Chains Quotes · Page 20

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

— Adelbert von Chamisso

By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.

— Plato

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

— Sophie Swetchine

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

— Anonymous

Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain.

— Peter Benchley

Heaven is wrapped in chains and I can not find the key.

— EwshyCrazyness

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

— Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz

“if the world is upside down it doesn't really mean you have to go a long side with it.”

— Osazuwa Godspower

Of all men living [priests] are our greatest enemies. If it were possible, they would extinguish the very light of nature, turn…

— George Berkeley

I have a charity called the Chain Of Hope, where we target children from poor areas where heart surgery is not available,…

— Magdi Yacoub

To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think that chain stores in general are really super depressing and I think it really sucks the life out of a…

— Chicken John

For Christmas I do gift bags for my friends and the cast, and I put 'treat yo self' key chains in there.…

— Retta

In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless…

— Francis Marion Crawford

Releasing the chains to the material means experiencing life within each cell, moment to moment, each moment renewed.

— Barbara Brennan

Each individual has to burn out his own karma and escape from the chains of maya (illusion), reincarnation, and all that.

— George Harrison

Ben & Jerry's evolved into what it is doing and is trying to transition its supply chain, but this is essentially retrofitting.…

— Jerry Greenfield

With free will, we can modify, to a certain extent the chain of karma that has been set in motion by the…

— Frederick Lenz

My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say…

— Gary Vaynerchuk

Some have narrowed their minds, and so fettered them with the chains of antiquity that not only do they refuse to speak…

— Girolamo Savonarola

That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made--you read a book, you meet a person, you have a…

— Howard Zinn

The surface of the Moon is not smooth, uniform, and precisely spherical as a great number of philosophers believe it to be,…

— Galileo Galilei

He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at liberty, because he may…

— John Locke

In China, because China is gaining wealth, rice consumption is way down. Rice is a poor person's food, and they're eating less…

— Neal Barnard

There's a great scene in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [1974] that I'm obsessed with: Sally is being chased by Leatherface with…

— Christopher Bollen

Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in…

— Terry Pratchett

The fact that this chain of life existed [at volcanic vents on the seafloor] in the black cold of the deep sea…

— Robert Ballard

Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights. Since I was born,…

— Jean Rhys

I was working with these very long-chain ... extended-chain polymers, where you had a lot of benzene rings in them. ... Transforming…

— Stephanie Kwolek

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous…

— John Bolton

Most of Marx's predictions have failed to materialize, and his labor theory of value and other ideas have been proven wrong. Marx…

— Mark Skousen

And now I realize Lindsay's not fearless. She's terrified. She's terrified that people will find out she's faking, bullshitting her way through…

— Lauren Oliver

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

— Paul Whiteman

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

— John Bunyan

It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.

— Jane Hamilton

Every person is a golden link in the chain of my good.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

I'm just trying to move the chains and make plays that need to be made.

— Dwayne Haskins

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

— Samuel Johnson

One day I was asked to pick up $50,000 worth of gold chains for Mr. T. For real!

— Stacey Snider

One glorious chain of love, of giving and receiving, unites all creatures.

— Samson Raphael Hirsch