Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lupita Nyong'o

I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.

Thomas Vinje

What Microsoft is talking about is freedom for them to innovate, not others.

Lyndsey Medders

He's given me that freedom since I was a freshman to make those calls. We have a lot of trust in each other. It's neat we're on the same page like that.

William J. Brennan

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.

William James

Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

William Ellery Channing

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

William Ellery Channing

Knowledge is essential to freedom.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

Roald Dahl

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

Sam Hunt

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

Joe Gibbs

I think we realized what was at stake,

David Baker

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

Alexander Milinkevich

It is important that the Russian authorities realize that we are sincerely willing to respect Russia's interests. But we are not going to sacrifice our interests, either.

Richard Whately

Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood.

Richelle Mead

This isn't a Christmas special! This is my life. In the real world, miracles and goodness just don't happen.

Richard Avedon

You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get beyond the surface by working with the surface. All that you can do is manipulate that surface-gesture, costume, expression-radically and correctly.

Renny Harlin

I became a real Shell Motor Oil expert, and I did this 25-minute film. It turned out really well and, as a result, they offered me more work and lots of commercials to direct.

Rebecca West

Here lies the real terror in the international war of ideologies; that a city knows not whom it entertains.

Pig Miller

Just like Rockford, everyone else will step up. Just because Snap isn't there doesn't mean it's going to be easy.

Sophie Winkleman

I tried to go to the gym a while ago and hurt my foot. I thought, 'Well, exercise and I just aren't meant to be.'

Chris Higginbottom

Going to the state tournament means lot for our team, the school and the community. I think it's been six years since they've been, and to go in my first year here, there's just nothing sweeter.

Elizabeth McGovern

Hollywood never suited me, I didn't ever feel comfortable with it, it took me a couple of years but I found where I was always meant to be... Chiswick!

Bill Walton

It is a big deal, because it is money and it's money we always meant to be able to pay (the state), but the money was never there to pay them.

Jason Statham

What do you mean for a change, mate? ... There are always more people more sinister than myself.

William Cowper

To dally much with subject mean and lowProves that the mind is weak, or makes it so.

Lorraine Kelly

I think we were meant to be painting outside originally,

Joe Wilcox

It is meant to be an idea factory.