In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Habits, though in their commencement like the filmy line of the spider, trembling at every breeze, may in the end prove as… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle. — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
Melancholy had crept inside me. Small children made me cry, I got depressed eating meat, old book bindings awakened tenderness in me.… — Mati Unt Copy Share Image
Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of… — Laozi Copy Share Image
My black brothers and sisters - of all religious beliefs, or of no religious beliefs - we all have in common the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The Mormons had a divine revelation in favour of polygamy, but under pressure from the United States Government they discovered that the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract. — Beatrice Lillie Copy Share Image
This is a city of absolute enchantment in the literal sense of the word. It loosens all the bonds binding the traveller… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
“Adam glanced at me. His grin was back. I’d forgotten how easily he could wind me up. “You know, Eliza,” he said,… — Sam Dogra Copy Share Image
“Ryan, if you abandon me here, I will have no choice but to tell your father,” Navinka cut in. “You don’t want… — Sam Dogra Copy Share Image
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
When I was at Berkeley, the framework of quantum field theory could calculate the dynamics of electromagnetism. It could roughly describe the… — David Gross Copy Share Image
Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title. — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
In families there are frequently matters of which no one speaks, nor even alludes. There are no words for these matters. As… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings. — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of cultural grievance… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
I am looking for the word which is there and shouldn't be there. I wonder, why is it there? Or I look… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Religions have a strong binding function and a cohesive element. They emphasize the primacy of the community as opposed to the individual,… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Our model of Nature should not be like a building-a handsome structure for the populace to admire, until in the course of… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms. — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image