Chained Quotes

Chained Quote of the day

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

Everyone's the same. All brains are contained by their reality frame and chained to the terrain that they're trained not to change and once you see what I've explained you've hit the jackpot.

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

If you're eating or drinking something made from cow's milk, it's because a calf chained in a box somewhere isn't.

[Seeing an ornately chained Native American for the first time] What Eden have they torn you from?

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited.

I felt free and chained at the same time - like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been nominated and you are beseeched to vote for the right man.

Mickey is a secret journal chained closed with a padlock, slammed inside a vault and dropped into the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.

We are chained to that which we do not forgive

Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty.

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.

If one of us is chained, none of us are free...

There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.

Until our mission becomes our obsession, we'll be chained to the realm of average.

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.

Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.

My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall.

It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.

I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.

All your dreams are made / When you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade

I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest?

The end of all things is at hand; that Satan's kingdom will be destroyed, and Satan chained down for a thousand years, and Christ's kingdom established upon earth.

I liked to go to court. I became a lawyer because of the allure of the courtroom, not necessarily to be chained to an office desk.

How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together.

When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.

Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks.

Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear.

After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.

In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

You sittin' here chained to your rockin' chair.

Each day has been chained to the previous one. But the weeks have wings. Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live my life.

No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors ... This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.

Are you the welcoming committee? Or has Jeremy finally chained you up to the front gate where you belong?" "I missed you too.

You need to know that you can't honor God when you're chained to the voice and opinions of man.

You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!" (Alanna)

If one neglects the laws of learning, a sentence is imposed that he is forever chained to his ignorance.

Chained in a cell, got my own private hell. Preacher crucifies me, warden wants to fry me.

There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.

Light cannot be chained.

We are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.

i remembered the myth about Andromeda and how she had been chained to a rock by her own parents as a sacrifice to a sea monster. Maybe she'd gotten too many F's on her report card or something.

That old ball and chain had me chained up for weeks, So of course I'm off the chain as soon as I hit the streets.

Society indeed conspires to keep you ball and chained.