Binding Quotes - Page 8

• Altho that is so, Ireland has always denied and Ireland still denies that the Union was binding upon her either legally or morally. And here on this historic occasion we have assembled to renew our protest and to place it upon record.

  John Edward

  Records, Unions, Historic

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• Our job as actors, especially in front of a camera, is almost like textile artists. We spend so much time getting the right texture of yarn, and working out the color scheme, and binding off the weave, and making it just right.

  Anthony Heald

  Jobs, Artist, Yarn

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that exist between people that bind.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  People, Important, Abandon

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The question is where are business ethics and morality if one of the parties wants to dishonor a binding contract, just because in retrospect it realizes it could perhaps have got a better price!

  Anil Ambani

  Party, Want, Retrospect

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• How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of the pictures. Then it is the binding. If a book is good, the owner will have it bound properly. All books in English are bound, but bound badly. There is no way of judging them.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Judging, Quality

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.441, Simon and Schuster

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• When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere accumulated, and not trulycumulative treasure; where immortal works stand side by side with anthologies which did not survive their month, and cobweb and mildew have already spread from these to the binding of those; and happily I am reminded of what poetry is,--I perceive that Shakespeare and Milton did not foresee into what company they were to fall. Alas! that so soon the work of a true poet should be swept into such a dust-hole!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Dust, Poetry

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.256, Delphi Classics

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• The Risen Christ proclaimed not that we 'have to forgive,' but rather, that at last we CAN forgive-and thereby free ourselves from consuming bitterness and the offender from our binding condemnation. This process requires genuine human anger and grief, plus-and here is the awful cost of such freedom-a humble willingness to see the offender as God sees that person, in all his or her terrible brokenness and need for God's saving power. I would never tell another, 'You have to forgive.'

  Gordon Dalbey

  Forgiveness, Grief, Humble

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• The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.

  Beatrice Lillie

  Vow, Contracts, Ceremony

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• Campaign promises are - by long democratic tradition - the least binding form of human commitment.

  Antonin Scalia

  Commitment, Long, Promise

  "Republican Party v. White, 536 U.S. 765". Opinion of the Court, www.law.cornell.edu. June 27, 2002.

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• If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft to the touch, paper generously opaque, and type such as men designed when printing was very young. I would dress my gods in leather and gold, and burn candles of worship before them at night, and string their names like beads on a string.

  Will Durant

  Book, Eye, Night

  Will Durant (1931). “Adventures in Genius”

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• Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Men, Sticks, Angle

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• In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Men, Order, Library

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• Habits, though in their commencement like the filmy line of the spider, trembling at every breeze, may in the end prove as links of tempered steel, binding a deathless being to eternal felicity or woe.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Spiders, Steel, Links

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• ... there are no chains so galling as the chains of ignorance--no fetters so binding as those that bind the soul, and exclude it from the vast field of useful and scientific knowledge. O, had I received the advantages of early education, my ideas would, ere now, have expanded far and wide; but, alas! I possess nothing but moral capability--no teachings but the teachings of the Holy Spirit.

  Maria W. Stewart

  Education, Teaching, Ignorance

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• They say that even a hateful connection is still binding.

  Jo Min-Hyuk

  Drama, Connections, Hateful

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• When a male vole repeatedly mates with a female, a hormone called vasopressin is released in his brain. The vasopressin binds to receptors in a part of the brain called the nucleus accumbens, and the binding mediates a pleasurable feeling that becomes associated with that female. This locks in the monogamy, which is known as pair-bonding. If you block this hormone, the pair-bonding goes away.

  David Eagleman

  Block, Feelings, Brain

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• 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

  Men, Hands, Feet

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.52

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• As the vine which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing tendrils and bind up its shattered boughs, so is it beautifully ordered by Providence that woman, who is the mere dependent and ornament of man in his happier hours, should be his stay and solace when smitten with sudden calamity, winding herself into the rugged recesses of his nature, tenderly supporting the drooping head, and binding up the broken heart.

  Washington Irving

  Women, Heart, Sunshine

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. – The Complete Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Voyage, Roscoe, A Royal Poet, A Sunday in London and many more (Illustrated)”, p.30, e-artnow

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• 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

  Feet, Eras, Mao

  "Ken Defends Mao, and Puts His Foot in It... Again". www.independent.co.uk. May 17, 2006.

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• To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker - they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Stupid, Men, Self

  Alfred Korzybski (1974). “Manhood of humanity”, p.133, Рипол Классик

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• Women's scars and rituals involved beauty (piercing ears and noses, binding feet, and wearing corsets); men's involved protecting women. In cultures in which physical strength is still the best way to protect women, as among the Dodos in Uganda, each time a man kills a man, he is awarded a ritual scar; the more scars, the more he is considered eligible.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Feet, Uganda

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• The mark of a single currency is not only that all other currencies must be extinguished but that the capacity of other institutions to issue currencies must also be extinguished...In the case of the United Kingdom, that would involve Parliament binding its successors in a way that it has hitherto regarded as unconstitutional.

  Norman Tebbit

  Issues, Kingdoms, Way

  House of Commons Debate, publications.parliament.uk. October 30, 1990.

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• The artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word "Art," and everything is O.K. Rotting corpses with snails crawling over them are O.K.; kicking little girls in the head is O.K.; even a film like L'Age d'Or is O.K.

  George Orwell

  Girl, Art, Law

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.216, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Mormons had a divine revelation in favour of polygamy, but under pressure from the United States Government they discovered that the revelation was not binding.

  Bertrand Russell

  Government, United States, Divine Revelation

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.51, Routledge

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• The binding of reason and intuition is the fundamental crisis of the era we call humanity. Transcedence of duality is the key.

  Phil Collins

  Keys, Humanity, Intuition

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