Chains Quotes

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It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action. — Stanley Milgram
We are like the explorers of a great continent, who have penetrated its margins in most points of the compass and have mapped the major… — H. Bentley Glass
I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds. — Mary Wortley Montagu
All life is linked together in such a way that no part of the chain is unimportant. Frequently, upon the action of some of these… — John Henry Comstock
Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the throne of God. — Frances Power Cobbe
Linnaeus had it constantly in mind:'The closer we get to know the creatures around us, the clearer is the understanding we obtain of the chain… — Sten Lindroth
Our Lord Himself I saw in this venerable Sacrament . . . I felt as if my chains fell, as those of St. Peter at… — Elizabeth Ann Seton
Promises retain men better than services; for hope is to them a chain, and gratitude a thread. — Jean-Antoine Houdon
Are we not all shipwrecked,...condemned to death?... However impatient our neighbours make us, however much indignation our race arouses, we are all bound together, and… — Henri Frederic Amiel
He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. — Thomas Hobbes
Too many people I meet believe that you can sit in a chair and be given motivation. With exercise and fitness, you get it by… — Grete Waitz
It is only your self-identification with your mind that makes you happy or unhappy. Rebel against your slavery to your mind, see your bonds as… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light and chains to liberty.… — Robert Hugh Benson
Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on. — Zeno of Citium
The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and indignation that… — James Madison
And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are convertible terms. Prohibition,… — Felix Mendelssohn
Finally, to the theme of the respiratory chain, it is especially noteworthy that David Kellin's chemically simple view of the respiratory chain appears now to… — Peter D. Mitchell
The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy. — Estelle Ramey
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child… — Abraham Lincoln

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