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.

Will Durant

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

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.

Truman Capote

I remember things the way they should have been.

Vinnie Jones

Egil Olsen should have gone six games ago. He was totally useless. I'd like to give him a right-hander!

Joko Beck

It's of no use to look back and say, "I should have been different." At any given moment, we are the way we are, and we see what we're able to see. For that reason, guilt is always inappropriate.

Johnny Weir

I drink Vitamin Water nonstop - I should have an IV.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.

John Green

Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.

Patrick Henry

O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone; and you have no longer an aristocratical, no longer a democratical spirit. Did you ever read of any revolution in a nation, brought about by the punishment of those in power, inflicted by those who had no power at all?

Ned Vizzini

And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.

Naomi Weisstein

The first reason for psychology's failure to understand what people are and how they act, is that clinicians and psychiatrists, who are generally the theoreticians on these matters, have essentially made up myths without any evidence to support them; the second reason for psychology's failure is that personality theory has looked for inner traits when it should have been looking for social context.

Rick Steves

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

Neale Donald Walsch

The difficulty with humanity's previous attempts at reinventing itself is that we've always started with behaviors rather than with beliefs.

Nate Berkus

One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.

Joseph Addison

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding.

Joseph Addison

Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.

Jose Saramago

There are those who deny me the right to speak of God, because I am not a believer. And I say that I have every right in the world. I want to talk about God because it is a problem that affects all humanity.

Jonathan Rosen

The things that make us human often make us ill.

Jacque Fresco

The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture.

Henry David Thoreau

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.