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The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off. -- William Henry Harrison
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. -- Frederick Douglass
A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit. -- Anthony Trollope
The thoughts of those moved by natural human love are almost completely fastened on the beloved, their hearts are filled with passion for it, and their mouths full of its praises. -- Saint Francis de Sales
So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles! -- Charles Anthon
On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom. -- Adelbert von Chamisso
When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won. -- Orville Wright
We are fastened to a dying animal. -- William Butler Yeats
Energy had fastened upon her like a disease. -- Ellen Glasgow
All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross. -- Saint Augustine
Every hour comes with some little fagot of God's will fastened upon its back. -- Frederick William Faber
I may be a nut, but I'm fastened to a good bolt, the Lord Jesus Christ. -- Adrian Rogers
The new is not revealed to those whose eyse are fastened in worship upon the old. -- Albert Pinkham Ryder
You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you. -- Antonio Porchia
However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
She fastened the invisible corset of her composure snugly around herself and prepared to move forward with her plan. -- Amanda Quick
Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners. -- Nellie L. McClung
Be alive! See what you want! DO NOT lose your fascination! What you're fascinated with becomes fastened to you! -- Joseph Simmons
Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there. -- St. Catherine of Siena
Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises. -- Anne Sexton
You've got to figure out which end of the needle you're gon' be, the one that's fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth. -- Sue Monk Kidd
Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice of eternity. -- William Butler Yeats
Alex grabbed our things from the bike and bought them inside; then he fastened the tent closed, securing us in. "Come here, babe, I'll keep you warm. -- L.A. Weatherly
Every injustice that has ever been fastened upon women in a Christian country has been "authorized by the Bible" and riveted and perpetuated by the pulpit. -- Helen H. Gardener
I feel like a little tug in a great storm. But I'm fastened to a great ship on ahead. It's going into port and can't lose it's way. -- Patricia St. John
I am the flesh boat of my experiences, we all are , my feelings, thoughts, desires and dreams are captured in my body's pliant cells, fastened onto my DNA. -- Dorianne Laux
Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament. -- Susie Bright
He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea. -- Horace
...her [Albertine's] intense and velvety gaze fastened itself, glued itself to the passer-by, so adhesive, so corrosive, that you felt that, in withdrawing, it must tear away the skin. -- Marcel Proust
Eventually women will learn there's no such thing as freedom. Their husbands are just as fastened to the deck as they are. Men get onto a treadmill and never got off. -- Katherine Anne Porter
There is certainty in a ring. The non-ending, the non-beginning. The ongoing. The way it holds on to you not because it's fastened or stretched or adhered. It holds on because it fits. -- David Levithan

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