Chains Quotes - Page 38

• I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition: the brown bag. Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home.

  Charles Mathias

  Children, School, Home

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• There’s a great scene in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [1974] that I’m obsessed with: Sally is being chased by Leatherface with a chainsaw... And she runs into thorn bushes. And she’s getting tangled up in it because she’s running fast... But Sally needs to move slowly in order to get through the bushes - she will get farther faster by going slowly because her hair and clothes won’t get tangled and caught. There’s something really beautiful about understanding that, while someone’s chasing you with a chainsaw, you have to move more slowly in order to get away.

  Christopher Bollen

  Beautiful, Running, Moving

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2015.

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• Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.

  Charles Stross

  Mistake, Ends, Epitaph

  Charles Stross (2010). “The Fuller Memorandum”, p.25, Penguin

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• Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Powerful, Passion, Men

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• The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east

  James A. Michener

  Ocean, Character, Sea

  James A. Michener (2014). “Caribbean: A Novel”, p.24, Dial Press

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• By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.

  Plato

  Golden, Sun, Influence

  Plato, George Burges (1848). “The Works of Plato: The Apology of Socrates, Crito, Phaedo, Gorgias, Protagoras, Phaedrus, Theaetetus, Euthyphron, and Lysis”, p.383

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• Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His life is Christ, his death is gain.

  John Keble

  Looks, Gains, Triumph

  John Keble (1842). “The Christian year [by J. Keble, ed. by G.W. Doane]. 1st Amer. ed. 3rd Amer. ed”, p.273

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• By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Length, Drag, Remove

  Oliver Goldsmith, Henry George Bohn (1848). “Works: With a Life and Notes”, p.10

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• O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!

  John Milton

  Loss, Sight, Enemy

  1671 Samson Agonistes, l.67-79.

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• Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links Both Goddesses and Gods.

  Homer

  Heaven, Links, Golden

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• Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices

  Hannah More

  Heart, Luxury, Vices

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.341

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• I happen to be a chain breather.

  Robert Sylvester

  Happens

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• For every positive change you make in your life, something else also changes for the better - it creates a chain reaction.

  Leon Brown

  Change For The Better, Positive Change, Chain Reactions

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• Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.

  William Wordsworth

  Sea, Land, Ties

  1804 'The Affliction of Margaret', stanza 8 (published 1807).

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• Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Creativity, Fear And Loathing, Rest Of Your Life

  "Fictional character: Arthur". "I'm Not There", www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin-just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard 'round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain.

  Ronald Reagan

  Sweet, Children, Believe

  A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA

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• As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.

  Bill Vaughan

  Spring, Night, Men

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• In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.

  Alexander Pope

  Future, Tyrants, Hell

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker, Whitwell Elwin, William John Courthope (1871). “The Works of Alexander Pope: New Ed. Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials, Collected in Part by John Wilson Croker. With Introd. and Notes by Whitwell Elwin”, p.313

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• If we seriously contemplate life it appears an agony too great to be supported, but for the most part our minds gloss such things over & until the ice finally lets us through we skate about merrily enough. Most people, I'm convinced, don't think about life at all. They grab what they think they want and the subsequent consequences keep them busy in an endless chain till they're carried out feet first.

  Philip Larkin

  Thinking, Feet, Ice

  Letter to J.B.Sutton, October 30, 1949.

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• Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Broken, Done

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.

  Horace

  Wise, Character, Passion

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• I thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes. When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Power, Night, Fire

  Rabindranath Tagore, William Radice (2011). “Gitanjali: Song Offerings”, p.182, Penguin Books India

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• There is an unbroken chain of opposition to the introduction of economic freedom and to the capitalist autonomy of the economic sphere... In every case the opposition could only be overcome - peacefully or by force - because of the promise of capitalism to establish equality... That this promise was an illusion we all know.

  Peter Drucker

  Promise, Overcoming, Unbroken

  Peter Drucker (2017). “The End of Economic Man: The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.36, Routledge

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• Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Time, Taken

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• Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if, after all, we shall fail, be it so: we still shall have the proud consolation of saying to our consciences, and to the departed shade of our country's freedom, that the cause approved of our judgment and adored of our hearts, in disaster, in chains, in torture, in death, we never faltered in defending.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Heart, Thinking

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.196, Jazzybee Verlag

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