Tied Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

My dad and I, we used to play baseball. I was the catcher. Which I liked. Until one day, I saw this game on TV, and I said, Hang on, how come their catcher doesn't have his hands tied to his ankles?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I'm able to be very effective because I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican. So, I'm not tied, and I'd never want to be tied to anything, to some constituency that I would have to answer to.

I had a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving: O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied, With a silken thread of my own hands' weaving.

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

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

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.

'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.

I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.

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

Do you often sleep tied to the bed?

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

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

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

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

Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

With my old man I got no respect. When he took me hunting he gave me a three minute head start. Then on the way home he tied me to the fender and put the deer in the car.

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.