Chains Quotes - Page 10

• Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Iron, Silk

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• There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain.

  Brian Setzer

  Pain, Balls, Lines

  Song: Ball and Chain

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• Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Relief, Shackles, Prisoner

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.219, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I believe martial arts is always evolving and mixed martials arts is the top of the food chain.

  Cung Le

  Art, Believe, Evolve

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I'm not a fan of religion. Religion ties people up and binds them and puts them back in chains but faith - true relationship - releases us to be all what God ever intended us to be. That's what I'm interested in.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Ties, People, Fans

  "Kathie Lee Gifford talks about how her own life and trials prepared her to bring the story of scandalized 1920’s evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson to Broadway". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I am a huge comic book nerd and video game nerd, so to get to actually play one of those characters would be off the chain. It would be amazing.

  Zachary Levi

  Book, Character, Games

  "Zach Levi on Being a Disney Hunk in ‘Tangled’, A Singer, A Superhero & ‘Chuck’". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. November 18, 2010.

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• Actors are always the pawns. They're the last ones in the food chain.

  Patricia Mauceri

  Actors, Lasts, Pawns

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wise, Men, Selfishness

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1980). “Shelley on Love: An Anthology”, p.83, Univ of California Press

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• The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Dark, Persistence, Humanity

  Buckminster Fuller (1992). “Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity”, p.1, The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• I did not climb to the top of the food chain to eat carrots.

  Ron White

  Bumper Sticker, Carrots, Funny One Liner

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• The conservatives see man as a body freely roaming the earth, building sand piles or factories - with an electronic computer inside his skull, controlled from Washington. The liberals see man as a soul freewheeling to the farthest reaches of the universe - but wearing chains from nose to toes when he crosses the street to buy a loaf of bread.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Skulls, Soul

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.176, Penguin

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• One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or the Continental Congress.

  Samuel Adams

  Long, Independence, Battle

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• Karl Marx recognized that workers without a choice are workers in chains. But his idea of breaking chains was for us to depose the pharaohs and then build the pyramids for ourselves, as if building pyramids is something we just can't stop doing, we love it so much.

  Daniel Quinn

  Ideas, Pyramids, Choices

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure”, p.52, Broadway Books

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• You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.

  Bruce Sterling

  Cutting, Data, Starting Over

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• Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Saviour?

  John Quincy Adams

  Events, Founding Fathers Religion, Founding Fathers Christian

  John Quincy Adams (1837). “An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport, at Their Request, on the Sixty-first Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1837”, p.5

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• When the mighty chains of darkness had me on the ropes, everyone said quit now, that's when I found hope.

  Graham Parker

  Darkness, Rope, Quitting

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• Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of bullion, increase among their subjects. They very well know that, besides nourishing that littleness of mind which is proper to slavery, the increase of artificial wants only binds so many more chains upon the people.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Art, People, Mind

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.369, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Soldier, Slave, Packs

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• Liberty for all; chains for none.

  Frederick Douglass

  Liberty

  Frederick Douglass (2016). “The Portable Frederick Douglass”, p.344, Penguin

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• The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

  Aristotle

  Art, Long, Matter

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.28, Aeterna Press

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• The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.

  Bernard-Henri Levy

  Truth Is, States, Force

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• Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.

  Maya Angelou

  Iron, Window, Used

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.32, Bantam

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• Beat and cuff your slave, keep him hungry and spiritless, and he will follow the chain of his master like a dog. Feed and clothe him well, work him moderately, surround him with physical comfort and dreams of freedom intrude.

  Frederick Douglass

  Dream, Dog, Comfort

  Frederick Douglass (1994). “Autobiographies”, p.297, Library of America

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• We are not isolated islands, we are connected links in a chain. Each kind word, each smiling face, each good action, benefits our neighbor, nation, world. Let us pray and meditate together and we shall reach the shore of peace, spreading the sweet holy fragrance of love and vibrations of unity and harmony. Tuning our minds to the supreme consciousness, let us open our hearts and chant the words, "May everyone everywhere be happy."

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Sweet, Heart, Islands

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• As long as man's beliefs, or any part of them, are based on error, he is not completely free, for the chains of error bind his mind.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Men, Errors, Long

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