Thraldom Quotes & Sayings

I had come out of a messy workplace along a messy street to a messy room and did not like it and within me was the beer that made me bold. — Sherwood Anderson

The people who are scared of ghosts are the ones who discuss most about them. — Abhishek Krishnan

I will not debate with you Dark Elf. By the swords of the Noldor alone are your sunless woods defended. Your freedom to wander there wild you owe to my kin and but for them long since you would have laboured in thraldom in the pits of Angband. And here I am King and whether you will it or will it not my doom is law. This choice is given to you: abide here or to die here and so also for your son. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I'm all in favor of poets telling about the process as much as they can. And many do. — Pattiann Rogers

She was this lovely little girl setting his world on fire. — Lauren Gilley

London's like a black-browed brute that gets an unholy influence over you. — Robert Smythe Hichens

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning. — Antisthenes

He felt the inspirations of his youth, which had been dissipated by a frivolous life, stirring again in him, but they all bore now the reflection, the stamp of a particular being; and during the long hours which he now found a subtle pleasure in spending at home, alone with his convalescent soul, he became gradually himself again, but himself in thraldom to another. He — Marcel Proust

Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise. — John Ralston Saul

Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful. — Thomas Hobbes

No-one can own our Lord Buddha. That would be a foolish claim, but the roads that lead to him, the Way... That is a different matter. They are all filled with toll-gates, like the roads of Japan, and the monks collect the fees. — Erik Christian Haugaard

It lives and breathes in the light, because it has thousands of unfortunates toiling in the darkness. It lives and has its being in proud liberty because thousands are slaving for it, whose thraldom is the price of this liberty. This — Upton Sinclair

Ah hell. We had more fun in a week than those weenies had in a lifetime. — Pancho Barnes

Obligation is the bitterest thraldom. — Suzanne Curchod

The immortal demigod took a throaty slurp of her beer, then slammed the mug down onto the table, grinning like a four-year-old who had been paid in cookies to rat out her sister. — Brandon Sanderson

It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers. — Larry Wall

Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man. — Richard Wagner

People often hold technology responsible for infidelity. (...) But while things like Facebook, texting, and email certain make it easier for people (particularly lazy people!) to blur the boundaries of their relationships, it's still the people involved who are to blame. — Erin Cossar