Ties Quotes
History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.
You might be a redneck if you have a color coordinating rope that ties down your car hood.
Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.
To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?
Americas largest trade deficit is with China, a nation that enjoys Permanent Normal Trade Relations with the U.S. and ties its currency to the dollar to make it a more competitive trading partner.
If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.
They played Boston. They played at the Boston Tea Party and through an amazing chain of events I got to hang out with them backstage even though I was underage.
With Jack Abramoff under indictment, a number of readers have suggested that now he might flip and try to offer the feds some figures higher up the food-chain.
One of my prized possessions is still the prefect's tie that I got in this school. I keep it with me. It was the first leadership position I ever had.
Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds.
The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them.
The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
It is chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more connected than several parts of Europe itself.
Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.
As far as trucks, the great thing about a Range Rover is if you're going out for a dinner, even a black tie event, you can take the Range Rover.
There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.
Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah.
He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.
The man who is free from credulity, but knows the uncreated, who has cut all ties, removed all temptations, renounced all desires, he is the greatest of men.
It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously.
I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
-'What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?' There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter
We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.
With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized
The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.
A commuter tie-up consists of you — and people who for some reason won't use public transit.
The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.
I care about Bond and what happens to him. You cannot be connected with a character for this long and not have an interest. All the Bond films had their good points.
DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back.
God's decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint's perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so fast, that neither sin, death, nor hell, can break it asunder.
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
The ones we choose to love become our anchorwhen the hawser of the blood-tie's hacked, or frays.
I like the fact that Jack is always wearing a tie except when he's on a mission. I do like it when I get out there and dress up, or dress down, a little bit.
I had a wonderful time playing Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies. It was a real Bond villain, over the top, almost laughable but dangerous.
The humour of Dostoievsky is the humour of a barloafer who ties a kettle to a dog's tail.
In my last I contended that none of those ties which are necessary to bind a people together and make them one, existed between the colonists and Mexicans.
Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we keep a hold on other people. Plant ourselves in their lives.
Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.
All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.
There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
How could a society escape destruction if, when political ties are relaxed, moral ties are not tightened, and what can be done with a people master of itself if it not subject to God?