Tied Up Quotes

• A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

  Mae West

  Relationship, Confidence, Sarcastic

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Years, Games

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• When you have no idea how to surrender and you're tied up in knots, JUST BREATHE!

  Judith Orloff

  Emotional, Ideas, Breathe

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• Lookin back on it at least my pride is in tact cause we said no strings attached and I still got tied up in that

  Drake

  Life, Breakup, Pride

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• Modeling is a profession where your worth is tied up with looks.

  Christy Turlington

  Looks, Modeling, Profession

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• If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Freedom, Destiny, America

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• We keep ourselves so tied up in regretting the past and fearing the future that we don't have any energy left to figure out who we are and what we want to create right now.

  Gay Hendricks

  Regret, Past, Energy

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• Memory is a tenuous thing. . . . flickering glimpses, blue and white, like ancient, decomposing 16mm film. Happiness escapes me there, where faces are vague and yesterday seems to come tied up in ribbons of pain. Happiness? I look for it intead in today, where memory is something I can still touch, still rely on. I find it in the smiles of new friends, the hope blossoming inside. My happiest memories have no place in the past; they are those I have yet to create.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Memories, Pain, Past

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• Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Kings, Destiny

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• I was coming to be an adult, the AIDS epidemic happened. Moving to New York, watching that unfold, and watching the activism around that... it was complete chaos of life, and then this horrific non-response from the powers that be. There was a lot of misery and sadness tied up in that.

  Kelly Reichardt

  New York, Moving, Sadness

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss?

  Susan Lydon

  Letting Go, Loss, Positivity

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• I think you will agree that life's plans are not always tied up in neat little packages. Occasionally we find ourselves at unexpected crossroads with more than one opportunity from which to choose. Time itself is often the best indicator of which decision to make, for it can tell so many thing that are now hazy.

  Linda Chaikin

  Opportunity, Thinking, Decision

  Linda Lee Chaikin (2011). “Tomorrow's Treasure”, p.445, WaterBrook

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• I have a lot of fantasies about being tied up and spanked. I suppose it isn't very liberated, is it? What kind of fantasies do feminists have?

  J. F. Lawton

  Feminist, Fantasy, Kind

  "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death". www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.

  David Duchovny

  Sexy, Fashion, Men

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• It's been so long since I made love, I can't even remember who gets tied up.

  Joan Rivers

  Love, Funny, Long

  "The Quotable Quote Book" by Carol Publishing Group, (p. 258), 1990.

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• I only tie up woman's body because I know I cannot tie up her heart. Only her physical parts can be tied up. Tying up a woman becomes an embrace.

  Nobuyoshi Araki

  Heart, Ties, Body

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• My biggest fear is losing memory because memory is what we are. Your very soul and your very reason to be alive is tied up in memory.

  Nick Cave

  Memories, Soul, Alive

  "20,000 Days on Earth". Documentary, Drama, Music, www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• Another rule I have is: Don't let your ego get tied up in a policy dispute. Otherwise, if things don't go your way, you can end up breaking a relationship with somebody with whom you can't afford to break.

  Colin Powell

  Ego, Way, Break

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Somebody comes to my house and admires what I've done, sometimes I just give it to them. Because I don't want to get it all tied up in all that professional stuff because I have to do that as a writer. I don't need that. I need something like painting, where I can just play.

  Ted Kooser

  Giving, House, Done

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Constant travel brings old age upon a man; a horse becomes old by being constantly tied up; lack of sexual contact with her husband brings old age upon a woman; and garments become old through being left in the sun.

  Chanakya

  Horse, Husband, Men

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• Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights. Since I was born, hasn't every word I've said, every thought I've thought, everything I've done, been tied up, weighted, chained? And mind you, I know that with all this I don't succeed. Or I succeed in flashes only too damned well. ...But think how hard I try and how seldom I dare. Think - and have a bit of pity. That is, if you ever think, you apes, which I doubt.

  Jean Rhys

  Thinking, Mind, Doubt

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• Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes. Violet had a real knack for inventing and building strange devices, so her brain was often filled with images of pulleys, levers, and gears, and she never wanted to be distracted by something as trivial as her hair.

  Daniel Handler

  Real, Eye, Thinking

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• A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Self, Becoming

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• You’re the most experienced investigator I’ve got who’s not tied up in something, and I can’t ask the Consort to look look into it, because A) she and Curran are working on something else and B) when the Consort gets involved, half of the world blows up.

  Ilona Andrews

  Blow, Looks, Half

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Dreams: A Penguin Special from Ace”, p.54, Penguin

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• Did you dream of me?" he asked. "Yes," she admitted grudgingly. She had. She'd dreamed of his hands caressing her, of his mouth devouring her. His lush lips inched into a surprised but pleased smile. "You were naked," she told him. His grin spread; his eyes gleamed with satisfaction. "And tied up..." He arched his eye brows in smug expectation. "I did not know the idea of bondage would please you." "Oh, I love the idea of typing you up." She paused dramatically. "Just like in my dream, you'll be secured to an ant-hill and the little things will eat you alive.

  Gena Showalter

  Dream, Eye, Hands

  Gena Showalter (2012). “The Nymph King”, p.133, Harlequin

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