Chained Quotes - Page 4

• In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Fate, Squares, India

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• I liked to go to court. I became a lawyer because of the allure of the courtroom, not necessarily to be chained to an office desk.

  John E. Jones III

  Office, Lawyer, Court

  Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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• Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear.

  Tupac Shakur

  Taken, Fighting, Rapper

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• Blind hope. Blind hope is all we have. There's a Greek tragedy called Prometheus Bound; Prometheus is the [titan] that gave humans fire. He's chained to a rock and bemoaning his fate and saying, "I gave you everything. By giving you fire, I gave you blind hope. By giving you a little light that kept you warm at night, I let you believe that this was all going to be okay." For me, that's what art has been. Music and books, it's an act of hope to make them, and it's an act of hope to listen to them. That hope will be dashed, you will say goodbye.

  Torquil Campbell

  Goodbye, Art, Believe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him to accompany me and to become my fellow student, but in vain. His father was a narrow-minded trader, and saw idleness and ruin in the aspirations and ambition of his son. Henry deeply felt the misfortune of being debarred from a liberal education. He said little, but when he spoke I read in his kindling eye and in his animated glance a restrained but firm resolve not to be chained to the miserable details of commerce.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Father, Eye, Ambition

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2005). “Frankenstein”, p.36, Prestwick House Inc

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• There is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your 'demand' on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You're Arguing with 'What Is' - Your demands keep you chained to the 'dream-state' of the conditioned mind. The desire to 'control'... is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake.

  Adyashanti

  Letting Go, Dream, Simple

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• One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended solely for self-flagellation... I'm here alone in my dark madness, all by myself with my deck of cards - and, of course, the whip God gave me.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Dark, Self

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• Everyone's the same.  All brains are contained by their reality frame and chained to the terrain that they're trained not to change and once you see what I've explained you've hit the jackpot.

  Eyedea

  Reality, Brain, Jackpot

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• Susan Wojcicki at Google makes a point to leave the office at 6 P.M. After 9 P.M. she gets back online to handle any pressing work issues that need her attention. She told us she hopes that sends a message to all parents that it's OK to spend time away from the office. All the women we spoke to on the show use technology in a similar way. They are very clear that they don't need to be chained to a desk. They can take time out of their work day to be with their families.

  Willow Bay

  Technology, Issues, Office

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• You sittin' here chained to your rockin' chair.

  Hoagy Carmichael

  Chairs

  Song: Rockin' Chair

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• For each human being there is an optimum ratio between change and stasis. Too little change, he grows bored. Too little stability, he panics and loses his ability to adapt. One who marries six times in ten years won't change jobs. One who moves often to serve his company will maintain a stable marriage. A woman chained to one home and family may redecorate frantically or take a lover or go to many costume parties.

  Larry Niven

  Jobs, Party, Moving

  Larry Niven, John Brunner, Jack Vance (1973). “Three trips in time and space: original novellas of science fiction”

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• The essence of religion is inertia; the essence of science is change. It is the function of the one to preserve, it is the function of the other to improve. If, as in Egypt, they are firmly chained together, either science will advance, in which case the religion will be altered, or the religion will preserve its purity, and science will congeal.

  William Winwood Reade

  Egypt, Essence, Together

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.41

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• The Library didn't only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren't also dangerous, just because reading them didn't make fireworks go off in the sky. Reading them sometimes did the more dangeous trick of making fireworks go off in the privacy of the reader's brain.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mistake, Book, Reading

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.152, Random House

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• There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.

  Bruce Campbell

  Years, Ideas, Hollywood

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• Mickey is a secret journal chained closed with a padlock, slammed inside a vault and dropped into the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

  Noel Fisher

  Ocean, Secret, Padlocks

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• While I was chained to a wall and being tortured, I realized, through the screaming of my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It doesn't sound like much, I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when it's all you've got, that freedom is a universe of possibility. And the choice you make between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Wall, Hate, Men

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• There are internal chains and external chains. All the external chains in the world won't enslave you, if you are free inside. And all the external 'freedom' in the world won't liberate you, if you are chained inside.
  Let go. And you'll know Freedom.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Letting Go, World, Chains

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• Your religions are boring you, your philosophies are boring you, your scriptures are boring you. Thousands of years of the past are the cause of your boredom. You cannot dance - you are chained to the past, you are imprisoned in the past.

  Rajneesh

  Philosophy, Past, Years

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• Enormous and solid but swaying, beaten by the wind but chained, murmur of a million leaves against my window. Riot of trees, surge of dark green sounds. The grove, suddenly still, is a web of fronds and branches.

  Octavio Paz

  Dark, Wind, Tree

  Octavio Paz (1979). “A Draft of Shadows, and Other Poems”, p.51, New Directions Publishing

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• You need to know that you can't honor God when you're chained to the voice and opinions of man.

  Tyler Perry

  Men, Voice, Honor

  Twitter post from Jan 19, 2015

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• The President's policy proposal, known as 'chained CPI,' would re-calculate the cost of living for Social Security beneficiaries. That new number won't keep up with inflation on things like food and health care -- the basics that we need to live. In short, 'chained CPI' is just a fancy way to say 'cut benefits for seniors, the permanently disabled, and orphans.'

  Elizabeth Warren

  Senior, Cutting, Numbers

  "Elizabeth Warren ‘Shocked’ At White House Plan To Cut Social Security With Chained CPI" By Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2013.

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• But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or live. Chained by his servitude he is a slave who has forfeited all freedom. Only a person who risks is free. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; and the realist adjusts the sails

  William Arthur Ward

  Taken, Climbing, Wind

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• How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

  Ibn Arabi

  Heart, Desire

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• Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group - whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective thought for the sake of what is called 'the common good'.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Class

  "The Only Path to Tommorow". Readers Digest, pp. 88-90, January, 1944.

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• When I talk of forgiveness I mean the belief that you can come out the other side ... a better person than the one being consumed by anger and hatred. Remaining in that state locks you in a state of victimhood, making you almost dependent on the perpetrator. If you can find it in yourself to forgive then you are no longer chained to the perpetrator. You can move on.

  Desmond Tutu

  Moving, Mean, Hatred

  "After Ferguson we need a national commission on justice" by Donna Brazile, www.cnn.com. December 1, 2014.

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