Chains Quotes - Page 22

• If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Men, Burden, Should

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.471, Macmillan

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• When I looked at the painting I felt the same convergence on a single point: a flickering sun-struck instance that existed now and forever. Only occasionally did I notice the chain on the finch's ankle, or think what a cruel life for a little living creature - fluttering briefly, forced always to land in the same hopeless place.

  Donna Tartt

  Thinking, Land, Forever

  "The Goldfinch". Book by Donna Tartt, 2013.

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• 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

  Time, Mean, Sea

  "Fern Hill" l. 52 (1946)

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• Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth, in want, in freedom, or in chains, in dungeons or on thrones, the faithful find thee.

  Hannah More

  Time, Art, Space

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• Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a link in the chain of beauty, as a useful ornament for the stage, and this, in turn, as an important element in the spiritual development of nations.

  August Bournonville

  Dance, Spiritual, Art

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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• Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Family, Children, Parenting

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too 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.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Forgiveness, Sacrifice, Forgiving

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• The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.

  Pyotr Chaadayev

  Freedom, Ideas, Democracy

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• If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, War, Democracy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.142, Penguin

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• When I first came in, I partied and had a good time. I used to spend $500,000 on chains that don't make no sense. Then I started having babies. I don't do the bull**** no more.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Baby, Bulls

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• The sad part is that all we're trying to do is not feel that underlying uneasiness. The sadder part is that we proceed in such a way that the uneasiness only gets worse. The message here is that the only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the tightening, learn to stay with the itch and urge of shenpa, so that the habitual chain reaction doesn't continue to rule our lives, and the patterns that we consider unhelpful don't keep getting stronger as the days and months and years go by.

  Pema Chodron

  Pain, Years, Trying

  Pema Chodron (2009). “Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears”, p.28, Shambhala Publications

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• What happened there was they were moving the chains and we had the call made. We were really trying to get two plays if we could have rather than use the timeout thereafter.

  Les Miles

  Moving, Lsu, Play

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• Production chains, how consumers can drive change: all these things may seem at odds with fashion, but arguably, they're not.

  Lily Cole

  Fashion, Odds, May

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain

  Peter Benchley

  Ocean, Sharks, Predator

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• And regulation entails organizational effectiveness, a chain of command, and a structure for logistical support.

  Sun Tzu

  Effectiveness, Support, Regulation

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• A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection;
  And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Rust, Letters, Affection

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1850). “Complete Poetical Works: Containing Proverbial Philosophy, A Thousand Lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, and Miscellaneous Poems, with a Portrait of the Author”, p.81

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• Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more important than what you say.

  Ann Landers

  Thinking, Talking, Voice

  Ann Landers (1981). “Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”, Ballantine Books

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• At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Country, Men, Perfect

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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• Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.

  Plato

  Moving, Men, Together

  Plato (1851). “The Works of Plato: Philebus, Charmides, Laches, Menexenus, Hippias major, Hippias minor, Ion, First Alcibiades, Second Alcibiades, Theages, The rivals, Hipparchus. Minos, Clitopho, The epistles”, p.295

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• When I go to bed at night, I've got so much grease on my body I wear snow chains to hold up my gown.

  Phyllis Diller

  Night, Snow, Grease

  Phyllis Diller (2006). “Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy”, p.209, Penguin

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• If e'er I win a parting token,
  'Tis something that has lost its power--
  A chain that has been used and broken,
  A ruin'd glove, a faded flower;
  Something that makes my pleasure less,
  Something that means--forgetfulness.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Flower, Mean, Winning

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• Fond of those hives where folly reigns,
  And cards and scandal are the chains,
  Where the pert virgin slights a name,
  And scorns to redden into shame.

  Jonathan Swift

  Names, Reign, Scandal

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• To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Mother, Children, Childhood

  Benjamin Disraeli (1864). “Venetia”, p.210

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• Hurt people hurt people. That's how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.

  Yehuda Berg

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  FaceBook post by Yehuda Berg from Sep 07, 2016

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• I have seen ministers of justice, clothed in magisterial robes and criminals arraigned before them, while life was suspended on a breath in the courts of England; I have witnessed a congress in solemn session to give laws to nations;...but dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains at midnight, in a dungeon, in an obscure village of Missouri.

  Parley P. Pratt

  Law, Giving, Justice

  Parley P. Pratt (2008). “Spirituality: The Key to the Science of Theology”, p.11, Cedar Fort

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