Top 190 Tied Quotes

I don’t know, so much of women’s femininity is tied up with their hair.

We made the mistake of trusting the Chinese and then compounded it by allowing our men to go out to face them with their hands literally tied behind their backs. Galwan was a totally avoidable tragedy.

The political, the economic, the social are tied together like the strands of a rope. The social and economic, if they are firm, tend to strengthen the other.

I never did pageants as a kid, but when I got into high school, I did a couple that were tied to a sort of all-around academic student achievement program, something akin to Junior Miss, but not Junior Miss.

When my French side thinks of ‘bohemian,’ it imagines Montparnasse authors and absinthe – that kind of aesthetic. The American definition might be more tied to American history and culture.

I can still crack a safe with one hand tied behind my back. I’m not proud of it. But I was always against society.

More than anything, a lot of our family’s history is tied to food. It’s just one of those things.

Any window of opportunity is important. If your hands are tied, you should swim with your legs. If your legs are tied, you should try to hold on to the edge of the boat with your teeth. We have to use every option.

If you grew up in London’s East End you’d probably be inclined to be into something like grime music. But if you’re removed from it, like in Guernsey, you can have a wider set of influences, and you’re not tied down to any genre or any scene. I think that affects my sound, for sure.

First of all, when you live in a country like Canada, it’s quite different from America in the sense that it’s very tied to traditions that were born in Britain.

What’s nice about experiments is that they are much more closely tied to what theorists think about the world than normal empirical research. You can design your experiment to exactly ask the question you want to ask. This is not true about normal empirical research.

So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes.

If someone tied me down and made me answer the question, singer, actress, clothing designer, I most likely – it could change on any given day, but mostly likely I would lean towards singing. It’s where I feel most like myself – on stage singing.

A U.S. war with Iran could end with a Kurdish enclave in Iran’s northwest tied to Iraqi Kurdistan, Iran’s Azeri north drifting toward Azerbaijan, and a Balochi enclave in the south linked to Pakistan’s largest province, Balochistan, leaving Iran only Persia.

Everyone will be happier if fewer women are tied to abusive men, drop out of school, and live impoverished lives because of a random pregnancy.

The only projects that excite me have to be tied to some aspect of social change. No matter how beautiful, a coffee book doesn’t exactly move you to change the way you cook or eat.

I never got tied down to any social scene. I was just into creating stuff. And I think, even today, that’s how I’m able to work and move between so many different genres – I want to be part of what’s happening, I want to make new things.

Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I’m around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

On ‘Krit Wuz Here,’ I had a record called ‘Return Of 4eva’ on it. And then that launched me into doing the actual ‘Return Of 4eva’ project, and ‘Return Of 4eva’ had a song called ‘4eva And A Day.’ So it’s like, all of my music has somehow tied into the entire story.

If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you’d resign in protest.

I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn’t pose a serious environmental issue.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.

All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.

You grow up as an artist in a big city. As James Dean said, you’re going to have one arm tied behind your back if you don’t accept people’s sexual flavors. You know, when I was a kid out here in L.A., I was homeless; I didn’t have any money, and I was living in my car. I was 18.

It’s not my goal to make so many movies. It’s just sort of a natural process, and I’m just doing my job. And I’m not tied to any genre; I’m willing to do anything. I just keep going.

My generation is so tied up in television, computers, and video games. When we were born, MTV was already there. It was normal.

I can remember stepping out of the car with my skates already tied, smelling the ocean breeze.

Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.

My feeling for Liverpool does not mean I’m tied to them.

For decades, American companies, large and small, have been competing with one hand tied behind their backs thanks to our unfair, outdated tax code.

George Zimmerman is a foot soldier in a rapidly privatizing country. He is a new centurion of 21st-century America. Law enforcement is tied down by the strictures of, well, the law. There is only ‘so much they can do’ to take care of the ‘problem.’

I don’t think I was ever meant to be tied down to one band for the rest of my life, playing one style of music.

A lot more people are willing to invest in bonds denominated in euros. And there was the fiscal discipline argument, which is that this tied the hands of countries the market hasn’t always trusted, which also helped them borrow at low rates.

A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.

When your opponent is tied up, always be patient and search for the simplest option.

People may have thought that we changed a lot. I don’t think we came in with that intention. Certain things I can’t stomach. But I tried to be as collegial as possible. When you sign that contract, you’re tied to that opera house to try your best. But every different team will play with a different intensity.

The great thing is that young talent isn’t tied to a how-to model for starting a line; we get to find new ways to go about doing things. And don’t let people tell you you can’t. Go find a way to show that you can.

Emotionally, a person is tied to the land of his birth. It’s only human.

People think, ‘Oh, you’re doing ‘The Wiz’ because ‘Empire’ is such a big hit.’ The truth is, staging this musical has been a dream of ours since the ’90s, but the rights were tied up. It’s just coincidental that, this year, when we were choosing a new musical, the rights were cleared.

When people look at all the things I do, they say it’s overwhelming, but I don’t feel overwhelmed. I get it done. I’m very organized, and it’s all tied together.

Once fraternities became tied to power and leadership, the powerful and would-be-leaders wanted to join.

I wouldn’t want to take a job that I got tied into for six years – that just doesn’t interest me.

The two things that are probably tied for first are winning a championship with the Mavericks and also being able to win a gold medal – two gold medals with Team USA.

I usually take up short films when I am not tied up with feature films. Short films are easier to work on… because it doesn’t take much of your time. The number of shoot days are lesser as compared to feature films.

China’s stock market is inextricably tied to politics.

Heart is tied with a lot of controversies, a lot of heartbreaks in show business. With ‘Love Marie’ who I really am in the real world. I feel more free, I feel more clean. I feel like people don’t judge me, and that is why I shy away from being Heart when it comes to my painting.

A lot of the strength of an RPG world lies in its foundation: its systems, lore, and when appropriate, its magic systems. While there are elements tied to ‘Project: Eternity’ that at first glance seem to be classic fantasy, that’s intentional – we do want to recreate some elements of a High Fantasy experience.

When I got tied up in a big lawsuit with my previous agency, I seriously thought my career was over.

I suffered a lot when I tried to make sanitary napkins and promote the idea. My family – including my mother and wife – deserted me. Villagers even tied me to a tree and beat me. But after seeing me successful now, they come and say that they all knew that I would become famous one day.