Binding Quotes

159 quotes by 143 authors

The air was heavy with the smell of leather and dust, of old parchment and binding glue. It smelled of secrets. — Patrick Rothfuss
I swear to you, Nora Grey, on this day, from now and forever, to give myself to you. I am yours. My love, my body,… — Becca Fitzpatrick
I had a cousin once who lived in your dictionary, inside the binding, and there was a tiny hole which he used for a door,… — Janet Frame
Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude - even dishonor and betrayal- to real possibility? This may not seem to be… — Ernest Becker
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of… — Carl Sagan
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. — Carrie Chapman Catt
"In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love." — Dwight D. Eisenhower
A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the… — Aesop
In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding. — Charles Lamb
In 2004, President Bush gave Prime Minister Sharon certain guarantees about American policy, but the Obama administration treated those as a kind of private letter… — Elliott Abrams
There should be resolutions adopted in top international institutions, which are binding on all states and governments in the world, to forbid the defamation of… — Hassan Nasrallah
My black brothers and sisters - of all religious beliefs, or of no religious beliefs - we all have in common the greatest binding tie… — Malcolm X
By binding image and desire, glamour gives us pleasure, even as it heightens our yearning. It leads us to feel that the life we dream… — Virginia Postrel
All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification. — Ban Ki-moon
Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of cultural grievance - the conviction,… — Rick Perlstein
There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and… — Benjamin N. Cardozo
When I was at Berkeley, the framework of quantum field theory could calculate the dynamics of electromagnetism. It could roughly describe the motion of the… — David Gross
Altho that is so, Ireland has always denied and Ireland still denies that the Union was binding upon her either legally or morally. And here… — John Edward Redmond
What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to… — John Charles Polanyi
A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement. — J. Paul Getty

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