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Jai Ganesh

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Bind, Binding, Binds Quotes

Bind, Binding, Binds Quotes

1. With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. - Abraham Lincoln

2. We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. - Thomas Jefferson

3. As long as the shackles of wealth and property bind us, we will remain accursed forever and never attain the altar of humanity, which is life's ultimate goal. - Munshi Premchand

4. One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them. - Boris Johnson

5. 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

6. Whether you agree with me or disagree with me; like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I am negotiating on behalf of the British nation. - John Major

7. International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken. - Narendra Modi

8. I have never tried to bind myself in some kind of an image on screen. I have always tried to do different things. - Divya Dutta

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

10. I know there are people who do not quite agree with the division of India and the partition of the Punjab and Bengal. Much has been said against it, but now that it has been accepted, it is the duty of every one of us to loyally abide by it and honourably act according to the agreement which is now final and binding on all. - Muhammad Ali Jinnah

11. Governments have to conclude a fair, universal, and binding climate agreement, by which every country commits to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. - Kofi Annan

12. All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification. - Ban Ki-moon

13. He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise. - William Blake

14. The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free. - Swami Vivekananda

15. Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church. - Pope John Paul II

16. Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. - Nelson Mandela

17. All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world. - Benjamin Franklin

18. Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices. - Annie Besant

19. I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy. - Thomas Huxley

20. Indian films are like our food or our sense of dress or our languages: there's a great variety, and it changes every 100 miles, but there is something in common, a national Indian essence, that binds them all together. - Amitabh Bachchan

21. The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization. - Vladimir Putin

22. There is a lot that binds Germany to Turkey, and even if we have a difference of opinion on an individual matter, the breadth of our links, our friendship, our strategic ties, is great. - Angela Merkel

23. 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. - Scarlett Johansson.

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