Top 277 Chain Quotes

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
John Berger
With the very rapid expansion of distribution platforms, we want to be in the supply chain with as many types of programs as we can.
Haim Saban
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Robert Burton
Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes.
Richard Owen
Trade plays an important role in empowering our nation, growing its economy, creating domestic jobs, and enhancing American competitiveness in the global chain of commerce.
Charles Boustany
Tobe Hooper – he did my favorite horror movie, ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre.’ It’s still one of my favorite horror films.
Fred Willard
My voice has always been kind of distinct – even when I was four years old, my mom told me that people would be like, ‘Why does your daughter always sound like a chain smoker?’ I’ve always had this deep, raspy voice.
Banks
For young people in the U.K. who find themselves without anywhere to live – perhaps they have left the family home after a relationship breakdown, or to escape abuse, or have left care – it is far too easy to become trapped in a chain of misfortune, with little help from the state.
Katharine Viner
There’s no understandable reason why the financial services industry has not developed a more comprehensive sharing of the value chain.
Sergio Ermotti
A lot of people dismiss what we do. They think, ‘Well, it’s skate, so it’s got to be, like, big baggy pants, cap backwards, big chain’… They don’t understand that just because skating is the culture we’re working in, it doesn’t mean that we can’t make good things.
James Jebbia
Banks have a new image. Now you have ‘a friend,’ your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
Alan King
At dinner, I usually go off the chain a little bit and

At dinner, I usually go off the chain a little bit and have whatever I want but within reason.
Corey Harrison
I’m from Jersey, so I have a love of T.G.I. Friday’s and chain restaurants in general. When you go to a Friday’s, it seems like everyone’s on ecstasy and way too happy anyway.
Lorene Scafaria
A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it’s against our nature to think about it.
Paolo Bacigalupi
The deeper your regional integration, the more value chain activity you generate, but the more you close the gap between your small and your large companies.
Arancha Gonzalez
I don’t feel I’m a step above anyone on this team. I’m just another link in the chain.
Jeff Gordon
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
Cesare Pavese
Once ‘0 to 100’ happened, it sort of spun this chain reaction – really the first big record that I was a part of. It was a big, life-changing thing for me.
Frank Dukes
We know that if memory is destroyed in one part of the brain, it can be sometimes re-created on a different part of the brain. And once we can unravel that amino chain of chemicals that is responsible for memory, I see no reason why we can’t unlock it and, essentially, wipe out what’s there.
J. Michael Straczynski
We think we’re saving time with microwaves, cell phones, beepers, computers and voice mail, but often these things help us create the illusion of getting somewhere – and they foster a chain of constant activity. We’re really just squeezing extra activity into every minute that we gain.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Managers of hospitals over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service, and although their experience of running a supermarket chain might allow them to balance the books, it does not mean they have any insight into how a ward should be managed and patients best served.
Jo Brand
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
At first, Uniqlo was a casual chain on the back streets of Hiroshima. Then… we became a national brand in Japan. So, the next step is to become a global brand.
Tadashi Yanai
Once you’ve published a few books, you drag around this ball and chain of a back list. All the evidence of how few you’ve sold is there. I think a lot of writers my age have this strange experience of going from would-be to has-been.
Geoff Dyer
Supply chain infrastructure, rural broadband, and beginning negotiations for the 2023 Farm Bill are among our chief priorities in the 117th Congress.
Ronny Jackson
There’s a short chain between field and fork, and the shorter that chain is – the fresher, the more transparent that system is – the less chance there is of anything from bio-terrorism to pathogenicity to spoilage.
Joel Salatin
I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain.
Chiaki Kuriyama
What I’ve been developing is a vegan fast food chain and vegan food markets.
Heather Mills
My father worked in a grocery store. When the grocery chain went into administration, he eventually got a job in the naval dockyard in an office preparing the charts for the boats and the submarines before they headed out.
Ian Rankin
If you take away the predators in the prairies and the national parks, you suddenly have an explosion of elk, and then you have a lack of the food source for the elk, so they strip all the ground bare and that takes away the cover, on and on and on and on. The whole food chain is disrupted.
Peter Benchley
Anytime there’s a disruption in the supply chain, any time people cut back on spending, there will be a recession.
Trish Regan
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
Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.
Citium Zeno
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
I still think ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ was what they call one of those watershed movies. That and ‘The Exorcist’ and ‘Psycho’ were just landmarks for those horror films.
Fred Willard
I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command.
John Bolton
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
I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
Rafael Moneo
I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me that he perceived his life as a link in a continuous chain of those who served our nation and that he expected me to be a new and strong link in the same chain.
Hussein of Jordan
I write while my son is at school. At about 7:45 A.M., I walk him there, with the dogs, then walk them for another forty minutes or so, go home and chain myself to the desk a little before 9 A.M., and try not to be distracted until I hear my son plunge through the front door at about 3 P.M.
Geraldine Brooks
More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.
Ben Parr
The Dream Act will be a nightmare for the American people. No doubt, we need immigration reform, but the Dream Act is written far too broadly, and it will only encourage more illegal immigration, promote chain migration, and will be a magnet for fraud.
Mike Coffman
The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the

The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature’s chain than for apparent exceptions.
Edward Forbes
My true inspiration is to give everything to my kids that I never had. I had a really rough upbringing, and I want to break that chain. I’ve broken the chain, and I want to give my kids happiness every single day. When they wake up and hop on me and say; ‘Dad I love you,’ that is what means the most to me.
Tito Ortiz
Michael Jordan broke the mold of the Magic Johnson/Larry Bird era – he came in and he had a gold chain, he wore longer shorts and his sneakers were a different style.
Fabolous
With Illum, we’re able to start to customize that supply chain in a very deep way… to rethink the entire imaging pipeline.
Ren Ng
If you’re ordering chain, you’re a person with poor taste. Everyone lives near a pizza place that’s better than a chain. They can’t stand up to a local pizzeria.
Dave Portnoy
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed critical vulnerabilities in our pharmaceutical supply chain.
Abigail Spanberger
Understand: any phenomenon in the world is by nature complex. The people you deal with are equally complex. Any action sets off a limitless chain of reactions. It is never so simple as A leads to B. B will lead to C, D and beyond.
Robert Greene
Olympic Style lifting compliments sprint training perfectly. It does this by making sure everything in the body is ‘fully connected.’ This is based on the principle that all movements have a kinetic chain.
Linford Christie