Ties Quotes - Page 12

• It's hard for the White House to regain momentum if the Congress is in disarray. It ties up the Republicans in Congress and limits their ability to execute any White House agenda.

  Calvin Jillson

  White, House, Momentum

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• There is a compulsion that is perhaps the heart of life's meanings, this marvelous mystery of blood ties that brings joy whenever a new family member comes on the scene.

  Walter Cronkite

  Heart, Blood, Joy

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• I just love learning about the way people used to live their lives, and I think what also ties into that is psychology, because I like knowing why people do certain things.

  Molly Quinn

  Thinking, Knowing, People

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

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• digital hub (center of our universe) is moving from PC to cloud - PC now just another client alongside iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, ... - Apple is in danger of hanging on to old paradigm too long (innovator's dilemma) - Google and Microsoft are further along on the technology, but haven't quite figured it out yet - tie all of our products together, so we further lock customers into our ecosystem

  Steve Jobs

  Moving, Technology, Clouds

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• The drug war isn't what purports to be. If you look at the whole operation and the tie-in between the American intelligence agencies, these so-called "assets", the spies on the payroll of the CIA, and drug dealers. Don't let members of Congress and the media get away with this complacency and distortion!

  Jerry Brown

  War, Agency, Media

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• I think it's a good idea to tie Peter Mandelson to a van. Such an act would be cruel and barbaric and inhuman. But it would at least cheer everyone up a bit.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Cheer, Thinking, Ideas

  "Get me a rope before Mandelson wipes us all out" by Jeremy Clarkson, www.thetimes.co.uk. November 8, 2009.

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• If men were wise they would see that the affection that God has implanted in us is amply sufficient, when not weakened by artificial aid, to ensure permanence of union; and if they would have more faith in this all would go well. To tie together by human law what God has tied together by passion, is about as wise as it would be to chain the moon to the earth lest the natural attraction existing between them should not be sufficient to prevent them flying asunder.

  Herbert Spencer

  Marriage, Wise, Passion

  Herbert Spencer (1904). “An Autobiography: By Herbert Spencer”

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• By inner experience I understand that which one usually calls mystical experience: the states of ecstasy, of rapture, at least of meditated emotion. But I am thinking less of confessional experience, to which one has had to adhere up to now, that of an experience laid bare, free of ties, even of an origin, of any confession whatever. This is why I don't like the word mystical.

  Georges Bataille

  Thinking, Mystical Experiences, Emotion

  Georges Bataille (1988). “Inner Experience”, p.3, SUNY Press

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• Bright pledge of peace and sunshine! the sure tie Of thy Lord's hand, the object of His eye! When I behold thee, though my light be dim, Distinct, and low, I can in thine see Him Who looks upon thee from His glorious throne, And minds the covenant between all and One.

  Henry Vaughan

  Eye, Sunshine, Light

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• National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with a democratic order.

  Adolf Hitler

  Order, Broken, Democracy

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• That thorny path, those stormy skies, have drawn our spirits nearer; and rendered us, by sorrow's ties, each to the other dearer.

  Bernard Barton

  Adversity, Sky, Sorrow

  Bernard Barton, Lucy Barton (1853). “Poems and Letters by Bernard Barton: With a Memoir”, p.160

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• David Blunkett and I both take the same view that it is scandalous that someone from North Tyneside, Laura Spence, with the best qualifications and who wants to be a doctor, should be turned down by Oxford University using an interview system more reminiscent of the old school network and the old school tie than justice. It is about time for an end to that old Britain where what matters more are the privileges you are born with, rather than the potential you actually have.

  Gordon Brown

  School, Doctors, Views

  "Brown goes to war over Oxford elite" by Alexandra Frean, John O'Leary and Philip Webster, The Times, May 26, 2000.

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• Are we all not, when we sit in the cinema, in the position of humans in The Matrix, tied to chairs, immersed in the spectacle run by a machine? However, a more appropriate allegory is that of the viewer himself: beneath the illusion that we "just look" at the perceived objects from a safe distance, freely sliding along them, there is the reality of the innumerable ties that bind us to what we perceive.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Running, Distance, Reality

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• A really intelligent nation might be held together by far stronger forces than are derived from the purely gregarious instincts. A nation need not be a mob of slaves, clinging to one another through fear, and for the most part incapable of self-government, and begging to be led; but it might consist of vigorous self-reliant men, knit to one another by innumerable ties, into a strong, tense, and elastic organisation.

  Francis Galton

  Strong, Intelligent, Men

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• It's such an honour being banned in Italy, the mother of sensuality. It's like being asked to straighten your tie in a bordello... It's ironic that the pictures were removed on the complaint of a cardinal. I regard censorship as a cardinal sin.

  Harold Town

  Mother, Ironic, Morality

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• there are things you mustn't even try to explain. They either become trite or they tie you down to something that's only half true.

  Martha Albrand

  Trying, Half

  Martha Albrand (1966). “A door fell shut”

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• For years, I was often afraid to speak up when I didn't fully understand a script. I'd tie myself in knots.

  Michelle Dockery

  Years, Scripts, Speak

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

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• The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of spiritual need, the man to whom we have no tie but our common nature, seems nearer to us than mother, brother, or friend. Our daily familiar life is but a hiding of ourselves from each other behind a screen of trivial words and deeds, and those who sit with us at the same hearth, are often the farthest off from the deep human soul within us, full of unspoken evil and unacted good.

  George Eliot

  Spiritual, Mother, Brother

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3786, Delphi Classics

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• Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can claim.

  Samuel Johnson

  Marriage, Integrity, Pay

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1836). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: with an essay on his life and genius”, p.41

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• I feel so bad about my MBE now that I am going to tie it around my cat.

  Bill Vaughan

  Cat, England, Feels

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• [Gambling] is a perfidious passion. ... It is bad for one to win, and bad not to win. ... it ends by setting your blood on fire, and to increase your chances of winning at any cost, your stakes increase frightfully; the desire of winning gets to be a madness. The soul gets sick; it neither sees nor hears anything. No family ties, position, nor fortune, can stand against this passion.

  Matilde Serao

  Passion, Winning, Blood

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• Acting for me is finding those things that, finding the strings of humanity that tie us all together. And you only find that by living life and loving and breaking up.

  Julian Morris

  Live Life, Humanity, Acting

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

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• A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world. Losing it meant losing my ties to all those things too.

  Laila Lalami

  Names, Way, World

  Laila Lalami (2014). “The Moor's Account”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.

  Desmond Tutu

  Business, People, Climate

  "We need an apartheid-style boycott to save the planet" by Desmond Tutu, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2014.

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• I tend to move between turtlenecks and shirts and ties. I don't really have a uniform in the sense that some people might.

  Norman Foster

  Moving, People, Might

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