Bound Quotes
1503 quotes by 1083 authors
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There is a certain freedom in giving up all hope. One is no longer bound by the cords of dread or fear; you simply move…
— Rachel Caine
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Think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all…
— Dale Carnegie
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Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world.
— Catherynne M. Valente
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I was crying and laughing, snuffing tears and blood, bumping at him with my bound hands, trying awkwardly to thrust them at him so that…
— Diana Gabaldon
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He’s bound to have done something,†Nobby repeated. In this he was echoing the Patrician’s view of crime and punishment. If there was a crime,…
— Terry Pratchett
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I expected this reception. All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.
— Michel de Montaigne
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And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by men who are now all…
— Lysander Spooner
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But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and yours too—to the event of this…
— Jacques Derrida
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Heavy misfortunes have befallen us, but let us only cling closer to what remains, and transfer our love for those whom we have lost to…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Every man has within him only one life and one nature ... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best…
— Ellis Peters
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I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the…
— Calvin Coolidge
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It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Obviously the whole Wayward thing hasn't been explained to you properly. You don't have any superpowers. You can't leap over tall buildings in a single…
— Kami Garcia
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I hold the gun out from my body, my arms straight, just as Four taught me, when that was his only name. I used a…
— Veronica Roth
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I laugh, mirthless, a mad laugh. I savor the scowl on her face, the hate in her eyes. She was like a machine; she was…
— Veronica Roth
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The two are now bound inextricably. Should one die, the other will follow. No wepon in this world can wound only one of them
— Cassandra Clare
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Our instructors do not understand how it is. To be bound to someone in such a way. They are too old, too out of touch…
— Erin Morgenstern
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Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good. Hence…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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