Binding Quotes
159 quotes by 143 authors
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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
— Otto von Bismarck
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A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. Even as a kid, my sister,…
— Maurice Sendak
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The law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole globe, is everywhere and at all times binding upon…
— Rufus King
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Politics in America is the binding secular religion.
— Theodore White
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The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.
— Donald Hall
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Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?
— William Carey
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The important thing, Jesus is saying (in Matthew 5:33-37), is to tell the truth and keep one's pledges without insisting that a certain form of…
— D. A. Carson
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And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced…
— Christopher Dawson
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Every wife who slaves to keep herself pretty, to cook her husband's favourite meals, to build up his pride and confidence in himself at the…
— Germaine Greer
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The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious.…
— Laozi
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But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
— William Robertson Smith
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My feeling is that contracts should always be honored. ... This is a situation where a legally binding contract is not being honored and that's…
— Gary Bettman
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Therefore I begin to think, my Lord, you purposely allow us to be brought into contact with the bad and evil things that You want…
— Hannah Hurnard
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Commitment . . . is a binding, but happy, response to duty. It is at once peaceful yet compelling, for it obligates one to action.…
— James M. Paramore
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We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.
— Alan Chadwick
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Though he had very little Latin beyond "Cave canem," he had, as a young dog, devoured Shakespeare (in a tasty leather binding).
— Dodie Smith
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A promise is a commitment to do something later, and a vow is a binding commitment to begin doing something now and to continue to…
— Myles Munroe
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This is global governance in the making. But we must agree, and agree to a binding commitment.
— George Papandreou
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This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.
— Malcolm Miller
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Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined…
— Novalis
Who Wrote These Binding Quotes
143 authors contributed a total of 159 Binding Quotes, led by these top contributors: