Famous Quotes & Sayings

All I can do is try to be a difference-maker once I do get back out there, ... Maybe I can free up another guy. Maybe I can take the double-team and somebody else makes a play. I just want to get myself totally healthy and get back out there and help out.

All I was thinking about was (Kentucky guard) Patrick Sparks. Pump-fake, foul, free throws.

Eric Hoffer

Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading.

Eric Hoffer

Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.

Eric Hoffer

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

Eric Hoffer

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

Lucan

The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood.

Lucan

All go free when multitudes offend.

John Amery

It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.

Julian Schnabel

You know, painting has given me a lot of freedom, because for some reason, I've been able to paint things, organize things in a way that I see that don't have any buffers or compromises in them.

You could see the pressure in those free throws when he went to the line. You could see how much of a weight he was carrying.

You could see in our two freestyle relays how we missed her. It will take some time for us to get used to not having her.

Clarence Darrow

You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.

You can pay $50,000 or take the free tour.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You can only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power-he's free again.

J. J. Johnson

The main thing we (talked about) in the locker room was fouls and free throws. That was going to be a key and it was. That's what we needed to stay in the game.

The man is free to rule his world, not his world rule him.

Their non-scoring girls stepped up and scored tonight. And they hit 10 of 13 free throws down the stretch and that's hard to come back on.

The ultimate objective of human life is to be free from sin.

Gloria Steinem

The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.

Giorgio Moroder

Once you free your mind about the concept of harmony and of music being correct, you can do whatever you want. So nobody told me what to do, and there was no preconception of what to do.

Harry S Truman

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

Harry S Truman

I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.

H. G. Wells

The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.

H. L. Mencken

I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty. If ever a man is to achieve anything like dignity, it can happen only if superior men are given absolute freedom to think what they want to think and say what they want to say. I am against any man and any organization which seeks to limit or deny that freedom ... the superior man can be sure of freedom only if it is given to all men.

H. L. Mencken

Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone.

H. L. Mencken

Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.

H. L. Mencken

The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war... The state, in truth, is degraded in its very nature: a few butcheries cannot do it any further damage.

H. L. Mencken

Remorse-Regret that one waited so long to do it.

H. L. Mencken

Liberals have many tails and chase them all.

H. L. Mencken

Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.

H. L. Mencken

I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free speech begins to collide with the right to privacy. I don't think there are any other conditions to free speech. I've got a right to say and believe anything I please, but I haven't got a right to press it on anybody else. .... Nobody's got a right to be a nuisance to his neighbors.

H. L. Mencken

For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.