Chains Quotes

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My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me… — Anne Lamott
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. — D. H. Lawrence
The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
If you want to open a supermarket chain and put your face all around the globe, selling your baby and your dog, if it makes… — Annie Lennox
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains. — Anne Sullivan Macy
Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. — Rosa Luxemburg
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of… — Nelson Mandela
What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere… — Murray Gell-Mann
Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that. — Bob Marley
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains. — Karl Marx
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen… — Karl Marx
If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by… — Toni Morrison
David Stern should get with the mothers of the NBA and let the moms decide what the dress code should be. I asked my mother… — Shaquille O'Neal
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the… — Cesare Pavese
If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break… — Dave Pelzer
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise! — Alexander Pope
The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken. — Antonio Porchia
I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance. — Arthur Rimbaud
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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