Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Alan Watts

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

Chogyam Trungpa

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.

Dave Barry

Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.

Byron Katie

There is no thought or situation that you can't put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here for the sake of your freedom.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.

Ai Weiwei

The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.

Carlos Santana

The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.

Benedict Cumberbatch

It's very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.

Ed Helms

I'm a very jaded and cynical person.

Bill Mauldin

'Peace' is when nobody's shooting. A 'just peace' is when our side gets what it wants.

Bill Maher

False hope really makes you cynical.

Benjamin Franklin

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

Don McLean

The process got abused, ... So what do you do about it? Do you become cynical and turn your back on it, or do you do something about it?

Michael Gerber

Many residents have grown more cynical about government, ... Sure, I want my constituents to feel good about me as their legislator, but we have to do something to restore the public's faith in government.

Alan Rusbridger

So I think it is wise to be extremely cynical about what you are being told, even from your own government.

Jim Nicholson

We want to treat them with great dignity and respect,

Rick Dickson

We want to represent Tulane everywhere; our goal is to give hope to everyone, ... If we do that, and do it with dignity and serve the greater purpose, it'd be the greatest victory any of us had ever been a part of.

Beth Moore

To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.

Beth Moore

The only reason I can hold up my head is because when He set me free He gave me my dignity back.

Baltasar Gracian

It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions.

Sharon Stone

Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.

Ricky Gervais

That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.

Bob Dylan

Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take to find dignity.

Brigitte Bardot

There is a certain dignity to being French.