Chains Quotes - Page 5

• It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Ocean, Sea, Law

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

  William Henry Harrison

  Military, Tyrants, Age

  David A. Durfee, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, United States. President (1841-1845 : Tyler) (1970). “William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

  Matthew Simpson

  Joy, Shining, Comfort

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive.

  William Wells Brown

  Brother, Wind, Justice

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• God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Ties, Lasts, Firsts

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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• Good works are links that form a chain of love" Mother Theresa

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Links, Good Work

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• Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.

  John Berger

  Dog, Blessing, Self

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• I don't feel I'm a step above anyone on this team. I'm just another link in the chain.

  Jeff Gordon

  Team, Ties, Links

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• Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

  Paul Whiteman

  Music, Years, America

  1926 Jazz.

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• The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.

  Enrico Fermi

  Numbers, Ties, Machines

  Enrico Fermi, James W. Cronin (2004). “Fermi Remembered”, p.75, University of Chicago Press

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• I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

  Yahoo Serious

  Years, Worry, Culture

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Ties, Debtors, Owing A Debt

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.40, 谷月社

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• Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Fall, Ties, Discovery

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• For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.

  Countee Cullen

  Wings, Ties, Earth

  Countee Cullen, Gerald Lyn Early (1991). “My soul's high song: the collected writings of Countee Cullen, voice of the Harlem Renaissance”, Doubleday Books

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• Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

  Tryon Edwards

  Strength, Chains That Bind, Broken

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 212), 1891.

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• In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Strength, Peace, War

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.5, Best Books on

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• The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.

  Thomas Friedman

  Country, War, Fighting

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• Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.

  Jim Gerlach

  Chains That Bind, Bravery, Independence

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• Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Wall, Knowing, Depth

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.117, Library of Alexandria

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• I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight.

  LL Cool J

  Summer, Home, Eight

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• Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?

  Alan King

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

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• First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.

  Neil LaBute

  Men, Feminist, Feminism

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• What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Running, Block, Book

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• Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

  Alexander Pope

  Memories, Brain, Awake

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• But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a buffer against shocks. It needs large, flexible markets. And it's important to acknowledge the fact that the entire energy supply chain needs to be protected.

  Daniel Yergin

  Ties, Important, Energy

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