Bind Quotes

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. (Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues)
The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken. View quote
Antonio Porchia
So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind. View quote
William Wordsworth
The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship. View quote
Andrew Carnegie
It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggression. View quote
Sigmund Freud
A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Whether you agree with me, disagree with me, like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I am negotiating on behalf of the British people. View quote
John Major
It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday, which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
We shall not bind ourselves by treaties. We shall not allow ourselves to be entangled by treaties. We reject all clauses on plunder and violence, but we shall welcome all clauses containing provisions for good-neighbourly relations and all economic agreements; we cannot reject these. (Vladimir Lenin)
In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind. View quote
Robert Jordan
By all means attend to your duties. Action, in which you are not emotionally involved and which is beneficial and does not cause suffering will not bind you. You may be engaged in several directions and work with enormous zest, yet remain inwardly free and quiet, with a mirror-like mind, which reflects all, without being affected. View quote
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel. View quote
John Ruskin
When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life. Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life; but it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world. View quote
Ramakrishna
As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge. View quote
Ramakrishna
Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning. View quote
Philip Roth
A wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy. View quote
E. M. Forster
Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind. (Paolo Bacigalupi)
The vows we take in the holy place bind us till we are purged of them at Inanda's Kraal. Till then no blood must be shed and no flesh eaten. It was the fashion of our forefathers. View quote
John Buchan
Therefore the love which us doth bind, But Fate so enviously debars, Is the conjunction of the mind, And opposition of the stars. View quote
Andrew Marvell
You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions you are the strongest, and society adds to your power but with my will, sir, you can do nothing. View quote
George Sand
Love seeketh only Self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a hell in heaven's despite. View quote
William Blake