Ties Quotes - Page 21

Once you have a major success with assertiveness, you learn that it's a much healthier path than being a doormat to the insensitive folks. You gain respect for yourself, have more time for your priorities, and develop authentic and healthier relationships.

The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?

Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk [...]

When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.

Women? Well, they are gods. They will always fascinate me. As for rope, I always have it with me. Even when I forget my film, the rope is always in my bag. Since I can't tie their hearts up, I tie their bodies up instead.

Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in our nation.

We need to pledge ourselves anew to the cause of Christ. We must capture the spirit of the early church. Wherever the early Christians went, they made a triumphant witness for Christ. Whether on the village streets or in the city jails, they daringly proclaimed the good news of the gospel.

When we recognize that we don't have all the time in the world, we see our priorities most clearly.

Nine different people gathered and became like a family. To me, it is a very meaningful tie.

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

Win, lose, or tie, you're gonna play like champions!

There is a solitude, or perhaps a solemnity, in the few hours that precede the dawn of day which is unlike that of any others in the twenty-four, and which I cannot explain or account for. Thoughts come to me at this time that I never have at any other.

Learn how to grow out of yourself and into the world of others: Plant a shade tree under which you know you will never sit. Set some goals that may benefit your children or an orphanage or the employees of your company or future generations or your own city, fifty years from now.

In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.

Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.

For me the most important thing is to spread the Hindu knowledge about the soul. This is more important than any other knowledge and is my main priority.

Let me see if I've got this Santa business straight. You say he wears a beard, has no discernible source of income and flies to cities all over the world under cover of darkness? You sure this guy isn't laundering illegal drug money?

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.

Everyone of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.

Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure.

I think the penalties are grossly unfair. I think it's borderline shameful.

What is happening in Nigeria is an absolute atrocity.