Tethered Quotes

34 quotes by 29 authors

I didn't squawk about the steak, dear. I merely said I didn't see that old horse that used to be tethered outside here. — W.C. Fields
ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability,… — Ambrose Bierce
I learned early that the richness of life is found in adventure. Adventure calls on all the faculties of mind and spirit. It develops self-reliance… — William O. Douglas
For where shall a man turn who has no money? Where can he go? Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your… — Kamala Markandaya
Now man must learn to live without ideologies religious, political or otherwise. When the mind is not tethered to any ideology, it is free to… — Rajneesh
Technology is seductive when what it offers meets our human vulnerabilities. And as it turns out, we are very vulnerable indeed. We are lonely but… — Sherry Turkle
Vegetarianism is a conscious effort, a deliberate effort, to get out of the heaviness that keeps you tethered to the earth so that you can… — Rajneesh
Imagination might not be limitless. It's still tethered to the universe of what we know. — Chang-Rae Lee
I was sat at the bottom of the garden a week ago, smoking a reflective cheroot, thinking about this and that - mostly that, and… — Les Dawson
We must learn to cast off our anxieties because we have so many of them. The world destroys spiritual life by generating constant anxiety. Jesus… — John Ortberg
In the distance, I see a frightful storm brewing in the form of un-tethered government debt. I choose the words -â€œfrightful storm' - deliberately to… — Richard W. Fisher
Dogs change lives. Half Buddha, half Bozo, they keep us tethered to the earth, and teach us to fly. Our dogs are our sanity keepers. — Pam Houston
In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space… — Les Dawson
Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free… — Mary Matalin
It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by time to the… — China Mieville
We launch our souls from the cannons of art and discipline, and on any one night, hovering over the chimney tops of Europe, halfway to… — Mark Helprin
No ideology can help to create a new world or a new mind or a new human being -- because ideological orientation itself is the… — Rajneesh
...the only thing that had tethered her to the earth had been him and it was strange, but she felt welded to him on some… — J R Ward
Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away. — Anne Lamott
A human being can spend only so much time outside her comfort zone before she realizes she is still tethered to it. — Sloane Crosley

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