The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.
I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain.
Western society is a society of ever richer, more varied, more productive, more self-defined, and more satisfying lives; it is a society of boundless private charity; it is a society that broke, on behalf of merit, the seemingly eternal chains of station by birth.
Happiness is within you. . . so unlock the chains from your heart and let yourself grow- like the sweet flower you are. I know the answer- just spread your wings and set yourself free.
If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.
A nation which enslaves another forges its own chains.
Things can be low on the food chain, but that doesn't mean they're lowly.
We exist to have our wealth moved up the economic chain out of our reach.
Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man.
Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth.
I did not climb to the top of the food chain to eat carrots.
The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.
The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.
Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.
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.
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.
Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
I believe that in spite of the chains we bind ourselves with, there's a primordial section of the human psyche that is still nomadic and still yearns to roam free.
In all sorts of government man is made to believe himself free, and to be in chains.