He waved at his attendants. "I dragged them like a ball and chain all the way across the palace and back." "If… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future, concentrated into Gertrude's voice, became one of red clay pine-barrens, of chain-gang camps,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
So if hunger provokes wailing and wailing brings the breast; if the breast permits sucking and milk suggests its swallow; if swallowing… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
To repress rebellion is to maintain the status quo, a condition which binds the mortal creature in a state of intellectual or… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
By nature, we are a plant-based intelligence - not just our exhale, which plants inhale, but they are my food chain. They… — Horst Rechelbacher Copy Share Image
If we're eating industrially, if we're letting large corporations, fast food chains, cook our food, we're going to have a huge, industrialized,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
To the public, the press is not David among Goliaths; it has become one of the Goliaths, Big Media, a combination of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
[G]enes make enzymes, and enzymes control the rates of chemical processes. Genes do not make "novelty seeking" or any other complex and… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
On top of the insult of destroying the geographic places we call home, the chain stores also destroyed people's place in the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
There is an unbroken chain of opposition to the introduction of economic freedom and to the capitalist autonomy of the economic sphere...… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
If I get a song - a good song - I just sing it the way I hear it in my head.… — Glen Campbell Copy Share Image
The marks of Jesus are imprisonment, chains, scourgings, blows and stoning in bearing testimony to the Gospel. Galatians 6:17 - 17 Finally,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It would be easy to become a victim of our circumstances and continue feeling sad, scared or angry; or instead, we could… — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Usually being a young actor, you've got to go through certain levels of hierarchy, going through bit parts and extra roles and… — James Frecheville Copy Share Image
Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
I wore the gold is symbolic of my African heritage. When my black ancestors was bought over here from Africa they were… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“I thought of telling him I didn't know about reasons, only about chains—how they form themselves, link by link, out of nothing;… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Get rid of the bondage of body; we have become slaves to it and learnt to hug our chains and love our… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Surrounded and absorbed, we tread like Etruscans on the edge of useless law; we pray to the giver of prayer, we give… — Elizabeth Cook-Lynn Copy Share Image
If you get asteroids about a kilometer in size, those are large enough and carry enough energy into our system to disrupt… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When I looked at the painting I felt the same convergence on a single point: a glancing sun-struck instance that existed now… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Is O used by René and Sir Stephen, or does she in fact use them, and...all those irons and chains and obligatory… — Anne Desclos Copy Share Image
“Unlike physical chains of slavery, mental chains are very hard to remove because they are invincible. Making an attempt for removal will… — DAVID OKAFOR Copy Share Image
A man practices the art of adventure when he heroically faces up to life. When he has the daring to open doors… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
Before it's too late, and time is running out, let us turn from trust in the chain reactions of exploding atoms to… — Richard Cushing Copy Share Image
I have seen Christians in Communist prisons with fifty pounds of chains on their feet, tortured with red-hot iron pokers, in whose… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
There are internal chains and external chains. All the external chains in the world won't enslave you, if you are free inside.… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
The scene fascinated me: a round straw hat; the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right; the white drawbridge, its railings made… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
A part of control is learning to correct your own weaknesses. The person doesn't live who was born with everything. Sometimes he… — Babe Ruth Copy Share Image
Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
There wasn't even a movie theater in the town. Nothing. Not even any fast food chains of any kind. Regardless, I knew… — Kristen Hager Copy Share Image
Perhaps one day the dreams of Utopists may be realized and humanity will shake off the chains of materialism which still separate… — Emile Coue Copy Share Image
The other day I read that last year 58 million tourists came to New York ... where a puny eight million people… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights. All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites. Shall… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
How can a Negro say America is his nation? He was brought here in chains; he was put in slavery an worked… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image