Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
Quotes about untie (8 Quotes)
We're not going to untie the boats until we get a reasonable price to go fishing. We love to fish, but you can't keep doing it if it's a losing proposition. We haven't been offered a price that's worth us going fishing for.
Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new. I, like a usurped town to another due, Labor to admit you, but oh, to no end Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend, But is captived, and proves weak or untrue. Yet dearly I love you, and would be lov-ed fain, But am betrothed unto your enemy Divorce me, untie or break that knot again Take me to you, imprison me, for I Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.
Untie the hands of state and federal judges and prosecutors, ... Give them options other than turning the courts into assembly lines that mass produce mandatory life-without-parole sentences for children.
The FCC's defenders say the agency is just one actor on a multiplayerstage dominated by Congress, the White House and industry. TheFCC is in a very difficult position, ... They are trying to deregulatea regulated industry in a way that creates new competition anddoesn't lead to new regulation of the new industry. Frankly, the FCCis trying to untie this Gordian knot one strand at a time.
'Tis still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen
Tongue, and brain not; either both or nothing,
Or senseless speaking, or a speaking such
As sense cannot untie.
Never cut what you can untie.