Free Quotes
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Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.
David Guterson
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For the U.S., a nation that boasts of being the land of the free, it does not live up to its ideal.
Opal Tometi
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Live, it's just the free flow and the energy and the excitement. It's a one-off and you have that adrenaline for an hour and a half.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
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When we lack the ability to talk back to entities that are culturally and politically powerful, the very foundations of free speech and democratic society are called into question.
Naomi Klein
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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.
Betty Cuthbert
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I got to Broadway a year after I came to New York. I starred in 'Butterflies Are Free' and got a Tony for it. Right out of the gate. Maybe that's why I wasn't very gracious about it. I wasn't driven. And right after 'Butterflies Are Free', I got married and then started a family. I always wanted that.
Blythe Danner
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In the long run, the loans will help Iraq make its own way to a vibrant, free and prosperous future.
Olympia Snowe
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I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer.
Dennis Kucinich
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I well remember a leading Egyptian liberal saying to me in 2003 that she did not favor free elections right then in Egypt; she favored them in a decade's time if she and others had those 10 years to organize freely.
Elliott Abrams
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I think the Internet is a free press, you know?
Kevin Young
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My mom let me kind of run free and be rowdy. She encouraged it. I'm a youngest child. So I was spazzy and trying to be funny to my older sisters. It's kind of my role in the family - tension reliever. I was funny or annoying, depending on your perspective.
Andy Samberg
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I want a society free of human trafficking.
Anuradha Koirala
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China is a major power in the Pacific and I think we are dealing with some common threats in that region: the whole issue of Korea and the stability of Korea, the whole issue of nuclear proliferation, the whole issue of providing free access to our ships that are operating in that area.
Leon Panetta
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The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.
Alan Guth
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Lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that.
E. L. Konigsburg
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I'm working hard to break free of stereotypes that the film industry has created and nurtured around women.
Jessica Chastain
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I think Jesus is saying, Look, you guys are running around like monkeys trying to get people to clap, but people are fallen, they are separated from God, so they have no idea what is good or bad, worthy to be judged or set free, beautiful or ugly to begin with. Why not get your glory from God? Why not accept your feelings of redemption because of His pleasure in you, not the fickle and empty favor of man? And only then will you know who you are, and only then will you have true, uninhibited relationships with others.
Donald Miller
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Hank Paulson, the happy capitalist warrior who spent his life pursuing and defending free markets, is now the biggest interventionist Treasury secretary we've had since the Great Depression.
Charles Duhigg
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When I fly British Airways, I can't help but read the free Daily Mail, which makes me glad I am leaving the country.
Martin Parr
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I went to L.A. to become an actress, and I started from the ground up. I worked as an extra, and then I started taking this joke-writing class because it was free. I didn't want to be a comedian, but I was like, 'Free education? Yeah, I'll take a class.'
Anjelah Johnson
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Forgive and be free. Forget that you have forgiven and be freer.
Gautama Buddha
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Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.
Norman Vincent Peale
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There’s a ghost of a dream that you don’t even try to shake free off because you’re too in love with the way she haunts you.
Kamila Shamsie
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They had done him the honor to take him for a madman, but had set him free on discovering that he was only a poet.
Victor Hugo