#chain

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#diamonds #i #liberty #prefer

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. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#confined #down #end #going #hold

For three years, the 'Meistersinger' score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall. ↗

— Bryn Terfel

#chain #city #concert #concert hall #every

In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#chained #england #english #evade #fate

One can't deny what has happened to us in the past. The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we've created and the people with whom we have been linked. It's all a long chain of involvement in the world, and we are proud to be yet another link in this chain. ↗

— Graham Nash

#been #chain #created #deny #enjoy

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. ↗

— Ovid

#broken #chains #given #happy #hurt

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#answer #chain #circumstances #complicated #find

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

— Wendell Phillips

#chains #knows #laurels #liberty #nothing

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise! ↗

— Alexander Pope

#brain #chain #chambers #countless #hidden

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#apart #body #chained #compelled #creature