Top 164 Chained Quotes & Sayings

There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

Are you the welcoming committee? Or has Jeremy finally chained you up to the front gate where you belong?" "I missed you too.

If one neglects the laws of learning, a sentence is imposed that he is forever chained to his ignorance.

To business."Tux Dude extended his hand. "I am Prometheus." I was too surprised to shake."The fire-stealer guy?The chained-to-the-rock-with-the-vultures guy?" Prometheus winced. He touched the scratches on his face."Please, don't mention the vultures. But yes, I stole fire from the gods and gave it to your ancestors. In return, the ever merciful Zeus had me chained to a rock and tortured for all eternity.

After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.

Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty.

I felt free and chained at the same time - like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been nominated and you are beseeched to vote for the right man.

I told him I had always kept my inner Martha Stewart chained in the basement, but for his sake I would set her loose.” ~ Haven Travis

True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

You sittin' here chained to your rockin' chair.

Far too many of our elected officials are chained to an ideology that is rooted in the past. They are keepers of normalcy who embrace things as they've always been.

If one of us is chained, none of us are free...

Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.

If you are a junkyard dog, you assume that that's what life is: chained up, barking all day.

Last time you called me late at night you were naked and chained to your shower curtain rod. I hope this isn't going to be disappointing.

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.

Society indeed conspires to keep you ball and chained.

I liked to go to court. I became a lawyer because of the allure of the courtroom, not necessarily to be chained to an office desk.

In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

I knew I wasn't born to be caged and chained up.

Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

The President's policy proposal, known as 'chained CPI,' would re-calculate the cost of living for Social Security beneficiaries. That new number won't keep up with inflation on things like food and health care -- the basics that we need to live. In short, 'chained CPI' is just a fancy way to say 'cut benefits for seniors, the permanently disabled, and orphans.'

You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!" (Alanna)

You need to know that you can't honor God when you're chained to the voice and opinions of man.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.

We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

Each day has been chained to the previous one. But the weeks have wings. Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live my life.

We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.

If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited.

Mickey is a secret journal chained closed with a padlock, slammed inside a vault and dropped into the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

Everyone's the same. All brains are contained by their reality frame and chained to the terrain that they're trained not to change and once you see what I've explained you've hit the jackpot.

My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient ancestry. I reject the heritage. I break the entail. And who are you to say I am unwise?

Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear.

I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.

We are chained to that which we do not forgive

Light cannot be chained.

But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart!

If you're eating or drinking something made from cow's milk, it's because a calf chained in a box somewhere isn't.

Until our mission becomes our obsession, we'll be chained to the realm of average.

I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest?

All your dreams are made / When you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade

Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.

No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors ... This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.

It was his eyes. When you looked into them, you saw chained violence baring teeth and claws back at you.

We are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

My mom had a soft heart after all! Instead of being chained by both wrists, we were only chained by one ankle! I mean, if I’d been looking for proof that she really did love me, this was it, right?

I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.

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.

[Seeing an ornately chained Native American for the first time] What Eden have they torn you from?

Chained in a cell, got my own private hell. Preacher crucifies me, warden wants to fry me.