#tied

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#more #our #than #tied #virtues

I enjoy acting now more than I ever have. I've had lots of difficult times when I was younger, but that was all tied up with thwarted ambition. It's hard being a young actor, because you don't realise until later that it's only ever about doing the work. ↗

— Brian Cox

#acting #actor #ambition #because #being

Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content. ↗

— John Dykstra

#creative #digital #get #hands #imaging

However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library. ↗

— Richard Ernst

#books #century #chemistry #city #could

I honestly think if I would've tied my suit and there wouldn't have been any water rushing through it, I think I could've gone at least a second faster. ↗

— Ryan Lochte

#been #could #faster #gone #honestly

Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back? ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#back #bargains #been #benefit #carry

I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up. ↗

— Barney Ross

#blue #buoy #deck #destroyer #i

Then the administration tied it in to the regional dispute between Israel and its enemies, as if that's about international terrorism. No, it's not. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#administration #between #dispute #international #international terrorism

Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#days #five #hundred #i #people

A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#considered #country #everybody #foot #him