Quotes About Freedom

she picked up the box and walked away from the job that had been her identity as well as a paycheck.

Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.

Free as air; that's what they say- free as air. Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.

What is it about being on a boat that makes everyone behave like a film star? --Julia Flyte

The next four weeks of solitary confinement were among the happiest of Paul's life...It was so exhilarating, he found, never to have to make any decision on any subject, to be wholly relieved from the smallest consideration of time, meas, or clothes, to have no anxiety ever about what kind of impression he was making; in fact, to be free.

What is adolescence without trash?

How could I have known? There seemed time for everything in those days; the world was open to be explored at leisure.

And we would leave the golden candlelight of the dining-room for the starlight outside and sit on the edge of the fountain, cooling our hands in the water and listening drunkenly to its splash and gurgle over the rocks. 'Ought we to be drunk every night?' Sebastian asked one morning. 'Yes, I think so.' ' I think so too.

Open country was easily reached in those days.

Let us give thanks to our father, leader, and creator for our happy lives!" "Stankovskaya, to hear your anti-Soviet talk, one can hardly believe that you were a member of a municipal committee!" "Yes, and to hear you people one can hardly believe that you're not on the prison staff. Why don't you call the guards now and report this conversation? You might get some clean underwear as a reward, and then you wouldn't stink so much.

the economy "is like a bird. You can't hold it in your hand but have to let it fly. But it might fly away, and that is why you need a cage to control it.

the room had grown smothery. He wanted to be out in some cool and bitter breeze, miles above the cities, and to live serene and detached back in the corners of his mind

She did not plan; she merely let herself go, and the overwhelming life in her did the rest.

Say stupid shit. Barf out the fucking-around-o-maniacal schizo flow. Barter whatever for whoever wants to read it.

Her breasts, although not large, jutted out shamelessly under the soft, warm, heavy fabric, free of the tight undergarments that imprisoned them during the day.

A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.

You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.

We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.

No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.

Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss. 'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two...

She was a mischief, and that was a satisfaction; no longer was she a huntress of corralled game

I don't complain of conventional morality. I complain rather of the mediocre heretics who seize upon the findings of sophistication and adopt the pose of a moral freedom to which they are by no means entitled by their intelligences.