Chains Quotes - Page 24

• Froi saw the foolishness of dreamers, and he decided he'd like to die so foolish. With a dream in his heart about the possibilities, rather than a chain of hopelessness.

  Melina Marchetta

  Dream, Heart, Saws

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• He could still see the dragon just fine. It was about sixty feet long, snout to tail, its body made of interlocking bronze plates. Its claws were the size of butcher knives, and its mouth was lined with hundreds of dagger-sharp metal teeth. Steam came out of its nostrils. It snarled like a chain saw cutting through a tree.

  Rick Riordan

  Cutting, Knives, Feet

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• It would be easy to become a victim of our circumstances and continue feeling sad, scared or angry; or instead, we could choose to deal with injustice humanely and break the chains of negative thoughts and energies, and not let ourselves sink into it.

  Erin Gruwell

  Feelings, Feeling Sad, Energy

  The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell (2007). “The Freedom Writers Diary (Movie Tie-in Edition): How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them”, p.14, Broadway Books

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• Magnus had been alive hundreds of years himself, and yet the simplest things could turn a day into a jewel, and a succession of days into a glittering chain that went on and on. Here was the simplest thing: a pretty girl liked him, and the day shone.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Jewels, Years

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Tyson charged at the Cyclops leader, Ma Gasket, her chain-mail dress spattered with mud and decorated with broken spears. She gawked at Tyson and started to say, “Who—?” 463/508 Tyson hit her in the head so hard, she spun in a circle and landed on her rump. “Bad Cyclops Lady!” he bell owed. “General Tyson says GO AWAY!” He hit her again, and Ma Gasket broke into dust.

  Rick Riordan

  Dust, Circles, Broken

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• The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean.

  Daniel Clowes

  Mean, Smoking, Guy

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• Only the fire of life can melt the chains of death.

  Rick Riordan

  Fire

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• What's so funny?" "Your panties have a bow," he said. I looked down. I was wearing a short tank top -not mine- and my blue panties with a narrow white strip of lace at the top and a tiny white bow. Would it have killed me to check what I was wearing before I pulled the blanket down? "What's wrong with bows?" "Nothing." He was grinning now. "I expected barbed wire. Or one of those steel chains." Wiseass. "I'm secure enough in myself to wear panties with bows on them. Besides, they are comfy and soft." "I bet.

  Ilona Andrews

  Blue, White, Wire

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.97, Penguin

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• This is what you do now to give your day topography--scan the boxes, read the news, see the chain of your friends reporting about themselves, take the 140-character expository bursts and sift through for the information you need. It's a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn't really care what you have to say. The illusion of participation can sometimes lead to participation. But more often than not, it only leads to more illusion, dressed in the guise of reality.

  David Levithan

  Character, Reality, Giving

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• 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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• 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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• Sins are like chains and locks preventing their perpetrator from roaming the vast garden of Tawheed and reaping the fruits of righteous actions.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Garden, Locks, Roaming

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Do not worry! Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are what cause anxiety. The heart which clings to goods receives with them the choking burden of worry. Worry collects treasures, and treasures produce more worries. We desire to secure our lives with earthly goods; we want our worrying to make us worry-free, but the truth is the opposite. The chains which bind us to earthly goods, the clutches which hold the goods tight, are themselves worries.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Believe, Heart, Opposites

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