Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is huge. It's one hour of free publicity on national television, in prime-time.

Richard Gere

This is an outrage. There are no freedoms in China. There are no freedoms in Tibet.

They have a very nice team. They put us out of the tournament last year because they hit free throws, made the game hard and did what they needed to do.

John Hurt

They got the apartment, they got the free place to live. They got priority over the Houston unemployed right now.

Kevin Barnes

They got free of the ice before the (coast guard) ship got there, and they stayed under their own power.

They gave us free land and said they would help us raise money.

They gave us an opportunity to look. At no point did they step in and say we don't want you to do this or that. They left us free to make our own decision.

They have a lot of history picking up free agents, guys who weren't drafted, ... I thought that I would have a good opportunity to come in and make the team with my heart and my hard work, the way I play. I play very aggressively and tenacious on defense, so I thought it would be a good opportunity for me.

They had six dead-ball rebounds and that comes from missing a free throw at our end.

Jamie Dixon

They got to the line 32 times and shot 81 percent, and that's a lot of points. They made the free throws.

J. Taylor

they are free to leave whenever they wish.

Valerie Steele

They are purely a symbol of rugged individualism. They're a symbol of power but instead of being military, you are free to ride off into the sunset.

There will be mass arrests, injuries and agony. But that is the price we should be prepared to pay for our freedom because next year we are going to be as confrontational as we have never been before.

It's just part of basketball. The only thing I wanted to do afterward is make the free throws.

It's just one game. I would've loved to come away with a victory, but we missed too many free throws and open shots for that to happen. That will come, though.

It's just frustrating. We did everything we needed to do to win it and we were one free throw short. It makes it tougher to take.

Jason Richardson

It's emotionally draining. It hurts. It really hurts. I wish I could have done a little more. I wish I could have hit a free throw at the end that would have sealed it. I didn't do enough.

It's 100 percent free and you speak to a live person.

It was better for me to transfer here with everything I learned. I feel free here; I'm doing my thing.

It was freezing at the start. But we've warmed up.

It was free kick after a foul. It wasn't a penalty kick.

It was something fun to do since we couldn't practice, and I think that's important. It was freezing that day, but we had a ball. I think it helped them relax a little.

Harry Frankfurt

It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the will.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Herbert V. Prochnow

We have come to world leadership because our people have had the opportunity to develop this nation under a government and a Constitution that gave them political freedom and encouraged initiative, enterprise, responsibility, industry and thrift. Freedom and achievement are not unrelated. This nation has become one of history's finest illustrations of how a people can enrich life and raise their whole level of economic well-being when they are given justice, liberty and incentive.

Herbert Spencer

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Herbert Spencer

If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?

Herbert Spencer

A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.

Henry David Thoreau

We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.

Henry David Thoreau

America is said to be the arena on which the battle of freedom is to be fought; but surely it cannot be freedom in a merely political sense that is meant. Even if we grant that the American has freed himself from a political tyrant, he is still the slave of an economical and moral tyrant. Now that the republic--the res- publica--has been settled, it is time to look after the res- privata,--the private state,--to see, as the Roman Senate charged its consuls, "ne quid res-PRIVATA detrimenti caperet," that the private state receive no detriment.

Henry David Thoreau

The boatmen appeared to lead an easy and contented life, and we thought that we should prefer their employment ourselves to many professions which are much more sought after. They suggested how few circumstances are necessary to the well-being and serenity of man, how indifferent all employments are, and that any may seem noble and poetic to the eyes of men, if pursued with sufficient buoyancy and freedom.

Henry David Thoreau

For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.

Henry David Thoreau

Every sacred book, successively, has been accepted in the faith that it was to be the final resting-place of the sojourning soul;but after all, it was but a caravansary which supplied refreshment to the traveler, and directed him farther on his way to Isphahan or Bagdat. Thank God, no Hindoo tyranny prevailed at the framing of the world, but we are freemen of the universe, and not sentenced to any caste.