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Quotes About Chains

Satan is a liar. He wants to steal our joy and replace it with hopelessness. When we're up against a struggle and we think we can't keep going, we can change that by praising God. Our chains will fall from us. Meese encouraged me by reminding me of the real reason we have for fully living this life. It's to give everything we have to God--even the heartbreaks and pain. God is our reason to live.
~ Don Piper
The outer chains have simply been put inside of man. The desires and thoughts that the suggestion apparatus of society fills him with, chain him more thoroughly than outer chains. This is so because man can at least be aware of outer chains but be unaware of inner chains, carrying them with the illusion that he is free. He can try to overthrow the outer chains, but how can he rid himself of chains of whose existence he is unaware? Any
~ Erich Fromm
What usually frightens people? A monster. They say it's small, hunchbacked, bristling like a Urcheon. It creeps around the castle at night, rattles chains. Moans and groans in the chambers.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Scalability is this idea of coming up with a blockchain that can scale much larger than existing chains essentially by processing transactions in parallel. And moving away from this paradigm where every single node on the network has to process every single transaction.
~ Vitalik Buterin
America is beyond power; it acts as in a dream, as a face of God. Wherever America is, there is freedom, and wherever America is not, madness rules with chains, darkness strangles millions. Beneath her patient bombers, paradise is possible.
~ John Updike
Ensuring the respect of international humanitarian law and principles is one of the key areas necessary to establish accountability chains.
~ Peter Maurer
Production chains, how consumers can drive change: all these things may seem at odds with fashion, but arguably, they're not.
~ Lily Cole
Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light and chains to liberty. The more true information we can acquire, the better for our enfranchisement.
~ ROBERT HUGH BENSON
The letter should have been a thousand pages long. It should have talked about the end of evolutionary chains and the loss of free range, about cowboys struggling with the corners of the wire, like the corn husks of winter.
~ Robert James Waller
I knew that it would be called the United States. But I refused to speak that name. there was nothing united about a nation that said all men were created equal, but that kept my people in chains
~ Lawrence Hill
The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against traditional religion as the opium of the masses—cannot hear the music of the spheres.
~ Albert Einstein
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.
~ Aldous Huxley
The old man began to lose heart at this endless return of chains, this rebirth of shackles, this proliferation of suffering, which the more resigned began to accept as proof of the uselessness of all revolt (171-172).
~ Alejo Carpentier
Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.
~ Douglas William Jerrold
Freedom of mind is the Real Freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains is a Slave, not a Free Man.
~ Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
There's no chains to hold you now. Break out those sails and watch them fill with the wind that's carrying us all to freedom!
~ Dr. Peter Blood
Peace is a lie. There is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength. Through strength, I gain power. Through power, I gain victory. Through victory, my chains are broken. The Code of the Sith
~ Drew Karpyshyn
We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us.
~ Bradley Whitford
What they sell to the masses are the chains you must break if you are ever to be in control of your life.
~ Michael Dolan
They put chains on me they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing.
~ Jim Bakker
You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen the way it does in books. It makes those chains of coincidence. That's what it is.
~ Jo Walton
Whirlwind's configuration of activities produces a different kind of value with a different cost profile. Looking at competing value chains side by side highlights those differences. If your value chain looks like everyone else's, then you are engaged in competition to be the best.
~ Joan Magretta
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
~ Anne Sullivan
I'm obviously very hippie-like, and I'm always in a different city and town and country, and I thought, 'Why is it that the big food chains are always so promoted? I want the whole ingredients. I don't want preservatives. I want what this town and these farmers produce and see how their chefs create.'
~ Brie Bella