Top 1200 Chain Of Events Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.

Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots.

In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events. This division is useful and necessary to cope with our everyday environment, but it is not a fundamental feature of reality. It is an abstraction devised by our discriminating and categorising intellect. To believe that our abstract concepts of separate 'things' and 'events' are realities of nature is an illusion.

When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.

Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.

Life consists of a long chain of coincidences.

I always think that change is like a daisy chain.

Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something that made the pipes freeze; we thought it hit us because Daddy didn't move his taxi stand and because he broke his hip. It was only later I found out it was a national phenomenon.

I did not climb to the top of the food chain to eat carrots.

You might be a redneck if you think a chain saw is a musical instrument.

Time has a different quality in a forest, a different kind of flow. Time moves in circles, and events are linked, even if it's not obvious that they are linked. Events in a forest occur with precision in the flow of tree time, like the motions of an endless dance. (p. 12)

There is a sequence of events in our lives and so there's a temporal aspect to our experience that brings by itself, sense into the story. In other words, you were not walking before you were born and you were not doing X and Y before you did something else first. So there's a sequencing of events that imposes a certain structure to the story.

Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

Life is a chain of small sorrows that lead to a great joy.

Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain.

Parents are the weak link in the chain when it comes to protecting their children.

One glorious chain of love, of giving and receiving, unites all creatures.

I'm bigger than you! I'm higher on the food chain - get in my belly!

Faith is the subtle chain Which binds us to the infinite.

Bernie [Ecclestone] has not been shy to say one or two controversial things. The last person in the UK who described his product as being crap in public was one Gerald Ratner - and he was gone immediately. But not Bernie! What it tells you is that the demand for live sporting rights, the demand for global or regional events, is so powerful that you brush aside some things because there aren't so many of these events.

By 2023, we will be the world's largest hotel chain.

Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have caught the experts, whether in government or on the outside, completely by surprise. Business owners with comparable performance records go bust. Brokers lose their clients. Physicians get sued for malpractice. Yet think-tankers and policy wonks continue to opine, never pausing to reflect on-or apologize for-their spotty records.

Where are the links of the chain ... joining us to the past?

I'm probably the most excited about 'Turtleneck & Chain.'

Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.

There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise, it lifts us above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy.

You never know when you're going to have to make a daisy chain.

An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought.

I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain.

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

Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?

I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.

Must I remind you that a chain is no stronger than its weakest link?

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

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

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

Goals are the links in the chain that connect activity to accomplishment.

Back in the late '90s, a writer named Daniel Handler decided that kids books were too cheerful. I mean, all the "Harry Potter" series did was occasionally kill off major characters. Thus was born "A Series Of Unfortunate Events" and its mysterious author, Lemony Snicket. "A Series Of Unfortunate Events" is now a great new series on Netflix.

The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds.

We put a gender lens on our whole value chain.

It was important that this album [Chain Letter] was an accurate reflection of me

Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed. The fantastically crowded nine months of 1945 taught me that a President either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt I could let up for a single moment.

Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain.

It's nice to be included in the broadcast food chain.

Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.

Actors are always the pawns. They're the last ones in the food chain.

I'm afraid you will have to fly holding the rock with its heavy chain.

Driving a race car is like dancing with a chain saw.

I take my part in the food chain very seriously.

Every chain that spirits wear crumbles in the breadth of prayer.

I do not like fancy or chain restaurants. I live for local spots.

War will exist as long as there's a food chain.

Every person is a golden link in the chain of my good.

I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.

Singles have goals, responsibilities, deadlines, events, and friends that occupy their time, as well they should. Nonetheless, before any goals are achieved, responsibilities are fulfilled, deadlines are met, events are attended or friends are visited, God's purpose should be accomplished.

That as people age, accumulate more and more private experiences, their sense of history tightens, narrows, becomes more personal? So that to the extent that they remember events of social importance, they remember only for example 'where they were' when such-and-such occurred. Et cetera et cetera. Objective events and data become naturally more and more subjectively colored.

Golf is like a chain. You always have to work on the weakest links.

Things can be low on the food chain, but that doesn't mean they're lowly.

A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine.