If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
Parents are the weak link in the chain when it comes to protecting their children.
Most men are prisoners at best, Who some strong habit every drag about Like chain and ball.
Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead.
In a given scene I may know nothing more than how it's supposed to end, most of the time not even that. Scenes are improvised. A character does or says something, and with as much spontaneity and schizophrenia as I can muster, another character responds. In this way, everything I write is spontaneous chain reaction and I'm running around playing leapfrog in my brain trying to "be" all my people.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.
Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.
Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.
[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.