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Quotes About Freedom

aunque cada camino llevase a un sitio distinto, cada ser humano era libre para decidir cuál escoger, para volver atrás o, incluso, para abrir su propio camino.
~ Laura Gallego García
Porque quizá así comprendas el motivo por el cual voy a pedirte que abandones el campamento y sigas con tu vida lejos de la rebelión, Viana.
~ Laura Gallego García
Los Sentimientos Son Parte De La Vida Y No Nacen Dentro De Ti Para Que Tu Los Encierres Bajo Siete Llaves
~ Laura Gallego García
A su lado, la mujer que lo había devuelto a la vida lloraba de felicidad, porque sabía que la pesadilla había terminado y ella ya no tendría que vivir como una hija de la noche nunca más. Y sonreía, y soñaba con la nueva vida que los aguardaba al final de la travesía, en una bella finca en Italia, junto al mar, con mucho sol. Mucho sol.
~ Laura Gallego García
Pero si alguna vez tuvo interés en gobernar a los humanos y exigir que lo adorasen como a un dios, hoy, desde luego, prefiere ir a su aire y que lo dejen tranquilo. Es una actitud que soy capaz de comprender porque se parece mucho más a mi propia forma de ser.
~ Laura Gallego García
While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
The racehorse, by virtue of his awesome physical gifts, freed the jockey from himself. When a horse and a jockey flew over the track together, there were moments in which the man's mind wedded itself to the animal's body to form something greater than the sum of both parts.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
In seeking the Bird's death to free himself, Louie had chained himself, once again, to his tyrant. During the war, the Bird had been unwilling to let go of Louie; after the war, Louie was unable to let go of the Bird.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
Wonderful?" wrote J.O. Young in his diary. "To stand cheering, crying, waving your hat and acting like a damn fool in general. No one who has spent all but 16 days of the this war as a Nip prisoner can really know what it means to see 'Old Sammy' buzzing around over camp.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
Man is preoccupied with freedom yet laden with handicaps. The breadth of his activity and experience is narrowed by the limitations of his relatively weak, sluggish body. The racehorse, by virtue of his awesome physical gifts, freed the jockey from himself.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
In keeping with the American effort to reconcile with Japan, all of them, including those serving life sentences, would soon be paroled. It appears that even Sueharu Kitamura, "the Quack," was set free, in spite of his death sentence. By 1958, every war criminal who had not been executed would be free, and on December 30 of that year, all would be granted amnesty. Sugamo would be torn down, and the epic ordeals of POWs in Japan would fade from the world's memory.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
He didn't run from something or to something, not for anyone or in spite of anyone; he ran because it was what his body wished to do. The restiveness, the self-consciousness, and the need to oppose disappeared. All he felt was peace.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
Non correva via da qualcosa o verso qualcosa, non correva per qualcuno o a dispetto di qualcuno: correva perché era quello che il suo corpo desiderava fare. L'irrequietezza, l'insicurezza e il bisogno di contrapporsi scomparvero. Tutto quello che sentiva era pace.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
As he walked over the bridge, Louie glanced back. Some of the guards and camp officials stood in the compound, watching them go. A few of the sickest POWs remained behind, awaiting transport the next day. Fitzgerald stayed with them, unwilling to leave until the last of his men was liberated.*
~ Laura Hillenbrand
Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
Anywhere you would like to go, anything you would like to do, Creativity can take you there.
~ Laura Jaworski
Creativity knows no bounds; there is no jail that would hold it. It flows beyond grammar and edge of canvas and specifics of brush or movement or tongue, out there and within you, always ready for the soul to take flight.
~ Laura Jaworski
Leaves fall and the spirit soars.
~ Laura Jaworski
The creative plane is pure magic, pure adventure, pure freedom.
~ Laura Jaworski
There are no rules to creativity.
~ Laura Jaworski
To write to paint to make art of any kind is a great and true adventure."
~ Laura Jaworski
Let yourself go and you'll be more than you've ever thought of being.
~ Laura Joplin
The clergy spoke with the moral force of religion. The American Baptist Convention's tradition encouraged individual freedoms in theology, church practice and morality. In an article on abortion that he wrote in 1967, Howard Moody stated: "It is a violation of every Protestant ethical stance to support with civil law any matter of personal morality….
~ Laura Kaplan
Gjerji raises his hand. In English he says, "I like to tell in the words of a great American philosopher what freedom is." "Say it in your language to your peers," I urge. Gyerji makes his statement. The class grows silent and thoughtful; there is much nodding. Twain perhaps? Emerson? Diana sidles up and whispers in my ear. "He says to them that freedom is a word when nothing is anymore able to be losed." Janis Joplin, de-syntaxed.
~ Laura Kelly