Bound Quotes
1503 quotes by 1083 authors
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The 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of that era, I…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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She felt a little betrayed and sad, but presently a moving object came into sight. It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff
— John Steinbeck
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The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table…
— Robert Musil
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I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the…
— Mark Twain
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Kay was older and bigger than the Wart, so that he was bound to win in the end, but he was more nervous and imaginative.…
— T.H. White
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Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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At the age of three my grand aunt proclaimed her independence by categorically refusing to have her feet bound, resolutely tearing off the bandages as…
— Adeline Yen Mah
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Let only that little be left of me whereby I may name thee my all. Let only that little be left of my will whereby…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
— William Wordsworth
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We are bound first to imform ourselves concerning so great a matter as the revolt of millions of people- what they are struggling for, what…
— Voltairine de Cleyre
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Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its stalk withers? Because…
— Leo Tolstoy
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live…
— Abraham Lincoln
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A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it.…
— Mark Twain
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The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never…
— Charles Dickens
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The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The eyes were hollow and the carven head was broken, but about the high, stern forehead there was a coronal of silver and gold. A…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad…
— William Shakespeare
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