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Quotes About Chains

retail chains charge tens of thousands of dollars to place a particular candy bar in the racks near the register. Very few people, after all, head into
~ Steve Almond
Woe is me! The winged words on which my soul would pierce Into the heights of love's rare universe, Are chains of lead around its flight of fire-- I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Some people at the party, she adds, are freaks, then mentions a drug I've never heard of, and tells me a story that involves ski masks, zombies, a van, chains, a secret community, and asks me about a Hispanic girl who disappeared in some desert.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
The sheer number of ways that twenty distinct amino acids can be linked in a long chain makes this evident: for a chain with one hundred and fifty amino acids (a small protein), there are about 10195 different arrangements, far larger than the number of particles in the observable universe.
~ Brian Greene
Chains...They bind us, whether we want them to or not. But a heart without chains would have nothing to hold it, might simply blow away.
~ Bruce Coville
Not untill all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son. But in a totalitarian future that has removed procreation from woman's hands, there will also be no affect and no art. Men will be machines, without pain but also without pleasure. Imagination has a price, which we are paying every day. There is no escape from the biologic chains that bind us.
~ Camille Paglia
What on the surface seems obvious and clear is mired in chains of details that are interlinked and sometimes unbreakable.
~ Terry Brooks
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.
~ Terry Goodkind
Is It Frightening To Be Free? You said it. You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves? Seems to be a major human activity, yes.
~ Terry Pratchett
If Bodhidharma is the ideal man, it is because his image is that of a hero who has broken the chains of illusion that enclose man in the world of emotions. The hammer that is used to break these chains is the practice of Zen.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Deals with the devil, Ms. Lane, never go well. That's a given. You will not make one again. Do you understand me? If I have to chain you to a fucking wall to protect you from your own stupidity, I will!" He glared at me. I rattled my chains. "Wrists. Beam. Chained already, Barrons. Come up with a new threat." I glared back.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Sometimes the things we think will set us free Ã¢â'¬Â¦ only make more chains. You either wear them or break them, and I Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well, I don't want to wear them.
~ Karen Marie Moning
It is the hour to rend thy chains, The blossom time of souls.
~ Katherine Lee Bates
2Pet. 2:4-5 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell [tartaroo] and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah.
~ Brian Godawa
Jude 6-7 And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day— just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in gross immorality and pursued strange flesh, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
~ Brian Godawa
Then you know Prometheus was rescued in the end. His chains were broken, and he was finally set free." The old man squinted one of his eyes and added, "How about that?
~ Brian Selznick
freedom in its essence is the acceptance of the chains which suit you and for which you are suited, and of the harness in which you pull towards an end chosen and valued by yourself, and not imposed. It is not, and never can be, the absence of restrictions, obligations or law and of duty.
~ Bronislaw Malinowski
Chains," said the Tinker, coming up behind her. "They bind us, whether we want them to or not. But a heart without chains would have nothing to hold it, might simply blow away.
~ Bruce Coville
They were villages forgotten in the depth of time, peopled by creatures chained forever to their tiny destinies.
~ Bruno Schulz
Far from the hateful cause of all his woes. Neleus his treasures one long year detains, As long he groan'd in Philacus' chains: Meantime, what anguish and what rage combined For lovely Pero rack'd his labouring mind!
~ Homer
Marriage, family, and debt; in a sense, another kind of slavery.
~ Huey P. Newton
Should I bring my own chains this time? Or do you have bigger plans, and this is some sort of freaky murder foreplay"—why did the word foreplay just come out of my mouth?—"and I'll end up cut up into small pieces inside some freezer at the end? I can just spray myself with mace and shoot myself in the head now and save you the trouble.
~ Ilona Andrews
Fast food chains spend a large amount of marketing to get the attention of children. People form their eating habits as children so they try to nurture clients as youngsters.
~ Eric Schlosser
Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.
~ Andy Warhol