Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking. In the meantime, let me be that I am, and seek not toalter me.

Niall Ferguson

There aren't many people who really put their life on the line for human freedom.

Lyndon Johnson

This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith.

When we were shooting free throws, I was getting off the line quicker than them, so I got in there every time and made the tips.

Bill Vaughan

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Betty Cuthbert

My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won

Che Guevara

We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world, is to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: our oppressed nations, from where they extract capital, raw materials, technicians, and cheap labor, and to which they export new capital-instruments of domination-arms and all kinds of articles, thus submerging us in an absolute dependence.

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.

Ai Weiwei

Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.

Gary Payton

We're going to have to play freely and open.

We knew we were going to have to make our free throws to win.

We let them have too many free throws. How can you win a game when you give them that many opportunities to get points?

Bill Moyers

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

Bertolt Brecht

Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.

Bernard Baruch

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Carol Moseley Braun

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

Carlos Castaneda

The third point of reference is freedom of perception; it is intent; it is spirit; the somersault of thought into the miraculous; the act of reaching beyond our boundaries and touching the inconceivable.

Emmeline Pankhurst

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half

We have to find some strong safeties and free safeties.

Immanuel Kant

The possession of power unavoidably spoils the free use of reason

We are protesting for the sake of Iraq and not for the sake of any party. We want free and genuine elections.

We struggled at free throws all year long. In the end, our kids stepped up and got some huge rebounds for us.

We started hitting our free throws. We got the lead in the second quarter and never gave it back.

We started a young lineup, and I think we got great production on offense. We only shot about 30 percent on the free throw line, and if we do better than that the game is probably ours.

Carl Jung

Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.

Carl Jung

No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it. Irrespective of our conscious convictions, each one of us, without exception, being a particle of the general mass, is somewhere attached to, colored by, or even undermined by the spirit which goes through the mass. Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

William Congreve

Wou'd I were free from this restraint, Or else had hopes to win her; Wou'd she cou'd make me a saint, Or I of her a sinner

What this is all about is freedom and flexibility for the local school community.

When we'd line up for a game, we had the freedom to go play, ... instead of thinking so much.

We gutted it out, handled pressure and made free throws at the end. We've got guys with a lot of character. When you make a state tournament run, you have to have kids who make plays.

Laila Freivalds

We see no reason to join. Freedom from military alliances gives us independence and the possibility to participate in all sorts of international partnership for peace.

Amanda Lindhout

Accompanied by an Australian photographer named Nigel Brennan, I'd gone to Somalia to work as a freelance journalist, on a trip that was meant to last only ten days.