Tied Quotes - Page 16

• On your best day, you're only as good as I am on my worst with one arm tied behind my back.

  Ilona Andrews

  Arms, Behind My Back, Worst

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.220, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth.

  David Levithan

  Knows

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.79, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Coffee, she'd discovered, was tied to all sorts of memories, different for each person. Sunday mornings, friendly get-togethers, a favorite grandfather long since gone, the AA meeting that saved their life. Coffee meant something to people. Most found their lives were miserable without it. Coffee was a lot like love that way. And because Rachel believed in love, she believed in coffee, too.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Morning, Memories, Coffee

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.150, Bantam

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. If I had lived in China, I would have been an outlaw knot-maker.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Long Ago, Order, Buttons

  FaceBook post by Maxine Hong Kingston from Dec 10, 2012

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• They're selling postcards of the hanging They're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes the blind commissioner They've got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in his pants And the riot squad they're restless They need somewhere to go As Lady and I look out tonight From Desolation Row.

  Bob Dylan

  Hands, Squad, Needs

  Song: Desolation Row, Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We hand the meat over to Greasy Sae in the kitchen. She likes District 13 well enough, even though she thinks the cooks are somewhat lacking in imagination. But a woman who came up with a palatable wild dog and rhubarb stew is bound to feel as if her hands are tied here.

  Suzanne Collins

  Dog, Thinking, Hands

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.55, Scholastic Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth of years. But, in a real sense, memories are tied to and describe the present. Formed in an idiosyncratic way when they happened, they're also true to the moment of recall, including how you feel, all you've experienced, and new values, passions, and vulnerability. One never steps into the same stream of consciousness twice.

  Diane Ackerman

  Memories, Real, Passion

  Diane Ackerman (2004). “An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister? Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn And tied her with fences and dragged her down

  Jim Morrison

  Knives, Dawn, Done

  15 Copy quote

• A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Self, Becoming

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.22, Open Road Media

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

  Harrison Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  93 Copy quote

• If you're a car salesman, and someone says "This is a terrible car, I'm not buying it," it doesn't mean they hate you. They just don't like your product. I think that's a mistake a lot of people in show business make.. they're so tied to their act they take everything personally.

  Jay Leno

  Hate, Mistake, Mean

  4 Copy quote

• Lookin back on it at least my pride is in tact cause we said no strings attached and I still got tied up in that

  Drake

  Life, Breakup, Pride

  19 Copy quote

• Learning to see love and to express that love is the purpose of living this life. What's real has love at its heart; the universe is constructed from love, and that love is very much tied to our power of attention and imagination.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Spiritual, Real, Heart

  Fred Alan Wolf (2002). “Matter Into Feeling: A New Alchemy of Science and Spirit”, p.116, Red Wheel/Weiser

  62 Copy quote

  Show source

• Both Mitt and I have summer places up in New Hampshire on Lake Winnipesaukee. And a few summers ago I was taking my grandchildren and children to town in the boat for ice cream ... And I realized there was nobody in the boat to help me dock the boat, handle the ropes, do anything ... And I looked up and there was Mitt Romney. So he pulled me in, he tied up the boat for me. He rescued me just as he's going to rescue this great country.

  J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr.

  Summer, Country, Children

  "Bill Marriott: Mitt Romney Will Rescue America’s Yacht ... From Indeterminate Peril, Apparently" by Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 28, 2012.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Then the administration tied it in to the regional dispute between Israel and its enemies, as if that's about international terrorism. No, it's not.

  Chris Matthews

  Israel, Enemy, Literature

  7 Copy quote

• It is important to insist on the historical truthfulness of the narrative of the fall of Adam and Eve. Just as the account of the creation of Adam and Eve is tied in with the rest of the historical narrative in the book of Genesis, so also this account of the fall of man, which follows the history of man's creation, is presented by the author as straightforward, narrative history

  Wayne Grudem

  Fall, Book, Men

  Wayne A. Grudem (2012). “Sin and Atonement: A Zondervan Digital Short”, p.9, Zondervan

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Independent, Garden

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.62, Rowman & Littlefield

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm of the mind that life is a risk. Every time you leave your house it's a risk, and I see no reason to go through life with my hands tied behind my back for any reason. I'd be foolish to let something stop me from doing what I love to do.

  Thomas Jane

  Hands, House, Risk

  48 Copy quote

• Don't you ever orget that in the end, our future is tied to people, that it's more about ideas than a tax.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Forget, Ends

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001".

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To get back to the real substance of all things, you must get back into the thought world. Until one knows that the thought-energy is the cause of which is back of all things, and the product only the effect, then he is tied to the effect and is limited by it.

  Walter Russell

  Real, Secret, Energy

  10 Copy quote

• Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, War, Communication

  "Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Names, Knowing

  William Shakespeare, Howard Staunton (1860). “The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems”, p.772

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.

  Lionel Barrymore

  Hands, Feet, Hollywood

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is tied up with mine, then let us work together.

  Lilla Watson

  Work, Volunteer, Community

  59 Copy quote

• They whipped us like a tied up goat.

  Spike Dykes

  Football, College, Goats

  19 Copy quote