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Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic (Binding Quotes)
The air was heavy with the smell of leather and dust, of old parchment and binding glue. It smelled of secrets (Binding Quotes)
Christ’s commandment to hear the Church . . . is binding on all men, in every period, and every country. (Binding Quotes)
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. (Binding Quotes)
I wrote ‘Mr. In-Between’ very quickly when I was about 23. I wrote the penultimate chapter, then realised I’d done something which was written to the best of my abilities. I panicked. I hesitated to finish the final chapter and went into withdrawal for three years. I decided to pick it up again after I went drinking with author Tim Binding. (Binding Quotes)
In setting up a business under the name and meaning of the Golden Rule, I was publicly binding myself, in my business relations, to a principle which had been a real and intimate part of my family upbringing. Our idea was to make money and build business through serving the community with fair dealing and honest value. (Binding Quotes)
For the past several centuries the bonding power of the family dinner table has been one of the few constants, and now it’s binding no more. The potency of the media is now stronger than that of the family. The wonder is that families still exist at all, since the forces of modern life mainly all pull people away from a family centered way of life. (Binding Quotes)
There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them, and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion. (Binding Quotes)
No man ever freely surrendered a portion of his own liberty for the sake of the public good; such a chimera appears only in fiction. If it were possible, we would each prefer that the pacts binding others did not bind us; every man sees himself as the centre of all the world’s affairs. (Binding Quotes)
When any practice is proposed and enforced as a binding duty, we have a right to examine the grounds of the alleged obligation. (Binding Quotes)
The Mormons had a divine revelation in favour of polygamy, but under pressure from the United States Government they discovered that the revelation was not binding. (Binding Quotes)
By binding image and desire, glamour gives us pleasure, even as it heightens our yearning. It leads us to feel that the life we dream of exists, and to desire it even more. (Binding Quotes)
A Supreme Court decision does not establish a supreme law of the land that is binding on all persons and parts of government, henceforth and forevermore. (Binding Quotes)
When you make a film, you sign a contract with somebody, and it’s not only legally binding but morally binding. You agree to give this man a certain number of weeks of your life, and you just go for it as much as possible. Because, whatever happens, the film is going to come out, so you might as well try very hard to make it a good one. (Binding Quotes)
When I was at Berkeley, the framework of quantum field theory could calculate the dynamics of electromagnetism. It could roughly describe the motion of the weak nuclear force, radiation. But it hit a brick wall with the strong interaction, the binding force. (Binding Quotes)
Break free from the binding robes of passion that feels like a lump in your heart, perform that surgery today, and you’ll be set free forever. (Binding Quotes)
Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you’ll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding. (Binding Quotes)
My black brothers and sisters - of all religious beliefs, or of no religious beliefs - we all have in common the greatest binding tie we could have. We are all black people! (Binding Quotes)
In 2004, President Bush gave Prime Minister Sharon certain guarantees about American policy, but the Obama administration treated those as a kind of private letter having no binding policy impact. (Binding Quotes)
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence (Binding Quotes)
My feeling is that contracts should always be honored. ... This is a situation where a legally binding contract is not being honored and that’s not right... (Binding Quotes)
All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification. (Binding Quotes)
Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together? (Binding Quotes)
The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them (Binding Quotes)
There is something about libraries, old libraries, that makes them seem almost sacred. There’s a smell of paper and must and binding stuff. It’s like all the books are fighting against decay, against turning into dust, and at the same time fighting for attention (Binding Quotes)
This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture (Binding Quotes)
This is global governance in the making. But we must agree, and agree to a binding commitment (Binding Quotes)
We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars (Binding Quotes)
My feeling is that contracts should always be honored... This is a situation where a legally binding contract is not being honored and that’s not right (Binding Quotes)
What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and binding and shipping, renewed and available whenever we open it (Binding Quotes)