Chains Quotes
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We forge the chains we wear in life.
Charles Dickens -
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
Mother Teresa
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Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes.
Richard Owen -
Banks and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.
Edmund Ruffin -
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.
Mahatma Gandhi -
All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.
Victor Hugo -
No one chains a slave without chaining himself.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Once you have hierarchy you need rules to protect and administer it, and then you need law and the enforcement of the rules, and you end up with some kind of chain of command or system of order that destroys relationship rather than promotes it. Hierarchy imposes laws and rules and you end up missing the wonder of relationship that we intended for you.
William P. Young -
I always had boyfriends, but I never imagined a proposal or a wedding. To me, that was like having a ball and chain round your neck.
Sandra Bullock -
The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd, And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.
William Cowper -
The chains of love are stronger than the chains of fear.
William Gurnall -
The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.
William Hazlitt
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Great pains were taken to hide chains with flowers...
Charlotte Bronte -
She smiled, pulling the photo a little closer, and I wondered if I should ask her, too, the question for my project, get her definition. But as she ran a finger slowly across the faces, identifying each one, it occurred to me that maybe this was her answer. All those names, strung together like beads on a chain. Coming together, splitting apart, but still and always, a family. (page 289) ~Ruby
Sarah Dessen -
I wear the chains I forged in life.
Charles Dickens -
My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because it wasn't anything about 'Oh, I've always been gay and I'm breaking the chains.
Carol Leifer -
Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail, -- strength and defense, though something of an incumbrance.
John Ruskin -
For me, self-discipline has never corresponded to a voluntary adhesion to norms invented by others. It has always been the first step towards breaking the chains.
Eugenio Barba
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I have asked the village blacksmith to forge golden chains to tie our ankles together. I have gathered all the gay ribbons in the world to wind around and around and around and around and around and around again around our two waists.
Harry Crosby -
Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made.
Decimius Magnus Ausonius -
For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball and chain, restricting their ability and their mobility to move and seek out a job at another location.
Mortimer Zuckerman -
How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!
Margaret Mitchell