Quotes About Chains

So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we have the key.

Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong naming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition ; there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.

180] Caught in a fiery tempest shall be hurled Each on his rock transfixed, the sport and prey Of racking whirlwinds, or for ever sunk Under yon boiling ocean, wrapped in chains; There to converse with everlasting groans, [185] Unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved, Ages of hopeless end; this would be worse.

Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

The chains had fallen from her leg, but not from her mind.

Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear. I was alone, and never free, for I carried my chains within me, and they spread out from me and shackled all I touched.

She had chained herself to her place in society and the family through the maternal functions of her nature, and only chains thus strong could have bound her lot as a brood animal for the masculine civilizations of the world.

The whole problem of industrial agriculture is putting all of your eggs in one basket. We need to diversify our food chains as well as our fields so that when some of them fail, we can still eat.

Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --

I preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.

Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.

A mans spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!

Love is not something that you can put chains on and throw into a lake. That's called Houdini. Love is liking someone a lot.

The chains of love are never binding as when the links are made of gold.

gravity chains us to the asphalt with such grace, we think it is kind.

Archimedes once said that 'Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.' There is a much more difficult task than this: To try to lift an ignorant up from where he stands, because he is heavily chained to the stupidity!

Not all the chains are bad and not all the freedoms are good!

Gargoyles sat on the battlements- lean they were and the same hideous damp grey as the stone. They looked at her with hollow eyes and rattled their silver chains. They had wings of bats or wings or birds, most of them, and licked their beaks or teeth with forked or double tongues. Two paced restlessly before their platforms; others whined or picked their claws or groomed their mangy fur or feathers or lizard skin or scales.

Do you see why we must bind? I wore the chains for you, céadsearc, because I almost mated with you that first night… I have not taken from you because I burn for you… I wanted you to have a choice. Every day that I am near you… every day that I share your thoughts… it becomes more difficult to resist you.

The memories you have are just recordings of things past, not chains to bind you.

Reason is the hero who breaks the chains of our prejudice, saving us from the prison of our comfortable acquiescence in the way of the world.