Top 31 Fettered Quotes
#1. You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man-break the fetters!
Halldor Laxness
#2. I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.
Elizabeth Keckley
#3. Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
William Blake
#4. [M]y inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose. I had a sudden feeling as if I, who never yet truly lived, were at last about to taste life.
Charlotte Bronte
#5. I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution.
Elizabeth I
#6. Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.
Thomas Hardy
#7. My life has become a dismal sigh fettered by pangs of grief and anguished weeping.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#8. There is no room for reverence in a mind fettered with ceaseless query.
Bryant McGill
#9. Inside of Ki energy, we feel that we are not beings fettered by time and space but that we are infinite and eternal.
Ilchi Lee
#10. While I looked, my inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose; I had a sudden feeling as if I, who never yet truly lived, were at last about to taste life. In that morning my soul grew as fast as Jonah's gourd.
Charlotte Bronte
#11. I'm not part of any movement; I don't like being fettered.
Patti Smith
#12. I have never been able to be so allured by the prospect of advantages or so terrified by misfortunes, swayed by honours or fettered by affection, nay not even so smitten by the fear of death, as to enter upon marriage.
Elizabeth I
#13. Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
Charles De Lint
#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. A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter ourselves.
George Sutherland
#17. The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels himself to be an individual directed by an inner creative impulse, not dominated and fettered by an outside authority.
Bertrand Russell
#18. Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?
Angelina Grimke
#19. You must reflect that fettered prisoners only at first feel the weight of the shackles on their legs: in time, when they have decided not to struggle against but to bear them, they learn from necessity to endure with fortitude, and from habit to endure with ease.
Seneca.
#20. The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#21. There's no reason for your imagination to be fettered by money.
Kevin McCloud
#22. As an artist, her imagination isn't fettered by the constraints of reality.
Sarah Cross
#23. I am forever fettered to myself [ ... ] and that's what I must try to live with.
Franz Kafka
#24. Mr. Lehrer's muse is not fettered by such inhibiting factors as taste.
The New York Times
#25. There are plenty of people dragging themselves miserably through the world, because they are clogged and fettered with work for which they have no fitness ... I can't help believing that nothing is better than to find one's work early and hold fast to it, and put all one's heart into it.
Sarah Orne Jewett
#26. These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions; and for no word however sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture on these bonds.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#27. Her eyes were sad and playful. He'd thought for so long that it was her soul and not just an accident of physiology that gave her that look of fettered joy. He'd been wrong.
James S.A. Corey
#28. There is more than one way to lose your life; quickly through violence, or fettered-away and wasted around dreadful, toxic people.
Bryant McGill
#30. Milk which is just about to turn is akin to that moment spent on the cusp of failure in a dulled and fettered relationship.
Matt Roper
#31. The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.
William Hazlitt
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