For me, self-discipline has never corresponded to a voluntary adhesion to norms invented by others. It has always been the first step towards breaking the chains.
You know, my uncle wore a lot of jewelry, a lot of gold chains.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Inches matter. That's why they measure first downs. That's why they have a crew down there with those chains.
It is our mind, and that alone, that chains us or sets us free.
Whips and chains, handcuffs, smack a little body up with my belt. Scream, help play my game, dracula man, I'll get my fangs.
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.
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
My watch say I made it, my chains say I'm rich. Diamonds in my mouth got me talking cash s**t.
When he inches into me, I feel the pain, but I also feel the invisible chains around my wrists break and shatter.
The first comic book I ever read was an issue of 'Legion of Super-Heroes' where the earth was surrounded by all of these chains. I remember the cover; I got it at a birthday party.
We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.
When I was young in the 1960s, all the world watched the youth. Everywhere was the sensation of wanting to break the chains but to do something beautiful. It is my privilege to have beauty always near me.
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
I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.
With global rules for global supply chains, we can end corporate greed.
The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.
Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.
Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.
Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
I am livid with rage, sitting here in chains through this mad war which kills any meaning of life... My nerves are shattered and my mind darkened.
My chains are gone
I've been set free
My God, my Savior has ransomed me
And like a flood His mercy reigns
Unending love, amazing grace!
It's hard to see any institutional structure that stands in the way of the homogenization and simplification of these supply chains in international capitalism, unless it is the nation state.
Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
Globalization has taken a hit in that there is some sand in the gears because most of us have supply chains that are all over the world that we've had to lengthen.
Every day, I hear a song and I think, 'This would be great to cover on Glee.' I like Led Zeppelin, of course, and Pink Floyd, Alice in Chains.
Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents!
Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.
People were taking off $5,000 gold chains to wear little $10 leather medallions that represented peace because that's what Public Enemy was about.
Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --
Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.
Of course they had more chains on him than Scrooge saw on Marley's ghost, but he could have kicked up dickens if he'd wanted. That's a pun, son.
There is no fire like passion. There are no chains like hate. Illusion is a net, Desire is a rushing river.
His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.
If a man can say 'My life is more important than my country,' that man has succeeded in freeing himself from the chains of society!
How damaging is a habit that permits faultfinding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention.
It was probably in third grade - I had a super fake, gold herringbone chain. I don't remember if it was my mom's or how I got it, but ever since then, I've loved chains.
We’re bound by chains of love, but they don’t weigh us down. Instead, they allow us to be bigger and better than we are.
Every day, I hear a song and I think, This would be great to cover on Glee. I like Led Zeppelin, of course, and Pink Floyd, Alice in Chains.
O, my past years in Rangoon are spectres to haunt my soul; and they seem to laugh at me as they shake the chains they have riveted on me.
I was so sheltered as a kid that when I went to college, it was like taking the chains off. That's where the trouble came from. It was the first time for me being by myself, and I got into everything you could think of.
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.
You go to a truck stop and there are key chains with names on them, and there's no Finneas. There's no Billie. They're little things, but as a kid, you just feel weirdly ostracized.
Over time, I learned that how a quarterback moves the chains and leads his team to touchdowns is about as important as whether he actually does it or not.
The superstition in which we grew up, Though we may recognize it, does not lose Its power over us.-Not all are free Who make mock of their chains.
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights.
God's love is bigger than our failures and stronger than any chains that bind us.
Poor thieves in halters we behold;
And great thieves in their chains of gold.
Support a small chef. Not these big chains... but support the people who are out there trying to do things right and working hard to do that.
Young people especially sometimes feel that the standards of the Lord are like fences and chains, blocking them from those activities that seem most enjoyable in life.
Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.
It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.
I'm not really worried about the flashy stuff. I don't got chains and cars. I spend what I need to spend. It doesn't faze me.
Strapped by tight credit and plummeting sales, businesses have overhauled the way they manage supply chains, inventory, production practices and staffing.
He who has nothing—it has been said many times—has nothing to lose but his chains.
Sometimes eight chains go together really well, depending on the length - how short they are, how small they are.
The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.
...she could only wait for someone, something, to free her from the invisible chains that bound her.
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