Tethered Quotes
34 quotes by 29 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Imagination might not be limitless. It's still tethered to the universe of what we know.
— Chang-Rae Lee
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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
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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
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In the distance, I see a frightful storm brewing in the form of un-tethered government debt. I choose the words -“frightful storm' - deliberately to…
— Richard W. Fisher
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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...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
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Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.
— Anne Lamott
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A human being can spend only so much time outside her comfort zone before she realizes she is still tethered to it.
— Sloane Crosley
Who Wrote These Tethered Quotes
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