Top 264 Binding Quotes & Sayings

All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification.

All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable.

A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.

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.

Before a man can bind the enemy, he must know there is nothing binding him.

Cinema is a great binding force for a nation.

An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes.

I know you think I was pressured into binding myself with you before, but that's not true,I always intended to marry you, kitten.

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

No oath can be too binding for a lover.

Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.

And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')

The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.

Physical intimacy is emotionally binding. But there are lots of different sins.

The binding of reason and intuition is the fundamental crisis of the era we call humanity. Transcedence of duality is the key.

The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.

We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.

Love is the binding force on every level of existence.

Paper Covers Rock is dazzling in its intensity and intelligence, spell-binding in its terrible beauty.

I think marriage initially involves a lot of people who have nothing to do with your relationship, because it's a legally binding contract, and that has a weight to it.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and then conclude that these principles must be unconditionally binding also for you and me-or conversely, they see that among different peoples moral valuations are necessarily different and infer from this that no morality is binding-both of which are equally childish.

nothing is so binding as pity.

What is lawful is not binding only on some and not binding on others. Lawfulness extends everywhere, through the wide-ruling air and the boundless light of the sky.

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

Binding emissions targets for the developing nations are out of the question.

Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.

"In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love."

The Scout Oath and Law are our binding disciplinary force.

And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.

Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together?

The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.

A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.

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.

Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?

OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.

Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.

Campaign promises are - by long democratic tradition - the least binding form of human commitment.

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

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.

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.

Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the unknowable, transcending reason, transcendent being). But the church is no longer adequate as a means of affording experience of the transcendental, and of making religion real - and so art has been transformed from a means into the sole provider of religion: which means religion itself.

In a very real sense, the Constitution is our compact with history . . . [but] the Constitution can maintain that compact and serve as the lodestar of our political system only if its terms are binding on us. To the extent we depart from the document's language and rely instead on generalities that we see written between the lines, we rob the Constitution of its binding force and give free reign to the fashions and passions of the day.

Love shouldn't be binding, but freeing.

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

The air was heavy with the smell of leather and dust, of old parchment and binding glue. It smelled of secrets.

It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment.

In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.

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

When any practice is proposed and enforced as a binding duty, we have a right to examine the grounds of the alleged obligation.

Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.

Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people.

Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.

If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, the universal agent of separation?

They say that even a hateful connection is still binding.

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

This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.

Only what God has commanded in His word should be regarded as binding; in all else there may be liberty of actions.