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Quotes About Chain

For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.
~ George Herbert
For she was his secret treasure, she was his shame and his bliss. And a chain and a keep are nothing, compared to a woman's kiss.
~ George R.R. Martin
We are accustomed to think of events as a sequence of facts: one set of facts follows another in a never-ending chain. When a situation has thinking participants, the chain does not lead directly from fact to fact. It links a fact to the participants' thinking and then connects the participants' thinking to the next set of facts.
~ George Soros
A life is only a link in the chain. I want other people to continue the experience begun by those before me and dedicate themselves like me and the others before me to this--to go to the furthest reaches of the possible.
~ Georges Bataille
A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; for want of a horse, the battle was lost; for want of the battle, the war was lost.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Butch came in from the kitchen, Bud in one hand, sandwich in the other. "Hey, big man. S'up?" "I want the two of you to chain me to my bed.
~ J.R. Ward
and all things tied together all over like rain connecting everybody the world over by chain touch.
~ Jack Kerouac
With the very rapid expansion of distribution platforms, we want to be in the supply chain with as many types of programs as we can.
~ Haim Saban
God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Ooh, ah, ooh, ah, that's the sound of the men working on the chain gang.
~ Sam Cooke
When you think of ghosts wailing and suffering, you don't think of it as constant and eternal, do you? Bit of wailing around midnight, chain rattling and a cold breeze, grab an ankle on the stairs now and again to really get them shitting themselves, then you're on about your day, aren't you?
~ Christopher Moore
It had seemed a good idea at the time to order the furniture for her new home online from a chain retailer.
~ Val McDermid
She had no recollection, later, of having decided what to do next, or of having hunted for something to wear, but somehow she was hurrying down the stairs, dressed in shadowhunter gear, the letter in one hand and the chain with the ring clasped hastily around her throat.
~ Cassandra Clare
Remember: "For want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost, for want of a horseshoe, the horse was lost, for want of a horse, the battle was lost, for want of a battle, the war was lost." This parable should be the mantra of everyone who thinks her or his vote doesn't count.
~ Gloria Steinem
To make a pledge of any kind is to declare war against nature; for a pledge is a chain that is always clanking and reminding the wearer of it that he is not a free man.
~ Mark Twain
Heartbreak wanders throughout the body — it's a lack of oxygen to the soul, a chain dragging from the mind, a poisoning of the blood, a sorrowful symphony drowning out all else.
~ Terri Guillemets
Old longings nomadic leap, Chafing at custom's chain; Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain.
~ Jack London
Old longings nomadic leap, Chafing at custom's chain; Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain.
~ Jack London
The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east.
~ James A. Michener
It was a silver watch with a matching chain and fob, and on the back was an engraving of Samaranth. 'Is it a time machine?' Jack asked. 'Will it let us travel through time?' 'I believe it will,' Ordo Maas replied. 'I've found that for every minute I watch it, I move a full minute farther into the future.
~ James A. Owen
Fate is a sempiternal and unchangeable series and chain of things, rolling and unraveling itself through eternal sequences of cause and effect, of which it is composed and compounded.
~ Chrysippus
Olympic Style lifting compliments sprint training perfectly. It does this by making sure everything in the body is 'fully connected.' This is based on the principle that all movements have a kinetic chain.
~ Linford Christie
If you're ordering chain, you're a person with poor taste. Everyone lives near a pizza place that's better than a chain. They can't stand up to a local pizzeria.
~ Dave Portnoy
There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
~ Joseph Addison