Quotes About Binding

When a man says he is building a house for himself and his posterity, he does not mean to be understood as saying that he has any thought of binding them, nor is it to be inferred that he is so foolish as to imagine that he has any right or power to bind them, to live in it.

We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth.

Love binds all souls in sacred harmony.

It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what are commonly called his 'natural, inherent, inalienable rights.'

Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.

Your love for your friend should be grounded in Me, and for My sake you should love whoever seems to be good and is very dear to you in this life. Without Me friendship has no strength and cannot endure. Love which I do not bind is neither true nor pure.

A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.

A fatwa is not a diktat, it's not binding. To turn the utterance of a non-entity into a fatwa and then talk about it endlessly really gets on my nerves.

Flattery is addictive. Convince others they're special. Assure them they have talent. Make yourself the source of people's self-worth. Doing so binds them to you and it preempts them from developing their skills and proving their true potential.

What makes the encumbrance of reimbursement even more distortive and binding is that most prices insurers pay are not set by market forces. Rather, they are administered prices that reek of the pricing algorithms and backroom negotiations used in communist systems. Those

Discipline may seem complicated, but it is actually very simple—it is what binds your life together. Without discipline, life is made up of successive indulgences and confusions based on aggression, passion, and ignorance.

For whatever you bind on earth is bound in heaven. Whatever you loose on earth is loosed in heaven. (Matt. 16:19.)

Ask yourself: "How is it in heaven? Is there sickness, disease, poverty?" No. Then you have authority to bind it here on earth.

One of the great dangers of our time is the illusion that moral obligations are somehow weaker if they're not chosen. We are blessed with the freedom to make choices that people in most times and places don't get to make. The special temptation of living in a society where we have personal liberties is the seductive idea that obligations are less binding, or not binding at all, if we came under them through birth or other circumstances beyond our control.

The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act of the whole people, the adoption of the Constitution was the merest farce and imposture, binding upon nobody.

Governments have to conclude a fair, universal, and binding climate agreement, by which every country commits to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.

Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake of the children. But by no means can this duty be preached as universally binding.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

lo habían encuadernado cuidadosamente con un papel de aguas azul que hacía recordar los sueños.

Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When you open the book it's like going to the theatre. First you see the curtain. Then it's pulled aside and the show begins.

What's that sticky stuff called? Basta: Duct tape. Yes, duct tape. I love duct tape.

Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark read or dark blue, depending on the binding. When you open the book it's like going to the theater. First you see the curtain. Then it's pulled aside and the show begins.

Marriage curbed the selfishness so natural to humans by binding a man and woman together, and even more by binding them to their children. Religious faith offered the purpose and reinforcement to sustain family structure. What

Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world? The nicest—by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding.