Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.
Ramakrishna

For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.
Countee Cullen

He gave us the lakes for our Northern boundary, and the rivers stretching to the seas upon whose waters floats our commerce to the nations of the world; while man has done all that can be done by science to bind us together.
John Brough

I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it.
Gloria Stuart

If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.
Charlotte Smith

If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.
Vinoba Bhave

In a recent decision of the Supreme Court, not made, however, by the full court, and concurred in by only four justices, it was held that the seller of a patented mimeograph could bind the purchaser to use only his ink in the machine, though the ink was not patented.
John Bates Clark

In my last I contended that none of those ties which are necessary to bind a people together and make them one, existed between the colonists and Mexicans.
William H. Wharton

In the old covenants the people were sprinkled with blood of calves without, in their bodies, to bind them to keep the law; else we were bound to just damnation, for the breaking of it.
William Tyndale

It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.
Walter Annenberg

Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.
Barbara Jordan

Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior.
Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
Robert Burton

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
Marquis De Vauvenargues

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
Victoria Jackson

The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.
Neil Young

The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.
Antonio Porchia

The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.
Iain Duncan Smith

These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland.
Fritz Todt

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.
Elizabeth Smart