Bond Quotes
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More Bond Quotes
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Bible (NewTestament)— Galatians 3:28.
But yet I'll make assurance double sure, And take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act IV, scene 1, line 83.
The nature of the chemical bond is the problem at the heart of all chemistry.
— New Chemistry? (1957) by the editors of Scientific American, p. 65
I will admit no bond that holds me to a party a day longer than I agree to its principles. When men meet together to confer, and ascertain whether or not they do agree, and find that they differ – radically, essentially, irreconcilably differ – what belongs to an honorable position except to part? They cannot consistently act together any longer.
jefferson davis— Reply in the Senate to a speech of Senator Douglas, May 1860
A cross borne in simplicity, without the interference of self-love to augment it, is only half a cross. Suffering in this simplicity of love, we are not only happy in spile of the cross, but because of it; for love is pleased in suffering for the Well Beloved, and the cross which forms us into His image is a consoling bond of love.
françois fénelon— P. 169. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.
— p.69 (From Optimism to Hope (2004))
Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Muhammad—all these big scoundrels, all these big despots of our ideas knew how to bond their concocted divinities with their immense ambitions. Certain of captivating nations with the sanction of their gods, these villains, as we know, took care either to question their deities at an appropriate moment or to have them answer only whatever they believed could serve their purpose.
— Yet Another Effort, Frenchmen, If You Would Become Republicans
In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women belonging to them had transcended the differences that divided them and had recognized in their membership in the human race a common bond.
selassie, haile i, of ethiopia— Address at Haile Selassie I University (now Addis Ababa University) honoring Indian President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (13 October 1965)
The basic bond of any society, culture, subculture, or organization is a "public image".
kenneth boulding— The Image: Knowledge in Life and Society, Chapter 5, "The Public Image and the Sociology of Knowledge" (1956, pg. 64)
A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
thomas carlyle— Essays, Goethe's Works.
By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.
gilbert keith chesterton— Book VIII : The Scouring Of The Horse
Sometimes it seems to me that God 's way of dealing with me is not to let me see much of my friends, those who are most to me in the spiritual life, lest I should forget that the invisible bond is the only reality. That is the only way I can reconcile myself to the inevitable separations of life and death.
lucy larcom— Her last letter to Episcopalian Bishop Phillips Brooks, just prior to his death on 23 January (17 January 1893), in Ch. 12 : Last Years
The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever.
ursula k. le guin— Chapter 4 “Dolphin” (p. 231)
As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.
marcus aurelius— III, 13. (Book III)
In tears I tossed my coin from Trevi's edge. A coin unsordid as a bond of love And, with the instinct of the homing dove, I gave to Rome my rendezvous and pledge. And when imperious Death Has quenched my flame of breath, Oh, let me join the faithful shades that throng that fount above.
— Robert Underwood Johnson, Italian Rhapsody. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 677.
A honest man's word is as good as his bond.
Miguel de Cervantes— Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15), Volume III, Part II, Chapter XXXIV
You give me back. Phœbus, my bond for four hundred thousand sesterces; lend me rather a hundred thousand more. Seek some one else to whom you may vaunt your empty present: what I cannot pay you, Phœbus, is my own.
— Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book IX, Epistle 102.
No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case a grievance.
thomas paine— Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776), p. 3.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life.
Richard Bach— American author
You are blood. You are sisters. No man can break that bond.
Kim Boykin— "A Peach of a Pair" (2015), written to Nettie by her mother in a letter.
The phenomena of Mesmerism could be salvaged by physicians adopting a more rational and scientific approach, while avoiding the worst excesses of its metaphysical speculations. Moreover, in a discussion of similar ideas propounded by the philosopher Francis Bacon, he specifically recommends that physicians, like Braid, should develop a ‘doctrine of the bond between mind and body’ (i.e., Braid’s “psycho-physiology”). Moreover, Stewart urges enquiry into ‘the effect of fixing and concentrating the attention, in giving to ideal [i.e., imaginary] objects the power of realities over the belief.
— Dugald Stewart, in “The Original Philosophy of Hypnotherapy (from The Discovery of Hypnosis)”
"'Queer' derives its force precisely through the repeated invocation by which it has become linked to accusation, pathologization, insult. This is an invocation by which a social bond among homophobic communities is formed through time. The interpellation echoes past interpellations, and binds the speakers, as if they spoke in unison across time. In this sense, it is always an imaginary chorus that taunts 'queer'".
— Butler, Judith (1993). Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex", p.226. New York: Routledge.
Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty According to my bond; no more nor less.
— Cordelia, Scene I
bond. James bond.
James Bond— First line said by James Bond (Sean Connery) in Dr. No (1962)
This is a film that really inhabits the proper world of James bond. I mean, James bond lives in a world that is violent and dangerous.
timothy dalton— On The Living Daylights, reported in Edward Gross, His Name was Bond, James Bond: Timothy Dalton on the World of 007.
It was a remarkable time of my life. I don’t think anyone except the few people who have played James bond can tell you how strange and special it is and how much your life changes. I have no regrets about doing it at all.
timothy dalton— On playing Bond. "Timothy Dalton Reflects On 007". MI6 - The Home of James Bond. 2007-02-19. Retrieved on 2007-02-21.
