Binding Quotes

Nothing is so binding as pity. — Alice Tisdale Hobart

He already knows I'm his binding mate since I've been appearing in his dreams too, but I'm not sure if he'll be able to contain his loathing for me. — Shannon Duffy

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 nothing
binding him. — Smith Wigglesworth

Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together? — William O. Douglas

You can never have for yourself someone who isn't on good terms with himself. — Pascal Mercier

They ought to make it a binding clause that if you find God you get to keep Him. — Philip K. Dick

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

Blame is a human concept, one of its blackest and most selfish and self-binding. — Patrick Ness

"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

A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart.
Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision. — Nido Qubein

What I'd truly been avoiding was love, the strongest binding there is, and the pain that scrapes at your insides when the bond is forcefully broken. — Kevin Hearne

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