Chains Quotes

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Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights. — Jean Rhys
He waved at his attendants. "I dragged them like a ball and chain all the way across the palace and back." "If sterner measures are… — Megan Whalen Turner
Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible... There are moments of fear and… — Jerome Groopman
He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen. — Emily Bronte
You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect. — Hermann Hesse
I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary. — Jim Butcher
You can never get to a person's mind. You cannot know the different deeds and missions of happiness; you can't tell a screm of pleasure… — Ibi Kaslik
At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains.… — Ayn Rand
The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If… — Patrick Henry
It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains. — Thomas Huxley
I sang in my chains like the sea — Dylan Thomas
You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall not enslave my… — Khalil Gibran
No matter how you feel you have to act like you are very popular with yourself; very relaxed and purposeful very unconfused and not like… — Tony Hoagland
The poets are supposed to liberate the words â€“ not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to think? Poets are… — Brion Gysin
But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain. — Walter Dean Myers
I'll break your chains; so sing, Takuto. As loud and as much as you want. You don't have to hold back anything. — Arina Tanemura
I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does… — Epictetus
Love was a sacred garment, woven of a fabric so thin that it could not be seen, yet so strong that even mighty death could… — Dean Koontz
Theirs is the banner in my hand. And I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their hearts was not… — Ayn Rand
I wished that the chains would break and the wind would sweep me up, up, up into the sky, beyond the clouds, beyond the sun… — Mary Downing Hahn

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