Binding Quotes

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Impossible, Obligation

Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.
Thomas Aquinas

Love, Another, Force

Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.
David Duchovny

Women, Men, Sexy

Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.
Milan Kundera

Hate, Adversary, Tightly

The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
Irving Babbitt

Order, Ultimate, Divine

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
Otto von Bismarck

Great, Struggle, Between

When you make a film, you sign a contract with somebody, and it's not only legally binding but morally binding. You agree to give this man a certain number of weeks of your life, and you just go for it as much as possible. Because, whatever happens, the film is going to come out, so you might as well try very hard to make it a good one.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Life, Good, Hard

A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
Paul Getty

Marriage, Business, Contract

What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world.
John Charles Polanyi

Makes, Social, Commitment

I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.
Tiberius

Change, Long, Through

And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens.
Christopher Dawson

Faith, Today, Christian

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.
Theodore White

Religion, Politics, America

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
William Robertson Smith

Religion, Force, Essential

And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian.
Hjalmar Branting

Peace, Effect, Century

The law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole globe, is everywhere and at all times binding upon mankind.
Rufus King

Law, Whole, Times

In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements.
Fredric Jameson

War, After, American

Altho that is so, Ireland has always denied and Ireland still denies that the Union was binding upon her either legally or morally. And here on this historic occasion we have assembled to renew our protest and to place it upon record.
John Edward Redmond

Place, Here, Her

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt

Law, Opinion, Popular

America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for.
Bill Johnson

America, Social, Security

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