Tied Quotes - Page 18

• We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

  Tom Stoppard

  Style, Obscurity, Language

  Tom Stoppard (1991). “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead”, Grove/Atlantic

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• This world has been connected...tied to the darkness...soon to be completely eclipsed...there is very much to learn...you understand so little...a meaningless effort...one who knows nothing cannot understand nothing.

  Shiro Amano

  Kingdom Hearts, Effort, Darkness

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• It's been so long since I made love, I can't even remember who gets tied up.

  Joan Rivers

  Love, Funny, Long

  "The Quotable Quote Book" by Carol Publishing Group, (p. 258), 1990.

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• He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.

  C. S. Lewis

  Country, Religion, One Day

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol I: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”, p.131, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came.

  John F. Kennedy

  Ocean, Thinking, Light

  Remarks in Newport at the Australian Ambassador's Dinner for the America's Cup Crews on September 14, 1962. "Public Papers of the Presidents: John F. Kennedy", 1962.

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• (...) being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied to being right that later on in life you are reluctant to accept that you are ever wrong, because you are defending not the idea but your self-esteem. (...) this terror of being wrong means that people have enormous difficulties in changing ideas.

  Edward de Bono

  Real, Self Esteem, Mean

  Edward De Bono (1972). “PO: a device for successful thinking”

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• Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly impatient, we are suggesting that we know what is best—better than does God. Or, at least, we are asserting that our timetable is better than His. We can grow in faith only if we are willing to wait patiently for God's purposes and patterns to unfold in our lives, on His timetable.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  God, Faith, Patience

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• If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me;
  For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Garden, Feet

  "Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi". Book translated by Fatemeh Keshavarz. Divan 1740:1-3, 1998.

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• The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.

  Robin McKinley

  Track, Roaring, Rope

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• Stop it," spluttered Eustace, "go away. Put that thing away. It's not safe. Stop it, I say. I'll tell Caspian. I'll have you muzzled and tied up." "Why do you not draw your own sword, poltroon!" cheeped the Mouse. "Draw and fight or I'll beat you black and blue with the flat." "I haven't got one," said Eustace. "I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in fighting." "Do I understand," said Reepicheep, withdrawing his sword for a moment and speaking very sternly, "that you do not intend to give me satisfaction?

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Fighting, Blue

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Enhanced Edition)”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• Today we are aware as never before of the plurality of human life-styles and possibilities, while at the same time being tied, like in an old silent movie, to a runaway locomotive rushing headlong toward a very singular catastrophe

  Gary Snyder

  Rushing, Style, Today

  Gary Snyder (1969). “Earth House Hold: Technical Notes & Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries”, p.126, New Directions Publishing

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• And I don't know if Batty's gotten over it yet,' said Skye. Mr. Penderwick looked out the window to where Batty was playing vampires with Hound. Hound was on his back, trying to wiggle out of the black towel Batty had tied around his neck. Batty was leaping over Hound's water bowl, shrieking, 'Blood, blood!' 'She looks all right,' he said.

  Jeanne Birdsall

  Blood, Water, Black

  Jeanne Birdsall (2014). “The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street, The Penderwick at Point Mouette”, p.166, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil Librarians.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Dark, Evil, Librarian

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.147, Macmillan

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• Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They are what we hold on with, nothing else. They are as valuable in themselves as rope with nothing to be tied to.

  Jack Spicer

  Real, Rope, Use

  Jack Spicer (2010). “My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer”, p.196, Wesleyan University Press

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• Although I didn't think so at the time, things were a lot simpler in 1969. All you had to do to express yourself was throw rocks at riot police. But with today's sophistication, who's in a position to throw rocks? Who's going to brave what tear gas? C'mon, that's the way it is. Everything is rigged, tied into that massive capital web, and beyond this web there's another web. Nobody's going anywhere. You throw a rock and it'll come right back at you.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Rocks, Brave

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• Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Rope, Beast

  "Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist".

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• It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Morning, Bed

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.81, A&C Black

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• I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

  Walt Whitman

  Mouths, Tongue, Mines

  Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.52, Psychology Press

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• You must be life for me to the very end," so he writes. "That is the only way in which to sustain my idea of you. Because you have gotten, as you see, tied up with something so vital to me, I do not think I shall ever shake you off. Nor do I wish to. I want you to live more vitally every day, as I am dead. That is why, when I speak of you to others, I am just a bit ashamed. It's hard to talk of one's self so intimately

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Thinking, Self

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• The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Soul, Movement, Weight

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• Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.

  Bear Bryant

  Technology, Texas, Lost Ones

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• We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  Fate, Destiny, People

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• We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

  Mason Cooley

  Faults, Virtue

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• Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.

  David Duchovny

  Sexy, Fashion, Men

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• All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.

  Newt Gingrich

  Jobs, Training, Requirements

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