It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.
~By William Sloane Coffin, Jr. ~
I got asked by a freelance journalist to jump in front of Princess Diana's funeral. How pathetic is that? That would have been the stupidest thing on the planet.
~By Mark Roberts ~
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
~By Robin G. Collingwood ~
For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted.
~By Virgil Goode ~
I love doing big movies. It's awesome! You have all these toys. The thing I like about this movie is, like they always say, directors have the biggest train sets! Don't tell anyone, but I'd do this for free.
~By Michael Bay ~
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
~By Katharine Fullerton Gerould ~
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
~By Denis Diderot ~
Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.
~By Margaret Walker ~
Make your free men and guests sit as far as possible at tables on either side, not four here and three there.
~By Robert Grosseteste ~
For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.
~By Charles Lindbergh ~
The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.
~By Carson McCullers ~
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership.
~By Don Nickles ~
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
~By Langston Hughes ~
Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.
~By Arthur C. Brooks ~
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
~By Barbara Ehrenreich ~
Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.
~By Christopher Hitchens ~
The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.
~By Milton Friedman ~
The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.
~By Georg Buchner ~
There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.
~By Ricardo Montalban ~
But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of freedom comes with the decision.
~By Steven Brust ~
In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods.
~By Stephen Bayley ~
Freedom of love is freedom to say yes to many lovers.
~By Brigitte Boisselier ~
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
~By Tertullian ~
I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.
~By Carrie Fisher ~
Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before.
~By Godfried Danneels ~
I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.
~By Malcolm Wallop ~
On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.
~By Steve Wozniak ~
137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.
~By Doc Hastings ~
Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.
~By Anthony Kennedy ~
To Koreans on the other side, we care about your freedom.
~By Kim Y. Sam ~
Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections.
~By George Montgomery ~
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
~By Peter Ustinov ~
I need freedom to be happy.
~By Johnny Weissmuller ~
But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade agreements are good for economic growth and economic opportunity in creating jobs and lifting people out of poverty.
~By Donald Evans ~
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
~By Norman O. Brown ~
I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character.
~By Michael Richards ~
And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they can't hurt you any more, there is no feeling like that. It finally frees you from a lot of demons.
~By Patty Hearst ~
The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
~By Buffalo Bill ~
This means that to man God gave a degree of free will.
~By Kenneth Scott Latourette ~
We have convinced over one billlion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.
~By Juan Williams ~
You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
~By Earl Weaver ~
I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom.
~By Boris Becker ~
Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.
~By Bao Dai ~
The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.
~By John McCain ~
A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages.
~By Herman Kahn ~
Well, one thing for sure, I won't be remembered for Free Willy. Or maybe I will.
~By Michael Madsen ~
It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.
~By Major R. Owens ~
People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
~By Wayne Coyne ~
You can sell nothing for a mark-up for a while, but only until something starts eating away at it. Now I can go home and click on Yahoo, call my sister and talk over a microphone for free.
~By Michael K. Powell ~
The money is in a different league these days, of course, but I have special memories of the 60s and 70s which players today don't have. There wasn't the same celebrity attitude and media exposure. We had a bit more freedom.
~By Peter Shilton ~
You can do but one of these things; it is folly to attempt anything else, for there cannot exist a slave confederacy and a free confederacy side by side upon this continent.
~By John Brough ~
I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.
~By Naguib Mahfouz ~
It is clear we can make reforms to better ensure we are giving law enforcement all of the tools they need while maintaining the appropriate safeguards to protect the very freedoms we cherish.
~By Leonard Boswell ~
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
Water is free of charge. Why then do people drink Evian?
~By Richard Levin ~
Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed.
~By Townsend Harris ~
I enjoy popping in to World Duty Free at the airport and trying out perfumes - I can never resist a new scent.
~By Lisa Snowdon ~
When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff.
~By Niklas Zennstrom ~
The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.
~By Robert Casey ~
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
~By Thomas B. Macaulay ~
Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom.
~By Seth Low ~
The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.
~By Franz Kafka ~
Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.
~By Evan Parker ~
I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though.
~By Elton John ~
Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?
~By Joan Didion ~
For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.
~By George W. Bush ~
Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.
~By Dee Hock ~
The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
~By Alexander Solzhenitsyn ~
And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.
~By Sidney Blumenthal ~
My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.
~By Arthur Blank ~
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
~By Maria Montessori ~
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
~By Moshe Dayan ~
When someone comes along and expresses him or herself as freely as they think, people flock to it. They enjoy it.
~By Joe Rogan ~
Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.
~By Claude Chabrol ~
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so.
~By John Norman ~
The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.
~By Dick Wolf ~
I don't have to 'freedom-kiss' my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.
~By Woody Allen ~
Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.
~By Ron Paul ~
The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
~By Earl Warren ~
I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms.
~By Mel Martinez ~
The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased.
~By Charles Hodge ~
We go in to liberate Cuba, but Cuba still isn't free; we don't really think through what we'll do after the initial treaty is signed, but we're still occupying. There's chaos and torture and finally an outcry.
~By Sarah Vowell ~
I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
~By Pauline Kael ~
The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.
~By Ray Manzarek ~
In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get.
~By Umberto Guidoni ~
By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
~By Harry A. Blackmun ~
The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.
~By Walter Ulbricht ~
If the evens of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.
~By Jon Stewart ~
If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.
~By George W. Bush ~
Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
~By Florence E. Allen ~
The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult.
~By John Boehner ~
While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I've seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them.
~By Paul Bremer ~
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