Chain Quotes
726 quotes by 613 authors
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I was lying, but I wanted to rouse him. I have an inborn urge to contradict; my whole life has been a mere chain of…
— Mikhail Lermontov
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A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity…
— Alain de Botton
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My mom's coming home soon," I said. "We should go to your place." Patch ran a hand across the shadow of stubble along his jaw.…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold…
— Dan Simmons
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That's what I meant,' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I'm going back!" I shouted, standing to put some distance between us in case I was yanking her chain too hard and she came after…
— Kim Harrison
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He put on his hat and wrapped his scarf around his jaw, but did without the wig and the sunglasses. He clicked his key chain…
— Derek Landy
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I try to shake it loose-but these ideas, they cling. It's like I'm shackled to them with an iron chain. They rattle along behind me,…
— Maureen Johnson
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Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they…
— Chris Bohjalian
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But who can foresee such things? None of us can predict the final outcomes of our actions, and few of us even try; most of…
— Stephen King
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Froi saw the foolishness of dreamers, and he decided he'd like to die so foolish. With a dream in his heart about the possibilities, rather…
— Melina Marchetta
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Magnus had been alive hundreds of years himself, and yet the simplest things could turn a day into a jewel, and a succession of days…
— Cassandra Clare
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He could still see the dragon just fine. It was about sixty feet long, snout to tail, its body made of interlocking bronze plates. Its…
— Rick Riordan
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Tyson charged at the Cyclops leader, Ma Gasket, her chain-mail dress spattered with mud and decorated with broken spears. She gawked at Tyson and started…
— Rick Riordan
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The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really…
— Daniel Clowes
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This is what you do now to give your day topography--scan the boxes, read the news, see the chain of your friends reporting about themselves,…
— David Levithan
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When I looked at the painting I felt the same convergence on a single point: a glancing sun-struck instance that existed now and forever. Only…
— Donna Tartt
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Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a link in the…
— August Bournonville
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Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
— Abraham Lincoln
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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love --…
— Sydney J. Harris
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