Top 64 Quotes About Shackled
#1. Love was a bitch because it shackled you as hard as steel cuffs, leaving you gasping and hollow for any connection.
V. Theia
#2. It's what I'll do now. It's what I'll do tomorrow and the next day. For however long this fight goes on. Just stand up. And I rise slowly to my feet. Heavy and shackled with weight. I still move.
Krista Ritchie
#3. Without an imagination we would be irreparably shackled to what is, and never be released to what could be.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#4. Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.
Tony Benn
#5. All this careful conservatism, these shackled environments that barely edged beyond the laws of physics - they only guarded against the Inner Heckler, not these unwelcome sensations intruding from outside.
Peter Watts
#6. He was a mortal man with more flaws than bones, shackled to a fantasy of his own nightmare making.
V. Theia
#8. Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition?; all of which are equally prohibited in the freest governments, if they are wise and well-regulated ones.
Bill Vaughan
#9. I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.
Kelly Lynch
#10. If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry
Thomas Cole
#11. Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.
Johan Huizinga
#12. We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam constructions, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of acres of previously settled land.
David Foreman
#13. I had been shackled, a prisoner in my own mind
Tahereh Mafi
#14. The mountain of despair has dwindled, and the stone of hope has size and shape, and can be fondled by the eyes and by the hand. But freedom has always been an elusive tease, and in the very act of grabbing for it one can become shackled.
Alice Walker
#15. [Restraints on the press] in all ages, have debauched morals, depressed liberty, shackled religion, supported despotism, and deluged the scaffold with blood.
James Madison
#16. We are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there - there you could look at a thing monstrous and free. It was unearthly, and the men were - No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it - this suspicion
Joseph Conrad
#17. I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.
Isambard K. Brunel
#18. The sight of it made the earth seem unearthly. They were accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there
there you could look at a thing monstrous, beautiful, and free.
Joseph Conrad
#19. Shackled heart, free spirit.
Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said that once. But no one believes me unless he already knows.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#20. The height of humanity should give birth to greater good. We should be in desperation of "CHANGE" but not in spawning evil, because by doing so, humanity remains shackled.
Henry Johnson Jr
#21. Where life used to feel overcrowded, it now feels boundless as the sky. Where I used to feel shackled, I am now free to dance.
Narissa Doumani
#22. We all stand on the shoulders of our ancestors. We're in a relay race, relying on the financial and human capital of our parents and grandparents. Blacks were shackled for the early part of that relay race, and although many of the fetters have come off, whites have developed a huge lead.
Nicholas Kristof
#23. Mr Robert Montgomery's genius [is] far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules of syntax? [His] readers must take such grammar as they can get and be thankful.
Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
#24. I come shackled with shadow, consumed with rage and fire, I'm close to breaking, the urge is quaking, raping, I'm the devil, and there's no hope.
Pepper Winters
#25. The Frenchman beside me had been dead since dawn. His scarred and shackled body swayed limply back and forth with every sweep of the great oar as we, his less fortunate bench-fellows, tugged and strained to keep time to the stroke.
Jeffery Farnol
#26. The streets were not my only problem. If the streets shackled my right leg, the schools shackled my left. Fail to comprehend the streets and you gave up your body now. But fail to comprehend the schools and you gave up your body later. I suffered at the hands of both,
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#27. If only we could return to those ages when no utterance shackled existence, to the laconism of interjections, to the joyous stupor of the pre- verbal!
Emil M. Cioran
#28. It is a fallacy to believe that a Republic of any kind can be won through the shackled Free State. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. The Free State is British created and serves British Imperialist interests. It is the buffer erected between British Capitalism and the Irish Republic.
Liam Mellows
#29. Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.
Robert Toombs
#30. Future shackled is when uncertainty is the enemy that must be beaten into submission.
Bill Jensen
#31. This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
Calvin Coolidge
#32. You are not just shackled to your life while living it, you continue to be stuck with it after you're gone. Or,
Philip Roth
#33. Just so you know,If I have to be shackled to someone, I'd choose you everytime.
Josh Lanyon
#34. I want you to be as happy as I am."
"Trust me, that wouldn't be the case if I found myself shackled to Xav Benedict by a quirk of fate.
Joss Stirling
#35. An image of her shackled to my bench, peeled gingerroot inserted in her ass so she can't clench her buttocks, comes to mind, followed by judicious use of a belt or strap.
E.L. James
#36. Not shackled to a one-track mind, he always applied two, three, or four
David Brooks
#37. If the streets shackled my right leg, the schools shackled my left. Fail to comprehend the streets and you gave up your body now. But fail to comprehend the schools and you gave up your body later.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#38. It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest.
Roger Mahony
#39. Future shackled is when tomorrow is anchored, boxed and managed to maximize the minimizing of uncertainty.
Bill Jensen
#40. Forgiving others simply means that you refuse to be a prisoner of a past that you can't change, and shackled to decisions that you didn't make.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#41. Seduced, shaggy Samson snored. She scissored short. Sorely shorn, Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed, Silently scheming, Sightlessly seeking Some savage, spectacular suicide.
Stanislaw Lem
#42. From "Caleb's Crossing"
This is an excellent thought about family though it doesn't apply to me. I am lucky in my brothers.
"Now, of all times in my life, did I wish Caleb truly was my brother, rather than that selfish, imperious, weak-willed soul to whom fate had shackled me.
Geraldine Brooks
#43. We need to make a game out of earning money. There is so much good we can do with money. Without it, we are bound and shackled and our choices become limited.
Bob Proctor
#44. A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.
Carew Papritz
#45. If I were your enemy, I'd use every opportunity to bring old wounds to mind, as well as the people, events, and circumstances that caused them. I'd try to ensure that your heart was hardened with anger and bitterness. Shackled through unforgiveness.
Priscilla Shirer
#46. The women hailed in the bible as examples for us were exceedingly wise, clever, intelligent, capable, and quick-witted. They were not shackled to the home, brainless ans without ambition. But their ambitions were God-oriented and God-directed.
~ Jennie
Anna Sofia Botkin
#47. There's nothing worse than being shackled by some miniscule sort of technology you have onstage, and I think your mettle is going to get tested in those moments.
El-P
#48. The Big-Media collective is slow, stupid and shackled by ideology. Reality must bite them before they'll recognize it, much less report it.
Ilana Mercer
#49. She was a kept thing, shackled to a master who would never let her go, locked in a cage of dreams.
Heather Demetrios
#50. To overcome my fear, I shackled myself with hope, its links heavier than any metal known to man.
Laila Lalami
#51. At every turn you have to find a new kind of self-sovereignty over your environment. Every kid I see is at the mercy of Periscope, Twitter, or an Angry Bird of some description. People are shackled to their mediocrity by companies and businesses who want to consume your life with theirs.
Daniel Gillies
#52. No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth.
Horace Mann
#53. Society's goal is to make us less foolish. From the cradle to grave the pressure is on: "Be normal!" Our inner fool may be shackled and caged by a world made to suppress it, but Jesus came to free the fool.
Mark Batterson
#54. I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to the bottom of things. Of course some of them will be tromped out, and some will always be at the bottom, keeping company with other bottom-folks.
Zora Neale Hurston
#55. We had been pulled apart by absence, but that same absence had shackled us together for life.
Siri Hustvedt
#56. I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
Jack Carroll
#58. My life is an adventure." she said, growing confident as she opened her eyes again. "I will not be shackled to this satellite anymore.
Marissa Meyer
#59. Free shackled rivers! ... The finest fantasy of eco-warriors in the West is the destruction of [Glen Canyon] Dam and the liberation of the Colorado [River].
David Foreman
#60. Most doctors are prisoners of their education and shackled by their profession.
Richard Diaz
#61. I try to shake it loose-but these ideas, they cling. It's like I'm shackled to them with an iron chain. They rattle along behind me, dragging against the ground, always reminding me of their presence.
Maureen Johnson
#62. There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.
Frans De Waal
#63. An erect building is a shackled slave. I hear the mutinous grumbling of vertical buildings. I hear the grinding frustration of those compelled against their will to remain standing. A building is energy crucified against space and time.
Declan Burke
