Chain'd Quotes

#1. Order whatever punishment you like, from the coward's distance of a chain-lenght. You and Govart are two of a kind. - Author: C.S. Pacat

#2. I would rather have cookies in my jacket pockets than a chain around my dog's neck. - Author: Pat Miller

#3. I hated her; I wanted her to burn, the way so many of the corrupted had burned, because she'd put her hold on them. But wanting cruelty felt like another wrong answer in an endless chain. - Author: Naomi Novik

#4. 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. - Author: Kim Cattrall

#5. 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. - Author: Bill O'Reilly

#6. It would seem that when we are sinned against, when someone else does us harm, we are in some way linked to that sin, connected to that mistreatment like a chain. And our anger, fear, or resentment doesn't free us at all. It just keeps us chained. - Author: Nadia Bolz-Weber

#7. 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". - Author: A.E. Samaan

#8. Dismembering monsters with a chain saw is one thing. People are another." "Yeah. People are easier." "Bob," I growled. "They're people. - Author: Jim Butcher

#9. Achi used to say that, for a woman, sex was her greatest strength. Morality was nothing but a chain invented by man to enslave women. - Author: Anand Neelakantan

#10. The mobile phone, the fax, emails. Call me old fashioned, but what's wrong with a chain of beacons? - Author: Harry Hill

#11. It had seemed a good idea at the time to order the furniture for her new home online from a chain retailer. - Author: Val McDermid

#12. While in the process of executing an idea, creativity happens not with one brilliant flash but in a chain reaction of many tiny sparks. - Author: R. Keith Sawyer

#13. Are we not all shipwrecked, ... condemned to death? ... However impatient our neighbours make us, however much indignation our race arouses, we are all bound together, and the companions of a chain-gang have everything to lose by mutual insults ... - Author: Henri Frederic Amiel

#14. 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. - Author: Steve Maraboli

#15. The words I speak to these chairs
must be silencing.
It has stunned them
into a profound emptiness.
No creaking from the gallery
no James Joyce here, nor Malory
An unknown author
in a very large chain
can't you hear me rattling? - Author: B.J. Ward

#16. In the British military system, there is a very strict chain of command. Americans just want to win, and the correct strategy may be to speak directly to the men. - Author: Scott Raab

#17. It's a fucked-up war when you are more worried about fighting your chain of command than the actual enemy. - Author: Eric Blehm

#18. Hip Hop Generation "captures the collective hopes and nightmares, ambitions and failures of those who would otherwise be described as "post-this" or "post-that." - Author: Jeff Chain

#19. 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. - Author: Chicken John

#20. At either end of any food chain you find a biological system-a patch of soil, a human body-and the health of one is connected-literally-to the health of the other. - Author: Michael Pollan

#21. silver crucifix in a chain high in the air. "NO!" he yelled. "I command you to leave this body! I command you to leave her now! - Author: Willow Rose

#22. It had long been accepted that if a species put mankind on its food-chain menu the species would be extinct before long. - Author: Dan Simmons

#23. And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon. - Author: John Milton

#24. What happens to sanity when you chain it to a wall? - Author: Ian Rankin

#25. I think that there are a lot of law enforcement officers out there who work according to their own set of what is right and what is wrong. And that doesn't always include respect for administration cops, you know, people that are higher up the food chain. - Author: Bruce Willis

#26. I hate that," I said. "It's like there's no human beings in the chain of responsibility, just things-that-happen. It's the ultimate cop-out. The system did it. The company did it. The government did it. What about the person who pulls the trigger? - Author: Cory Doctorow

#27. Had ideas, crazy, late-night fantasies strung together like a paper-clip chain. - Author: Amy Garvey

#28. At no point does anyone in the chain know what to do with money in the real economy. But in an indefinite world, people actually prefer unlimited optionality; money is more valuable than anything you could possibly do with it. Only in a definite future is money a means to an end, no the end itself- - Author: Peter Thiel

#29. To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven. - Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#30. If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment. - Author: Dave Pelzer

#31. I can still hear you sayin'
You will never break the chain - Author: Lb

#32. Whoever trains the children controls the future. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and a society will only ever be as strong as the families in it. - Author: Anna Sofia Botkin

#33. The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions. - Author: Edward Forbes

#34. When you hate something, you chain yourself to it. - Author: Steve Maraboli

#35. The hand that stocks the drug stores rules the world. Let us start our Republic, with a chain of drug stores, a chain of grocery stores, a chain of gas chambers, and a national game. After that we can write our Constitution. - Author: Kurt Vonnegut

#36. If you encounter Christ, He will release you from every chain. - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

#37. Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free. - Author: Benjamin Franklin

#38. Fear is the chain still wrapped around a free man's leg - Author: Todd Stocker

#39. Every chain that spirits wear crumbles in the breadth of prayer. - Author: John Greenleaf Whittier

#40. The product supply chain, from source material to store, is an organizing map for delivering human rights. - Author: Julia Ormond

#41. There I am, chain-smoking and watching YouTube videos in my bedroom at 6 A.M. when a spoken-word video comes on the screen. I knew I had to do it: that it was another part of me that needed to be explored. - Author: Mary Lambert

#42. The music was a tapestry woven of light and dark and color, building delicate links in a chain that latched on to her heart and spread out into the world, binding her to it, connecting everything. - Author: Sarah J. Maas

#43. I mean that all the experiences I've ever heard of in life ... I want to have them with you. - Author: Abigail Roux

#44. I take my part in the food chain very seriously. - Author: Dominique Swain

#45. Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events - Author: Adrienne Rich

#46. I look back at my elementary or high school pictures and I always had gel in my hair and a gold chain that I would wear outside my shirt. That's how I was born and raised as an Italian male, and I always considered myself a Guido, anyway. - Author: Pauly D

#47. Towards that small and ghostly hour, [Mr. Cruncher] rose up from his chair, took a key out of his pocket, opened a locked cupboard, and brought forth a sack, a crowbar of convenient size, a rope and chain, and other fishing tackle of that nature. - Author: Charles Dickens

#48. The mothers in my neighborhood were screamers and yellers, silent fuming carpet-raking speed cleaners or detached unkempt anticleaners, all-day-luncheon martini drinkers, chain smokers prostrate on the couch with bookcases filled with accounts of JFK and Camelot. - Author: Laurie Lindeen

#49. If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. - Author: Adlai E. Stevenson II

#50. If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all. - Author: Vaclav Havel

#51. I remember her telling me once that rabbits were the gnomes in attendance to the Fairy Queen and that the stars were God's daisy chain. Perfect rot, of course. - Author: P.G. Wodehouse

#52. Asking storytellers to be genuine is like, asking a chain smoker to quit smoking . Habit of lying isn't easy to fix. Pretend as believing is like selling cigarettes. What else we could do, if we want them to be in our lives ... - Author: Heshan Udunuwara

#53. For the gazelle, fear of being eaten. For the lion, fear of starvation. Fear is the chain that binds them together. - Author: Rick Yancey

#54. I have found there to be little distance between the unlatching of a chain and the spreading of a woman's legs. As if they can never unbar only a single entrance. It's a disease called hope. Women suffer from it greatly. - Author: Karen Marie Moning

#55. 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. - Author: King Hussein I

#56. If we don't look into hope and fear, seeing a thought arise, seeing the chain reaction that follows - if we don't train in sitting with that energy without getting snared by the drama, then we're always going to be afraid. - Author: Pema Chodron

#57. With Illum, we're able to start to customize that supply chain in a very deep way ... to rethink the entire imaging pipeline. - Author: Ren Ng

#58. Let's say you're a garage mechanic, and you have big dreams about opening up your own chain of branded garages around the country. Terrific. - Author: Gene Simmons

#59. Memories are links in a golden chain that bind us until we meet again. - Author: Jacqueline Winspear

#60. 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. - Author: Aravind Adiga

#61. 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. - Author: John Henry Comstock

#62. Satan was seen buying a cafe au lait of Friday the thirteenth in the year of the dog. He was wearing a Mexican wrestling mask and a monocle on a gold chain the color of the sun. The lights of the casino filled his good eye. Our days are numbered, our weeks are fading away. - Author: Michael Bible

#63. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. - Author: Charles Dickens

#64. And at the closing of the day
She loosed the chain, and down she lay;
The broad stream bore her far away,
The Lady of Shallot. - Author: Alfred Tennyson

#65. It's nice to be included in the broadcast food chain. - Author: Dennis Miller

#66. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and so is our character. - Author: Billy Graham

#67. Let's pretend there's a pandemic. Let's everybody run around and play your role. Main result is that there is tremendous confusion ... Nobody knows who's in charge. Nobody knows the chain of command. - Author: Laurie Garrett

#68. Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think. - Author: Tom Wilson

#69. Life is a dark chain of events. - Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

#70. RAIJIN, TAKE ME NOW.
She shot Buruu a withering glance as he rolled over on his back and pawed at the sky.
HAVE MERCY ON ME, FATHER. TAKE MY WINGS. CHAIN ME TO STINKING EARTH. BUT THIS TORTURE I CANNOT ENDURE.
Oh, shut it. - Author: Jay Kristoff

#71. 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. - Author: J. Michael Straczynski

#72. By supporting all the links in the building chain and giving them an easy, intuitive tool for sharing model-based project information, GTeam enhances workflows and improves communication from design through to fabrication and assembly. - Author: Greg Lynn

#73. Sustainability at Nike means being laser-focused on evolving our business model to deliver profitable growth while leveraging the efficiencies of lean manufacturing, minimizing our environmental impact and using the tools available to us to bring about positive change across our entire supply chain. - Author: Mark Parker

#74. He puts the chain with the locket around my neck, then rests his hand over the spot where our baby would be. "You're going to make a great mother, you know," he says. He kisses me one last time and goes back to Finnick. - Author: Suzanne Collins

#75. What do you have in this car?" he asked.
"What do you mean, like weapons?"
"That would be a good start."
"Well, I 've got a mini Swiss Army Knife on my key chain."
"A two-inch stainless steel blade and a nail file. They might as well surrender to us now ... - Author: Richard Castle

#76. Day buries day; month, month; and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths. - Author: Edward Young

#77. Something is always going wrong with our teeth. They don't last anything like a lifetime, usually. What chain of events in evolution should we thank for our mouthfuls of rotting crockery? - Author: Kurt Vonnegut

#78. We have only one Windows. We don't have multiple Windows. They run across multiple form factors, but it's one developer platform, one store, one tool chain for developers. And you adapt it for different screen sizes and different input and output. - Author: Satya Nadella

#79. Humans are so busy asking about who or what had built the pyramids.
For me, whoever had built pyramids, the message is so clear and simple,
we are higher than human race in the food chain. - Author: Toba Beta

#80. If I wanted easy, I'd chain myself in hell beside Rixon. The two of us could kick back and soak up the rays together. - Author: Becca Fitzpatrick

#81. I am sick of diseases, I want to know origins and processes ... If we are to prevent disease it is to the beginning of the chain of accumulating stresses that we must look. - Author: Clifford Allbutt

#82. The real warfare of mankind is eternal struggle
to earn higher rank in the pyramid of food chain. - Author: Toba Beta

#83. I had a dream about you last night... if atomic clocks are synced up to a satellite to keep their time accurate, where does the satellite get its time? Is there a chain of atomic clocks setting time for other atomic clocks? - Author: Marshall Ramsay

#84. I am less interested in your chain-smoking; I am more interested in your habit. Any habit that becomes a force, a dominating force over you, is a sin. One should live more in freedom. One should be able to do things not according to habits but according to the situations. - Author: Rajneesh

#85. In software, the chain isn't as strong as its weakest link; it's as weak as all the weak links multiplied together. - Author: Steve McConnell

#86. Enter my lair, said the dragon. I have shiny treasure for you to play with, I'll keep you warm and safe, and if it suits my purpose, I'll chain you to the floor and kill your client by throwing quarters at him with my magic. Been there, done that. - Author: Ilona Andrews

#87. THE LAW OF THE CHAIN The Strength of the Team Is Impacted by Its Weakest Link - Author: John C. Maxwell

#88. Much Madness Is Divinest Sense
Much Madness is divinest Sense
To a discerning Eye
Much Sense - the starkest Madness
'Tis the Majority
In this, as All, prevail
Assent - and you are sane
Demur - you're straightway dangerous
And handled with a Chain - - Author: Emily Dickinson

#89. 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. - Author: Deepak Chopra

#90. One link in a chain explains the infinite chain. - Author: Swami Vivekananda

#91. The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break. - Author: George Bancroft

#92. 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. - Author: Philip Green

#93. He regarded marriage as an arbitrary and essentially adversarial relationship, akin to the yoking of prisoners on the chain gang. - Author: T.C. Boyle

#94. To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain. - Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

#95. God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length. - Author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#96. Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more of a problem. It can exist in more than one place; be transported halfway across the planet in seconds; and be stolen without your knowledge. - Author: Bruce Schneier

#97. Most men are prisoners at best, Who some strong habit every drag about Like chain and ball. - Author: Garrison Keillor

#98. The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas. - Author: Pyotr Chaadayev

#99. Began to read a piece on how a high street chain of stores had banned Cliff Richard's Christmas songs. - Author: Robert Galbraith

#100. 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. - Author: Elizabeth Oakes Smith