I asked a coughing friend of mine why he doesn't stop smoking. 'In this town it wouldn't do any good,' he explained. 'I happen to be a chain breather.'
It has to come out of the chain of command, because the chain of command has really become impotent. The chain of command is vested in protecting itself, and so often, the perpetrator of the assault is in the chain of command.
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.
An iron chain is less difficult to break than a chain of flowers.
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.
From Nature's chain whatever link you strike,
Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
That old ball and chain had me chained up for weeks,
So of course I'm off the chain as soon as I hit the streets.
No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather.
In every chain of reasoning, the evidence of the last conclusion can be no greater than that of the weakest link of the chain, whatever may be the strength of the rest.
I'm a big believer in doing what you've got to do, but taking a breather when you can.
One link in a chain explains the infinite chain.
I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain.
If you're ordering chain, you're a person with poor taste. Everyone lives near a pizza place that's better than a chain. They can't stand up to a local pizzeria.
I don't want to have to be taken out because I'm tired or I need a breather.