Captivity ends when creativity begins

They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.

Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of so- called economists who in turn are full of schemes for getting something...

To find out if there is actually such freedom one must be aware of one’s own conditioning, of the problems, of the monotonous shallowness, emptiness, insufficiency of one’s daily life, and above all one must...

I think my personality leaks thru in all my roles. There are probably lots of parts of my personality that I don’t express for fear of looking a bit odd, but in acting, I have...

yes” in the sky.

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.

Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They’re free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.

We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.

Truth can hurt, but truth will bring you justice. Embrace the pain, and the truth shall set you free.

I will kill you if you set me free,’ the eyes said. ‘Set me free.

..A hawk soared over our carriage, letting out a high, piercing cry of defiance, and I wanted to jump out of the window and fly with it

I am partly not conscious of structure with my movies, but this is when I am writing. I leave my mind very free, and then I correct it after.

Without children, men have more liberty to earn less – that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.

I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn’t room for what I wanted to write.

Be brave, be bold, be free.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free.

I shall listen to my heart and it shall save me. I shall listen to my heart and I’ll be free.

By letting go we become free to accept what is new.

It could have been so beautiful.The way I learned and got free and swore to never love another person ever againand it could have been so beautiful,the way I actually did.

While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile – what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries – seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray.

no” as an answer to some questions.

My love is divided into three parts. I’ll give you part one and two for free, but for the fourth installation, you’ll have to pay for it.

My thoughts are free to roam back to the way she leaned her head on my arm for a split second, as if wishing she could let herself go, let herself lean farther. But she...

I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That’s one of the things you learn not to know.

The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.

We learned the shocking truth that “home” isn’t necessarily a certain spot on earth. It must be a place where you can “feel” at home, which means “free” to us.

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don’t belong anymore to anyone, that I’m not a slave anymore, I gave back their...

No country is free unless it is democratic.

WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.

I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don’t want to die humiliated or deceived.

Thoughts are free, talk is cheap, and action is expensive. What’s your worth?

If you get stuck, draw with a different pen. Change your tools; it may free your thinking.

Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.

Why give chemotherapy or even antibiotics to people with end-stage Alzheimer’s disease? Keep them pain free and clean, love them but don’t automatically try to get the last technology-produced breath from them. Start a preschool...

They think the government shows people everything —how to work, study, eat, sleep and that’s it. They are afraid of change. They do not understand that if you want to do something, you should do...

Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.

Fly free with me.

We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.

Everything in my house was either free or under 40 bucks, and people come to my house and can’t believe that I picked up everything on the street or in a thrift shop.

To attract a lover, you need to craft the perfect Craigslist ad. Here’s mine: Free TV with purchase of potato chips and couch.

If you only had 48 hours left to live, would you spend it like you normally spend your weekends? If not, why spend 2/7th of your life wasting your free time? After all, free time...

Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Nobody’s truly free. Everyone is prisoner to a secret, a sin, a lie. It wasn’t by accident that, in the Star Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key set the word “free” to a note so high...

All that is left to bring you pain, are the memories. If you face those, you’ll be free. You can’t spend the rest of your life hiding from yourself; always afraid that your memories will...

The only thing that is still free in this world is religion, which is why a lot of people “find it.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

Bury us, and mark our names above. Let us be free.