Chains Quotes · Page 15

When the sexual energy of the people is liberated they will break the chains.

— Julian Beck

How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!

— Margaret Mitchell

Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains.

— Hafez

As we play, I just kind of make the best decision and try to move the chains.

— Deshaun Watson

“At first, the wings weighed more than the chains, because with the chains we were not required to fly”

— Luigina Sgarro

I think it's tacky to have chains that go all the way down to your crotch.

— Big Sean

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

— Anonymous

Chains and stuff are nice, don't get me wrong I love them and I wear chains, but I can do without it.

— Big Sean

I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go…

— Epictetus

It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?

— Bob Dylan

For me, self-discipline has never corresponded to a voluntary adhesion to norms invented by others. It has always been the first step…

— Eugenio Barba

I am definitely not scared of Mike Tyson. I am at the top of the food chain and he is looking to…

— Lennox Lewis

Love has seven names, / Which, as you know, are appropriate to her; / Chain, light, live coal, and fire - /…

— Hadewijch

When the vision of the 'Nude' flashed upon me, I knew that it would break forever the enslaving chains of Naturalism.

— Marcel Duchamp

Even the other kids who people made fun of made fun of me. Thats where I stood on the school food chain.

— Nonito Donaire

We have to do commerce differently because the WalMart system of big box chain retail will soon die. This means rebuilding local…

— James Howard Kunstler

it’s as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it’s impossible not to lead a spiritual…

— Deepak Chopra

By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating…

— Edmund Burke

Let woman's claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the…

— Anna Julia Cooper

What's mysterious, ambiguous, inexplicable. What doesn't fit into a story, what doesn't have a story. Glint of brightness on a barely-there chain.…

— Donna Tartt

Lords are gold and knights steel, but two links can't make a chain. You also need silver and iron and lead, tin…

— Anonymous

Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a…

— Jodi Picoult

Valerie was crying, too. She was laughing and sniffling back sobs. “I’m going to marry my snuggy wuggums,” she said. Morelli paused,…

— Janet Evanovich

Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as…

— Sarah Dessen

Arab children, Corn ears of the future, You will break our chains, Kill the opium in our heads, Kill the illusions. Arab…

— Nizar Qabbani

Do not worry! Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein…

— Ketch Secor

Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and…

— Richard Mitchell

One of the stories I love is how Gutenberg’s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden…

— Steven Johnson

“If the people of Europe had known as much of astronomy and geology when the bible was introduced among them, as they…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

[T]hro’ this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go?…

— Alexander Pope

As my body lay dead on that stretcher (he later recovered from being struck by lightning attracted by his cell phone), I…

— Dannion Brinkley

We exist to have our wealth moved up the economic chain out of our reach.

— Roger Ebert

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

— Anonymous

Poor thieves in halters we behold; And great thieves in their chains of gold.

— Francis Quarles

Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents!

— George Habash

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

— Emily Dickinson

So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.

— Alexandre Dumas

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

— Tanith Lee

Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights.

— Jean Rhys