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Quotes About Chains

In the U.K., we have a lot of independent traders, as well as the Hobbycraft chain, but the U.S. has four of five big chains, which makes crafting very accessible for people and makes it a totally different proposition.
~ Sara Davies
Most people think when the world gets itself together, we'll all be okay. I don't see that situation arriving. I think one by one, we all free ourselves from the chains we have chained ourselves to. But I don't think that suddenly some magic happens and the whole lot of us will all be liberated in one throw.
~ George Harrison
Hagar, the witch, chanted an awful incantation over her kettleful of simmering toads, with weird effect. Roderigo rent his chains asunder manfully, and Hugo died in agonies of remorse and arsenic, with a wild, Ha! Ha! It's the best we've had yet, said Meg, as the dead villain sat up and rubbed
~ Louisa May Alcott
You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery.
~ Ronald Reagan
El hombre ha nacido libre y por doquiera se encuentra sujeto con cadenas.
~ Rousseau
Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set free from family, church, town, class, guild; yet they wear, instead, the chains of the state, and they expire of ennui or stifling lone lines.
~ Russell Kirk
Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Je hais, pour ma part, ces systèmes absolus, qui font dépendre tous les événements de l'histoire de quelques causes premières se liant les unes aux autres par une chaîne fatale, et qui suppriment, pour ainsi dire, les hommes de l'histoire du genre humain. Je les trouve étroits dans leur prétendue grandeur, et faux sous leurs airs de vérités mathématiques.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
She thought she could have what she wanted; she thought she could see the world from above, as if it were a distant blue ball whose sorrows had nothing to do with her. She had wanted to be a bird, but now she knew, as she looked out the window to see Lewis following, that even birds are chained to earth by their needs and desires.
~ Alice Hoffman
But chains made out of blood and memory were a thousand times more difficult to sever than those made of steel, and the past could overtake a person if she wasn't careful
~ Alice Hoffman
Vigyázz az eskükkel, Tüske! Mindegyik egy-egy lánc, ami lehúz.
~ Joe Abercrombie
no one knew exactly what sort of forces held the small molecules together, so Carothers applied himself to solving the problem. He quickly concluded that there was no great mystery. Scientists already understood that atoms in molecules were held together by the sharing of electrons. Such covalent bonds could also be forged, Carothers surmised, between atoms of different molecules, creating a long chain.
~ Joe Schwarcz
Knowing that you're loved is what will give you the strength to do better and to break any chains that are holding you back.
~ Joel Osteen
your words are pure poison, Master Reynold,' said Lesthen. 'You and your kind suffer from the worst disease of humanity, the willingness to subordinate truth, to lock reason in chains and to rape the objective thought, in order to achieve your objective.
~ Joel Shepherd
If ever I to the moment shall say: Beautiful moment, do not pass away! Then you may forge your chains to bind me, Then I will put my life behind me, Then let them hear my death-knell toll, Then from your labours you'll be free, The clock may stop, the clock-hands fall, And time come to an end for me!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
~ Dylan Thomas
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
~ Voltaire
Freedom is living without chains.
~ Indra Devi
Evil claims to be natural, and this is the heart of its deceit. Sin rarely declares itself as sin, and the sinner tends to claim some high motive and some pink-and-white complexion for each decay. Each enslavement to sin calls itself a new form of liberation as it tightens its chains. Rare is the tyrant who does not cloak his extravagant selfishness in the titles of altruism and affected goodwill.
~ Fr. George Rutler
İşkence çeken insanl???n zincirleri büro kâ??tlar?ndand?r.
~ Franz Kafka
On ne peut pas briser de chaînes quand il n'y en a pas de visibles.
~ Franz Kafka
Socrates' cave represents the world of our "received beliefs." Each of us harbors a myriad of ideas, attitudes, and opinions that have been "programmed" into us by our upbringing, schooling, culture, and social and media environment. The "chains" that bind us to these ideas are our understandable desire to please others, to be accepted, and to save ourselves the effort of thinking things through ourselves.
~ Ronald Gross
Quien no se mueve no siente sus cadenas
~ Rosa Luxemburgo
After all, could anything worse befall me that what I had suffered and was still suffering at home? No doubt, I was only heading for new chains, but they surely wouldn't seem heavier than the ones I had just ripped from my ankles...
~ Luigi Pirandello