
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