Chain Of Life Quotes

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

Jacque Fresco

#2. I wanted someone above me in the chain of life. I didn't want to be alone, a single blue egg in a crumbling nest.

Kathy Hepinstall

#3. The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.

Clifford D. Simak

#4. Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.

Albert Schweitzer

#5. A land ethic for tomorrow should ... stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life.

Stewart Udall

#6. Not causing harm requires staying awake. Part of being awake is slowing down enough to notice what we say and do. The more we witness our emotional chain reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain. It becomes a way of life to stay awake, slow down, and notice.

Pema Chodron

#7. Life is a chain of small sorrows that lead to a great joy

Siddharth Katragadda

#8. Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.

Chris Bohjalian

#9. Between one breath and the next, the vision took him. It came not as a chain of reason, more words words words, but as a blinding image, all complete in its first moment, inherent, holistic, gestalt, inspired. Every hour of his life from now on would be but the linear exploration of its fullness.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#10. Life is a chain of events executed in a way which is - most convenient to 'you', 'your' dreams & people 'you' desire to be with & people you have been put up to live with...

Sujit Lalwani

#11. A stone / which in its own archai, simpleminded way / sees life as a chain of failed attempts.

Wislawa Szymborska

#12. Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance

Benjamin Franklin

#13. The next step in the process of liberation is to break this chain reaction of suffering whenever life is unpleasant and feeling content only when life is pleasurable.

Noah Levine

#14. You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?"
"I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

Charles Dickens

#15. Life isn't fair. It doesn't make sense. This unfairness is felt by everyone, from the Las Vegas tunnel dweller all the way to the executive in the high-rise. To some, these "unfair" experiences become a chastening ball and chain attached for the remainder of life.

John-Talmage Mathis

#16. 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

#17. You are the husband of my heart, and the love of my life. Wherever I am, whatever I do, you are joined with me and I with you. The part of me that matters will live with you forever. I accept the chain that binds us with joy, because in this unity I have known the purest freedom.

Madeline Hunter

#18. Life consists of a long chain of coincidences.

Jostein Gaarder

#19. If you seek for supreme predator, go find God.
He hunts the prime killer of mankind, the Satan.

Toba Beta

#20. It is almost irrestible for humans to believe that we have some special relation to the universe, that human life is not just a more-or-less farcical outcome of a chain of accidents reaching back to the first three minutes, but that we were somehow built in from the beginning.

Steven Weinberg

#21. It know we have a fashion of saying "such and such an event was the turning-point in my life," but we shouldn't say it. We should merely grant that its place as LAST link in the chain makes it the most CONSPICUOUS link; in real importance it has no advantage over any one of its predecessors.

Mark Twain

#22. I often challenge the people, who can make my life hell, and I do it to break the chain of command and fear, I get their attention so badly, and I work very hard to prove I am better than everyone.

M.F. Moonzajer

#23. A man walks the straight and narrow all his life; he follows the rules, stays within the lines; then one day he makes a misstep. He crosses a line and sets in motion a chain of events that will take from him everything he has and damn him forever in the eyes of those he loves.

Greg Iles

#24. Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty or twenty-five links on your chain? Hedda Gabler, Nora and the rest: it is not that I want! I want Rome and the Coliseum, the Acropolis, Athens; I want beauty, and the flame of life.

Eleanora Duse

#25. There is but one chain holding us in fetters, and that is our love of life.

Seneca.

#26. No, maybe it wasn't as dramatic as the term circumstances made it sound. Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more.

Haruki Murakami

#27. For the only time in my life I would be living with a chain-smoking semi-invalid whose chief point of pride in life was his membership in the Ku Klux Clan.

Katherine Paterson

#28. By nature, we are a plant-based intelligence - not just our exhale, which plants inhale, but they are my food chain. They are my medicine. I cannot live without plants. They are part of my life support. And this is why plant species need to be preserved.

Horst Rechelbacher

#29. Salvation: to see each thing for what it is - its nature and its purpose.
To do only what is right, say only what is true, without holding back.
What else could it be but to live life fully - to pay out goodness
like the rings of a chain, without the slightest gap.

Marcus Aurelius

#30. 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

#31. Hereafter we all have to be redeemed. The world is pulling with a thousand strings. We sin because of indifference and negligence and heap new guilt on the old original one. Our life is a
chain of sin and expiation controlled by a destiny that can not be understood.

Joseph Goebbels

#32. He set out for Toulon. He arrived there, after a journey of twenty-seven days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in the red cassock. All that had constituted his life, even to his name, was effaced; he was no longer even Jean Valjean; he was number 24,601.

Victor Hugo

#33. Life is a chain of happenings that are either purely random or predestined.

Steven Redhead

#34. Let woman's claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the oneness of life, and the unnaturalness and injustice of all special favoritism, whether of sex, race, country, or condition. If one link of the chain is broken, the chain is broken.

Anna Julia Cooper

#35. Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

Arthur Helps

#36. I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced with enthusiasm, I am seized by a midwinter freeze, and I suppose that frequent dealings with sluggish phlegmatics would have made a passionate dreamer.

Mikhail Lermontov

#37. Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and evil. The greatest way to do that is through love. I believe firmly that love is a transforming power than can lift a whole community to new horizons of fair play, goodwill, and justice.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#38. That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made
you read a book, you meet a person, you have a single experience, and your life is changed in some way. No act, therefore, however small, should be dismissed or ignored.

Howard Zinn

#39. More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.

Ben Parr

#40. We would not be Human if we did not prefer to be the devourers rather than the devoured, but either is a blessing. Should your life be required of you, rest assured that it is required by Life.

Margaret Atwood

#41. The Paradox of Sustenance: For an organism's life to be continued; another organism's life has to be discontinued.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#42. On top of the insult of destroying the geographic places we call home, the chain stores also destroyed people's place in the order of daily life, including the duties, responsibilities, obligations, and ceremonies that prompt citizens to care for each other.

James Howard Kunstler

#43. After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.

Rohinton Mistry

#44. Your whole life is a chain of choices- your choices

Charles Benoit

#45. Looking back, I clearly understand that seeing a 'chain of command' approach in my house was a positive thing for me. My father provided a strong point of view on life and was a leader. Boys, especially, need that.

Bill O'Reilly

#46. It was on the morning of the second day that the first link was forged in what was destined to form a chain of circumstances ending in a life for one then unborn such as has never been paralleled in the history of man.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#47. How many times do I love, again?
Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain
Unravelled from the trembling main
And threading the eye of a yellow star:-
So many times do I love again.

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

#48. If life is a chain of gold, sometimes God hangs a charm on it.

Hilary Mantel

#49. It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

Arundhati Roy

#50. When a man starts running away from things in life he builds up a whole chain of complexes and fear.

Erle Stanley Gardner

#51. We who are immortal, we are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.

Cassandra Clare

#52. I mean that all the experiences I've ever heard of in life ... I want to have them with you.

Abigail Roux

#53. The value of a moment is immeasurable. The power of just ONE moment can propel you to success and happiness or chain you to failure and misery.

Steve Maraboli

#54. A successful television series can chain you to a schedule of long hours and can put your personal life on hold. But after it is all over, if you survive, then anything is possible.

Kim Cattrall

#55. Life is just an endless chain of judgements ... The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.

B.C. Forbes

#56. Humanity has overcome the food chain, and having surpassed all other predators, has now turned to a strange form of cannibalism: humanity preys upon itself. We cull our own herd. We murder our own children. This is what we call "progress".

A.E. Samaan

#57. I think that chain stores in general are really super depressing and I think it really sucks the life out of a city such as San Francisco.

Chicken John

#58. Day buries day; month, month; and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.

Edward Young

#59. Faith is the subtle chain which binds us to the infinite; the voice of a deep life within, that will remain until we crowd it thence.

Elizabeth Oakes Smith

#60. I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me that he perceived his life as a link in a continuous chain of those who served our nation and that he expected me to be a new and strong link in the same chain.

King Hussein I

#61. Chain of envy linked them, showing each what was lacking in life, but offering also the consolation that happiness was present right next door, in the life of a neighbour, an element of the same society.

Aravind Adiga

#62. All life is linked together in such a way that no part of the chain is unimportant. Frequently, upon the action of some of these minute beings depends the material success or failure of a great commonwealth.

John Henry Comstock

#63. Life is a dark chain of events.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#64. It's as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it's impossible not to lead a spiritual life ...
the universe is living through you at this moment. with or without belief in god, the chain of events leading from silent awareness to physical reality remains intact.

Deepak Chopra

#65. A basic cause of murmuring is that too many of us seem to expect that life will flow ever smoothly, featuring an unbroken chain of green lights with empty parking places just in front of our destinations!.

Neal A. Maxwell

#66. Possibilities swung from the ropes of his life like charms on a watch chain, golden.

Susan Moody

#67. Life is a chain of choices. Making the correct one is never easy."
"That's for sure," agreed Rocky.
"But if we didn't make difficult choices, right or wrong," said Mr. Veraldi, "we wouldn't learn anything worth knowing." Rocky Ryan and his viola teacher, Mr. Veraldi, in Bully at Ambush Corner.

Karen Mueller Coombs

#68. Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead.

Dan Harmon

#69. If you look at your life as a chain of events, each responsible for the next and caused by the last, where does any story begin?

Zack Whedon

#70. In my life's chain of events nothing was accidental. Everything happened according to an inner need.

Hannah Senesh

#71. Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.

Stephen Graham

#72. Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. It is the smile of a corpse. Now the hand of death touches life. The chain is forged that links the thousand families that are dead to the thousand generations to come.

Edvard Munch

#73. The ball and chain of creativity has no key

Benny Bellamacina

#74. Between the finite and the infinite
The missing link of Love has left a void.
Supply the link, and earth with Heaven will join
In one continued chain of endless life.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#75. You need to break free from the chain of employment to fully utilize and discover your potential

Sunday Adelaja

#76. I have not an ounce of regret. Every link is so valuable in forming the chain that is my life. Who I am today is because of those links, and I wouldn't change any of them.

Alanis Morissette

#77. The life of people who do not know their destiny becomes an infinite chain of activities that in fact do not actually mean anything for their success

Sunday Adelaja

#78. The Lord will deliver us from every chain of sin, slavery and bondage.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#79. We humble ourselves under the mighty grace of the Creator. He will deliver us from every chain and oppression.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

#81. The duty I owe to the slave, to truth, and to God, demands that I should use my pen and tongue so long as life and health are vouchsafed to me to employ them, or until the last chain shall fall from the limbs of the last slave in America and the world.

William Wells Brown

#82. There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.

Joseph Addison

#83. As a parting gift, he gave Harold the key chain from his house keys, the ones that opened the gate to Hamilton Arms: it was a clover, a charm for luck. Its stem was a little drawer, into which, Harold later found, George had put a love note. Harold kept the clover for the rest of his life.

Liz Moore