Bound Quotes

• Man is bound to lie about himself.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Man
  • Lie
  • Bound

• Prayer is a powerful thing; for God has bound and tied himself thereunto.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Tied

• No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Man
  • Words
  • Bound

• We will leap tall couplets in a single bound.

  

  Ishmael Reed
  • Leap
  • Bound
  • Couplets

• Nihilism is but the other side of conventionalism; its creed consists of negations of the current so-called positive values, to which it remains bound.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Bound
  • Nihilism
  • Conventionalism

• There is no fair wind for one who knows not whither he is bound.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Wind
  • Bound

• There's bound to be a recovery in capital spending sometime soon. We have had basically no capital investment for about year. At some point, machinery wears out, and you've got to replace it.

  

  Bruce Bartlett
  • Bound
  • Machinery
  • Capital investment

• No man is bound to be rich or great, - no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest.

  

  Benjamin Rudyerd
  • Great
  • Man
  • Bound

• I am glad to think I am not bound to make the world go right, but only to discover and to do, with cheerful heart, the work that God appoints.

  

  Jean Ingelow
  • World
  • God
  • Think

• A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Obedience
  • Conformity
  • Bound

• Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Person
  • Excitement
  • Bound

• For no one by the law of nature is bound to please another, unless he chooses, nor to hold anything to be good or evil, but what he himself, according to his own temperament, pronounces to be so; and, to speak generally, nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Bound

• I am neither bound to say why I came to this city nor to answer the other questions put to me.

  

  El Greco
  • City
  • Answer
  • Bound

• Every man is indeed bound to do what he can to promote the good of others, and a man who is of no use to anyone is strictly worthless.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Use
  • Promote
  • Bound

• Hither, thither, masterless Ship upon the sea, Wandering through the ways of air, Go the birds like me. Bound am I by ne’er a bond, Prisoner to no key, Questing go I for my kind, Find depravity.

  

  Archpoet
  • Find
  • Bound
  • Depravity

• No pleasure here on earth I find For in this world I'm bound to ramble.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Earth
  • Pleasure
  • Bound

• Men touch their horses to calm them,” she said distantly. “They caress their falcons to remind them that they are bound. Touch smacks of ownership, and I am weary of being a possession.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Men
  • Calm
  • Horses

• The past is littered with regret, the future bound by anxiety. The time is always now.

  

  Eric Van Lustbader
  • Regret
  • Anxiety
  • Bound

• I am bound by the texts of the Bible, my conscience is captive to the Word of God, I neither can nor will recant anything, since it is neither right nor safe to act against my conscience.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Bible
  • Safe
  • Word Of God

• I think we're all sort of imprisoned by - or at least bound to - the choices we make... You want to say no at the right time and you want to say yes more sparingly.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Choices
  • Sort
  • Imprisoned

• When three generations are present in a family, one of them is bound to be revolutionary.

  

  Elise M. Boulding
  • Family
  • Revolutionary
  • Bound

• I lost a world the other day. Has anybody found? You'll know it by the rows of stars around it's forehead bound. A rich man might not notice it; yet to my frugal eye of more esteem than ducats. Oh! Find it, sir, for me!

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Notice
  • Esteem
  • Bound

• There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Death
  • Birth
  • Ruin

• I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.

  

  Herodotus
  • Believe
  • Case
  • Bound

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