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Chained in a cell, got my own private hell. Preacher crucifies me, warden wants to fry me. -- Alice Cooper
My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall. -- Arthur Symons
No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky. -- Bob Dylan
Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism. -- Emma Goldman
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants. -- Bela Lugosi
If you are a junkyard dog, you assume that that's what life is: chained up, barking all day. -- Bruce Robinson
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line. -- Bruce Campbell
The end of all things is at hand; that Satan's kingdom will be destroyed, and Satan chained down for a thousand years, and Christ's kingdom established upon earth. -- Joanna Southcott
The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited. -- Neil Armstrong
Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor. -- Henry Rollins
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
It's time for women to wake up, to use the power of the vote, to honor the suffragists who chained themselves to the White House fence so that women could vote. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago. -- Rachel Sklar
They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing. -- Jim Bakker
The thematic bucket of vomit that I've been chained to since I was about 9 is the moral complexity of anti-heroism. I have always been interested in good people who do bad things for understandable reasons. -- Neil Cross
None of my friends don't have Facebook accounts. Op-eds and studies can highlight our decreased enthusiasm for Facebook 'til the cows come home, but it doesn't change the fact that we are chained to the beast. Voluntarily, of course. -- Adora Svitak
In the first eight or so years at Microsoft, we were always chained to our terminals, and after I got sick the first time, I decided that I was going to be more adventurous and explore more of the world. -- Paul Allen
To transcend limitations and form positive new patterns of life based on who you know you can be rather than who you were yesterday, you must give up the modes of thinking, feeling and behaving that only keep you chained to your past. -- Debbie Ford
I remember finding a Houdini book at the library and seeing an image of him chained on the side of a building. He looked so intense and scary, and I couldn't get that image out of my head. That started building up my love of magic. -- David Blaine
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
I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years and years. It is just as much an office as a bedroom, and during the day, my bed is rather like an extension of my desk. -- Margaret Mahy
If you're chained to a computer all day, you're not using up much energy, even if you drag yourself to the gym a couple of days a week. And to make matters worse for me, I've had a secondary career right along with my romance writing - cookbook author, under my real name, Ruth Glick. -- Ruth Glick
Now that I think about it, I was arrested in 1992. Some people may think of that as a bad thing, but I feel good about it. I chained myself to the gate of a phone book factory, a GTE factory in Los Angeles. They were using thousand-year-old trees to make phone books. I think that's a total waste of a tree. -- Winona LaDuke
Light cannot be chained. -- Brent Weeks
You sittin' here chained to your rockin' chair. -- Hoagy Carmichael
Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Society indeed conspires to keep you ball and chained. -- Douglas Coupland
One of us is chained, none of us is free. -- Solomon Burke
We are chained to that which we do not forgive -- Richard Paul Evans
But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart! -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty. -- Bob Marley
Until our mission becomes our obsession, we'll be chained to the realm of average. -- Robin Sharma
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires? -- Ibn Arabi
I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes. -- Antonio Porchia
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body. -- Marcel Proust
All your dreams are made / When you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade -- Noel Gallagher
You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small -- Carlos Castaneda
I keep my fears chained up in the basement, along with a few of my foes. -- Jarod Kintz
Can be chained. Here's how the client code looks: NutritionFacts cocaCola = new NutritionFacts.Builder(240, 8). calories(100).sodium(35).carbohydrate(27).build(); -- Joshua Bloch
You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!" (Alanna) -- Tamora Pierce
If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense. -- Holly Lisle
If one neglects the laws of learning, a sentence is imposed that he is forever chained to his ignorance. -- Sterling W Sill
After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave. -- Mason Cooley
You need to know that you can't honor God when you're chained to the voice and opinions of man. -- Tyler Perry
It was his eyes. When you looked into them, you saw chained violence baring teeth and claws back at you. -- Ilona Andrews
We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death. -- Russell Shorto
If you're eating or drinking something made from cow's milk, it's because a calf chained in a box somewhere isn't. -- Dan Piraro
We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part of our soul. -- Shannon L. Alder
There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it. -- Arthur Koestler
Mickey is a secret journal chained closed with a padlock, slammed inside a vault and dropped into the middle of the Pacific Ocean. -- Noel Fisher
Are you the welcoming committee? Or has Jeremy finally chained you up to the front gate where you belong?" "I missed you too. -- Kelley Armstrong
True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail. -- Rajneesh
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
That old ball and chain had me chained up for weeks, So of course I'm off the chain as soon as I hit the streets. -- Consequence
We are chained to the earth by a chain of gold, but we dare not sever it; for fear of what lies beyond the drop. -- Ciel Phantomhive
We are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop. -- Cassandra Clare
Last time you called me late at night you were naked and chained to your shower curtain rod. I hope this isn't going to be disappointing. -- Janet Evanovich
I liked to go to court. I became a lawyer because of the allure of the courtroom, not necessarily to be chained to an office desk. -- John E. Jones III
It isnâ??t only art that is incompatible with happiness, itâ??s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled. -- Aldous Huxley
I told him I had always kept my inner Martha Stewart chained in the basement, but for his sake I would set her loose.â? ~ Haven Travis -- Lisa Kleypas
When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready. -- Charles Dickens
How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together. -- Helen Keller
Each day has been chained to the previous one. But the weeks have wings. Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live my life. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest? -- George R. R. Martin
Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes. -- Fisher Ames
No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The 'I' is chained to ancestry by many factors... This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory. -- Erwin Schrodinger
Everyone's the same. All brains are contained by their reality frame and chained to the terrain that they're trained not to change and once you see what I've explained you've hit the jackpot. -- Eyedea
I felt free and chained at the same time - like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been nominated and you are beseeched to vote for the right man. -- Henry Miller
Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear. -- Tupac Shakur
I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience. -- Dorothea Dix
These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream. -- Aristophanes
It is hard to imagine a world without forgiveness. Without forgiveness life would be unbearable. Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced to carry the sufferings of the past and repeat them with no release. -- Jack Kornfield

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