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Quotes About Free

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.
~ Jocko Willink
I give away thousands of paintings for free.
~ Banksy
There were thousands of abolitionists who were free traders.
~ Robert Toombs
The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free society and are still among the greatest threats to our liberty.
~ Neil MacGregor
Strong alliances can thrive even where disagreements exist, but they cannot thrive where free and open communication is shut down.
~ Sharice Davids
If I was Mayor of London, I would take the congestion charge off. I'd keep the bike lanes. And buses free on a Thursday.
~ Dereck Chisora
Paid child care would make child care more efficient, allowing more children to be cared for by fewer adults, and thus free up parents to work more.
~ Michael Shellenberger
Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes... You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
I don't think profit margins are great when you're giving away free tickets!
~ Tana Mongeau
Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free from a mud berth and swaying in its chains.
~ Jonathan Raban
Workers of my country, I have faith in Chile and its destiny. Other men will overcome this dark and bitter moment when treason seeks to prevail. Keep in mind that, much sooner than later, the great avenues will again be opened through which will pass free men to construct a better society. Long live Chile! Long live the people! Long live the workers!
~ Salvador Allende
I will probably be caught again, because that's what happens to criminals in this universe. And maybe I will escape once more." He shrugged. "Maybe I will not be caught again, though." He looked at her, surprised not at her but at something in himself. "I was no I before, but now there is a reason to stay free. I will not be caught again. There is a reason." "What is it, Butcher?" "Because I am," he said softly, "and you are.
~ Samuel R. Delany
An obese man came, who walked with a cane and was accompanied by a limping, rotund dachshund, to ask when the veterinarian was coming to do the free clinic; then he and Billy stooped over the dachshund, which shut its eyes gratefully while they inspected its teeth.
~ Sandra Newman
If Death Is Kind Perhaps if Death is kind, and there can be returning, We will come back to earth some fragrant night, And take these lanes to find the sea, and bending Breathe the same honeysuckle, low and white. We will come down at night to these resounding beaches And the long gentle thunder of the sea, Here for a single hour in the wide starlight We shall be happy, for the dead are free.
~ Sara Teasdale
I am a firm believer in free but fair trade. However the United States should not be on the losing end of trade agreements that are not enforced. It is time that we make China play fairly.
~ Elizabeth Dole
In a free society, there comes a time when the truth - however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say - must be told.
~ Al Gore
I think there is clearly a connection between free time and procrastination. The more you have of the former, all things being equal, the more likely you are to procrastinate.
~ James Surowiecki
Free... Yes...FREE time Is what retirement brings Leisure, lounging and loafing And other lazy things
~ John Walter Bratton
I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.
~ Andy Hertzfeld
Everyone has an inner hero that they have glimpsed from time to time, just waiting to break free Now is the time to tap into your true hero potential.
~ Steve Rizzo
Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet, Thine odor like a key, Turns noiselessly in memory's wards to let A thought of sorrow free.
~ William Wetmore Story
Through you I go back to the origin of the sign, to the free writing sketched by wind on the sea and the sand, to the wild writing of the birds. — Marguerite Duras, C'est Tout / No More , transl. Richard Howard (Seven Stories Press, 1998) (via mothwood)
~ Marguerite Duras
We need to break free of the rationalism constraining our politics over the last few decades; such rationalism is too narrow to adequately describe our real problems or to adequately address them.
~ Marianne Williamson
Courtesty and cordiality are not only not the same, but they are incompatible. Why so? Courtesy is an effort, and cordiality is free.
~ Anthony Trollope