Chains Quotes

The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.

Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty; liberty requires not just effort, but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see their chains as protective armor.

A glance, a word -- and joy or pain befalls.... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny!

If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.

Pride is never so loud as when in chains.

I was always mortified.Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?

Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.

We’re bound by chains of love, but they don’t weigh us down. Instead, they allow us to be bigger and better than we are.

Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.

Liberty has as many chains as an iron-monger's shop, and as rusty.

In a global economy where our economies and supply chains are deeply integrated, it's not even possible.

It was probably in third grade - I had a super fake, gold herringbone chain. I don't remember if it was my mom's or how I got it, but ever since then, I've loved chains.

The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one's willingness to give oneself permission. To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.

I thought that he was righteous, but he's vain. Oh, somethings a telling me I wear the ball and chain.

It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?

I'm sorry if I took some things for granted, I'm sorry for the chains I put on you. But more than anything, I'm sorry for myself for living without you.

A lot of times I wind up playing songs like (Alice in Chains') "Down in a Hole" that make me scream at the top of my lungs if I want to get frustration out from a bad day.

Hail Lord, ...Loose my chains.

I wear the chains I forged in life.

Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.

Great pains were taken to hide chains with flowers

When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.

You must have the guts to throw off the chains of modesty and mediocrity in order to be the light that the world needs.

It's nice to be included in the broadcast food chain.

He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.

Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain.

Poor thieves in halters we behold; And great thieves in their chains of gold.

Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.

Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.

Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain.

The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds.

Things can be low on the food chain, but that doesn't mean they're lowly.

You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of death

Since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little.

His chains chinked softly. I seldom fling children from towers to improve their health. Yes, I meant for him to die.

I wear a lot of the boys jewelry - the chains as well - so it's kind of good for my style because I like wearing chunky jewelry.

Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.

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

I dropped all the guards. All the leashes, all the chains, everything that ever restrained me through the discipline and fear of discovery, I let it all go. No need to hide.

Globalization has taken a hit in that there is some sand in the gears because most of us have supply chains that are all over the world that we've had to lengthen.

Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.

I play a slave. How black is that? I have to wear chains. How whack is that? But don’t worry. I get free. I save my wife and I kill all the white people in the movie. How great is that?

It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.

However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet on the mind.

If men and women are in chains anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.

I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.

Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.