Chains Quotes - Page 28

• To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Ideas, Heaven, Links

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• It is a great mistake for presidents and other leading executives of organizations having branches throughout the country to chain themselves to their desks at headquarters and send out rigid instructions to those in charge of distant branches and offices. Because a man sits in a palatial office in New York or Chicago or Philadelphia or Detroit and draws a big salary, it does not necessarily follow that he knows better than the man on the spot what ought to be done.... Paul, Caesar, Napoleon did not merely sit at home and issue long-range instructions.

  B. C. Forbes

  Country, New York, Mistake

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• Let us investigate more closely this property common to animal and plant, this power of producing its likeness, this chain of successive existences of individuals, which constitutes the real existence of the species.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Real, Animal, Common

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• So if hunger provokes wailing and wailing brings the breast; if the breast permits sucking and milk suggests its swallow; if swallowing issues in sleep and stomachy comfort, then need, ache, message, object, act, and satisfaction are soon associated like charms on a chain; shortly our wants begin to envision the things which well reduce them, and the organism is finally said to wish.

  William H. Gass

  Sleep, Issues, Wish

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• Time knows not the weight of sleep or weariness, and night's deep darkness has no chain to bind his rushing pinion.

  George D. Prentice

  Time, Sleep, Night

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• Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made.

  Decimius Magnus Ausonius

  Self Made, Made, Blacksmiths

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• It is a much easier thing to unloose the demon war than to chain him up again.

  Moncure D. Conway

  War, Demon, Easier

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• War is a monster with snaky locks, and fiery bloodshot eyes, and harpy claws, passing over fair fields and leaving its footprints in burning villages, dying men, weeping wives and children, and needs to be seen by those who so eagerly clamour for it at every opportunity. The sight of that fearful phantom, girt round with skulls, chains reeking with blood and desolation and ruin in its track, would stop their eagerness for it, unless under real compulsion.

  Moncure D. Conway

  Children, Real, War

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• Before it's too late, and time is running out, let us turn from trust in the chain reactions of exploding atoms to faith of the chain reaction of God's love. Love - love of God and fellow men. That is God's formula for peace.

  Richard Cushing

  Running, Peace, Men

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• The Hebrew language... is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain of time.... It binds us to those who built pyramids, to those who shed their blood on the ramparts of Jerusalem, and to those who, at the burning stakes, cried Shema Yisrael!

  I. L. Peretz

  Pyramids, Blood, Together

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• ... there are no chains so galling as the chains of ignorance--no fetters so binding as those that bind the soul, and exclude it from the vast field of useful and scientific knowledge. O, had I received the advantages of early education, my ideas would, ere now, have expanded far and wide; but, alas! I possess nothing but moral capability--no teachings but the teachings of the Holy Spirit.

  Maria W. Stewart

  Education, Teaching, Ignorance

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• But for the cravings of the belly not a bird would have fallen into the snare; nay, nay, the fowler would not have spread his net. The belly is chains to the hands and fetters to the feet. He who is a slave to his belly seldom worships God.

  Saadi

  Feet, Hands, Bird

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• Woman has so long been subject to the disabilities and restrictions with which her progress has been embarrassed that she has become enervated, her mind to some extent paralyzed; and like those still more degraded by personal bondage she hugs her chains.

  Lucretia Mott

  Long, Hug, Mind

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• Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Suffering, Ease

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• We say no to the peace that keeps us on our knees, no to the peace that keeps us in chains, no to the false peace that denies the values and contributions of our peoples.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Knees, Deny, Contribution

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• Satan's gotta get along without me. Since I've broke the chain of sin I know for sure that he can't win.

  Buck Owens

  Winning, Sin, Satan

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• The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. Caught up in a plethora of conditioned reflexes and driven by the human ego, both warden and prisoner attempt meagerly to compete with God. All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Dark, Thinking, Persistence

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• Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fate, Men, Wish

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• If a man can say 'My life is more important than my country,' that man has succeeded in freeing himself from the chains of society!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Country, Men

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• The Christmas gift of peace was the uncoiling of the links of a triple chain that first unites a person with God, then with himself, then with his neighbor.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Links, Firsts, Neighbor

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• I'm goin' where the wind don't blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.

  Jerry Garcia

  Blow, Wind, Mountain

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• Hereafter we all have to be redeemed. The world is pulling with a thousand strings. We sin because of indifference and negligence and heap new guilt on the old original one. Our life is a
  chain of sin and expiation controlled by a destiny that can not be understood.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Destiny, Guilt, World

  "Michael: a German fate in diary notes". Book by Joseph Goebbels, 1926.

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• We are all an integral part of the chain of life.

  Jacque Fresco

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• All over East Africa-indeed, all over Africa-it is normal for people to walk a kilometer or two or six for water. In more arid areas, people walk even greater distances, and sometimes all they find at the end is a pond slimy with overuse. More than 90 percent of Africans still dig for their water, and waterborne diseases such as typhoid, dysentery, bilharzia, and cholera are common. The bodies of many Africans are a stew of parasites. In some areas the wells are so far below the earth's surface that chains of people are required to pass up the water.

  Marq de Villiers

  Distance, Two, People

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• We continually make decisions in private which affect the commonweal, as the ecologists (to take but one example) have shown us. When I keep my house warmer than it needs to be, I consume fuel which might help someone else keep warm, or keep a job. When the food I eat is high on the protein chain I contribute to a maldistribution of protein around the world. When I teach my children to be primarily concerned with private gain, I diminish the ranks of public leadership in the rising generation.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Jobs, Children, Decision

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