Chains Quotes
1050 quotes by 814 authors
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I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and established ones, read…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who 'forgives' you--out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free…
— Charles Dickens
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We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight…
— Maya Angelou
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Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty; liberty requires not just effort, but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see their chains as…
— Terry Goodkind
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Every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow from this that…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We…
— Samuel Adams
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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
— Alexander Pope
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I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains - I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs.…
— Rudyard Kipling
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I remember her telling me once that rabbits were the gnomes in attendance to the Fairy Queen and that the stars were God's daisy chain.…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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With blue vinyl-tile floor, pale-green wainscoating, pink walls, a yellow ceiling, and orange-and-white stork-patterned drapes, the expectant fathers' lounge churned with the negative energy of…
— Dean Koontz
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I am in chains. Don't touch my chains.
— Franz Kafka
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The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have…
— Aldous Huxley
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Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people…
— Nelson Mandela
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After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which…
— Rohinton Mistry
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Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never…
— Charles Dickens
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I'm the top of the food chain and well...you're the food.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I remember it all: every word, every breath, every tick of the clock . . . everything that happened is with me forever. I can…
— Kevin Brooks
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John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of…
— Ayn Rand
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Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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