Quotes About Ties

The secret of happiness lies in the mind's release from worldly ties.

Hope is an echo hope ties itself yonder yonder.

Ottilie Weber, Family Ties

I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.

By cultivating rich social networks, by cultivating weak ties, not just close ties but the weak ties, by becoming connectors and by connecting others so that they connect us, we create a world in which these self-amplifying feedback loops feed on top of each other.

Our lives are connected in ways we can't imagine. They're connected even before we know they're connected.

The ties that bind a family together must surely mean more in the Spirit than we can know in the flesh.

This is a common form of exchange when Mississippians meet for the first time. They want to know about each other's ancestors, and which families they married into. If kinship ties can be established, so much the better. If there was a feud in the past, it could get awkward.

Don't families stay together?" "Not necessarily," he told me. "Earth ties have less meaning here. Relationships of thought, not blood, are what count.

bound to, and the ties to such families live in our hearts.

If not met promptly and decidedly, the two portions of the Union will gradually become thoroughly alienated, when no alternative will be left to us, as the weaker of the two, but to sever all political ties or sink down into abject submission.

We believe, as the President has indicated, that this combination of a rogue state that possesses weapons of mass destruction and has known ties to terrorist organizations, is a grave threat to the people of the United States and to other countries around the world.

I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.

I was a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers.

The Power Poker lottery would be won by a person having no ties to any Chicago street gangs or terrorists—Joe Normal.

Historically, both Marxist and liberal intellectuals, in their efforts to remake societies after Soviet and Western models, have tragically underestimated these traditional loyal ties existing below the level of the state.

Russia's interest in Montenegro is also wrought by Russia's considerable history of cultural and linguistic ties to Serbian-speaking territories, to its economic investments here, and to the fact that this beautiful Adriatic resort has become a playground for Russian organized crime.

Sudden and swift and light as that The ties gave, And he learned of finalities Besides the grave.

That would be hard. Ties are to be severed... not forgotten.

Sometimes, as he listened to the song or hummed it, tears brimmed in his eyes, just as in the lyrics. Strange that a man with no ties should become sentimental about a 'harbour town', but the tears welled directly from a dark, distant, enervated part of himself he had neglected all his life and couldn't command.

I had long since cut ties with that world, like a yakuza stepping out of the game and washing his hands of it once and for all. I had no more use for dreams. Dreaming was for the moviegoers, fingering their pulpy paper tickets. Not for me.

It takes a tribe to raise a human. Evolution thus favored those capable of forming strong social ties.

Are we all not, when we sit in the cinema, in the position of humans in The Matrix, tied to chairs, immersed in the spectacle run by a machine? However, a more appropriate allegory is that of the viewer himself: beneath the illusion that we "just look" at the perceived objects from a safe distance, freely sliding along them, there is the reality of the innumerable ties that bind us to what we perceive.

Social networks are created from any collection of connections among a group of people and things.