Quotes with bound

  • Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?
  • A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
  • Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
  • Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
  • Once upon a time you dressed so fine, threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you. 
 People call, say beware doll, you're bound to fall, you thought they were all, kiddin you.
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  • Carol Gilligan Implicitly adopting the male life as the norm, they have tried to fashion women out of a masculine cloth. It all goes back to Adam and Eve a story which shows... that if you make a woman out of man, you are bound to get into trouble.
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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  • Bruce Lee Obey the principles without being bound by them.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Boris Pasternak The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's a part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space, and is inside us, like the teeth in our mouth. It can't be forever violated with impunity.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • William Shakespeare There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound by shallows and in misery.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Benito Mussolini We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford; the working people are hopelessly bound to their native shores.
    In 1921. As reported in: "Modern dictatorship" (J. Cape, 1939) by Diana Spearman, p. 167
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Ben Shapiro 'Noah' doesn't merely get the story wrong; like all Biblical adaptations, it's bound to do that (although some aspects of the film are out and out ridiculous). It gets the morality of the story wrong, and in the process turns God into Gaia and morality into radical deep green environmentalism.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Fawn M. Brodie A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.
    Fawn M. Brodie
    American historian and biographer (1915 - 1981)
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  • Charles Lamb A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh A very sensitive person in this stupid world is bound to become mad.... Only meditation can save him from becoming mad.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Philip Larkin Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Joseph Brodsky After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Barbara Deming After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.
    We cannot live without our lives
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Yogi Berra Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.
    Yogi Berra
    American baseball player (1925 - 2015)
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  • Branch Rickey Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything 'even spikes on a new pair of shoes' but they will eventually... they are bound to.
    In 1954
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • A.L. Rowse Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.
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  • Carol Bellamy By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Angelus Silesius By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
    Angelus Silesius
    German Catholic priest and physician (1624 - 1677)
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