Chains Quotes
1050 quotes by 814 authors
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I have so often been asked the question: "But how did you come to think of The Scarlet Pimpernel?" And my answer has always been:…
— Baroness Orczy
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He who has nothing—it has been said many times—has nothing to lose but his chains.
— Pablo Neruda
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The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds.
— Friedrich Schiller
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It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.
— Patrick Henry
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He puts the chain with the locket around my neck, then rests his hand over the spot where our baby would be. “You’re going to…
— Suzanne Collins
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The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are…
— Albert Einstein
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If I could wish the Kingslayer back in chains I would. You freed him without my knowledge or consent... but what you did, I know…
— George R. R. Martin
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His answers were quite often like that. When she spoke of beauty, he spoke of the fatty tissue supporting the epidermis. When she mentioned love,…
— Robert Musil
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The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around…
— Muhammad Yunus
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Lords are gold and knights steel, but two links can't make a chain. You also need silver and iron and lead, tin and copper and…
— George R. R. Martin
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Anything's better than Gen X which is what we got. Thanks Douglas Coupland. We sound like a team of mutant vigalantees with frosted hair and…
— Patton Oswalt
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We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love,…
— Mahmoud Darwish
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but there was nothing I could do to dim the supernovae exploding inside my brain, an endless chain of intra cranial firecrackers
— John Green
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Don't you know? We're connected by an invisible chain. It's very long, very light. But also very strong. It can't rust. Can't break. And the…
— Ellen Hopkins
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I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.
— Ayn Rand
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In order to pin down reality as realilty, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to…
— Haruki Murakami
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Cursed?" I offered, my voice croaky because of my unshed tears. "It isn't cursed." John said deliberately, rearranging the chain around my neck, "if you're…
— Meg Cabot
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The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea…
— Alexandre Dumas
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Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't…
— George R. R. Martin
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