Quotes About Chain

For some, the past is a chain, each day a link, raveling backward to one ringbolt or another, in one dark place or another, and tomorrow is a slave to yesterday.

The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours." —Sigmund Freud

I could have constructed a timetable of their comings and goings, their daily habits and activities.... The chain of little habits that were their lives unreeled themselves. They were all bound in them tighter than the tightest straitjacket any jailer ever devised, though they all thought themselves free.... The first link, of the so-strong chain of habits, of custom, that binds us all, had snapped wide open.

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

Ah! Journeyman cackled... Finally! Carefully now, man. If you crack one of my new crystals, I'll hoist you up on a spike! Grimm cleared his throat calmly. Journeyman squinted over his shoulder. Ah, he said. That is, I will report you to... to... the proper person in the chain of command, who will make decisions about discipline that are not mine to make.

In this section of chapters, we'll cover five tests every good strategy must pass: A distinctive value proposition A tailored value chain Trade-offs different from rivals Fit across value chain Continuity over time

Teaching didn't pay well enough for any luxuries, and Hannah thought that was a shame. There was something really wrong with the system when a teacher could make more money flipping burgers at a fast-food chain.

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain

Duty is a good thing, a calling without which no civilization can survive, but it is also a weight and chain that sometimes seems sure to sink you to the airless bottom of a dark pool

Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.

In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.

The danger of dioxins in our environment, our food chain, and our bodies is difficult to illustrate, since they are not visible to the naked eye. My time in Vietnam allowed me to see the result of large quantities of them and therefore understand better the insidiousness of the smaller quantities that have found their way into our lives and bodies.

I do know that there are some things, though, that occur without a direct line of antecedents.

When darkness falls and eyes stay shutA chain of voices opens up.Let wax not wane give breath to death.p.s. Shhh" -Yvonne Woon(Dead Beautiful)

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.

Memories are links in a golden chain that bind us until we meet again.

The great chain of fear.

For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.

People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.

But the chain of circumstances linked up, imprisoning her, the victim of an illness that has no remedy because it has no reason.

I believe in no God, no invisible man in the sky. But there is something more powerful than each of us, a combination of our efforts, a Great Chain of industry that unites us. But it is only when we struggle in our own interest that the chain pulls society in the right direction. The chain is too powerful and too mysterious for any government to guide. Any man who tells you different either has his hand in your pocket, or a pistol to your neck. —Andrew Ryan

One word set off others like a string of firecrackers.

Extinction is not an event, it is a chain reaction!