Chains Quotes

See also Chain Quotes

I just didn`t see myself in Amistad (1997). I ain`t putting no chains around my neck. I`m not in the mood right now, too edgy. It just wasn`t for me. I`m not having it. I`m like, `Yeah, that`s what happened then, but how about me cutting everybody`s head off and end the movie there?` (on refusing the role in Amistad (1997))

- Denzel Washington

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.

- Lucy Liu

I could rent a room, paint it black, bolt on a few chains and call it my punishment room, Then have men in posing pouches in the background.

- Stephen Fry

I never said I was a `good girl.` I`m not a bad girl. I`m just normal, and that`s what I`m going to be. There`s no bad girl with whips and chains that`s going to come out. I think people like me because I was myself.

- Kelly Clarkson

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.

- Bryan Ferry

They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn`t even - there`s whole pieces missing.

- Jim Bakker

For to be free is not merely to cast off one`s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

- Nelson Mandela

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

- Douglas MacArthur

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one`s self of the chains that shackle the spirit.

- Igor Stravinsky

We look at our main competitors as larger chains, like McDonald`s or Burger King, but when a Quiznos opens near us '¦ we like that people are talking about submarine sandwiches. If someone starts thinking sandwiches, instead of burgers and fries, they eventually could be our customers.

- Kevin Kane

I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn`t show any Australian films.

- Yahoo Serious

(Kroeger was introduced to Dimebag and Paul in 2002 in Dallas by former Alice in Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell, who was touring as Nickelback`s opening act. A few drinks later, the ex-Pantera members admitted to Kroeger that they were big fans.) Vinnie told me he listened to Nickelback every day, which really surprised me, ... But I guess they come from that whole Southern-rock background, and we`re a hard-rock band with Southern-rock influences, so they liked it a lot.

- Chad Kroeger

A little bit of an influence is there, but we don`t sound like Alice in Chains, ... We`re influenced and don`t lie about it, but everyone is compared to someone.

- Sully Erna

We`re not like Alice In Chains where somebody dies and the band breaks up.

- Ann Wilson

Have you been around South Beach? Most of the people I see with chains are elderly Jewish gentlemen. I don`t know what he`s talking about. There`s no rule we have that doesn`t affect several hundred young African-American men. You can`t play the race card here without having it flipped back at you.

- David Stern

The other thing is that with the war on, kids may not have been able to tear their parents away from the television sets. That could have been a factor for some chains, like Hot Topic, coming in with weaker sales. Basically teens are very image conscious. Summer holidays are coming up, and they want to look good. Teen niche retailers are going to see sales go up heading into the summer.

- Jennifer Black

Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.

- Thomas Friedman

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

- Arthur Rimbaud

Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.

- Abusaleh Shariff

The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.

- Al Cade

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

- Alan Sandals

We love peace, but not peace at any price. There is a peace more destructive of the manhood of living man, than war is destructive to his body. Chains are worse than bayonets.

- Alastair Clarkson

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

- Alexander Cutler

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

- Alfie Cox

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.

- Alice Raine

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

- Andre Manning

(W)e are bound together in chains as well as the cords of everlasting love, we are in good spirits and rejoice that we are counted worthy to be persecuted for Christ`s sake.

- Andy Law

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

- Andy Taibl

Is it a man walking on the beach, winking at the girls and looking for going to bed? Is it someone who wears a lot of gold chains and rings and sits at the bar? Because this is not me! I am very, very Latin, but not so much lover.

- Anne Bradstreet

Banks and riches are chains of gold, but still chains

- Anton Sagino

That`s probably the main statistic I look at. That means every time you touch the ball, you`re moving the chains.

- Arthur Donato

The chains of love are never binding as when the links are made of gold.

- Barb Felderman

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- Barbara Wright

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

- Wernher von Braun

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

- Countess of (Marguerite Gardiner) Blessington