“If we seriously contemplate life it appears an agony too great to be supported, but for the most part our minds gloss such things over & until the ice finally lets us through we skate about merrily enough. Most people, I'm convinced, don't think about life at all. They grab what they think they want and the subsequent consequences keep them busy in an endless chain till they're carried out feet first.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantMindFirstsEnoughFeetConsequenceBusyConvincedEndlessIceChainsContemplatingAgonySkatesGloss Author:Philip Larkin
“I have seen Christians in Communist prisons with fifty pounds of chains on their feet, tortured with red-hot iron pokers, in whose throats spoonfuls of salt had been forced, being kept afterward without water, starving, whipped, suffering from cold - and praying with fervor for the Communists. This is humanly inexplicable! It is the love of Christ, which was poured out in our hearts.” HeartChristianSufferingChristWaterFeetColdPrayingRedHotPrisonChainsFiftyPoundsIronCommunistThroatSaltStarvingInexplicableFervorRed Hot Author:Richard Wurmbrand
“When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature and citizenship, eternal justice rivets the other end about the tyrant's neck.” MenHumansEndsJusticeFeetEternalSlaveChainsNecksContemptTyrantsCitizenshipFree Man Author:Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
“When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side. . . . O toiling hands of mortals! O wearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.” KnowsWayLittlesHandsSeemsSidesSunFeetMountainTravelOceanSettingSettingsChainsMortalsHopefullyLabourContinentsBlessednessTrue SuccessToilingSpires Author:Robert Louis Stevenson
“Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphsof psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.” MenHumansMeanWarLyingSocialFeetHuman NatureCrimeHundredEvery ManChainsDominationPsychiatrySocial Service Author:Johan Huizinga
“But for the cravings of the belly not a bird would have fallen into the snare; nay, nay, the fowler would not have spread his net. The belly is chains to the hands and fetters to the feet. He who is a slave to his belly seldom worships God.” HandsFeetWorshipBirdSlaveSpreadChainsFallenBellyCravingWorship GodSnaresGluttonyFetters Author:Saadi
“If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.” IfsMindMayValuesFreedomLibertyTeacherFeetTeachingDogTenPursuitChainsPursuit Of KnowledgeBarking Dogs Author:Adlai Stevenson I
“Men bound hand and foot in the endless chain of cause & effect cannot free each other.” MenHandsCausesFeetEffectsBoundsEndlessChainsHands And Feet Author:Ramakrishna
“Because criminals know that when they see a house with 2 foot tall grass, a dog on a chain, and an engine hanging from a tree, a gun lives in that house. And if you want to know what kind, just break in at 2 in the morning.” IfsKnowsWantKindHouseBreakMorningTreeFeetDogGunCriminalsChainsGrassTallEngines Author:Jeff Foxworthy