Quotes about Tied

Tied to the value of the person is the principle of servanthood. We value what we freely serve. Votes: 3

Tied one on last night. Not feeling great this morning. I was trying to sleep it off, unfortunately, it was on the casino floor. Votes: 3

This world has been connected. Tied to the darkness... soon to be completely eclipsed. There is so very much to learn. You understand so little. Votes: 3

My mother, she killed me, My father, he ate me, My sister Marlene, Gathered all my bones, Tied them in a silken scarf, Laid them beneath the juniper tree, Tweet, tweet, what a beautiful bird am I. Votes: 3

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread. Votes: 2

A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up. Votes: 2

Modeling is a profession where your worth is tied up with looks. Votes: 2

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail. Votes: 2

Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand. Votes: 2

I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle. Votes: 2

We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves. Votes: 2

The truth is that politicians are basically tied to trying to get reelected, so they can't really make landmark changes. Votes: 2

A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom. Votes: 2

With more than 67 percent of the Nation's freight moving on highways, economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied to the quality of our infrastructure. Votes: 2

Fame necessarily isn't really tied to success at all. Fame is just being recognized for doing what you do, whether it's good or bad. Osama bin Laden was famous. Votes: 2

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came. Votes: 2

If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest. Votes: 2

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans. Votes: 2

My career in the movie business began in Hong Kong, my heart has always been tied to Asia, and it is immensely gratifying to see international recognition for Asian cinema as a whole. Votes: 2

Our livelihood is intimately tied to the food we eat, water we drink and places where we recreate. That's why we have to promote responsibility and conservation when it comes to our natural resources. Votes: 2

My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world. Votes: 2

Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents. Votes: 2

I'm me. I can't put on airs. I'm not a phony. I know the way I am hurts me more times than it helps. But somehow it's all tied up with my integrity, and my integrity is the last thing I'm going to let you take from me. Votes: 2

One's own self-worth is tied to the worth of the community to which one belongs, which is intimately connected to humanity in general. What happens in Darfur becomes an assault on my own community, and on me as an individual. That's what the human family is all about. Votes: 2

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. Votes: 2

Wanting to be liked means being a supporting character in your own life, using the cues of the actors around you to determine your next line rather than your own script. It means that your self-worth will always be tied to what someone else thinks about you, forever out of your control. Votes: 2

The great thing about getting married young like I did and having a child so young is that he gets to know all the relatives. He knew his great-grandmother, and we sat down together and tied down the stories of our uncles and aunts. They were quite the characters, and we tied them to about 50 recipes. It's like a memoir-cookbook. Votes: 2

There are a lot of times that we feel like our hands are tied - 'I have no control over if I'm going to lose my job.' 'I have no control over if I'm going to be able to pay my bills.' You've got to realize that that's where your trust comes in. You have to trust God, and keep your hope, because your hope is what produces your faith. Votes: 2

Love is tied to truth. Votes: 0

Art made tongue-tied by authority. Votes: 0

Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting. Votes: 0

Even genius is tied to profit. Votes: 0

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. Votes: 0

I've always been very tied to language. Votes: 0

I'm not tied to any particular political line. Votes: 0

China's stock market is inextricably tied to politics. Votes: 0

I don't think of myself as being tied. Votes: 0

They whipped us like a tied up goat. Votes: 0

Do you often sleep tied to the bed? Votes: 0

Man is a knot into which relationships are tied. Votes: 0

Bitcoin isn't tied to any commodity - besides trust. Votes: 0

I'm a virtual worker. I'm not tied to an office. Votes: 0

Sanctions and boycotts would be tied to serious political dialogue. Votes: 0

It seems that they're playing with one leg tied together. Votes: 0

All my available funds are completely tied up in cash. Votes: 0

I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself. Votes: 0

Kiss the feet of Popes provided their hands are tied. Votes: 0

I think we've tied acquiring knowledge too much to school Votes: 0

A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life. Votes: 0

My happiness is tied to how I feel about myself. Votes: 0

Our destiny is tied up with the destiny of America. Votes: 0

We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny, Votes: 0

Every mosque that is tied to jihad-related activity should be shut. Votes: 0

Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex. Votes: 0

Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift. Votes: 0

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues. Votes: 0

One out of three jobs in Washington is tied to trade. Votes: 0

All of our survival is tied to the survival of everyone, Votes: 0

I am a man who has never tied his own shoes before! Votes: 0

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Votes: 0

Every heart is a package tangled up in knots someone else tied. Votes: 0

I don't think anybody in the NFL is tied to each other. Votes: 0

Politics and acting are very closely tied. The job is to convince. Votes: 0

Some, but much of my money is tied up in Playboy stock. Votes: 0

Maybe I want to be tied down and forced to admit it Votes: 0

Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity In least speak most, to my capacity. Votes: 0

The Corrupt should be tied to a rock & thrown into the sea Votes: 0

Prayer is a powerful thing; for God has bound and tied himself thereunto. Votes: 0

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness. Votes: 0

Our joy now and forever is inextricably tied to our capacity to love. Votes: 0

Man is a rope, tied between beast and Superman--a rope over an abyss. Votes: 0

I'm bringing back the skinny tie but wearing it tied around my balls. Votes: 0

Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one. Votes: 0

love is tied to truth. I think of them as unhappily conjoined twins. Votes: 0

My liberation as a man is tied to your liberation as a woman. Votes: 0

For better or worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity. Votes: 0

You are in the world, but not to be tied to the world. Votes: 0

But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head. Votes: 0

As a Polynesian, our gods are tied to water, so this means something special Votes: 0

I think the sports industry and the music industry are all tied in together. Votes: 0

The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed. Votes: 0

Emotionally, a person is tied to the land of his birth. It's only human. Votes: 0

I don't know, so much of women's femininity is tied up with their hair. Votes: 0

Don't you ever forget that in the end, our future is tied to people. Votes: 0

The Senate being tied is a start. Now, if only it could be gagged. Votes: 0

I'm not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back. Votes: 0

When you're dealing with digital goods, you don't have to be tied to one URL. Votes: 0

Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not. Votes: 0

I am completely tied up with softness, fragility, and the problems of a feminine world. Votes: 0

The reelection of Bill Clinton is as secure as a double-knot tied in wet rawhide. Votes: 0

When youre dealing with digital goods, you dont have to be tied to one URL. Votes: 0

Wouldn't it be great if we just ended up tied? I think it would be beautiful. Votes: 0

Wouldn't it be great if all of Osama bin Laden's money was tied-up in Enron stock? Votes: 0

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good. Votes: 0

The reason mountain climbers are tied together is to keep the sane ones from going home. Votes: 0

Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination. Votes: 0

I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family. Votes: 0

The music industry is so tied up politically. They're afraid they might let other voices in. Votes: 0

We are all in this together. Our happiness inextricably is tied to that of all beings. Votes: 0

When you have no idea how to surrender and you're tied up in knots, JUST BREATHE! Votes: 0

How can we embrace rest and play if we've tied our self-worth to what we produce? Votes: 0

It's been so long since I made love I can't even remember who gets tied up. Votes: 0

Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first. Votes: 0

I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear. Votes: 0

I have tried many times to express my feelings, but at each attempt, I find myself tongue-tied. Votes: 0

Taking over our own business and running it ourselves has tied us even more to our fans. Votes: 0

All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever. Votes: 0

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. Votes: 0

It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man. Votes: 0

My right to be me is tied with a thousand threads to your right to be you. Votes: 0

I don't really know how to tie a fly until I've tied a hundred dozen of them. Votes: 0

Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater. Votes: 0

Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized. Votes: 0

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources. Votes: 0

Look at Abi Titmuss. This year she's been tied to more bed posts than David Blunkett's guide dog. Votes: 0

Some people don't want to be morally consistent. They just want to be tied to their one issue. Votes: 0

A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on Votes: 0

Each of us is tied, in some fashion, to the past. We are all part of a continuum. Votes: 0

I'm a little frail girl, but I like being tied up, blindfolded and gagged so you can't move. Votes: 0

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation. Votes: 0

I act as the tongue of you,... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened. Votes: 0

People can't be just tied together. They have to connect. Otherwise, they'll find themselves bound hand and foot. Votes: 0

Keeping perspective and being happy and being energetic and being creative - that's all tied to being healthy. Votes: 0

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there. Votes: 0

Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world. Votes: 0

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient. Votes: 0

A mother's ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income, but rather to education. Votes: 0

I don't get tied to the music industry where you have to be on social media all day. Votes: 0

U.S. economic prosperity is closely tied to the availability of a reliable and affordable supply of energy. Votes: 0

A kiss is just a kiss, were words not expressed by a man tied naked to a tree. Votes: 0

I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine. Votes: 0

When fathers are tongue tied religiously with their offspring, need they wonder if their children's hearts remain sin tied? Votes: 0

...and he crosses the line with the ball almost mesmerically tied to his foot with a piece of string. Votes: 0

Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure. Votes: 0

Sometimes our ability to accept what we can't change is tied to our willingness to change what we can. Votes: 0

The truth is that this culture of political correctness has tied the hands of law enforcement around the USA. Votes: 0

It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo. Votes: 0

When you strip away all the little things that divide us, it's important to remember how tied we are Votes: 0

So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes. Votes: 0

me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth. Votes: 0

A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one. Votes: 0

Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known. Votes: 0

I think stress is an addiction. It can be tied to work addiction or busyness addiction or success addiction. Votes: 0

The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants . Votes: 0

Because our consciousness is tied to the physical manifestation of reality, we are tied to the belief in separation. Votes: 0

This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends. Votes: 0

I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations. Votes: 0

I do think that I never got tied down to any social scene. I was just into creating stuff. Votes: 0

I don't want to be tied down. I don't want to settle down. I don't want I love you. Votes: 0

Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party. Votes: 0

I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness. Votes: 0

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power. Votes: 0

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree. Votes: 0

Parents always know what strings control your heart and soul. After all, they are the ones who tied them there. Votes: 0

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well. Votes: 0

As an expectant mom who is currently self-employed, I'm amazed at just how tied to the workplace maternity benefits are. Votes: 0

I can't see the future. But when I dreamed of the future, he was the one I was tied to. Votes: 0

We are going to lose the war on terror because all of our agents are tied up investigating the GOP. Votes: 0

On the football field I keep my emotions tied up inside. But when I'm with family, I let them out. Votes: 0

To say, my fate is not tied to your fate, is like saying your end of the boat is sinking. Votes: 0

I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England. Votes: 0

Then after I saw the scoreboard that we were tied, I was really happy, because I really wanted to win. Votes: 0

One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film. Votes: 0

Failure is not tied to money; it is a mindset. Failure is when we accept the lot we are given. Votes: 0

I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf ... than be king of all these dead and destroyed. Votes: 0

I envisioned him tied in a chair, an iron arrow pointed at his brow. Ah, the power of positive thinking. Votes: 0

Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now. Votes: 0

The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression. Votes: 0

To say my fate is not tied to your fate is like saying, your end of the boat is sinking. Votes: 0

The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas. Soldiers tied rags on their feet. Red footprints wrote on the snow . . . Votes: 0

The road to happiness starts with a deep breath and an awareness of the many blessings tied to that single breath. Votes: 0

In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more freedom in fiction writing. Votes: 0

The whole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants. Votes: 0

On your best day, you're only as good as I am on my worst with one arm tied behind my back. Votes: 0

'The Lunchbox' has been a blessing - all gift-wrapped and tied with a bow. Life is a lunchbox of chocolates now! Votes: 0

While we are free to choose, once we have made those choices, we are tied to the consequences of those choices. Votes: 0

The Lunchbox' has been a blessing - all gift-wrapped and tied with a bow. Life is a lunchbox of chocolates now! Votes: 0

Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time. Votes: 0

Good health is multifaceted - it's physical, it's internal, it's my diet, and my emotional state. It's all tied in together. Votes: 0

The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free. Votes: 0

Electronic music is innately tied to the technology used to create it - as the tools evolve, so will the art. Votes: 0

No one has ever had a fantasy about being tied to a bed and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal Votes: 0

If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods. Votes: 0

Crimson flames tied through my ears rolling high and mighty traps, pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps. Votes: 0

Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence. Votes: 0

Your hands are tied in action, but your hands are not tied in imagination and everything springs forth from the imagination. Everything. Votes: 0

Go softly by that river side Or when you would depart, You'll find its every winding tied; And knotted round your heart. Votes: 0

There's something to be said for being classically trained on piano, but not having your whole makeup be tied to one instrument. Votes: 0

Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot. Votes: 0

Sweat pants, hair tied, chillin wit no makeup on. That's when you're the prettiest, I hope that you don't take it wrong. Votes: 0

What is it about sex? Is it the sensations, or is it the meanings and the communication game that's tied into that. Votes: 0

The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out of the moment. Votes: 0

It's a wonderful way to have a role on a series - you're not tied down totally and completely to a schedule. Votes: 0

You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots. Votes: 0

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but paranoia was what tied it up in a sack and buried it in wet concrete. Votes: 0

In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly. Votes: 0

For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me. Votes: 0

In the past, when I saw bike messengers, I would just see them as individuals. Then, I realized that they're all tied together. Votes: 0

It was strange how the future seemed tied inseparably to the past, so that both revolved through the present, like a great wheel... Votes: 0

People are still tied to their hoods, and it's usually not the artist, it's usually the friends and instigators who get it popping. Votes: 0

The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws. Votes: 0

Our ability to transcend betrayal is directly tied to our willingness to identify ourselves as love activists rather than victims of the Universe. Votes: 0

I promptly said that life was a random series of beautifully composed vignettes, loosely tied together by a string of characters and time. Votes: 0

He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to. Votes: 0

the only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia. Votes: 0

Don't be too optimistic while you are tied to a railway when the train is coming; it won't be helpful for the solution! Votes: 0

I'd like to do what I see in my head. I always feel like I'm directing with one hand tied behind my back. Votes: 0

I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up. Votes: 0

I was cast in 'Thor' back in 2009, so it sort of took me out of the running for anything tied to DC Comics. Votes: 0

Ill met by moonlight,' said Deirdre.'You could still be tied to a stake,' said Random, and she did not reply. Votes: 0

I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill tied to it. Votes: 0

If my mind cannot be tied down, if my dreams cannot be diminished, then no amount of restraints can really guarantee my quiet submission. Votes: 0

They tied his arms behind his back to teach him how to swim, they put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin. Votes: 0

I want to be heavily tied to a city that I write for every week, that knows my stuff and I can interact with. Votes: 0

Eventually I want to subsidize my income with other creative outlets that are going to not keep me tied to the road so much. Votes: 0

I knew we were destined to be lovers from the moment she tied me up and stuffed me in the trunk of her car. Votes: 0

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Votes: 0

I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood. Votes: 0

Then the administration tied it in to the regional dispute between Israel and its enemies, as if that's about international terrorism. No, it's not. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, some in Washington remain tied to the dogma that responsible energy development cannot be achieved without taking a wrecking ball to the environment. Votes: 0

the time for prizes and competitions at art festivals is over. Competition is too closely tied to values that are alien to the arts. Votes: 0

Candy bar companies, through commercials, have tied their products to low-energy cues, transforming what was once a dessert into a pick-me-up for cubicle dwellers. Votes: 0

If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs. Votes: 0

I would suggest that gluten tends to be tied to carbs. And I try to balance my carbs and my proteins and my fats. Votes: 0

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together. Votes: 0

I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases. Votes: 0

You get so tied up with the minutiae of the day-to-day, there's never a chance to sit back and let your subconscious run wild. Votes: 0

A lot of companies have lots of assets tied up in plant and equipment. Well, is it old plant, or is it new plant? Votes: 0

I'm not averse to being tied up in silk scarves. I like a man to take charge. There's something very sexy about being submissive. Votes: 0

You can't tell me the success of Kevin Bacon isn't somehow tied to his name. You're not going out to see a Kevin Hot-Dog movie. Votes: 0

'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back. Votes: 0

Everything I know about the FBI came from movies! Right? The idea of these kind of uptight, conservative guys whose ties are tied too tight. Votes: 0

With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face. Votes: 0

The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back. Votes: 0

I will not let you (or me) make me dishonest, insincere, emotionally tied-up or constricted, or artificially nice and social, if I can help it. Votes: 0

Whether you're married or not, relationships - and the satisfaction tied to them - are extremely important for increasing men's and women's quality of life. Votes: 0

A huge dog, tied by a chain, was painted on the wall and over it was written in capital letters 'Beware of the dog.' Votes: 0

I think the dangers of the impact of GMOs on the environment are undebatable. Genetically modified crops are tied to the chemicals sprayed on them. Votes: 0

Since the success of believers is tied to our knowledge of and obedience to God's Word, the memorizing of portions of the Bible is advisable. Votes: 0

Movies, far more than the traditional arts, are tied to big money. Without a few independent critics, there's nothing between the public and the advertisers. Votes: 0

Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think we have to be very sensitive to our need to compete, moving forward, and a lot of that is tied to tax policy. Votes: 0

We are all tied to the burdens of this existence, and it seems as if everyday renewal is occurring in our lives and those around us. Votes: 0

money usually represents so much more than dollars and cents. It is tied up with our deepest emotional needs: for love, power, security, independence, control, self-worth. Votes: 0

Train hard, get good coaching and don't forget that its mixed martial arts. Don't get tied into one style of fighting and focus on multiple disciplines. Votes: 0

The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated. Votes: 0

the leaders of globalization ... have tied themselves to a single measurement by which they judge success and failure ... They only measure money and the bottom line. Votes: 0

That's how you keep someone tied to you, not set them free. You say no to a man and don't give him the peace of repayment. Votes: 0

For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man a ceremony of love. Votes: 0

The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down. Votes: 0

If life were like a competitive race, some people would be given a flying start and others would line up with weights tied to their ankles. Votes: 0

It's easy for parents to pull the strings that make one dance...after all, they are the ones who tied those strings in the first place Votes: 0

The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can. Votes: 0

So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil Librarians. Votes: 0

My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Cézanne through the 1950s. Votes: 0

The future of dance will always be tied up with the public's acceptance of the star. If they accept the star, then they'll accept the dance. Votes: 0

So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil Librarians." Votes: 0

A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is achieved by the cross. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it. Votes: 0

I propose that a teacher's pay be tied to merit, not tenure. And I propose that a teacher's employment be tied to performance, not just showing up. Votes: 0

I want to leave a legacy. I'll leave him in the trunk, tied up, at a parking garage on the campus of the university where he graduated. Votes: 0

Bluebell, you couldn't take me if I was blindfolded and had both hands tied behind my back." "Bluebell?" Illium narrowed his eyes. "That's it, Barbarian. Votes: 0

Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can’t do anything because they’re tied up in knots. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery. Votes: 0

death is predestined for all mortals. Souls live forever, but the body does not. Unless you are immortal, both the soul and body are tied together."~Taznikos Abyssos Votes: 0

Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden. Votes: 0

Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing something down is a magical act. Votes: 0

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. Votes: 0

A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way. Votes: 0

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it. Votes: 0

We decided long ago that we didn't want Chipotle's success to be tied to the exploitation of animals, farmers, or the environment, but the engagement of our customers. Votes: 0

A heart sacrifice is not a formula that can be mastered. It is a decision that is intrinsically tied to the personal relationship between us and our God. Votes: 0

When I first started, I worked with three chords in every bar, but I found that tied me down - I'm not a chord-change writer, I'm a songwriter. Votes: 0

Street culture is punk, hip-hop, skateboarding, surfing, graffiti. It's like a massive global culture that is all tied together. But for so many years it was very geographic. Votes: 0

The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them. Votes: 0

We need our president to be successful because our futures are all tied to the success of America, which means America's government, which means, in essence, the president. Votes: 0

Major political parties have a role, but they are incapable of initiating fundamental change because they are fundamentally tied to the status quo. They are the status quo. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

It seems so tragic to me that so many filmmakers are making movies up against this extra-ordinary revolution with one eye closed and two hands tied behind their backs. Votes: 0

I honestly think if I would've tied my suit and there wouldn't have been any water rushing through it, I think I could've gone at least a second faster. Votes: 0

There's as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail. Votes: 0

Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy. Votes: 0

We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all. Votes: 0

The British Isles are awash with the choice of beautiful historic churches, abbeys, and cathedrals where one king or another has tied the knot and bestowed a royal precedent. Votes: 0

He was giving me enough rope to hang myself with. Apparently he didn't realize that once a noose is tied it will fit one neck as easily as another. Votes: 0

If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me.. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens. Votes: 0

We found a water pipe, tied the flag to it and put it up. Then all hell broke loose below. Troops cheered, ships blew whistles, some men openly wept. Votes: 0

How many times can our emotions be tied to someone else's - be pulled and stretched and twisted - before they snap? Before they can never be mended again? Votes: 0

The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope. Votes: 0

[E]scaping is its own special brand of pain, and tied to you always are the strings of the souls who didn't save themselves. ~ The Worst You Ever Feel Votes: 0

In a new poll of Democratic voters, presidential candidate Lincoln Chafee came in with zero percent support. Or in other words: We're all tied with presidential candidate Lincoln Chafee. Votes: 0

By monitoring the activity taking place on social networks, retailers can amplify successful marketing and sales strategies and avoid weak tactics which can later be tied back to organizational objectives. Votes: 0

Death is nothing other than a different way of being with an enhanced and broadened consciousness, which is everywhere at once because it is no longer tied to a body. Votes: 0

A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion. Votes: 0

If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the daily life of each individual. Votes: 0

Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain... Votes: 0

Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and survival of his consciousness. Votes: 0

Catherine bristled at the amusement in his voice. He could laugh all he wanted when he stood tied to a wall utterly naked. A little humiliation might do him good. Votes: 0

We are only peripherally tied to the lives of others. It takes a long long time for us to become deeply involved with others, and for some this never happens. Votes: 0

If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is tied up with mine, then let us work together. Votes: 0

First of all, when you live in a country like Canada, it's quite different from America in the sense that it's very tied to traditions that were born in Britain. Votes: 0

Just because your wife schmoozes with somebody too much, you can't go throwing the kids out with the bath water! And that's the way the law's tied up right now. Votes: 0

As a matter of fact I could beat you two with both my arms and my legs tied. I'll roll down this ramp and score myself a 7-10 idiot split! Votes: 0

Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves. Votes: 0

In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that. Votes: 0

Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly wheel of an engine is rather a misfortune. Votes: 0

Used to move so much, every time the chickens saw the team put in the wagon, they'd lie down on their backs and hold their legs up to be tied! Votes: 0

I'm an atrocious business man, because it's just not the way I think about things. And that's pretty much what all that Grammy/MTV kind of stuff is tied into. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth. Votes: 0

Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them. Votes: 0

Drive through a yellow light, and you may be ticketed thanks to a camera tied onto a pole. Everybody's watching everything. And then sending it out to the world via email. Votes: 0

Our pride is tied up in being right. We tend to favor data that confirm our beliefs, so we don't see alternatives. Too often, leaders practice defense routines that become self-reinforcing. Votes: 0

Only the scenario writers are exempt. These are tied between the tails of two spirited Caucasian ponies, which are then driven off in opposite directions. This custom is called a conference. Votes: 0

I tied a bunch of balloons to a beach chair and tried to float up to heaven. *begins to weep* There's no heaven, and birds tried to kill me! *shrivels up* Votes: 0

I think I'd rather be heading to detention right now than to talk to him. My stomach is tied up in so many knots it could make a boy scout envious. Votes: 0

In the Catholic tradition, the idea of giving something up on a Friday - the act of self denial - has always been tied with being generous to those in need. Votes: 0

Pop stars exist in a different space, one not necessarily tied to a patriotism. So Rihanna is everyone's. She doesn't just belong to America, even though she's a creation of America. Votes: 0

We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny . . . I can never be what I ought to be until you are allowed to be what you ought to be. Votes: 0

I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year period: Don Carter, one of our top bowlers. Votes: 0

I tied down time with a rope but it came back. Then I put my head in a death bowl and my eyes shut up like clams. They didn't come back. Votes: 0

The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this perpetual and shifty problem of conciliation. Votes: 0

I know my fate. One day my name will be tied to the memory of something monstrous - a crisis without equal on earth.... I am no man, I am dynamite! Votes: 0

From the shore, the ocean is forever. It's a beautiful, dangerous place. Music is tied to the sea, born from the struggle, looking for hope. Because hope belongs in the dark places. Votes: 0

The key point to understand is that prosperity is an internal experience, not an external state, and it is an experience that is not tied to having a certain amount of money. Votes: 0

The tightrope of love swings back and forth, forever tied between the tree of anxiety and the tree of fear. Like life, it holds a constant reminder that death must be overcome ... Votes: 0

Manz, formerly one of Zwingli's closest allies, held that there was no biblical warrant for infant baptism. Refusing to recant his views, he was tied up and drowned in the River Limmat. Votes: 0

It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be. Votes: 0

We're trying to tell stories. We're a company that's concerned with global change and the effect of global cinema. We're not simply tied to the very limiting framework of U.S. film-making. Votes: 0

If you are in a band or in any situation with other people there are obviously brilliant aspects to it, but there are also things that you start finding yourself tied to. Votes: 0

Whatever happened to him?" Silk asked. "He went swimming in the Nedrane." "I didn't know that Thulls swam all that well." "They don't–particularly not with large rocks tied to their feet. Votes: 0

If we live out of our memory, we're tied to the past and to that which is finite. When we live out of our imagination, we're tied to that which is infinite. Votes: 0

doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be. Votes: 0

Sex and racism have always been tied together. Look at the thousands of black men who got lynched and castrated. The reason the Klan came into being was to protect white southern women. Votes: 0

New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or plot that is too neatly tied up is suspect. Votes: 0

Whatever you want, especially when you're striving to be the best in the world at something, there'll always be disappointments, and you can't be emotionally tied to them, cos' they'll break your spirit. Votes: 0

Men of high learning and abilities are few in every country; and by taking in those who are not so, the able part of the body have their hands tied by the unable. Votes: 0

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind. Votes: 0

Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring. Votes: 0

When I first started working it was as if I didn't understand myself. The fact that I didn't understand myself was tied up with not understanding where I came from, where I began. Votes: 0

The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul. Votes: 0

For a while I didn't have a car . . . I had a helicopter . . . no place to park it, so I just tied it to a lamp post and left it running. [slow glance upward] Votes: 0

People don't live in Los Angeles because we are tied to the same old, same old. We live in Los Angeles because of the intoxicating energy of new beginnings that permeate our city. Votes: 0

It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's daily break is tied to God's special blessing. Votes: 0

I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is. Votes: 0

The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing. Votes: 0

We all know a lot of people who died in 9/11, the World Trade Center. A lot of money funding that mission is directly tied - from the 9/11 Commission, directly tied to Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas. Votes: 0

He dropped the tavern apron in a heap on the floor and pulled the freshly laundered one up and over his head, tied it with slightly tremoring fingers. The vast whiteness felt like absolution. Votes: 0

The thing is that where I want to go isn't necessarily tied to what's going on there politically, but I think Vietnam is a really beautiful country. I think Thailand is also really beautiful. Votes: 0

I'll be honest, I worry sometimes about what I've done. I have tied my whole person to my art and, whatever it takes to get that hook, I will go there and do it. Votes: 0

Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful. Votes: 0

Golf inflicts more pain than any other sport. If you're the sort of person whose self-worth is tied up in how you play, golf will cut you to the core of who you are. Votes: 0

Having emotional independence means we are no longer tied to the need for constant approval and are, therefore, not coerced into doing more than we feel comfortable doing by our need to please others. Votes: 0

Guilt is intense. Suffocating. A brick, tied quietly around your ankles while you sleep. You never fall slowly into guilt-you wake up with little time to take your last breath before being pulled under. Votes: 0

This world has been connected...tied to the darkness...soon to be completely eclipsed...there is very much to learn...you understand so little...a meaningless effort...one who knows nothing cannot understand nothing. Votes: 0

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny. Votes: 0

Smell is the primordial sense, more powerful, more primitive, more intimately tied to our memories and emotions than any other. A scent can trigger spiritual, emotional or physical peace and stimulate healing and wellness. Votes: 0

I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories without me. We're tied together forever. This is a day to remember for the rest of our lives. Votes: 0

I briefly flirted with some of the new age offerings available in the early '90s and found strength in Buddhism, but ultimately I was looking for something that was not tied to tradition. Votes: 0

When I tied the record five years in a row, even over in Europe, it wasn't really talked about. It is disap-pointing because it is one of the toughest things to do in sports. Votes: 0

Our idea of happiness, some of it, is very tied to the cult of celebrity: there is this golden, wonderful life that I want, and if I dress like that, I'm on my way there. Votes: 0

I would say everything in our life in the next 25 years is going to be tied into the Internet, and it's going to be the place for communications, for education, for conducting business and everything. Votes: 0

It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied. Votes: 0

Why is it when you start to meditate you stop at a certain point? Because you're tied to the world, you have holes in your being and you haven't learned to lead an efficient life. Votes: 0

Yeah, what happened was Universal wanted one of the characters to be nice so they chose me so there was a scene where the girl was tied to the bed and I let her go. Votes: 0

You know, I think when people are in important positions in big organizations, they often get tied up with the minutia of managing money, managing things. They often forget that people deserve to be led. Votes: 0

Everybody's got rights. A man tied to a bed got rights. A man down in a dungeon got rights. A little screaming baby got rights. Yeah, you got rights. What you don't got is power. Votes: 0

O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame. Votes: 0

READ! Books can be as delicious as hot-fudge sundaes, as funny as clowns, as exciting as a baseball game that's tied in the 9th inning, and as beautiful as the best sunset you ever saw. Votes: 0

You know you're down and out when Okies laugh at you,' she said. With our garbage bag taped window, our tied down hood, and art supplies strapped to the roof, we'd out-Okied the Okies. Votes: 0

The only projects that excite me have to be tied to some aspect of social change. No matter how beautiful, a coffee book doesn't exactly move you to change the way you cook or eat. Votes: 0

Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week. You are cradled in a white paper cocoon tied up with typewriter ribbon. Votes: 0

It's great that Maryland is tied for having the lowest wage gap between our working men and women of any state in the nation, but there's more work to do to eliminate that gap entirely. Votes: 0

Art is fast, but with art you're tied down. That's too negative. What I mean is, you have a business and a place that you go every day. I guess some artists do move around. Votes: 0

I think the myths are keeping us limited to, and tied to, what I would call the hyper-masculine tradition. All the major religions in the world have been founded by men and propagated by men. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent. Votes: 0

Rosa Hubermann was sitting on the edge of the bed with her husband's accordion tied to her chest. Her fingers hovered above the keys. She did not move. She didn't ever appear to be breathing. Votes: 0