Quotes and Sayings About Chains
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Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.
-- Albert Camus -
One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.
-- Alcaeus -
Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
-- Alexander Pope -
By your hand, millions - billions - of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day.
-- Andy Andrews -
So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
-- Arthur Helps -
I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have.
-- Arthur Rubinstein -
In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny.
-- Baroness Orczy -
When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.
-- Bebe Neuwirth -
Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.
-- Bob Garfield -
We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us.
-- Bradley Whitford -
Though chains be of gold, they are chains all the same.
-- Bruce Cockburn -
His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.
-- Bruno Bauer -
If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
-- Carl Safina -
Everywhere animals are in chains, but we image them as free.
-- Carol J. Adams -
Daisy chains are pretty fragile, and it turns out that families are too.
-- Cathy Cassidy -
Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.
-- Charles Stross -
The Learner must be led always from familiar objects toward the unfamiliar, guided along, as it were, a chain of flowers into the mysteries of life.
-- Charles Willson Peale -
I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain.
-- Chiaki Kuriyama -
We never know which of us will start the chain reaction. But one of us will.
-- Colin Beavan -
It is our mind, and that alone, that chains us or sets us free.
-- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche -
I take my part in the food chain very seriously.
-- Dominique Swain -
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
-- Douglas MacArthur -
Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.
-- Douglas William Jerrold -
Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain.
-- Emily Dickinson
