InspiringQuotes

Chains Quotes:

Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

topic: Intelligence, Gains, Chains, Lucidity

Quotation Nelson Mandela For to be free is not merely to cast off Quotes

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

topic: Wine, Chains, Wit

quote no one chains a slave without chaining himself mahatma gandhi Quotes

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

topic: Liberty, Morality, Chains, Trust Others

Quotation Mahatma Gandhi You can chain me you can torture me you can Quotes

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

topic: Memories, Brain, Chains, Chamber

Quotation Voltaire It is difficult to free fools from the chains they Quotes

By your hand, millions - billions - of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day.

topic: Hands, Events, Chains, Chain Of Events

Quotation Winston Churchill It is a mistake to look too far ahead Only Quotes

So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

topic: Links, Life Is, Chains, Study In Scarlet

Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.

topic: Freedom, Men, Chains

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

source: "The Magic of Rubinstein..." by Alan M. Kriegsmen, The Washington Post, p. B7, January 26, 1977.

topic: Would Be, Want, Chains

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

source: "Links in the Chain of Life" by Emma Orczy, (Ch. 8), 1947.

topic: Destiny, Links, Chains

When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.

- Bebe Neuwirth

topic: Dancer, Chains, Bottom, Food Chain

Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Chains, Frugal, Disdain, Industrious, Your Freedom

Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.

topic: Soul, Devil, Chains

Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.

topic: Letters, Flu, Chains

We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us.

- Bradley Whitford

topic: Graduation, Break, Chains

Though chains be of gold, they are chains all the same.

- Bruce Cockburn

source: Song: Feet Fall On The Road, Album: Sunwheel Dance

topic: Gold, Chains

His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.

topic: Hype, Deceiving, Chains, Harshness

Hail Lord, ...Loose my chains.

topic: Lord, Hail, Chains

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.

topic: Ocean, Creating, Chains, Food Chain, Overfishing

Everywhere animals are in chains, but we image them as free.

- Carol J. Adams

source: Carol J. Adams (2015). “The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory”, p.24, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

topic: Animal, Chains

Daisy chains are pretty fragile, and it turns out that families are too.

- Cathy Cassidy

topic: Daisies, Chains, Turns

We forge the chains we wear in life.

- Charles Dickens

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Happiness, Law Of Attraction, Chains, Forged, Forging

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

topic: Mistake, Chains, Ends, Lining Up, One Mistake

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

topic: Flower, Mystery, Chains, Unfamiliar

I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain.

- Chiaki Kuriyama

topic: Ties, Balls, Chains, Quentin

We never know which of us will start the chain reaction. But one of us will.

topic: Chain Reactions, Reactions, Chains

It is our mind, and that alone, that chains us or sets us free.

- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

topic: Mind, Chains

I take my part in the food chain very seriously.

- Dominique Swain

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Chains, Food Chain

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

- Douglas MacArthur

topic: Victory, Liberty, Chains

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

- Douglas William Jerrold

topic: Peace, Bayonets, Chains

Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Atheism, Chains, Dangerous

Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.

- Estelle Ramey

topic: Men, Feminist, Chains, Forged, Women's Rights

The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds.

- Friedrich Schiller

topic: Iron, Chains

Things can be low on the food chain, but that doesn't mean they're lowly...

topic: Mean, Lows, Chains, Food Chain

You will not break loose until you realize that you yourself forge the chains that bind you.

source: Gary Renard (2004). “The Disappearance of the Universe”, p.65, Hay House, Inc

topic: Realizing, Break, Chains, Chains That Bind

Golf is like a chain. You always have to work on the weakest links.

- George Archer

topic: Golf, Links, Chains, Weakest Link, Golf Life

Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents!

- George Habash

topic: Tents, Nothing To Lose, Chains, Communist Manifesto

His chains chinked softly. I seldom fling children from towers to improve their health. Yes, I meant for him to die.

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Children, Towers, Chains

Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --

- Giacomo Leopardi

topic: Dream, Chains

What Ive been developing is a vegan fast food chain and vegan food markets.

- Heather Mills

topic: Vegan, Fast Food, Chains, Vegan Food

Man is everywhere still in chains.

topic: Men, Chains, Stills

Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Creativity, Chains, Misinterpreted

Freedom is living without chains.

topic: Chains

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

- Isaiah Berlin

topic: Fundamentals, Metaphor, Chains, Imprisonment, Enslavement

Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.

- Jacqueline Carey

topic: Bears, Chains, Hardest, Forged, Kushiel's Dart

It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.

- Jane Hamilton

source: Jane Hamilton (2014). “The Book of Ruth”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Links, Bigs, Chains

I was always mortified.Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?

topic: Mother, Chains, Ashamed

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

topic: Chains

I'm just another link in the chain.

topic: Links, Chains

Every time we lose a species webreak a life chain which has evolved over 3.5 billion years.

topic: Years, Chains, Biodiversity, Environmental Stewardship

I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain.

source: Jim Harrison, “Barking”

topic: Dog, Freedom, Chains

The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.

topic: Forks, Chains, Raw Food, Food Chain

What's unique about transportation is that it's the one function that repeats itself throughout the supply chain.

topic: Unique, Chains, Function, Supply Chain

Life consists of a long chain of coincidences.

- Jostein Gaarder

source: Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.194, Hachette UK

topic: Long, Coincidence, Chains

I turned down a date once because I was looking for someone a little closer to the top of the food chain.

topic: Littles, Chains, Turned Down, Food Chain

A nation which enslaves another forges its own chains.

topic: Tyrants, Chains, Tyranny

The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.

topic: Winning, World, Chains

Pride is never so loud as when in chains.

topic: Pride, Loud, Chains

...she could only wait for someone, something, to free her from the invisible chains that bound her.

topic: Waiting, Invisible, Chains

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

- Mary Wortley Montagu

source: Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.269

topic: Liberty, Jewelry, Chains

What they sell to the masses are the chains you must break if you are ever to be in control of your life.

- Michael Dolan

topic: Society, Break, Chains, Control Of Your Life

The memories you have are just recordings of things past, not chains to bind you.

- Michael Dolan

topic: Memories, Past, Chains, Things Past

Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.

source: "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

topic: Safety, Chains, Food Safety, Food Chain

I'm bigger than you! I'm higher on the food chain - get in my belly!

topic: Chains, Bigger, Higher

There are times in this life when a person must do or say things he doesn't want to. Human beings and chains, it is the oldest acquaintanceship in the world.

source: Nadeem Aslam (2011). “Maps for Lost Lovers”, p.176, Faber & Faber

topic: Want, World, Chains

Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.

- Nadia Boulanger

topic: Art, Likes, Chains

Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.

- Nellie L. McClung

topic: Sisterhood, World, Chains

I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.

topic: Mean, Thinking, Chains

Im not a celebrity. I dont take myself too seriously. I know where I stand in the food chain. And no matter how much of an insider I ever become or am, Ill still always be an outsider.

topic: Matter, Outsiders, Chains

I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult.

topic: Found, Chains, Stores, Department Stores

I don't rock chains our ancestors did it for us

topic: Rocks, Chains, Ancestor

I have this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion then it will start a chain reaction of the same.

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Compassion, Way, Chains, Chain Reactions, Columbine

Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip," Jonathan would say, other times, "is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too.

topic: Body, Break, Chains, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Seagull

Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes.

topic: Way, Principles, Chains, Mesh

Pawns are born free, yet they are everywhere in chains

topic: Chess, Pawns, Chains, Born Free

I asked a coughing friend of mine why he doesn't stop smoking. 'In this town it wouldn't do any good,' he explained. 'I happen to be a chain breather.'

- Robert Sylvester

topic: Smoking, Towns, Chains, Coughing, Stop Smoking

I happen to be a chain breather.

- Robert Sylvester

topic: Chains

One glorious chain of love, of giving and receiving, unites all creatures.

- Samson Raphael Hirsch

source: Samson Raphael Hirsch (1942). “The nineteen letters of Ben Uziel: being a spiritual presentation of the principles of Judaism”

topic: Giving, Receiving, Chains, Giving And Receiving

Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Dog, Habit, Chains, Ballast

Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are link'd by many a hidden chain; Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise! Each stamps its image as the other flies!

- Samuel Rogers

topic: Brain, Links, Chains

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

- Sophie Swetchine

topic: Cramps, Chains

If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude.

topic: Heart, Men, Chains

I hardly ever work from a synopsis -- I find they act like chains.

topic: Synopsis, Chains

I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.

source: Tanith Lee (2014). “Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer: Expanded Edition”, p.80, Wildside Press LLC

topic: Stars, Chains, Draws

For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Links, Might, Chains, Environmental Stewardship, Biodiversity

Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants.

topic: Class, Restaurants, Chains, Working Class

The chains of love are stronger than the chains of fear.

- William Gurnall

topic: Stronger, Chains

There are internal chains and external chains. All the external chains in the world won't enslave you, if you are free inside. And all the external 'freedom' in the world won't liberate you, if you are chained inside. Let go. And you'll know Freedom.

- Yasmin Mogahed

topic: Letting Go, World, Chains

When the voice of truth rises from the minarets, the Buddha smiles, and the broken chain of history reconnects.

- Ziauddin Yousafzai

topic: Voice, Broken, Chains

Liberty has as many chains as an iron-monger's shop, and as rusty.

- Austin O'Malley

topic: Iron, Liberty, Chains

Everything I did in the jails - chain gangs, everything - I haven't changed the policy. I did it, I stand by it, and I'm not going to change.

topic: Jail, Gang, Chains, I Haven't Changed

The fast-food industry has moved into the grocery store, so you no longer have to go to a fast-food chain to find problematic foods.

topic: Fast Food, Chains, Stores, Food Industry

The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.

- Susan B. Anthony

topic: Facts, Realizing, Chains

Always acknowledge your position in the food chain... They eat because you grow the food.

- Wangechi Mutu

topic: Chains, Grows, Acknowledge, Food Chain

More Americans are enjoying the freedom of independence from the chains of welfare

- William Reynolds Archer, Jr.

topic: Independence, Welfare, Chains

I want to keep my fan base supplied with a steady chain of music.

topic: Fans, Want, Chains

The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.

- Bernard-Henri Levy

topic: Truth Is, States, Chains, Totalitarian State

I believe martial arts is always evolving and mixed martials arts is the top of the food chain.

source: Source: www.moviesonline.ca

topic: Art, Believe, Chains

I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.

topic: Able, Architecture, Chains

I did not climb to the top of the food chain to eat carrots.

topic: Bumper Sticker, Carrots, Chains, Funny Bumper Sticker, Food Chain

Those who don't move don't notice their chains.

- Rosa Luxemburg

topic: Moving, Chains

Jewellery's not a big thing for me. The only thing I wear is a gold cross on a chain that I got for my 21st birthday. You have to take it off every day for filming, but that's the only time I'm not wearing it. You won't find me in rings, bracelets or earrings.

- Jonas Armstrong

topic: 21st Birthday, Gold, Chains, Bracelet, Earrings

I wear the chains I forged in life.

- Charles Dickens

source: A Christmas Carol stave 1 (1843)

topic: Chains, Forged

Did you see those Iraqis making that pilgrimage slashing their foreheads with knives and whipping their backs with chains. See, when Saddam Hussein was around they weren't allowed to make that pilgrimage. If they tried that with Saddam Hussein, he would have slashed their foreheads with knives and whipped their backs with chains.

topic: Knives, Hussein, Chains, Saddam, Whipping

Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.

topic: Lows, Chains, Food Chain

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

source: Franz Kafka (1983). “The Penguin complete novels of Franz Kafka”

topic: Freedom, Literature, Chains

I am in chains. Don't touch my chains.

topic: Chains

Liberty for all; chains for none.

- Frederick Douglass

source: Frederick Douglass (2016). “The Portable Frederick Douglass”, p.344, Penguin

topic: Liberty, Chains

All songwriters are links in a chain.

source: "American Icons: Pete Seeger". Interview with Paul Zollo, americansongwriter.com. January 28, 2014.

topic: Links, Chains, Songwriters

Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain.

- Friedrich Schiller

source: Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.76

topic: Honesty, Chains, Being True

Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.

- Friedrich Schiller

topic: Iron, Chains, Silk

From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.

- Alexander Pope

source: Alexander Pope (1871). “Essay on Man”, p.35

topic: Links, Break, Chains

Whom anger chains, can ever pass thro' Maya's gates.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1790, Manonmani Publishers

topic: Anger, Chains, Gates

No one chains a slave without chaining himself.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Slavery, Slave, Chains

The prisoner grows to love his chains.

topic: Chains, Prisoner, Grows

Unchecked, the new tolerance will sooner or later put many people in chains.

topic: People, Tolerance, Chains

How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!

- Margaret Mitchell

source: Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

topic: Chains That Bind, Chains, Clutch

I preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.

topic: Deliverance, Chains, My Own

I was once almost forced off the stage at a large chain bookstore that shall remain nameless, because she introduced me as Lemony Snicket, and I immediately interrupted her and said, "Oh no, Lemony Snicket isn't here," and then she tried to cancel the event right then and there.

- Daniel Handler

source: Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

topic: Events, Bookstores, Chains, Nameless, Interrupted

Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Constitution, Chains, Mischief

I love titles and organizing chains of ideas. I like that very much.

- Marina Warner

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Ideas, Titles, Chains

Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.219, Rowman & Littlefield

topic: Relief, Shackles, Chains

If men and women are in chains anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Men, World, Chains

I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.

source: John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

topic: Description, Chains

We’re bound by chains of love, but they don’t weigh us down. Instead, they allow us to be bigger and better than we are.

source: Ann Aguirre (2010). “Killbox”, p.29, Penguin

topic: Bigger And Better, Bigger, Chains

but there was nothing I could do to dim the supernovae exploding inside my brain, an endless chain of intra cranial firecrackers

topic: Brain, Chains, Endless, Firecracker

Every chain that spirits wear crumbles in the breadth of prayer.

- John Greenleaf Whittier

topic: Prayer, Spirit, Chains

The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

source: Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

topic: Doubt, Chickens, Chains, Causation

Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.

- John Lancaster Spalding

source: John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

topic: Soul, Balls, Chains

The thought "It's impossible" sets off a chain reaction of other thoughts to prove you're right.

- David J. Schwartz

source: David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.73, Penguin

topic: Impossible, Chain Reactions, Chains

Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?

- Mary Augusta Ward

topic: Personality, Slavery, Chains

I believe that in spite of the chains we bind ourselves with, there's a primordial section of the human psyche that is still nomadic and still yearns to roam free.

- Richard Paul Evans

source: FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Jan 20, 2012

topic: Believe, Chains, Spite, Human Psyche

All these words are just a front. What I would really like to do is chain you to my body, then sing for days & days & days.

topic: Love, Body, Chains

Break the chains in our brains that make us fear.

topic: Brain, Break, Chains

Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made.

- Decimius Magnus Ausonius

topic: Self Made, Made, Chains, Blacksmiths

Only the fire of life can melt the chains of death.

topic: Fire, Chains

War will exist as long as there's a food chain.

- P. J. O'Rourke

source: P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.13, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: War, Long, Chains, Food Chain

We say no to the peace that keeps us on our knees, no to the peace that keeps us in chains, no to the false peace that denies the values and contributions of our peoples.

- Rigoberta Menchu

topic: Knees, Deny, Chains

It's nice to be included in the broadcast food chain.

- Dennis Miller

source: Source: www.foxnews.com

topic: Nice, Chains, Food Chain

In a global economy where our economies and supply chains are deeply integrated, it's not even possible.

source: Source: www.straitstimes.com

topic: Economy, Chains, Integrated, Supply Chain

Not all the chains are bad and not all the freedoms are good!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Chains

Minutes without seconds and hours without minutes cannot exist! Respect the links before respecting the chain!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Links, Hours, Chains

We exist to have our wealth moved up the economic chain out of our reach.

source: Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.577, Andrews McMeel Publishing

topic: Wealth, Economic, Chains

Chains and stuff are nice, don't get me wrong I love them and I wear chains, but I can do without it.

source: Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

topic: Nice, Stuff, Chains

I sang in my chains like the sea

source: "Fern Hill" l. 52 (1946)

topic: Sea, Chains

A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains.

source: "The Karl Marx Library: On the First International".

topic: Tyrants, Chains, Tyranny

I thought that he was righteous, but he's vain. Oh, somethings a telling me I wear the ball and chain.

source: Song: Abandoned Love, Album: Biograph

topic: Balls, Vain, Chains

The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.

- William Hazlitt

topic: Heart, Habit, Chains

Together linkt with adamantine chains.

- Edmund Spenser

source: Edmund Spenser (1679). “The Works of that Famous English Poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser: Viz : The Faery Queen, The Shepherds Calendar, The History of Ireland, &c. Whereunto is Added, an Account of His Life ; with Other New Additions Never Before in Print”

topic: Life, Together, Chains

The prisoner falls in love with his chains.

- Edsger Dijkstra

topic: Falling In Love, Fall, Chains

Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?

- Napoleon Bonaparte

topic: Soldier, Slave, Chains

In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third.

- J. Michael Straczynski

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Fiction, Babylon 5, Chains, Babylon

There is one straight chain of truth without one heretical sentence in that which I have written.

- Ellen G. White

topic: Chains, Sentences, Written

We are all an integral part of the chain of life.

- Jacque Fresco

topic: Chains

I'm afraid you will have to fly holding the rock with its heavy chain.

- Carlos Castaneda

source: Carlos Castaneda (1972). “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge”, p.94, Univ of California Press

topic: Rocks, Heavy, Chains

Knock! knock! who's there? me! me who? that's right? what's right? meehoo! that's what I want to know! what's what you want to know? me who? yes, exactly! exactly what? yes, I have exactlywatt on a chain! exactly what on a chain? yes! yes what? no, exactlywatt! that's what I want to know! I told you-exactlywatt! exactly what? yes! yes what? yes it's with me. what's with you? exactlywatt-that's what with me. me who? yes! go away! knock knock...

- Shel Silverstein

source: Shel Silverstein, “The Meehoo With An Exactlywatt”

topic: Going Away, Want, Chains

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

source: Euripides (2013). “Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus”, p.202, University of Chicago Press

topic: Soul, Affection, Chains, Marrow

What do you want, Acheron? (Artemis) You know what I want. After all I’m the top of the Food Chain and you…you’re the Food. (Acheron)

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

topic: Want, Chains, Artemis

I'm the top of the food chain and well...you're the food.

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

topic: Chains, Wells, Food Chain

By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain.

- Oliver Goldsmith

source: Oliver Goldsmith, Henry George Bohn (1848). “Works: With a Life and Notes”, p.10

topic: Length, Chains, Drag

He who has nothing—it has been said many times—has nothing to lose but his chains.

topic: Nothing To Lose, Chains, Said

Authors starting with Letter

A
S
D
F
G
H
J
K
L
Z
X
C
V
B
N
M
Q
W
E
R
T
Y
U
I
O
P

Topics starting with Letter

A
S
D
F
G
H
J
K
L
Z
X
C
V
B
N
M
Q
W
E
R
T
Y
U
I
O
P