Binding Quotes
Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.
The air was heavy with the smell of leather and dust, of old parchment and binding glue. It smelled of secrets.
It is perfectly evident...that to thank the Lord in all things is not merely a courtesy, it is a commandment as binding upon us as any other commandment
An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes.
Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love.
Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together?
The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.
Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that exist between people that bind.
WEAKNESSES, n.pl. Certain primal powers of Tyrant Woman wherewith she holds dominion over the male of her species, binding him to the service of her will and paralyzing his rebellious energies.
Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.
The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to be bound by them.
A Supreme Court decision does not establish a "supreme law of the land" that is binding on all persons and parts of government, henceforth and forevermore.
Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You're putting more of your attention into the transient world.
Paper Covers Rock is dazzling in its intensity and intelligence, spell-binding in its terrible beauty.
Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.
Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding.
Commitment . . . is a binding, but happy, response to duty. It is at once peaceful yet compelling, for it obligates one to action. It is essential to the good life. It is doing what everyone can do.
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.
My feeling is that contracts should always be honored. ... This is a situation where a legally binding contract is not being honored and that's not right.
Marriage is primarily an economic arrangement, an insurance pact. It differs from the ordinary life insurance agreement only in that it is more binding, more exacting.
Love is the binding force of the universe. It is an ongoing flow that unites all of creation.
...when I look at and study the ranks of my books - for I have put the name of each author on the binding - I feel as if I am looking at the holy graves of those who wrote them.
You can never have for yourself someone who isn't on good terms with himself.
Okay, well, on Borelletrox V, the males are kept completely isolated from all images of the female until Binding Day and the females are, erm, let's just say they’ve' got a lot of--
Love is ageless and colorless. It is a spiritual force that binds two hearts and two souls together as one.
The binding factor between knowing something and doing it is "passion". When your passion is concentrated in what you know, your work output will bind well.
Being open is happiness and being closed is sadness. So free your mind from the prison of binding ideas and thoughts.
