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. — Nobuyoshi Araki
Even though you tie a hundred knots, the string remains one. — Rumi
Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings. — Rumi
We learn the rope of life by untying its knots. — Jean Toomer
By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness — Pablo Neruda
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination. — Margaret E. Knight
My art is the way I reestablish the bonds that tie me to the universe. — Ana Mendieta
I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie. — Rodney Dangerfield
There’s no need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down. — Irish Proverbs
Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It. — Byron Katie
Men - the colour of their tie is the most difficult decision they have to make every day. — Nicola Sturgeon
Tying Image Quotes
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up. — Mae West
I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes. — Rachel Zoe
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
Fly Tying Quotes
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. — Morris Sheppard
If you've got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated when you try to tie on a fly. — Jack Ohman
Love, free as air, at sight of human ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. — Alexander Pope
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence. A bird cannot fly high or far with a stone tied to its back. But release the impediment, and we are free to soar to unprecedented heights. — Alan Cohen
My father taught me to not fear anything. Having said that, much of my addiction to alcohol and drugs was tied to fear: fear of flying, fear of talking to women, etc. I conquered those fears years ago. — Derek Sanderson
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. — Mardy Grothe
Life isnt tied with a bow, but still it's a gift
I'm not paranoid, but I am cautious. I don't drink tea with strangers, I don't fly Aeroflot and I avoid certain countries with close ties to Russia. — Garry Kasparov
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. — Carl Sandburg
Yes, I actually have a portable fly-tying kit in my vest. I spent hours putting it all together, with a special emphasis on midge materials as well as enough fur and feathers to whip out a half dozen of virtually every conceivable dry pattern nature can throw at me. I have used it once, in 1993. — Jack Ohman
I don't really know how to tie a fly until I've tied a hundred dozen of them. — John Gierach
Knot Tying Quotes
A fool cannot untie the knot tied by a wise man. — African Proverbs
I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds. — Hunter S. Thompson
When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There are millions of people in the world, and the spirits will see that most of them you never have to meet. But there are one or two you are tied to, and the spirits will cross you back and forth, threading so many knots until they catch and you finally get it right. — Jodi Picoult
You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots. — Willie Stargell
God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him. — Meister Eckhart
People always tend to identify, instinctively, freedom with abandon.But the type of abandon that seeks personal gratification always gets you "tied up in a knot."Abandon instead your personal fears and desires...and you, the real you, will become freed, released from the bonds of your own mind. — Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
So sweet and delicious do I become, when I am in bed with a man who, I sense, loves and enjoys me, that the pleasure I bring excels all delight, so the knot of love, however tight it seemed before, is tied tighter still. — Veronica Franco
Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot. — Jodi Picoult
You tie me up in knots. I want to play you a thousand different songs so you can get a clue of what... I feel inside me. — Katy Evans
Shoe Tying Quotes
Any child who is self-sufficient, who can tie his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement the image of human dignity which is derived from a sense of independence. — Maria Montessori
Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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. — Jef Raskin
To go where you're wishing you could go, first you must tie your shoes and step off the porch. — John Avery
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. — David Duchovny
A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility. — Robert Herrick
Some write that I'm a genius, others say that I'm disrespectful towards their country... If you remember in 1993 I squatted to tie my shoe during the French national anthem. — Hristo Stoichkov
Habitual caution ties and binds us; it is as if we were dressed always in clothes and shoes that were several sizes too small. — Laura Huxley
Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story... To make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all. — Stephen King
I can be whatever. I can wear shoes or don't wear shoes. I can tie my hair up or wear it down. It doesn't matter. — Joss Stone
Tying Knots Marriage Quotes
Matt and I have set a date. Matt and I will tie the knot New Years Day in the town of Swampscott, Massachusetts. Reserve your hotel rooms now. I will be having a gay marriage. — Ben Affleck
I believe in tying the marriage knot, as long as it's around the woman's neck — W. C. Fields
you shall tie the marriage knot with the ropemaker's daughter and the cawing of the crows will be your wedding song. — Jacob Grimm
I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie. — Edith Wharton
If Britney Spears can party it up in Vegas with one of her boys and go get married on a whim and annul her marriage the next day, why can't a loving same sex couple tie the knot? — Brendon Ayanbadejo
Tying Shoelaces Quotes
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
-You are on the verge of being truly mad. -No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See? — Anne Rice
I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself. — Roald Dahl
Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that — Donald A. Norman
I remember little things that break my heart. We were coming out of Michael's house one day, and he noticed my shoelaces were undone. He bent down and tied them. I almost cried. To me, it was such a gesture of love. — Kirk Douglas
I could've died because you had to tie your shoelace? — Derek Landy
Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that. — Donald Norman
Tie Quotes
God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours. — David Livingstone
When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn't mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over. — T. D. Jakes
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. — Lois Wyse
A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on — John Stott
Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies? — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together. — Pauli Murray
You can't learn to act unless you're criticized. If you tie that criticism to your childhood insecurities you'll have a terrible time. Instead, you must take criticism objectively, pertaining it only to the work being done. — Sanford Meisner
Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them. — Nikola Tesla
By its very definition, civic responsibility means taking a healthy role in the life of one's community. That means that classroom lessons should be complemented by work outside the classroom. Service-learning does just that, tying community service to academic learning. — John Glenn
In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again. — Zygmunt Bauman
Ties That Bind Quotes
Conservatives believe in the ties that bind us. Society is stronger when we make vows to each other and we support each other. I don't support gay marriage in spite of being a conservative. I support gay marriage because I am a conservative. — David Cameron
Our predecessors understood that the ties that bind America are far stronger than disagreements over any particular policy and far more durable and profound than any party affiliation. — Madeleine Albright
But if there's love, dear... those are the ties that bind, and you'll have a family in your heart, forever. — Robin Williams
...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together. — Emily Giffin
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
I live for those who love me,
Whose hearts are kind and true;
For the Heaven that smiles above me,
And awaits my spirit too;
For all human ties that bind me,
For the task by God assigned me,
For the bright hopes yet to find me,
And the good that I can do. — George Linnaeus Banks
I keep a close watch on this heart of mine I keep my eyes wide open all the time I keep the ends out for the tie that binds Because you're mine, I walk the line. — Johnny Cash
Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds. — Helen Rowland
You can cut the ties that bind but not without losing a part of yourself. You can walk away and hide from the people who made you, but you'll always hear them calling your name. — Lisa Unger
The purpose of fasting is to loosen to some degree the ties which bind us to the world of material things and our surroundings as a whole, in order that we may concentrate all our spiritual powers upon the unseen and eternal things. — Ole Hallesby
Ties Of Love Quotes
Adoption has the dimension of connection - not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love, ties and family. It is a larger embrace. By adopting, we stretch past our immediate circles and, by reaching out, find an unexpected sense of belonging with others. — Isabella Rossellini
The name of mistress instead of wife would be dearer and more honourable for me, only love given freely, rather than the constriction of the marriage tie, is of significance to an ideal relationship. — Heloise
Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure. Love that is washed by tears will remain eternally pure and faithful. — Kahlil Gibran
Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one. — Aelred of Rievaulx
Though most people love to look at the games of the great attacking masters, some of the most successful players in history have been the quiet positional players. They slowly grind you down by taking away your space, tying up your pieces, and leaving you with virtually nothing to do! — Yasser Seirawan
Love is the very foundation, beauty and fulfillment of life. If we dive deep enough into ourselves, we will find that the one thread of universal love ties all beings together. As this awareness dawns within us, peace alone will reign. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language. — Karl Kraus
Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. — Plato
The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry. — Eric Bell
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. — Goliarda Sapienza
Hands Tied Quotes
Personally, I think tying garbage bags around your head and hands is overkill. — April Winchell
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
An increase in the debt ceiling should be accompanied by fundamental policy reforms, substantial budget savings, and a strong enforcement mechanism to tie the hands of any future Congress. — Jerome Powell
Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags. — Robert Bly
The truth is that this culture of political correctness has tied the hands of law enforcement around the USA. — Mike Pence
Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world. — Winston Churchill
Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world. — Lionel Barrymore
One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary. — Ayn Rand
Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is the most perpetual people of the earth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Family Ties Quotes
Mafia is a process,not a thing. Mafia is a form of clan - cooperation to which it's individual members pledge lifelong loyalty....Friendship, connections, family ties, trust, loyalty, obedience - this was the glue that held us together. — Joseph Bonanno
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
Iraq... has also had contacts with al-Qaida. Their ties may be limited by divergent ideologies, but the two sides' mutual antipathy toward the United States and the Saudi royal family suggests that tactical cooperation between them is possible. — George Tenet
A family tie is like a tree, it can bend but it cannot break. — African Proverbs
Nine different people gathered and became like a family. To me, it is a very meaningful tie. — Im Yoona
Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. . . . Story is an affirmation of our ties to one another. — Terry Tempest Williams
No invader has ever conquered the heart of Poland, that spirit which is the inheritance of sons and daughters, the private passion of families and the ancient, unbreakable tie to all those who came before. — James A. Michener
I know of no realm of life that can provide more companionship in a lonely world or greater feelings of security and purpose in chaotic times than the close ties of a family. — Charles R. Swindoll
On the football field I keep my emotions tied up inside. But when I'm with family, I let them out. — Kurt Warner
Tongue Tied Quotes
Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery... a topic that often leaves even the most sophisticated thinkers tongue-tied and confused. And, as with all of the earlier mysteries, there are many who insist - and hope - that there will never be a demystification of consciousness. — Daniel Dennett
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. — Abraham Cahan
I basked in you; I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love. And death doesn't prevent me from loving you. Besides, in my opinion you aren't dead. (I know dead people, and you are not dead.) — Franz Wright
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. — Sayings
Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery. — Daniel Dennett
When fathers are tongue tied religiously with their offspring, need they wonder if their children's hearts remain sin tied? — Charles Spurgeon
A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation. — Mark Twain
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. — William Shakespeare
At the time of your examination(of sins) beware of the devil that ties your tongue. — Josemaria Escriva
Bow Tie Quotes
Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance. — Rick Kaplan
I like bow ties, and I certainly spent a lot of time defending them. — Tucker Carlson
What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy. — Pete Fountain
People look at you differently if you wear a bow tie, as opposed to a necktie. — Dhani Jones
I like a basic uniform for guys. Steve Jobs is my fashion icon, because he wears the same outfit every day. If you always wear the same thing, you make a statement. Then put a bow tie on and really stand out. — Dhani Jones
It was my friend Frank, a writer in San Francisco, who finally set me straight. When asked about my new look he put down his fork and stared at me for a few moments. "A bow tie announces to the world you can no longer get an erection." — David Sedaris
See the bowtie? I wear it and I don't care. That's why it's cool. — Steven Moffat
Cowboy boots with a suit? You're a rough, tough businessman. Chaps with a bow tie? You're in the rough, tough man business. — Dana Gould
Read about a few men who wear (or wore) bow ties as an act of defiance, and check out a tie that makes a strong statement. Bow ties are cool. — Matt Smith
When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you. — Dhani Jones
I loved you; even now I may confess, Some embers of my love their fire retain; But do not let it cause you more distress, I do not want to sadden you again. Hopeless and tongue tied, yet I loved you dearly With pangs the jealous and the timid know; So tenderly I loved you, so sincerely, I pray God grant another love you so. — Alexander Pushkin
The complete emancipation of women from the ties which held them back in the past, during the ages of despotism and ignorance, is a basic aim of the Party and the Revolution. Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated. — Saddam Hussein
[Photography] ties back into this feeling of wanting to watch things fall and the moment before they break. Fireworks are that way for me - this lovely thing that blows up and is gone. It all goes back to this desire to record things before they disappear - the original reason we take pictures, right? — Laurel Nakadate
I don't know about torture. I have educated myself on many things but on torture I have not known the boundary between what is torture and what isn't torture. I know the NRA tie these people (rebels, etc.) when they catch them. They tie their hands backwards. I am now being told that is torture. It is the traditional method. — Yoweri Museveni
Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his fantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by imposing them on the silent image of a woman still tied to her place as the bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning. — Laura Mulvey
If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck? — Linda Ellerbee
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. — John F. Kennedy
I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you. — Harrison Ford
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. — Anton Chekhov
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. — Jon Foreman
Even the greatest idea can become meaningless in the rush to judgement. To gauge an idea as feasible we must cut our ties to the status quo and find the balance between constructive criticism and judgment. Within that balance we will uncover crucial input for making our ideas a reality. — Shigeo Shingo
I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up. — Barney Ross
Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way. — Margaret Bourke-White
Aversion is a form of bondage. We are tied to what we hate or fear. That is why, in our lives, the same problem, the same danger or difficulty, will present itself over and over again in various prospects, as long as we continue to resist or run away from it instead of examining it and solving it. — Patanjali
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