#chains

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. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#behavior #cannot #cement #chain #chains

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off. ↗

— William Henry Harrison

#away #before #chains #could #despotism

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! ↗

— Patrick Henry

#almighty god #chains #course #dear #death

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#free #often #safer #than

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains. ↗

— Paul Whiteman

#america #came #chains #hundred #jazz

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#back #chain #chains #drawer #excite

I think the Chainsaw remake is very good and captures the spirit of the original film. It's true to the tone of the original, to the point that it's almost a companion piece. ↗

— Tobe Hooper

#captures #chainsaw #companion #film #good

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least. ↗

— Sophie Swetchine

#cramp #least #most #those #us

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature. ↗

— Lennart Meri

#big #big cities #chains #cities #lead

He wanted you dead, now he doesn't, I don't know why. Chimera's crazy, he doesn't need a reason to change his mind. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#bacchus #chimera #narcissus-in-chains #change