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Quotes About Freedom

People won't let you live the way you want to, but if you're strong enough or quick enough, at least you don't have to live the way they want you to. I live, though, no matter what.
~ Andrew Vachss
Roots are nice, but a tree can't run.
~ Andrew Vachss
People won't let you live the way you want to, but if you're strong enough or quick enough, at least you don't have to live the way they want you to.
~ Andrew Vachss
With the gates thrown open, the men of Charlie Company rushed the pool, in a flurry of cannonballs and belly flops. For a few happy minutes the teenagers within the warriors emerged. Splashing, diving – having fun. The water accepted them, didn't care about their sins. They were back on Pismo Beach, the banks of Lake Michigan, the local pond.
~ Andrew Wiest
There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years.
~ Andrew Wiles
I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth and then I can fly free.
~ Andrew Wyeth
Your interest lies in not asking questions," he said quietly. "Think what you like. But bear in mind this: the moment you are told what the point of your work is, you're dead. This isn't a film, it's for real. The full story is what you get told only if and when your work, and with it your existence, are no longer required." He smiled a sad smile. "Still, I do, in fact, wish you well. Believe me.
~ Andrey Kurkov
Adders never interfered in other beings' affairs, as long as it didn't affect them directly. In their view, everyone has the right to live their lives just as foolishly as they like.
~ Andrus Kivirähk
If that's the word you like, then why not use it. First or last, there's no difference.
~ Andrus Kivirähk
Dandelion! You're asleep in the saddle!' 'I'm not asleep. I'm thinking creatively!
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Time to ride, Dandelion." "Where to?" "Isn't it all the same?" "Yes, by and large. Let's go".
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
A choice which should be respected, for it is the holy and irrefutable right of every woman.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
The wish, Geralt! Hurry up! What do you desire? Immortality? Riches? Fame? Power? Might? Privileges? Hurry, we haven't any time!' He was silent. 'Humanity,' she said suddenly, smiling nastily. 'I've guessed, haven't I? That's what you want, that's what you dream of! Of release, of the freedom to be who you want, not who you have to be. The djinn will fulfil that wish, Geralt. Just say it.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Freedom and contempt have their limits. Anyway, it's always like that. You're always somebody's tool.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Draw huge, erect phalluses on the primitive hunters.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Travel is no more than a relatively healthy form of narcotic, after all.
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
Taki jest sens literatury, ?eby ci? wykolei?a z normalnej codzienno?ci, ?eby ci? wystrzeli?a w kosmos z tego zwyk?ego ?ycia, ?eby? si? nie da? udupi?. ?eby? nie s?ucha? rodziców, tylko ?eby? s?ucha? Martina Edena, bo jednak, z ca?ym szacunkiem dla rodziców, oferta, jak? on sk?ada, jest ciekawsza.
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
?ycie albo ?mier?, chcecie zdycha?, to zdychajcie.
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
On the trail all horses are free at night, except the regular night ones, which are used constantly during the entire trip, and under ordinary conditions keep strong and improve in flesh.
~ Andy Adams
From this moment forward, I will accept responsibility for my past. I understand that the beginning of wisdom is to accept the responsibility for my own problems and that by accepting responsibility for my past, I free myself to move into a bigger, brighter future of my own choosing.
~ Andy Andrews
I possess the greatest power ever bestowed upon mankind, the power of choice.
~ Andy Andrews
We can choose not to allow the choices and actions of someone else to dictate our own.
~ Andy Andrews
If it is correct that "you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free," then is it possible that if you don't know the truth, its absence can place you in bondage?
~ Andy Andrews