social animals in the conventional way that people think. It's not just a bunch of us who hang out… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do not personally give any more conscious consideration, either of you, to events that you do not want to happen. Any such… — Seth Copy Share Image
Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We are faced with having to learn again about interdependency and the need for rootedness after several centuries of having systematically-and proudly-dismantled… — Paul L Wachtel Copy Share Image
The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . .… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image