Bind Quotes

325 quotes by 270 authors

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread. — Robert Burton
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. — Luc de Clapiers
If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to… — Charles Dickens
It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of… — Thomas Jefferson
Friendship above all ties does bind the heart; And faith in friendship is the noblest part. — Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery
Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other. — Hermann Bondi
All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief… — Thomas Jefferson
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom… — Thomas Jefferson
Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free. — Watchman Nee
Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by so doing it would be against his interest, and when the reasons which made… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that… — James A. Baldwin
Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all with an affirmation of beauty.… — Gregory Bateson
Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself. — Thomas Jefferson
We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old. — Elizabeth Janeway
If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation. — George Bernard Shaw
It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind… — Richard Courant
We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth. — Lucretia Mott
For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of our economy calls for action: bold and swift. And we will act… — Barack Obama
The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy. — John Quincy Adams
My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely… — Arthur Conan Doyle

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