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.
Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
livy— Book V, sec. 4
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.
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))
To Israel's faithful hosts in the past, as to its loyal sons and daughters of the present, the Siddur has been the gate to communion with their Father in Heaven; and, at the same time, it has been a mighty spiritual bond that unites them to their scattered brethren the world over.
joseph h. hertz— Introduction (p. ix)
The most serious problems lie in the financial sphere, where the economy’s debt overhead has grown more rapidly than the ‘real’ economy’s ability to carry this debt. ... The essence of the global financial bubble is that savings are diverted to inflate the stock market, bond market and real estate prices rather than to build new factories and employ more labor.
michael hudson— Financial Capitalism v. Industrial Capitalism (September 3, 1998)
The feudal warranty is, doubtless derived from the ancient duty of the feudal lord to protect his liege man 'with fire and sword against all deadly'. It was of the essence of the feudal bond, that the vassal should be under his lord's protection.
edward jenks— Chapter VIII, Methods Of Alienation, p. 109
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)
...it’s important to remember how fortunate we are as a country to have a currency and a bond market that is seen in every way as a source of strength and it’s a huge responsibility for us to keep it that way.
lawrence summers— Tom Braithwaite (April 9, 2009) "Summers sees end to ‘sense of free-fall’", Financial Times
I am a parcel of vain strivings tiedBy a chance bond together,Dangling this way and that, their linksWere made so loose and wide,Methinks,For milder weather.
Henry David Thoreau— "I am a parcel of vain strivings tied", st. 1 (1841)
They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.
joseph conrad— Pt. I, ch. 2
All grandeur, all power, all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears.
joseph de maistre— The Works of Joseph de Maistre, ed. Jack Lively (1965). The Count, in Les Soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg, "First Dialogue," (1821).
The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never interfere in his private life or his citizenship. He is tied to the company through a voluntary and cancellable employment contract, not through some mystical or indissoluble bond.
Peter Drucker— p.387 (The Practice of Management (1954))
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)
The tribalizing power of the new electronic media, the way in which they return to us to the unified fields of the old oral cultures, to tribal cohesion and pre-individualist patterns of thought, is little understood. Tribalism is the sense of the deep bond of family, the closed society as the norm of community.
Marshall McLuhan— Tyuonyi, Volumes 1-2, 1985, p. 60
Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition and perchance to some excess I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
Michel de Montaigne— Book III, ch. 9
The act of the soul, in surrendering itself into the hands of Christ, forms a connecting bond between Him as the Vine and the soul as the branches, which communicates life, strength, nourishment, and beauty. In a word, with a just view of the character, and a supreme attachment to the person of Christ, the believer yields himself into His hands as a full and complete Saviour. Him he receives; upon Him he rests, and rests for time and eternity.
gardiner spring— P. 226. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
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.
My chapter house was a place where deep friendships were formed. The bond of brotherhood within the chapters was always a sustaining force and an urge to do a better job scholastically and otherwise in campus life. The traits of character which were nurtured there ripened and increased my sense of being useful in later life.
— D. William Brosnon, Phi Sigma Kappa; Former President, Southern Railway System (p. 16)
I took a great deal more from my fraternity than I gave but what I took was a very great deal companionship of the highest order, self-confidence born of belonging to a group of which I was proud, enrichment of my personal life, which gave all my college career added dimension, and even an extra bond to several life-long friendships that already existed.
— Walter Cronkite, Chi Phi; CBS News Analyst (p. 18)
Adam lay ibounden, Bounden in a bond; Four thousand winter Thoght he not too long; And all was for an appil, An appil that he tok.
— Anonymous, "Adam lay ibounden", line 1, as quoted in Early English Lyrics ([1907] 1972) by Sir Edmund K. Chambers and Frank Sidgwick, p. 102, Translation: Joseph Glaser Middle English Poetry in Modern Verse (2007) p. 85
Right or community of blood was not the bond of union between them, so much as interest or compulsion as the case may be.
— Book VII, 7.57-[1]
This bond is forfeit; And lawfully by this the Jew may claim A pound of flesh.
william shakespeare— The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act IV, scene 1, line 230.
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
Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and remote and his dark profession an affront to his fellow actors.
ian fleming— Ch. 5 (Casino Royale (1953))
Our guys working this area for a living all believe Chalabi and all those guys in their bond Street suits are charlatans. To take them for a source of anything except a fantasy trip would be a real stretch. But it's an article of faith among those with no military experience that the Iraqi military is low-hanging fruit.
scott ritter— Knight Ridder, 1 November 2002
