Ties Quotes

• A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

  Albert Einstein

  Sympathy, God, Death

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.39, Broadway Books

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• There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Gratitude, Men, Giving

  "Lettres Persanes" by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, No. 104 (Usbek writing to Ibben), 1721.

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• Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

  Margery Allingham

  Sad, Dust, Mourning

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• If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

  George Brett

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Change, Sports, Heaven

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.26, Shambhala Publications

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• You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break. No one can tell you what they are; only you can tell by looking at yourself and into your heart.

  Johannes Tauler

  Strong, Heart, Enemy

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• I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.

  George Eliot

  Future, Past, Desire

  "The Mill on the Floss". Volume II,

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  You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

  George Burns

  Funny, Hilarious, Retirement

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

  George Burns

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• He was the kind of kid you did not want to sit by. He kept his boogers in his desk, he wore a neck tie.

  John Hiatt

  Education, Kids, Want

  Song: The Night That Kenny Died, Album: Slug Line

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• A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister!

  Bear Bryant

  Softball, Sports, Football

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• The family ties between hundreds of thousands of German families and their American relatives led many to think that America would never join a second war against Germany.

  Julius Streicher

  War, Thinking, America

  Der Stürmer newspaper, 1944.

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• The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Father, Men, Wife

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.18, tredition

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• We believe, as the President has indicated, that this combination of a rogue state that possesses weapons of mass destruction and has known ties to terrorist organizations, is a grave threat to the people of the United States and to other countries around the world.

  Paul Cellucci

  Country, Believe, Organization

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• Our ties are deep and long-standing. We are dependent on each other. And no matter what the issue of the day, whether it be softwood lumber, whether it be a war in Iraq, we need to continue to work together.

  Paul Cellucci

  War, Issues, Iraq

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• I'm a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people ties. I'm a promoter of America. I'm American people. You know what I mean? So therefore, uh, do not send for who the bell tolls 'cause the bell tolls for thee.

  Don King

  Lying, Mean, America

  "The Daily Show". www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• We have new developing ties with Japan whom always supports our democratic process and economic development.

  Ali Abdullah Saleh

  Japan, Support, Development

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• Our relations with brothers in Gulf Cooperation council are good and developing, either bilateral relations or with the G.C.C itself, also we have good brotherly and solid ties with Saudi Arabia.

  Ali Abdullah Saleh

  Brother, Arabia, Cooperation

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• It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

  Wernher von Braun

  Science, Men, Space

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

  Joseph Hall

  Life, Running, Pearls

  "The Holy State and the Profane State". Book by Thomas Fuller, Book III, 1642.

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• It's so long since I've had sex I've forgotten who ties up who.

  Joan Rivers

  Love, Life, Sexy

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• And the meek shall inherit the earth.

  Geddy Lee

  Horizon, Earth, Modesty

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• All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Heaven, Principles, Earth

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.26, Shambhala Publications

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• I'm very proud of Family Ties. It's meant a lot to a lot of people.

  Tina Yothers

  People, Proud, Family Ties

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