Chains Quotes

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.

His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

As the United States chains itself down with greater debt, China is building relationships across the globe to bolster its trade, its access to natural resources, and its energy consumption. In far too many cases, this means lost opportunities for America and our businesses.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

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.

We're not like Alice In Chains where somebody dies and the band breaks up.

Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the - he said in the first 100 days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules - unchain Wall Street. They're gonna put y'all back in chains.

Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place.

Freedom is living without chains.

The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.

Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.

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

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.

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.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.

My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because it wasn't anything about 'Oh, I've always been gay and I'm breaking the chains.'

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.