Ties Quotes - Page 35

• Liupan the Mountain of Six Circles Dazzling sky to the far cirrus clouds. I gaze at wild geese vanishing into the south. If we cannot reach the Long Wall we are not true men. On my fingers I count the twenty thousand li we have already marched. On the summit of Liupan the west wind lazily ripples our red banner. Today we have the long rope in our hands. When will we tie up the gray dragon of the seven stars?

  Mao Zedong

  Stars, Wall, Men

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.69, Univ of California Press

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• And so the idea was, well maybe you can take an Atari video game machine, where people plug in a game cartridge, and plug in a modem, and tie that into a telephone, and essentially turn that game in the machine into an interactive terminal.

  Steve Case

  Games, Ideas, People

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• I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.

  Sela Ward

  Country, Memories, Black And White

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• I'd rather be an adviser. I don't wanna become a trainer because I think with the knowledge and the business sense that I've accomplished through my career and have credibility, why would I reduce myself down to being in a gym with a bunch of training which is not a bad thing to give advice, but I can do that with a suit and tie on and also be there when the cheques are written. I don't wanna be there when the cheques are handed down from 3 or 4 people's hands and then it hits mine as a trainer because 9/10 times, deductions have come out of that.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, Thinking, Hands

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• In 1650 Bishop Ussher dated the creation from the genealogy given in the Bible at 4004 B.C.; for a long time (even for some people today) this was accepted as "gospel truth." However, if you accept a miracle such as this, what's wrong with creation 5 minutes ago? It would be scarcely more difficult for the Creator to create all of us sitting here, with our memories of events that never really happened, with our worn shoes that were never really new, with spots of soup that were never really spilled on our ties, and so on. Such a beginning is logically possible, but extremely hard to believe!

  Leigh Page

  Memories, Believe, Science

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• It's time to break our ties with anything in us that would rather complain about its situation than go to work to change it.

  Guy Finley

  Complaining, Break, Situation

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Jan 13, 2013

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• I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.

  Colin Firth

  Cutting, Swimming, Thinking

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• Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.

  Aelred of Rievaulx

  Friendship, Ties Of Love, Spirit

  Aelred of Rievaulx, Saint Aelred (of Rievaulx) (1974). “Spiritual friendship”, Cistercian Pubns

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• Any child who is self-sufficient, who can tie his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement the image of human dignity which is derived from a sense of independence.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Self, Shoes

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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• Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor.

  Brock Yates

  Long, Junk, Might

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• History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Games, History, Hammocks

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• Service-learning is a particularly fertile way of involving young people in community service, because it ties helping others to what they are learning in the classroom. It enables them to apply academic disciplines to practical, everyday problems. In the process, it provides a compelling answer to the adolescent's perennial question, 'Why do I need to learn this stuff?

  Colin Powell

  Helping Others, Everyday Problems, Discipline

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• Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder.

  Carl Sandburg

  Hope, Echoes

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “The People, Yes”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them.

  Nikola Tesla

  Stars, Thinking, Together

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, With Special References to the Harnessing of”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• British people still wear clothes. By clothes I mean actual clothes: jackets and shirts and ties and suits. The spirit of Beau Brummell is still visible. English men make an effort. We’ve lost that in the US. Everyone is more concerned with being comfortable.

  Tom Ford

  Mean, Men, Clothes

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• If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and human relationships are not primary in a man's life. A man who places others first, above his own creative work, is an emotional parasite.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Emotional, Productive Work

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• I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.

  Ralph Lauren

  Thinking, Design, Boss

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• Green business is not about tie-dyed T-shirts. It's about transforming the industrial system itself into one that looks at all the connections.

  Paul Hawken

  Connections, Looks, Green

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• And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other people's flowers, and that of my own I have only provided the string that ties them together.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Flower, Book, People

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful. And I had no other ambition than to discover with the help of new means those deep inner ties that linked me to the very soil.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Beautiful, Ambition, Mean

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• Even though you tie a hundred knots, the string remains one.

  Rumi

  Hundred, Strings, Knots

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• Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story... To make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all.

  Stephen King

  Reading, Shoes, Lace

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• God won't tie your soul to a dead-end dream.

  Lou Engle

  Dream, Soul, Dead Ends

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• When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Nature, Faults, Bears

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1887). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”

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• The word 'commitment' has lost it's meaning. I'm old enough to remember when it used to be positive. A commited person was someone to be admired. He was loyal and steady. Now a commitment is something you avoid. You don't want to tie yourself down.

  Mitch Albom

  Commitment, Being Positive, Loyal

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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