Quotes and Sayings About Ties
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All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.
-- A. E. Housman -
Tie my handlebars to the stars so I stay on track & if my intentions stray I'll wrench them away,then I'll take my leave & I won't even look back
-- Adam Young -
Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.
-- Adolf GallandSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with the democratic order.
-- Adolf Hitler -
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It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.
-- Adolphe MenjouSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.
-- Aelred of RievaulxSource : Aelred of Rievaulx, Saint Aelred (of Rievaulx) (1974). “Spiritual friendship”, Cistercian Pubns
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
-- Agnes de Mille -
We do not trust the goodwill of the U.S. They have cut the ties.
-- Akbar Hashemi RafsanjaniSource : "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.
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Via the squares on the chessboard, the Indians explain the movement of time and the age, the higher influences which control the world and the ties which link Chess with the human soul
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Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity... life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn't? She realized now wrong she'd been; the pali wasn't a headstone and Kalaupapa wasn't a grave. It was a community like any other, bound by ties deeper than most, and people here went to their deaths as people did anywhere: with great reluctance, dragging the messy jumble of their lives behind them.
-- Alan BrennertSource : Alan Brennert (2010). “Moloka'i: A Novel”, p.382, St. Martin's Press
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But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.
-- Albert Einstein -
No farmer-sportsman group is stronger than the ties of mutual confidence and enthusiasm which bind its members.
-- Aldo Leopold -
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The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have a terror of losing my freedom. Free, without ties, unpossessed by any possessions, free to do as one will, to go at a moment's notice wherever the fancy may suggest--it is good. But so is this place. Might it not be better? To gain freedom one sacrifices something [...] and all that these things and people signify. One sacrifices something--for a greater gain in knowledge, in understanding, in intensified living? I sometimes wonder.
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A lot of people want to not wear a tie when they go to a restaurant. They feel they don't have to wear a tie. I think it's kind of a statement they're making. I don't know what that statement is. I haven't quite figured that out yet.
-- Alec Baldwin -
Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.
-- Alex Kapranos -
Hence, in a state of nature, no man had any moral power to deprive another of his life, limbs, property, or liberty; nor the least authority to command or exact obedience from him, except that which arose from the ties of consanguinity.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
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The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
We have new developing ties with Japan whom always supports our democratic process and economic development.
-- Ali Abdullah Saleh -
Our relations with brothers in Gulf Cooperation council are good and developing, either bilateral relations or with the G.C.C itself, also we have good brotherly and solid ties with Saudi Arabia.
-- Ali Abdullah Saleh -
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There seems to be a peculiar and particular tie between men who have been drunk together.
-- Alice Thomas Ellis -
I love jokes that come out of nowhere. The ones where people look at the screen and go, What the Hell was that. As long as it somehow ties back into the story, somehow.
-- Allen CovertSource : "EXCLUSIVE: Allen Covert Gets Lost in the Strange Wilderness!" by B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. December 12, 2007.
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Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product.
-- Allen Klein -
Hale looked at Macey, who added, "Seven minutes since shots fired." "Kat what's the emergency response tie in Midtown Manhattan?" "Not long enough if they want a clean exit," she told him. Macey hadn't heard Kat's words, but she looked at Hale like she'd read his mind.
-- Ally Carter -
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Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.
-- Alvar Aalto -
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
My art is the way I reestablish the bonds that tie me to the universe.
-- Ana Mendieta -
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.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
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The enactment of the Homestead Act would create the strongest tie between the citizen and the Government-he would with cheerfulness contribute his proportionable part of the taxes to defray the expenses of the political system under which he lived.
-- Andrew Johnson