Top 100 The Chain Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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.
Suzanne Collins
#3. 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.
Mark Parker
#4. 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.
Greg Lynn
#5. 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.
J. Michael Straczynski
#6. 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.
Jay Kristoff
#7. Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think.
Tom Wilson
#8. 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.
Laurie Garrett
#9. It's nice to be included in the broadcast food chain.
Dennis Miller
#10. 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.
P.G. Wodehouse
#11. 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.
Charles Dickens
#12. 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.
Michael Bible
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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.
Gene Simmons
#16. With Illum, we're able to start to customize that supply chain in a very deep way ... to rethink the entire imaging pipeline.
Ren Ng
#17. 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.
Pema Chodron
#18. 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
#19. 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.
Karen Marie Moning
#20. For the gazelle, fear of being eaten. For the lion, fear of starvation. Fear is the chain that binds them together.
Rick Yancey
#21. 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.
Alfred Tennyson
#22. 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
#23. The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.
Pyotr Chaadayev
#24. 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.
Bruce Schneier
#25. 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.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#26. He regarded marriage as an arbitrary and essentially adversarial relationship, akin to the yoking of prisoners on the chain gang.
T.C. Boyle
#27. 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.
George Bancroft
#29. Day buries day; month, month; and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.
Edward Young
#30. 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 -
Emily Dickinson
#31. THE LAW OF THE CHAIN The Strength of the Team Is Impacted by Its Weakest Link
John C. Maxwell
#32. 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.
Ilona Andrews
#33. In software, the chain isn't as strong as its weakest link; it's as weak as all the weak links multiplied together.
Steve McConnell
#34. 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.
Rajneesh
#35. 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?
Marshall Ramsay
#36. The real warfare of mankind is eternal struggle
to earn higher rank in the pyramid of food chain.
Toba Beta
#37. 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.
Clifford Allbutt
#38. 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.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#39. 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.
Toba Beta
#41. 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.
Bruce Willis
#42. And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.
John Milton
#43. It had long been accepted that if a species put mankind on its food-chain menu the species would be extinct before long.
Dan Simmons
#44. 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!
Willow Rose
#45. 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.
Michael Pollan
#46. 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
#47. 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."
Jeff Chain
#48. It's a fucked-up war when you are more worried about fighting your chain of command than the actual enemy.
Eric Blehm
#49. 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.
Scott Raab
#50. 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?
B.J. Ward
#51. Order whatever punishment you like, from the coward's distance of a chain-lenght. You and Govart are two of a kind.
C.S. Pacat
#52. 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 ...
Henri Frederic Amiel
#53. While in the process of executing an idea, creativity happens not with one brilliant flash but in a chain reaction of many tiny sparks.
R. Keith Sawyer
#54. It had seemed a good idea at the time to order the furniture for her new home online from a chain retailer.
Val McDermid
#55. The mobile phone, the fax, emails. Call me old fashioned, but what's wrong with a chain of beacons?
Harry Hill
#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 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.
Naomi Novik
#58. 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
#59. 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.
Adlai E. Stevenson II
#60. 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.
Laurie Lindeen
#61. Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events
Adrienne Rich
#63. I mean that all the experiences I've ever heard of in life ... I want to have them with you.
Abigail Roux
#64. 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.
Sarah J. Maas
#65. 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.
Mary Lambert
#66. The product supply chain, from source material to store, is an organizing map for delivering human rights.
Julia Ormond
#67. 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?
Cory Doctorow
#68. Fear is the chain still wrapped around a free man's leg
Todd Stocker
#69. Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.
Benjamin Franklin
#70. 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.
Kurt Vonnegut
#71. 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.
Edward Forbes
#72. 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.
Anna Sofia Botkin
#73. I can still hear you sayin'
You will never break the chain
Lb
#74. 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.
Dave Pelzer
#76. 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-
Peter Thiel
#77. All successful men have agreed in one thing
they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#78. I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain.
Chiaki Kuriyama
#79. Linnaeus had it constantly in mind: 'The closer we get to know the creatures around us, the clearer is the understanding we obtain of the chain of nature, and its harmony and system'.
Sten Lindroth
#80. Karma is simply the law of cause and effect in action. All moments and occurrences are caused by other moments and occurrences that preceded them in an endless, causal chain.
Frederick Lenz
#81. 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
#82. If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#83. It is better to bow to the dictates of the wind than to try to chase or chain it.
Sharon Shinn
#84. Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a Country. As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes & effects providence punishes national sins, by national calamities.
George Mason
#85. Simply notice that you're aware. At any given moment, you can choose to follow the chain of thoughts, emotions, and sensations that reinforce a perception of yourself as vulnerable and limited, or to remember that your true nature is pure, unconditioned, and incapable of being harmed.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
#86. I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version.
Orlando Bloom
#87. When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories.
Ernst Mach
#88. From Nature's chain whatever link you strike,
Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
Alexander Pope
#89. Minutes without seconds and hours without minutes cannot exist! Respect the links of the chain before respecting the chain!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#90. When we first talked about the touch-screen, the guys came back and said, 'There's nothing like that in the automotive supply chain,'" Musk said. "I said, 'I know. That's because it's never been put in a fucking car before.
Ashlee Vance
#91. Where are the links of the chain ... joining us to the past?
Dorothy Dunnett
#92. No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.
Myrtle Reed
#93. I've always liked politicians and lawyers. They keep the PR professional's status at least two from the bottom of the ethical food chain.
Shel Israel
#94. Man ... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#95. Golden arrow? And what would we do with a golden arrow? Give it to Alan for a lute string? I could hang it around my neck on a chain, perhaps, and let it stab me in the ribs when I tried to sit.
Robin McKinley
#96. We have been lost to each other for so long. My name means nothing to you. My memory is dust. This is not your fault, or mine. The chain connecting mother to daughter was broken and the word passed to the keeping of men, who had no way of knowing.
Anita Diamant
#97. The Hierarchic Qualm: The sword kills. But the arm moves the sword. Is the arm to blame for murder? No. The mind moves the arm. Is the mind to blame? No. The mind has sworn an oath to duty, and that duty moves the mind, as written by the Throne. So it is that a servant of the Throne is blameless.
Seth Dickinson
#98. Ambitious people know that everything they do and every discipline they adhere to, form the links in the chain of events that will lead them to their final destination.
Jim Rohn
#99. I'm telling the story, and if I can't tell the story, I'm not going to sing it. And if I don't agree with the story, and if I got to sing something that portrays me as something I'm not, then I'm not going to sing it either. I didn't even want to sing Aretha Franklin's 'Chain of Fools.'
Sharon Jones
#100. Ooh, ah, ooh, ah, that's the sound of the men working on the chain gang.
Sam Cooke
