Chains Quotes - Page 30

• The thought "It's impossible" sets off a chain reaction of other thoughts to prove you're right.

  David J. Schwartz

  Impossible, Chain Reactions, Prove

  David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.73, Penguin

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• We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Love, Friendship, Mean

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• Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.

  Stephen Graham

  Life, Science, Events

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• So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

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• Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.

  Giovanni Ruffini

  Class, Gold, Riches

  Giovanni Ruffini (1858). “Doctor Antonio. A tale. By the author of Lorenzo Benoni [i.e. Giovanni Domenico Ruffini].”, p.144

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• That's the thing about zombies. They don't adapt and they don't think. Literally, you could have a zombie on one side of a chain link fence and you could be on the other side and they could be trying to get to you and six feet down could be an open door and they will not go through that door in the fence. That's why they're so scary.

  Max Brooks

  Thinking, Doors, Feet

  "'I’m Just A Zombie Nerd' The Max Brooks Interview, Part One". Interview with Allie Townsend, techland.time.com. July 15, 2010.

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• We live in such a service-based, globalised economy where very few people actually make anything and the people who do make stuff... it's all part of a massive global supply chain. So what if all those chains were suddenly cut, how would you make something? How would you keep people alive? And that was something I wanted to explore.

  Max Brooks

  Cutting, People, What If

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• I think swag is very important to rappers. It's the overall appearance and style of an artist - these blue shorts and this blue hat and this $80,000 chain, this jewelry and all these tattoos, that's swag.

  Soulja Boy

  Tattoo, Artist, Thinking

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• I have this necklace I always wear. I collect pendants from people I love; my best friends and members of my family have all given me one, and I put them on this chain so no matter where I am they're always with me.

  Lake Bell

  People, My Best Friend, Necklaces

  "Lake Bell Tells Us How To Make It In America". Interview with Johanna Cox, www.elle.com. February 12, 2010.

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• You know, my uncle wore a lot of jewelry, a lot of gold chains.

  2 Chainz

  Uncles, Gold, Jewelry

  Interview with Sowmya Krishnamurthy, www.askmen.com. January 4, 2013.

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• Adventures are funny things.
  Many are merely happy accidents—a single spark that ignites an unexpected chain of events.
  But some adventures are meant for you and you alone.
  And whether you want them or not, they seek you out of a great crowd and take you somewhere you never thought you’d go.
  Often, these unlooked for adventures require a sacrifice too great to imagine.

  Wayne Thomas Batson

  Adventure, Sacrifice, Funny Things

  Wayne Thomas Batson (2006). “The Final Storm”, p.16, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A 'death mirror' held up to American culture - Brando, bikes and black leather; Christ, chains and cocaine. A 'high' view of the myth of the American motorcyclist. The machine as totem from toy to terror. Thanatos in chrome and black leather and bursting jeans.

  Kenneth Anger

  Mirrors, Views, Jeans

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• Everywhere animals are in chains, but we image them as free.

  Carol J. Adams

  Animal

  Carol J. Adams (2015). “The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory”, p.24, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Soul, Decay

  On the death of Mr Levett, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 139 (20 January 1782)

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• To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.

  Charles Lamb

  Beauty, Sports, Pain

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• Oh stay! oh stay! Joy so seldom weaves a chain Like this to-night, that oh 't is pain To break its links so soon.

  Charles Lamb

  Pain, Night, Joy

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• If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'

  Eric Alterman

  Baseball, Team, Years

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• Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that anger is hopeless, fear is pointless and desire all a delusion. He whose heart is fickle is not his own master, has thrown away his shield, deserted his post, and he forges the links of the chain that holds him.

  Boethius

  Heart, Men, Tyrants

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• Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Liberty, Moral

  Edmund Burke (1828). “The Beauties of Burke: Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.86

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• Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

  Samuel Adams

  Gun, Hands, Security And Freedom

  Samuel Adams' Speech delivered at the State House in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, August 1, 1776.

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• I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be when we were kids, with relationships that are so empty and stupid and brutal. If you don't find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow.

  Adam Duritz

  Stupid, Kids, Eight

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• Is it not that in the chain of human events, the birthday of a nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?  That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation?  Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth?  That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity?

  John Quincy Adams

  Government, Independence, Progress

  Speech on Independence Day at Newburyport, MA, teachingamericanhistory.org. July 04, 1837.

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• Things can be low on the food chain, but that doesn't mean they're lowly.

  Gary Larson

  Mean, Lows, Food Chain

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• From Nature's chain whatever link you strike,
  Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.

  Alexander Pope

  Links, Break, Strikes

  Alexander Pope (1871). “Essay on Man”, p.35

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• I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced with enthusiasm, I am seized by a midwinter freeze, and I suppose that frequent dealings with sluggish phlegmatics would have made a passionate dreamer.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Heart, Dreamer, Mind

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