#chain

The real warfare of mankind is eternal struggle to earn higher rank in the pyramid of food chain. ↗

— Toba Beta

#pyramid-of-food-chain #warfare #food

The expression in her eyes was bitter as nightshade. 'You ask me about regret? Let me tell you a few things about regret, my darling. There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us from there to here. Should you regret the whole chain, and the air between, or each link separately, as if you could uncouple them? Do you regret the beginning which ended so badly, or just the ending itself? I've given more thought to this question than you can begin to imagine. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#daughter #ingrid #links #mother #regret

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

— Voltaire

#difficult #fools #free #revere

Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

#back #bolt #burglar #by the time #chain

It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision. ↗

— Len Wein

#another #chain #editor #expect #follow

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#chained #greatest #hounded #imprisoned #nevertheless

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three. ↗

— Heraclitus

#carry #chain #heavy #sometimes #takes

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

If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.' ↗

— Eric Alterman

#baseball #chain #financial #folks #food

The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids. ↗

— Michael Behe

#amino #basic #called #chain #discrete