Chain Quotes

An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare. View quote
Heinz Guderian
The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. View quote
Frederick Douglass
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. View quote
Winston Churchill
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. View quote
Leon Trotsky
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. View quote
Joseph Hall
Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human soul. View quote
Mark Twain
The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it. View quote
Voltaire
I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial. (Rafael Moneo)
Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee Still to my brother turns with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
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. View quote
Thomas Friedman
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
But it's not so hard, learning to picture yourself as part of a great chain. One that began long before you, and will go on long after. View quote
David Brin
Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices. View quote
Annie Besant
My pen and paper cause a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing. View quote
Eminem
If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression. View quote
Toni Morrison
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. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
David Stern should get with the mothers of the NBA and let the moms decide what the dress code should be. I asked my mother if I could wear a chain, and she told me yeah. So I do stuff that my parents allow me to do. (Shaquille O'Neal)
I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears? View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a buffer against shocks. It needs large, flexible markets. And it's important to acknowledge the fact that the entire energy supply chain needs to be protected. View quote
Daniel Yergin
Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late. View quote
Rita Coolidge
But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed on the earth, be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory. The explanation lies, as I believe, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record. View quote
Charles Darwin
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