Chains Quotations | Page 3

The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

What's unique about transportation is that it's the one function that repeats itself throughout the supply chain.

Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.

I preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.

Everything I did in the jails - chain gangs, everything - I haven't changed the policy. I did it, I stand by it, and I'm not going to change.

I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.

...she could only wait for someone, something, to free her from the invisible chains that bound her.

Pride is never so loud as when in chains.

I turned down a date once because I was looking for someone a little closer to the top of the food chain.

All songwriters are links in a chain.

Life consists of a long chain of coincidences.

Knock! knock! who's there? me! me who? that's right? what's right? meehoo! that's what I want to know! what's what you want to know? me who? yes, exactly! exactly what? yes, I have exactlywatt on a chain! exactly what on a chain? yes! yes what? no, exactlywatt! that's what I want to know! I told you-exactlywatt! exactly what? yes! yes what? yes it's with me. what's with you? exactlywatt-that's what with me. me who? yes! go away! knock knock...

Those who don't move don't notice their chains.

If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude.

We say no to the peace that keeps us on our knees, no to the peace that keeps us in chains, no to the false peace that denies the values and contributions of our peoples.

I hardly ever work from a synopsis -- I find they act like chains.

I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.

Pawns are born free, yet they are everywhere in chains

Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes.

I believe that in spite of the chains we bind ourselves with, there's a primordial section of the human psyche that is still nomadic and still yearns to roam free.

Only the fire of life can melt the chains of death.

Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.

The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.

Hail Lord, ...Loose my chains.

I wear the chains I forged in life.

No chains around my feet, But I'm not free..

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

Liberty has as many chains as an iron-monger's shop, and as rusty.

I thought that he was righteous, but he's vain. Oh, somethings a telling me I wear the ball and chain.

I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.

Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

To bottomless perdition, there to dwell / In adamantine chains and penal fire.

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

Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

What is liberty without...virtue? It is...madness, without restraint.Men are qualified for liberty in exact proportion to their dispositionto put moral chains upon their own appetites.

As chains go, it's doing very well, and investors are reacting to it.

Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains

Liberty for all; chains for none.

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them....

By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain.

War will exist as long as there's a food chain.

Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.

The prisoner grows to love his chains.

No one chains a slave without chaining himself.

The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Harlots shall be made pure by their own tears. But you publicans shall be held down by the chains of your own judgement.

Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?

Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain.

The melting voice through mazes running;/ Untwisting all the chains that tie / The hidden soul of harmony.

If men and women are in chains anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.

It was equally imperative that this chain of reactions should always tend to dampen, to die out. It must not build up, or the uranium mass would explode within a time interval too short to be measured by any means whatsoever. Nor would there be anyone left to measure it.

Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.

Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief.

For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.

Whom anger chains, can ever pass thro' Maya's gates.

I did not climb to the top of the food chain to eat carrots.

Break the chains in our brains that make us fear.