Chains Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• Ideas alone can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Ideas, Needs

  Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

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• Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together by a chain of obligation which, since men are wretched creatures, is broken on every occasion in which their own interests are concerned; but fear is sustained by dread of punishment which will never abandon you.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Love Is, Men, Broken

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• It had been happy for me if I could have lived a private life in peace and plenty, enjoying all the happiness that results from a well-tempered society founded on mutual esteem. But the injury done my country, and the chains of slavery forging for all posterity, calls me forth to defend our common rights, and repel the bold invaders of the sons of freedom.

  Nathanael Greene

  Country, Son, Rights

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• To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Hatred, Vengeance, Pardon

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• Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.

  Arthur Helps

  Freedom, Men, Manifest

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

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• Unless your freedom turns into a creative realization, you will feel sad. Because you will see that you are free-your chains are broken, and you are no longer in prison; you are standing under the starry night, completely free. But where do you go?

  Rajneesh

  Freedom, Night, Broken

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• I want you to be happy, you're my best friend. But it's so hard to let you go now with all that could have been. I'll always have the memories. She'll always have you. Fate has a way of changing just when you don't want it to. Throw away the chains, let love fly away. Till love comes again, I'll be okay.

  Amanda Marshall

  Memories, Lost Love, Fate

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• Every girl wanna hold my chain when I f#%k their brains out on the Mustang

  Simon Rex

  Girl, Hip Hop, Brain

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• Now I am in to fat chains, sex and techs, fly new chicks, new kicks,
  I love you like a fat kid love cake.

  Curtis Jackson

  Sex, Love You, Kids

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• If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.

  Carl Safina

  Ocean, Science, Creating

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• You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of death

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiration, Meditation, Way

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