Chains Quotes - Page 31

• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips excite me.

  Rihanna

  Bullying, Dry Bones, Useless Life

  Song: S&M, Album: Loud

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• I'm bigger than you! I'm higher on the food chain - get in my belly!

  Mike Myers

  Bigger, Higher, Belly

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• I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change

  Lauryn Hill

  Father, Reason, Bondage

  Song: I Get Out, Album: MTV Unplugged 2.0, 2002

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• I play a slave. How black is that? I have to wear chains. How whack is that? But don’t worry. I get free. I save my wife and I kill all the white people in the movie. How great is that?

  Jamie Foxx

  Play, White, Wife

  "Celebrities say the dumbest things", www.foxnews.com. 2012.

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• I like to be dressy casual. I wear jeans and nice sneakers. I wear nice clothes, but not super dressed up. I don't wear too much jewelry. I keep it simple and maybe wear just a little chain.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  Nice, Simple, Jeans

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• The penguin doesn't know it's cute, and the leopard seal doesn't know it's kind of big and monstrous. This is just the food chain unfolding.

  Paul Nicklen

  Cute, Leopards, Penguins

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• Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray of tinkertoy habitats girdled the planet. Gossamer starbridges reached from the equator towards orbit.

  Alastair Reynolds

  Cities, Orbit, Habitat

  Alastair Reynolds (2002). “Revelation Space”, p.189, Penguin

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• If there is delay in getting culling teams out, delay in any part of the chain, even weeks, that could have great implications for the virus to spread.

  David Nabarro

  Team, Viruses, Delay

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• It is our mind, and that alone, that chains us or sets us free.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Mind

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• Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all... Never was a chain that couldn't be broken. Sometimes its even a good idea.

  Bruce Coville

  Ideas, Broken, Sometimes

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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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