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Quotes About Chains

Love to faults is always blind, Always is to joys inclined, Lawless, winged, and unconfined, And breaks all chains from every mind.
~ blake william vi
If an oppressor can shackle a people in chains and eradicate even the slightest remembrance of their former life of freedom and concomitantly assassinate their hope for future freedom, it may be possible to convince the oppressed that the chains around their wrists, ankles, and minds are natural.
~ Brad Ronnell Braxton
Unlike traditional retailers, Amazon returned few unsold books, often less than 5 percent. The big book chains regularly returned 40 percent of all the books they acquired from publishers, for full refunds,
~ Brad Stone
Pensar libremente es distanciarse del cuerpo. Salir de esa jaula que te limita. Romper las cadenas y simplemente darle alas a la mente.
~ Haruki Murakami
It was probably in third grade - I had a super-fake gold herringbone chain. Yeah man, it was, like, super fake. I don't remember if it was my mom's or how I got it, but ever since then, I've loved chains. The first real chain I got was from Kanye. It was a Jacob the Jeweler Kanye West Jesus piece.
~ Big Sean
Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.
~ Bob Marley
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Fear is a wet blanket that smothers the fiery passion God deposited in your heart when he formed you. Fear freezes us into inaction. Frozen ideas, frozen souls, frozen bodies can't move, can't dream, can't risk, can't love, and can't live. Fear chains us.
~ Stasi Eldredge
Rarely does the truth set us free. Usually it chains us to the earth like a ghost.
~ Sarah Noffke, Rebels
He allowed the world to wind him in the final set of chains, and climbed, once and for all, into the cabinet of mysteries that was the life of an ordinary man.
~ Michael Chabon
It turned out that the V-2 was not a means to liberate the human spirit from the chains of gravity; it was only a pretext for further enchainment.
~ Michael Chabon
In gold—in gems," answered Pilarmo. "In chains," said Elric. "We free travelers need no chains of that sort." Moonglum bent forward out of the shadows where he sat, his expression showing that he strongly disapproved of Elric's statement.
~ Michael Moorcock
I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.
~ Tori Amos
I love titles and organizing chains of ideas. I like that very much.
~ Marina Warner
And the words that are used For to get the ship confused Will not be understood as they're spoken. For the chains of the sea Will have busted in the night And will be buried at the bottom of the ocean.
~ Bob Dylan
What is reality after all, he said. Did we not invent all this, are we not God, any and all of us? He spread his own elegant hand on the table. I could pass my hand through the wood as if through water. Any man, any woman, could do it. No chains, no bindings. It's a world of chaos restrained solely by the human mind, which then, afraid of itself, steps back and says, see this colossal machine over which I have no power at all.
~ Tanith Lee
'Too big to fail' is fine for restaurant chains. If Denny's fails, it's fine for this economy. You can always go down to the TGIFs. But that's not the same for large-scale investment companies.
~ Bill Foster
I think," he said, "that you may be the kind of dog who bites because she is chained up." He expected her to laugh, or to flash out at him, or to do both. She did not look up, but with a melancholy kind of trouble in her eyes. "A lovely analogy: I thank you," she said. "But what if I am the kind of dog who bites because it pleases her?" "I don't believe it," said Smith.
~ Francis Spufford
Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains?
~ Francis Wright
Las cadenas de la esclavitud sólo atan las manos: es la mente la que hace al hombre libre o esclavo
~ Franz Grillparzer
If men read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.
~ Brandon Sanderson
And oft the blessed time foretells When all men shall be free; And musical, as silver bells, Their falling chains shall be.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
No one working as an astronomer is shackled in chains. This is a tremendous profession. There are lots of neat people, and you get to do cool things. If I had to say something negative, it's that there's often a whole lot of travel that takes me away from my children. That can be a bummer a lot of times.
~ Alan Stern
Chainschains that hold me to the groundchains that keep me solidly boundchains that tether my heart to youchains that only one truth...
~ Muse, Enigmatic Evolution