Ties Quotes

• A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

  Albert Einstein

  Sympathy, God, Death

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.39, Broadway Books

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• Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

  Margery Allingham

  Sad, Dust, Mourning

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• If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

  George Brett

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break. No one can tell you what they are; only you can tell by looking at yourself and into your heart.

  Johannes Tauler

  Strong, Heart, Enemy

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• Accountability is the glue that ties commitment to the result.

  Bob Proctor

  Commitment, Accountability, Glue

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• All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Change, Sports, Heaven

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.26, Shambhala Publications

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  You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

  George Burns

  Funny, Hilarious, Retirement

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.

  George Eliot

  Future, Past, Desire

  "The Mill on the Floss". Volume II,

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• Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.328, Princeton University Press

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• The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Sibling, Character

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• The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

  Samuel Butler

  Christian, Believe, Health

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”, London : J. Cape

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• Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

  Jean Cocteau

  Handwriting, Unraveling, Poet

  Quoted by Pierre Chanel in "A Thousand Flashes of Genius", "Jean Cocteau and the French Scene". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1984.

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• To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

  Jimi Hendrix

  Mean, Hair, Trying

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• When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you. Your posture is a little more erect; your shoulders are a little further back; your style is a little more dynamic. It's about the reestablishment of the gentleman.

  Dhani Jones

  Doors, Gentleman, Style

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• Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.

  Barbara Jordan

  Voice, People, Common Sense

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge closer ties based on mutual understanding and respect, leading to permanent peace in the Taiwan Strait.

  Nick Lampson

  Understanding, Taiwan, May

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• I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.

  Cat Stevens

  Strings Attached, Giving, Give Me

  "'Music is part of God's universe'". Interview with Nigel Williamson, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2005.

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• I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.

  Meryl Streep

  Needs, Imagine, Holistic

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

  Barbra Streisand

  Exercise, Hype, Elderly

  Barbra Streisand's Letter to Democrats, www.foxnews.com. April 2, 2001.

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• A tie is like kissing your sister.

  Duffy Daugherty

  Softball, Sports, Football

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• Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

  Sallust

  Gratitude, Ambition, Blood

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• You can't dribble on bow ties.

  Dr. Seuss

  Bows, Bow Tie, Dribble

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• When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you.

  Dhani Jones

  Doors, Bows, Posture

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• And so, inevitably, one returns to the centre of Western culture, Greece, and we have never, in any sense, lost our ties with the architectural concepts that this country's ancient civilization explored and demonstrated, nor with the political and social freedom that lay behind them.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Civilization, Gdp, Western Culture

  "The house: its origins and evolution".

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• We do not trust the goodwill of the U.S. They have cut the ties.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  Trust, Cutting, Goodwill

  "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.

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