#chains

He looks at me, puzzled. “What’s a romance?” “A love story.” I can feel my face going red again. What is it with this man and the way he affects me? “You know, boy meets girl and they’re attracted to each other.” He fixes me with a long stare, then lowers his lashes and bites his lip. I swallow hard. “I’ll go and fix lunch. ↗

— Michelle Abbott

#romance #love

Many times it happens we live our life in chains and we never even know we have the key. ↗

— The Eagles

#chains #eagles #music #musicians #music

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

— Rosa Luxemburg

#move #notice #their #those #who

الصينيون اخترعوا كلّ شيء ، وفكّروا في كلّ شيء ، وفهموا كلّ شيء . والانكباب على دراسة الصين هو انكباب على دراسة الذكاء مجسّدا ↗

— Amélie Nothomb

#chains #novel #biography

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. ↗

— Voltaire

#difficult #fools #free #revere

For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#capitalism #chains #class #crush #emancipate

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#chains #felt #habit #heavy #light

We forge the chains we wear in life. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#forge #life #wear

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

— Ann Wilson

#band #breaks #chains #dies #like

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#conquered #enemy #into #overcome #prison