Quotes About Freedom

No tienes las manos de un princesa frágil que pasa las horas haciendo encaje y que espera que llegue algún príncipe a salvarla. Son las manos de una mujer capaz de trepar por una cuerda hecha con su propio cabello para alcanzar la libertad, o de matar al ogro que la ha capturado mientras duerme.

This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

if you could not close a door behind you to take a shit in the city - even if it was just the door to a shared toilet - if this one, most essential freedom was taken away from you, the freedom, that is, to withdraw from other people when necessity called, then all other freedoms were worthless. Then life had no more meaning. Then it would be better to be dead.

He was not bound. No one led him by the arm. He got out of the carriage as if he were a free man.

He did not want to have his newfound respiratory freedom ruined so soon be the sultry climate of humans.

For Grenouille, this simplicity seemed a deliverance.

Biliyor musunuz - bazen öyle korkuya kap?l?yorum ki, bazen ... bazen ... bazen evden ç?kmaya cesaret edemiyorum, öyle bir güven içindeyim. BoÅŸ zaman?mda -ki çok boÅŸ zaman?m var- evde oturmay? tercih ediyorum, korkudan, ÅŸimdiki gibi, nas?l anlatay?m size? Bir s?k??ma duygusu, bir bunalt?, deli gibi korkuyorum bu güvenlikten, bir çeÅŸit klostrofobi, sürekli iÅŸe yerleÅŸmiÅŸ olma psikozu...

Dondequiera que uno dirigiese la mirada, reinaba el desenfreno. La gente leía libros, incluso las mujeres.

But if you could not close a door behind you to take a shit in the city--even if it was just the door to a shared toilet--if this one, most essential freedom was taken from you, the freedom, that is, to withdraw from other people when necessity called, then all other freedoms were worthless. Then life had no more meaning. Then it would be better to be dead.

daca iti era luata aceasta unica libertate, cea mai importanta dintre toate, si anume libertatea de a te izola la nevoie de ceilalti oameni, atunci toate celelalte libertati nu valorau nimic. Atunci viata nu mai avea rost.

I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.

We sang not for fame and fortune, but because the song needed to be set free from our souls. Once liberated, most folks understood why it had been locked up in the first place. Once

Mind if I sit down?" asked Conrad. "It's a free country," said Toni. "Then why is everything so expensive?" said

As a wise man named Ben Franklin once said, those who would sacrifice liberty for security desire neither. I

Home? Home is where they don't tie you to a rock and drip acid on you. And sometimes it isn't." -Loki, Norse god of Mischief

Thanks. Any idea how to ride a flying horse?" Argus said. "Not really, but I'd imagine it would be along the lines of get in the saddle and don't fall off," Murphy said.

Swallows flew, the scythes of their wings mowing the light.

Many of us are metaphorically standing in a ring of fire. The assaults of life have pushed us through a wall of fire and here we are, standing in the middle of a circle of flames. The conundrum we face in the circle is: would we rather spend the rest of our lives very uncomfortable, hot and singed, or do we have the courage to walk through the wall of flames again, experiencing a short burning sensation, to freedom from fire? The benefits of being

your abuser tried to map your life for you. But he does not own you, and you have the freedom and the power to overcome and transcend the (negative) associations. You deserve to be happy, to be free of any feelings of shame or guilt or fear. You have the right to a completely satisfying sexual life. You are a righteous young woman. If you can get in touch with the feelings and consciously change the awful associations, you can re-map your life.

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.

I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.

Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine. - Gloria

Writing is not some quiet, closet act.