quotes 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.
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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 -
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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 RubinsteinSource : "The Magic of Rubinstein..." by Alan M. Kriegsmen, The Washington Post, p. B7, January 26, 1977.
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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 OrczySource : "Links in the Chain of Life" by Emma Orczy, (Ch. 8), 1947.
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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 -
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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 CockburnSource : Song: Feet Fall On The Road, Album: Sunwheel Dance
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His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.
-- Bruno Bauer -
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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. AdamsSource : Carol J. Adams (2015). “The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory”, p.24, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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Daisy chains are pretty fragile, and it turns out that families are too.
-- Cathy Cassidy -
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We forge the chains we wear in life.
-- Charles DickensSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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 -
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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 SwainSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
-- Douglas MacArthur -
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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 -
Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.
-- Estelle Ramey -
The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds.
-- Friedrich Schiller -
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Things can be low on the food chain, but that doesn't mean they're lowly...
-- Gary Larson -
You will not break loose until you realize that you yourself forge the chains that bind you.
-- Gary RenardSource : Gary Renard (2004). “The Disappearance of the Universe”, p.65, Hay House, Inc
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Golf is like a chain. You always have to work on the weakest links.
-- George Archer -
Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents!
-- George Habash -
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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 -
Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --
-- Giacomo Leopardi -
What Ive been developing is a vegan fast food chain and vegan food markets.
-- Heather Mills -
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Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
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 -
Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.
-- Jacqueline Carey -
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It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.
-- Jane HamiltonSource : Jane Hamilton (2014). “The Book of Ruth”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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I was always mortified.Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?
-- Janet Fitch -
Freedom is the power to choose our own chains
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
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Every time we lose a species webreak a life chain which has evolved over 3.5 billion years.
-- Jeff McNeely -
I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain.
-- Jim HarrisonSource : Jim Harrison, “Barking”
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The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.
-- Joel Salatin -
What's unique about transportation is that it's the one function that repeats itself throughout the supply chain.
-- John Murphy -
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Life consists of a long chain of coincidences.
-- Jostein GaarderSource : Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.194, Hachette UK
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I turned down a date once because I was looking for someone a little closer to the top of the food chain.
-- Judy Tenuta -
A nation which enslaves another forges its own chains.
-- Karl Marx -
The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.
-- Karl Marx -
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...she could only wait for someone, something, to free her from the invisible chains that bound her.
-- Lisa Kleypas -
I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
-- Mary Wortley MontaguSource : Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.269
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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 -
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The memories you have are just recordings of things past, not chains to bind you.
-- Michael Dolan -
Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.
-- Mike JohannsSource : "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.
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I'm bigger than you! I'm higher on the food chain - get in my belly!
-- Mike Myers -
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.
-- Nadeem AslamSource : Nadeem Aslam (2011). “Maps for Lost Lovers”, p.176, Faber & Faber
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Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.
-- Nadia Boulanger -
Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.
-- Nellie L. McClung -
I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.
-- Peabo Bryson -
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.
-- Perez Hilton -
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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.
-- Philip Green -
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.
-- Rachel ScottSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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.
-- Richard Bach -
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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.
-- Richard Owen -
Pawns are born free, yet they are everywhere in chains
-- Rick Kennedy -
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 -
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One glorious chain of love, of giving and receiving, unites all creatures.
-- Samson Raphael HirschSource : Samson Raphael Hirsch (1942). “The nineteen letters of Ben Uziel: being a spiritual presentation of the principles of Judaism”
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
-- Samuel Beckett -
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 -
The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
-- Sophie Swetchine -
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If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude.
-- Steven Biko -
I hardly ever work from a synopsis -- I find they act like chains.
-- Tanith Lee -
I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
-- Tanith LeeSource : Tanith Lee (2014). “Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer: Expanded Edition”, p.80, Wildside Press LLC
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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 -
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Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants.
-- Will Self -
The chains of love are stronger than the chains of fear.
-- William Gurnall -
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 -
When the voice of truth rises from the minarets, the Buddha smiles, and the broken chain of history reconnects.
-- Ziauddin Yousafzai -
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Liberty has as many chains as an iron-monger's shop, and as rusty.
-- Austin O'Malley -
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.
-- Joe Arpaio -
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.
-- Michael Moss -
The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
-- Susan B. Anthony -
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Always acknowledge your position in the food chain... They eat because you grow the food.
-- Wangechi Mutu -
More Americans are enjoying the freedom of independence from the chains of welfare
-- William Reynolds Archer, Jr. -
I want to keep my fan base supplied with a steady chain of music.
-- Aaron Watson -
The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.
-- Bernard-Henri Levy -
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I believe martial arts is always evolving and mixed martials arts is the top of the food chain.
-- Cung LeSource : Source: www.moviesonline.ca
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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.
-- Rafael Moneo -
I did not climb to the top of the food chain to eat carrots.
-- Ron White -
Those who don't move don't notice their chains.
-- Rosa Luxemburg -