Quotes About Chains

#1. He who has nothing - it has been said many times - has nothing to lose but his chains.

Pablo Neruda

#2. The last time anyone did anything wrong in this town, Hades's men found those responsible and dragged them back here in chains. You would have to be insane to actively want to piss that man off." "Insane or very sure of yourself," I said.

Steve McHugh

#3. Woman has so long been subject to the disabilities and restrictions with which her progress has been embarrassed that she has become enervated, her mind to some extent paralyzed; and like those still more degraded by personal bondage she hugs her chains.

Lucretia Mott

#4. It is difficult to free people from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

#5. Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself;
Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself.

Horace

#6. Pride is never so loud as when in chains.

Lew Wallace

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

Dennis Miller

#8. We wear the chains we forge in life,

Richard Russo

#9. My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the Beatles, Alice In Chains ... it was all over the place. I had a Third Eye Blind record, but I also had Korn, Courtney Love, and Shania Twain.

Madi Diaz

#10. Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#11. Well sir, if slavery is freedom then I'm glad I don't have to make a meal of it. Whips and chains are not much to my taste.

Amitav Ghosh

#12. It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn't have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains and metal parts. Then it was in the line of human advance that Einhorn could do so much.

Saul Bellow

#13. Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a taste for the slaves rations.

Dennis Green

#14. Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test.

Rumi

#15. We cannot tell that we are constantly splitting into duplicate selves because our consciousness rides smoothly along only one path in the endlessly forking chains

Martin Gardner

#16. We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

Matthew Simpson

#17. No one chains a slave without chaining himself.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. I had to face: I had chosen. My choice, this was love. I had chosen I think the way out of the chains of the cage. I needed this woman. Without her to choose over myself, there was only pain and not choosing, rolling drunkenly and making fantasies of death.

David Foster Wallace

#19. It is better to die in the field of honour than to live in the chains of slavery;

Matthew Henry

#20. This planet was a marketplace where evil tugged murderously at its chains. Its spies were everywhere. At windy corners where young girls with knowing children's faces were selling flowers and matches, on the operating tables at the hospitals, in the slums, at railway stations, under viaducts.

Paul Leppin

#21. Would men but generously snap our chains, and be content with rational fellowship instead of slavish obedience, they would find us more observant daughters, more affectionate sisters, more faithful wives, more reasonable mothers - in a word, better citizens

Mary Wollstonecraft

#22. Free is one that breaks the chains of one's mind and surrenders to that which gives absence of fear.

Tambre Bryant

#23. 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

#24. It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they multiply their own chains. You can liberate a freeman, but you cannot liberate a slave.

Louis J. Halle

#25. My ancestors further back than the first Roman were Hebrews." "The stubborn pride of thy race is not lost in thee," said Arrius, observing a flush upon the rower's face. "Pride is never so loud as when in chains." "What cause hast thou for pride?" "That I am a Jew." Arrius smiled.

Lew Wallace

#26. I welcomed the circling sharks but they avoided me as if knowing I preferred their teeth to the chains around my neck my waist my ankles

Toni Morrison

#27. It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.

Manal Al-Sharif

#28. Young people especially sometimes feel that the standards of the Lord are like fences and chains, blocking them from those activities that seem most enjoyable in life.

Ezra Taft Benson

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

Gary Renard

#30. I have no problem dressing up ... because I know I'm a nice-looking guy. But as far as chains, I definitely feel that's a racial statement. Almost 100% of the guys in the league who are young and black wear big chains. So I definitely don't agree with that at all.

Stephen Jackson

#31. At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father's business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.?

Camille Paglia

#32. If you bound the arms and legs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, weighed him down with chains, threw him in a pool and he sank, you wouldn't call it a 'failure of swimming.' So, when markets have been weighted down by inept and excessive regulation, why call this a 'failure of capitalism'?

Peter Boettke

#33. Far from the hateful cause of all his woes. Neleus his treasures one long year detains, As long he groan'd in Philacus' chains: Meantime, what anguish and what rage combined For lovely Pero rack'd his labouring mind!

Homer

#34. Chains (other than the ones we all learned to make out of strips of colored paper in kindergarten I suppose) are strong. We use them to pull engine blocks out of trucks and to bind the arms and legs of dangerous prisoners.

Stephen King

#35. Rarely does the truth set us free. Usually it chains us to the earth like a ghost.

Sarah Noffke

#36. If you're too damn stubborn to let yourself cry, then your body finds other ways to let it out.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#37. A blinding yellow track suit and fake gold chains.

Ransom Riggs

#38. Color harmony was thrown out years ago, as restrictive chains were broken forming my free style.

Frank Bruno

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

John Greenleaf Whittier

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

Sophie Swetchine

#41. The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.

Alexandre Dumas-fils

#42. I had come to Rome in chains, but I would leave Rome a queen.

Stephanie Dray

#43. the chains that bound me for my entire life would effectively be removed. My shackles set aside, I would be free.

Scott Hildreth

#44. Peace is a lie. There is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength. Through strength, I gain power. Through power, I gain victory. Through victory, my chains are broken. The Code of the Sith

Drew Karpyshyn

#45. As Chains had once said, feeling like you wanted desperately to die was fine evidence that you had yet to do so.

Scott Lynch

#46. Gain knowledge and feed your brain so you can obtain the strength that is needed to break free.

Fatimah Abdur-Rahim

#47. Give me my freedom for as long as I be All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me And all I ask of dyin' is to go naturally ... And when I die, and when I'm gone There'll be one child born, in our world To carry on, to carry on ...

Laura Nyro

#48. Promises bind our kind as surely as iron chains or ropes of human hair. The fae never swear by anything we don't believe in. We don't ask for thanks and we don't offer them; no promises, no regrets, no chains. No lies.

Seanan McGuire

#49. There is a fascination here that holds rich and poor, strong and weak captive,not with chains and fetters but by an almost touchable solace ...

Barbara Woodall

#50. When the sexual energy of the people is liberated they will break the chains.

Julian Beck

#51. your words are pure poison, Master Reynold,' said Lesthen. 'You and your kind suffer from the worst disease of humanity, the willingness to subordinate truth, to lock reason in chains and to rape the objective thought, in order to achieve your objective.

Joel Shepherd

#52. If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.

Brandon Sanderson

#53. Chemistry dissolves the goddess in the alembic,
Venus, the white queen, the universal matrix,
Down to the molecular hexagons and carbon-chains.

Kathleen Raine

#54. We are like the explorers of a great continent, who have penetrated its margins in most points of the compass and have mapped the major mountain chains and rivers. There are still innumerable details to fill in, but the endless horizons no longer exist.

H. Bentley Glass

#55. If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.

Vaclav Havel

#56. I pretty much just focus on making the records - unless I'm self-releasing them; then I do my own thing. But at some point, you have to stop worrying about chains of distribution, or it takes out of your time to write.

John Darnielle

#57. The Jedi shackle themselves in chains of obedience: obedience to the Jedi Council; obedience to their Masters; obedience to the Republic. Those who follow the light side even believe they must submit themselves to the Force. They are merely instruments of its will, slaves to a greater good.

Drew Karpyshyn

#58. We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.

Karen Mills

#59. It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#60. In general, her family wasn't very good at talking about important stuff. And of all of them, she was the least good at it. When she tried, it felt like all the chains on all her imagined safes and trunks started rattling

Holly Black

#61. The results suggest a helical structure which must be very closely packed containing probably 2, 3 or 4 coaxial nucleic acid chains per helical unit and having the phosphate groups near the outside.

Rosalind Franklin

#62. I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight.

LL Cool J

#63. Psychological dependency of things are chains which rattle only in your head.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#64. Fool's blood, king's blood, blood on the maiden's thigh, but chains for the guests and chains for the bridegroom, aye aye aye.

George R R Martin

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

Benjamin Franklin

#66. If you encounter Christ, He will release you from every chain.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#67. Cynical? Me? I'll have you know that I make daisy-chains and frolic with unicorns on the weekends.

Bex-chan

#68. Freedom is living without chains.

Indra Devi

#69. Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

Dylan Thomas

#70. Freedom's chains are the hardest to break.

Marty Rubin

#71. We think in terms of apostolic journeys. God dares to put His greatest ambassadors in chains.

Watchman Nee

#72. When the vision of the 'Nude' flashed upon me, I knew that it would break forever the enslaving chains of Naturalism.

Marcel Duchamp

#73. Support a small chef. Not these big chains ... but support the people who are out there trying to do things right and working hard to do that.

Tom Douglas

#74. Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

Tryon Edwards

#75. I have accepted all and I am free. The inner chains are broken, as well as those outside.

Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz

#76. Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which

Arthur Koestler

#77. Flexible supply chains are great for multinationals and consumers. But they erode already thin profit margins in developing-world factories and foster a pell-mell work environment in which getting the order out the door is the only thing that matters.

James Surowiecki

#78. Whips and chains, handcuffs, smack a little body up with my belt. Scream, help play my game, dracula man, I'll get my fangs.

Ludacris

#79. My books are not really books; they're endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles.

Mary Roach

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

Michael Dolan

#81. Karl Marx recognized that workers without a choice are workers in chains. But his idea of breaking chains was for us to depose the pharaohs and then build the pyramids for ourselves, as if building pyramids is something we just can't stop doing, we love it so much.

Daniel Quinn

#82. Inward battles had lost their chains in the new dawn of Ed's night, and victories were cheering in the calm welcome of new thoughts carrying new perspectives that warmed the tone of his confidence, and made it glow.

Calvin W. Allison

#83. There are many, many ways to be imprisoned. You don't need fences, handcuffs, chains, or steel bars. Your heart or your own mind can imprison you within yourself. Another human being can imprison you with their actions and thoughts.

Cary Allen Stone

#84. Every day, I hear a song and I think, 'This would be great to cover on Glee.' I like Led Zeppelin, of course, and Pink Floyd, Alice in Chains.

Mark Salling

#85. Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices

Hannah More

#86. The building was crowded with men and women packing stuff into boxes and bags, leather stuff, nylon, canvas, and rubber stuff, with brass rings and silver chains, steel buckles and studded straps. Elephant stuff.

Richard Schmitt

#87. O, my past years in Rangoon are spectres to haunt my soul; and they seem to laugh at me as they shake the chains they have riveted on me.

Adoniram Judson

#88. 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

#89. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

D.H. Lawrence

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

Alexander Pope

#91. Just off one of the most congested traffic corridors in Los Angeles, tiled with a mosaic of fast-food chains, nail salons, and dollar stores, lies a little green oasis: the Los Angeles Eco-Village (LAEV).

Juliana Birnbaum Fox

#92. When the people decide to live, Destiny will obey, Darkness will disappear And chains will be broken.

Paul Mason

#93. Do you know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are?
Anchor chains, airplane motors and train whistles.

George Bailey

#94. I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.

Jim Butcher

#95. When the mighty chains of darkness had me on the ropes, everyone said quit now, that's when I found hope.

Graham Parker

#96. Do you not enslave people now?" asks the man. "Chains are forged of many strange metals. Poverty is one. Fear, another. Ritual and custom are yet more. All actions are forms of slavery, methods of forcing people to do what they deeply wish not to do.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#97. America is beyond power; it acts as in a dream, as a face of God. Wherever America is, there is freedom, and wherever America is not, madness rules with chains, darkness strangles millions. Beneath her patient bombers, paradise is possible.

John Updike

#98. It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

Wernher Von Braun

#99. How could I have never told anyone what He had done for me? Nothing else had worked. Nothing had been able to break the chains that kept me living on the edge. Nothing ... except the gentleness of His touch.

Nikki Rosen

#100. Love is like chains of unbreakable steel. Love is like iron weights, heavier than the world. Love can crush just as surely as it can lift up. Everything else wilts before it.

G. Norman Lippert