Bind Quotes
325 quotes by 270 authors
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.
— Ralph Ellison
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The world does not yield to changing. By its very nature it is painful and transient. See it as it is and divest yourself of…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second…
— John Quincy Adams
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Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it…
— Thomas Paine
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Our predecessors understood that the ties that bind America are far stronger than disagreements over any particular policy and far more durable and profound than…
— Madeleine Albright
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Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind…
— Philip Roth
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There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Running out of energy in the long run is not the problem.... The bind comes during the next 10 years: getting over our dependence on…
— Kenneth S. Deffeyes
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The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away, but if you…
— Daniel Mendelsohn
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The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type.…
— Gloria Stuart
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I've always had to bind up and wrestle fear, because acting is really about faith. And faith and fear can't really stay in the same…
— Derek Luke
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This 'double ethical bind' we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance…
— Stephen Schneider
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If I could/bind myself to this moment, to the slow//snare of its scent/what would it matter if I became//just the flutter of page/in a text…
— Mary Szybist
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Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I appear, my fellow-citizens, in your presence and in that of Heaven to bind myself by the solemnities of religious obligation to the faithful performance…
— John Quincy Adams
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The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail;…
— Ivan Turgenev
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The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor…
— Andrew Carnegie
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The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship.…
— Mahatma Gandhi
Who Wrote These Bind Quotes
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