Shackles Quotes

111 Shackles quotes by 96 unique authors

With 300 Marines, you could probably take over Iraq if you wanted to and get rid of ISIS completely. Make no mistake about it, Marines… — Marcus Luttrell
Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living. — James Hunter
Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. — William Cowper
The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless... From the conclusion of this war we shall… — Thomas Jefferson
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. — Salvador Dali
Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic. — James Madison
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. — James Madison
I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they built schools and… — Michael Moore
It's time to believe again in the potential of private enterprise set free from the shackles of over-bearing federal government. — Rick Perry
I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I’m a puppy unleashed in a meadow of… — Jerry Spinelli
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the… — Anais Nin
the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that,… — Albert Einstein
The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter… — Christopher Paolini
A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am… — Florence King
Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property;… — Emma Goldman
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance… — Carl Sagan
They wanted to carry her, but she jumped to the stones of the plaza and strode away from the building, toward her ranks, which parted… — Neal Stephenson
Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human… — H.G. Wells
I am a king's daughter, And if I cared to care, The moon that has no mistress Would flutter in my hair. No one dares… — Peter S. Beagle
I spent centuries I your arms. This time our joining will be controlled by me, and you will revel in the pleasure I can bring… — P. C. Cast
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
Bring on the shackles - I'm your prisoner — Stephenie Meyer
Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and of… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic. — Carl Sagan
...in their millenial and long-lived patience they knew quite well how, in a hundred years, or a thousand years' time, or else, perhaps, tomorrow, in… — Angela Carter

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