No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle. — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
There is one single thread binding my way together...the way of the Master consists in doing one's best...that is all. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Christ's commandment to hear the Church . . . is binding on all men, in every period, and every country. — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
Paper Covers Rock is dazzling in its intensity and intelligence, spell-binding in its terrible beauty. — Kathi Appelt Copy Share Image
This is global governance in the making. But we must agree, and agree to a binding commitment. — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together. — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
WEAKNESSES, n.pl. Certain primal powers of Tyrant Woman wherewith she holds dominion over the male of her species, binding him to the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most beautiful of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Marriage is primarily an economic arrangement, an insurance pact. It differs from the ordinary life insurance agreement only in that it is… — Emma Goldman 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
By binding image and desire, glamour gives us pleasure, even as it heightens our yearning. It leads us to feel that the… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Religion is not knowledge. Religion is love. The word 'religion' comes from a root which means binding together - falling into love,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding… — Novalis Copy Share Image
Our innate, built-in human value is the reason we have binding duties or obligations towards each other that we don't have towards… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
In setting up a business under the name and meaning of the Golden Rule, I was publicly binding myself, in my business… — James Cash Penney Copy Share Image
THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other.… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Divine love makes us true to ourselves and to others... Divine love is the solution to our difficulties and problems. It frees… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
For the past several centuries the bonding power of the family dinner table has been one of the few constants, and now… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
When a male vole repeatedly mates with a female, a hormone called vasopressin is released in his brain. The vasopressin binds to… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The Risen Christ proclaimed not that we 'have to forgive,' but rather, that at last we CAN forgive-and thereby free ourselves from… — Gordon Dalbey Copy Share Image
Pure love is the best medicine for the modern world. This is what is lacking in all societies. The root cause of… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Of course, even the general designation 'religious' includes various basic ideas or convictions, for example, the indestructibility of the soul, the eternity… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Laws which authorize and promote abortion and euthanasia are therefore radically opposed not only to the good of the individual but also… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
These same experiences make of the sequence of life cycles a generational cycle, irrevocably binding each generation to those that gave it… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian… — Alison Lurie 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
When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
