A Quote by Charles Dickens

I wear the chains I forged in life.

Charles Dickens

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Chains Forged Life Wear

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Charles Dickens
English - Novelist
February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870

Who is he that shall control me? Why may not I act and speak and write and think with entire freedom? What am I to the universe, or, the unvierse, what is it to me? Who hath forged the chains of wrong and right, of Opinion and Custom? And must I wear them?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only chains God wants us to wear are the chains of righteousness--not the chains of hopeless subjectivism, not the shackles of risk-free living, not the fetters of horoscope decision making--just the chains befitting a bond servant of Christ Jesus. Die to self. Live for Christ. And then do what you want, and go where you want, for God's glory.

Kevin DeYoung

Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.

Estelle Ramey

Chains and stuff are nice, don't get me wrong I love them and I wear chains, but I can do without it.

Big Sean

Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.

Jacqueline Carey

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

Marguerite Gardiner

I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years. I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable.

Ingrid Betancourt

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Charles Dickens

If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

Helen Gahagan Douglas

He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.

Emily Bronte

I have no problem dressing up . . . because I know I'm a nice-looking guy. But as far as chains, I definitely feel that's a racial statement. Almost 100% of the guys in the league who are young and black wear big chains. So I definitely don't agree with that at all.

Stephen Jackson

There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky. I feel like tasteful is very unique...it's not necessarily wearing a bunch of chains - that could be either tasteful or tacky. It just depends on how you wear them and what kind of chains they are.

Big Sean

It is in that English Parliament the chains for Ireland are forged, and any Irish patriot who goes into that forge to free Ireland will soon find himself welded into the agency of his country's subjection to England.

Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

Helen Gahagan Douglas

Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.