Nothing is so binding as pity.
— Alice Tisdale Hobart
And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
— Alexander Pope
It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment.
— Swami Vivekananda
Conceit makes the way God deals with me personally the binding standard for others.
— Oswald Chambers
A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
— J. Paul Getty
Christ's commandment to hear the Church ... is binding on all men, in every period, and every country.
— Pope Pius XI
Before a man can bind the enemy, he must know there is nothingbinding him. — Smith Wigglesworth
Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together?
— William O. Douglas
Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.
— Mary Jo Putney
We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.
— Alan Chadwick
Agreements have to be made in the dark for them to be binding.
— Glenn Haybittle
The Scout Oath and Law are our binding disciplinary force.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
Duress impacts relationships in one of two ways. It either tears people apart... binding them tightly in a common objective.
— Emily Thorne
This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.
— Malcolm Miller
A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.
— Thomas De Quincey
The leaders use their power to crush people's natural desire to think for themselves. It's foot binding for the brain.
— Haruki Murakami
White bridal dresses stunning and pure, bringing promises, binding two souls together, life forces connected, holding the same vision.
— Jennifer Lynch
Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.
— Stephen King
Where there is society there is no need for charity.
— Heather Marsh
Like immense time-binding discussions, genres allow ideas to be developed and traded, and for variations to be spun down through decades.
— Gregory Benford
Heaven is high and earth wide. If you ride three feet higher above the ground than other men, you will know what that means.
— Rudolf G. Binding
"In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love."
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
For better or worse, he was bound to this body until someone or something else released the binding.
— Kathleen Bryan
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
— Carrie Chapman Catt
He really didn't like doing this to her, he was truly put off by the idea of binding such a free spirit. But
— Erica Stevens
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
— Otto Von Bismarck
The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
— Irving Babbitt
OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.
— Ambrose Bierce
Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.
— Milan Kundera
That most ancient of magics, the binding of a man by the use of his name, gripped him. — Robin Hobb
A bonfire was burning nearby, and love was Ty's hand around mine, warm and fast, binding us together. — Ann Aguirre
Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench. — Anne Carson
Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle. — Jane Swisshelm
A promise should be as binding as a contract. — Frank Sonnenberg
Binding emissions targets for the developing nations are out of the question. — Eileen Claussen
Memory is the binding foam of our mental life. — Abhijit Naskar
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him. — Henry Ward Beecher
All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title. — James M. Barrie
All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification. — Ban Ki-moon
The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them. — Bernard Beckett
Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love. — Timothy Keller
birch twigs, and a willow binding. The ash is protective, the birch is purifying, and the willow is sacred to the Goddesss. Of — Scott Cunningham
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love') — William Blake
Break free from the chains which shackle each soul through the binding links of fear, greed and indifference? — Bryant McGill
I know you think I was pressured into binding myself with you before, but that's not true,I always intended to marry you, kitten. — Jeaniene Frost
In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mona ... lots of things are more binding than sex. They last longer too. — Armistead Maupin
The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract. — Beatrice Lillie
The binding was of citron-green leather, with a design of gilt trellis-work and dotted pomegranates. — Oscar Wilde
Love is the binding force of the universe. It is an ongoing flow that unites all of creation. — Victor Shamas
Love is the binding force on every level of existence. — Peter Kreeft
The air was heavy with the smell of leather and dust, of old parchment and binding glue. It smelled of secrets. — Patrick Rothfuss
The warding off of anxiety is central to the time-binding, action-delaying, and cerebral functions of the human animal. — Ernest Becker
Larsta love oath is binding. They knew no form of divorce in their culture. — Brandon Sanderson
The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau. — Donald Hall
Love shouldn't be binding, but freeing. — Linda Wisdom
Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing? — William Carey
There is one single thread binding my way together ... the way of the Master consists in doing one's best ... that is all. — Confucius
Only what God has commanded in His word should be regarded as binding; in all else there may be liberty of actions. — John Owen
Do not weep; for, look you, all Desire is Illusion and a new binding upon the. wheel. — Rudyard Kipling
Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself. — Thomas Aquinas
Now I feel adrift - except for the tether binding me here, to this girl at my side. — Amie Kaufman
One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era. — Ken Livingstone
All people are bound by ties and obligations, and the most binding ties of all are those between kin. — Kate Elliott
You create a team by binding each to each, acting as glue, not as god. — Karen Lord
Affection expressed physically made friendship so complete and binding. — Gordon Merrick
We now had impressive evidence that low protein intake could markedly decrease enzyme activity and prevent dangerous carcinogen binding to DNA. — T. Colin Campbell
As if him binding my hands wasn't enough for me to feel possessed, owned, protected. — C.D. Reiss
When any practice is proposed and enforced as a binding duty, we have a right to examine the grounds of the alleged obligation. — Adoniram Judson
Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind. — Sara Sheridan
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding. — Dean Acheson
Being open is happiness and being closed is sadness. So free your mind from the prison of binding ideas and thoughts. — Debasish Mridha
History gives us no clean, straight causal lines binding events and giving them clear order. History is a poem, not a syllogism. — Rod Dreher
Under the sun, and to the edges of the world. — Tessa Gratton
Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding. — Studs Terkel
The laws of Congress are restricted to a certain sphere, and when they depart from this sphere, they are no longer supreme or binding. — Alexander Hamilton
No oath can be too binding for a lover. — Sophocles
Women are binding and men are commanding. — Debasish Mridha
This is global governance in the making. But we must agree, and agree to a binding commitment. — George Papandreou
Religion is not knowledge. Religion is love. The word 'religion' comes from a root which means binding together - falling into love, becoming one. — Rajneesh
Politics in America is the binding secular religion. — Theodore White
Time has a way of binding us. Months turn into years against our will. — Annie Cosby
In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding. — Charles Lamb
The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop. — John Lydon
In Paris extremes are made to meet by passion. Vice is constantly binding the rich to the poor, the great to the mean. — Honore De Balzac
Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms. — George Stillman Hillard
but what doesn't sound so good is someone else binding her. That shit will not be flying. — Alexa Riley
No obligation to do the impossible is binding. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment. — Felix Frankfurter
An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes. — Thomas Southerne
Paper Covers Rock is dazzling in its intensity and intelligence, spell-binding in its terrible beauty. — Kathi Appelt
We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding. — Deb Caletti
A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society. — Michael Howard
The Chanel aesthetic is like the force in Star Wars, surrounding, penetrating, and binding together the universe of fashion, now and forever. — Karen Karbo
