287 Quotes About Ties

  • Author David Hume
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    Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society.

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  • Author Emile Hirsch
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    It was very, very challenging being on this thing called the gimbal. It would throw you around, give you whiplash, and they'd tie you down.

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  • Author James Hansen
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    We have to, in the next ten years, begin to decrease the rate of carbon dioxide emissions and then flatten it out. If that doesn't happen in ten years, we're going to be passing certain tipping points. If the ice sheets begin to disintegrate, what can you do about it? You can't tie a rope around an ice sheet.

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  • Author Joe Hill
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    If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

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  • Author Paul Hawken
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    Green business is not about tie-dyed T-shirts. It's about transforming the industrial system itself into one that looks at all the connections.

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  • Author Rickey Henderson
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    Speeches and me don't get along sometimes. It is kind of like putting a tie too tight on my neck. I'm going to do whatever feels right.

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  • Author William Hazlitt
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    The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.

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