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In pulp fiction it is a rigid convention that the hero’s shoulders and the heroine’s balcon constantly threaten to burst their bonds, a possibility which keeps the audience in a state of tense expectancy. Unfortunately for the fans, however, recent tests reveal that the wisp of chiffon which stands between the publisher and the postal laws has the tensile strength of drop-forged steel.
s. j. perelman— "Captain Future, Block That Kick!", The Most of S. J. Perelman (1992) p. 72
I assume that somewhere after he attacked Arizona; engaged in what I think was a racist dialogue to try to frighten Latinos away from the Republican Party; stood next to the president of Mexico and said, "Borders don't matter because we have strong bonds"; had the President of Mexico get a standing ovation from Democrats for attacking an American state, and has his own State Department apologize to the Chinese for the Arizona law.
newt gingrich— On the Record, Fox News, 26 May 2010 "Gingrich: Obama "engaged" in "racist dialogue to try to frighten Latinos away from the Republican Party"", Media Matters for America, 26 May 2010, retrieved on 2011-03-30
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention then either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
john maynard keynes— Chapter II, Section I, pg.15
The finance enchains with golden bonds states and peoples, the economy becomes nomadic, the life uprooted.
alfred rosenberg— Die Finanz umschlingt mit goldenen Stricken Staaten und Völker, die Wirtschaft wird nomadisiert, das Leben entwurzelt., Der Mythus des 20. Jahrhunderts ("The Myth of the Twentieth Century") - Page 1 - 1930
In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.
alexis de tocqueville— Book Three, Chapter X
I yield to no one in my devotion to this great League of Nations, but not even for this will I destroy that smaller but older league of which my own country was the birthplace, and of which it remains the centre? Beware how you so draw tight the bonds, how you so pile obligation on obligation and sanction on sanction, lest at last you find that you are not living nations but dead states.
— 1927 Speech, League of Nations Assembly, Geneva, 9 Sep.
By leveraging their freedom from the bonds of location, corporations could now dictate the economic policy of governments.
joel bakan— Chapter 1, The Corporation's Rise To Dominance, p. 22
In numerous years following the war the Federal government ran a heavy surplus. It could not pay off it's debt, retire its securities, because to do so meant there would be no bonds to back the national bank notes. To pay off the debt was to destroy the money supply.
john kenneth galbraith— Chapter VIII, The Great Compromise, p. 90
An active faith can give thanks for a promise even though it be not yet performed, knowing that God's bonds are as good as ready money.
matthew henry— P. 241. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
livy— Book II, sec. 39
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.
patañjali— As quoted by Wayne Dyer [1]
As boys without bonds to their fathers grow older and more desperate about their masculinity, they are in danger of forming gangs in which they strut their masculinity for one another, often overdo it, and sometimes turn to displays of fierce, macho bravado and even violence.
frank pittman— Ch. 5 (Man Enough (1993))
As the shores of Ithaca gradually Faded away behind him And he sailed swiftly westward Toward Iberia and the Pillars of Hercules, Far from every Achaean sea, He felt he was alive once more, Freed from the oppressive bonds Of familiar, domestic things. And his adventurous heart rejoiced Coldly, devoid of love.
constantine p. cavafy— Second Odyssey, as translated by Walter Kaiser
The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together. Their top-heavy dignity is more touching than any humility; their solemnity gives us more hope for all things than a thousand carnivals of optimism; their large and lustrous eyes seem to hold all the stars in their astonishment; their fascinating absence of nose seems to give to us the most perfect hint of the humour that awaits us in the kingdom of heaven.
gilbert keith chesterton— "A Defence of Baby-Worship"
Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of stocks and bonds and credits .
robert heilbroner— Chapter VIII, Thorstein Veblen, p. 224
Sporting chivalrous contest helps knit the bonds of peace between nations. Therefore may the Olympic flame never expire.
Adolf Hitler— at the first Olympic torchlighting ceremony, Berlin, 1936
I now propose briefly to... set forth, in a form intelligible to those who possess no special acquaintance with anatomical science, the chief facts upon which all conclusions respecting the nature and the extent of the bonds which connect man with the brute world must be based: I shall then indicate the one immediate conclusion which, in my judgment, is justified by those facts, and I shall finally discuss the bearing of that conclusion upon the hypotheses which have been entertained respecting the Origin of Man.
thomas henry huxley— Ch.2, p.74
Recognizing the equality of all men and women, we are willing and able to lift the weak, cradle those who hurt, and nurture the bonds that tie us together as one nation under God.
ronald reagan— Address accepting the Republican presidential nomination (23 August 1984)
We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them this morning, as they prepared for their journey, and waved good-bye, and "slipped the surly bonds of earth" to "touch the face of God."
ronald reagan— Speech about the Space Shuttle disaster(28 January 1986)
Ulysses, he thought, had not told him all the truth about the Talisman. He had told him that it had disappeared and that the galaxy was without it, but he had not told him that for many years its power and glory had been dimmed by the failure of its custodian to provide linkage between the people and the force. And all that time the corrosion occasioned by that failure had eaten away at the bonds of the galactic cofraternity.
clifford d. simak— Ch. 30 (Skirmish (1977))
Thus the period we are studying is remarkable for achieving, not merely the right of free alienation of land, but also the right of alienation by secret conveyance. The latter achievement we may sometimes regret; but it was, probably, necessary for the complete emancipation of land from its its ancient tribal and feudal bonds.
edward jenks— A Short History Of The English Law, First Edition, Chapter VIII: "Methods Of Alienation" (1912, p. 122).
To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required not because the communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
— John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, January 20, 1961.—Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961, p. 1.
These past 10 years underscore the bonds between all Americans. We have not succumbed to suspicion and mistrust. It will be said of us that we kept that faith; that we took a painful blow, and emerged stronger.
— Barack Obama, Nation looks ahead with hope after remembering 9/11 victims. cnn.com (September 11, 2011). Retrieved on September 11, 2011.
My clients are the children; my clients are the next generation. They do not know what promises and bonds I undertook when I ordered the armies of the United States to the soil of France, but I know, and I intend to redeem my pledges to the children; they shall not be sent upon a similar errand.
— Woodrow Wilson, address in Pueblo, Colorado (September 25, 1919); reported in Albert Shaw, ed., The Messages and Papers of Woodrow Wilson (1924), vol. 2, p. 1127.
"Greece and Serbia are two countries linked by ancient and inextricable bonds. Our relationship is lost in the depths of time. Serbian culture and religion were greatly influenced by our common roots in the great civilisation of Byzantium."
— Secretary General for European Affairs Dimitrios K. Katsoudas, 3 May 2007
Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
— Book II, sec. 39
We desire but the good of the world and happiness of the nations....That all nations should become one in faith and all men as brothers; that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened; that diversity of religion should cease, and differences of race be annulled.
— Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era, p. 238-240
