#chain

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#break #chain #i #might #negative

Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs. ↗

— John Doerr

#better #big #big deal #bugs #chain

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

#ankle #chain #end #fastened #fellow

The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#bearings #been #chain #deduce #events

If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century. ↗

— John Thorn

#chain #clear #describes #events #game

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#chained #even #free #sky

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#beyond #chain #civilization #ends #enter

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. ↗

— Mark Twain

#chain #freed #human #human soul #loyalty

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#automobile #begins #chain #country #distinction

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.' ↗

— Alice Walker

#chain #choose #convinced #cruelty #delight