Ties Quotes

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Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get… — Nick Hornby
Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear… — Billy Collins
On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide- it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese- the two paramedics… — Jeffrey Eugenides
No matter what she did with her hair it took about three minutes for it to tangle itself up again, like a garden hosepipe in… — Terry Pratchett
The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the… — Herbert Marcuse
..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune. — Edith Wharton
The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have… — Aldous Huxley
Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel.' Sign in Skardu — Greg Mortenson
Invisible threads are the strongest ties. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class, probably with yoga. See what… — Robin McKinley
If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not money the bond… — Karl Marx
Rules and responsibilities: these are the ties that bind us. We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we… — Neil Gaiman
Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties… — Khalil Gibran
I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?" "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the… — David Livingstone
There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating. — Thomas Hardy
It was my friend Frank, a writer in San Francisco, who finally set me straight. When asked about my new look he put down his… — David Sedaris
...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together. — Emily Giffin
All they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating… — Billy Collins
It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there… — Terry Pratchett

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