To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. Votes: 2
Lewis B. SmedesIf you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were. Votes: 2
Richard BachWe all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free. Votes: 2
Jiddu KrishnamurtiLove is, in its essence, a free, formless strand of luminosity.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellAs you feel more and more love, begin to smile, let go, be free.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellThe only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. Votes: 1 Albert Camus
Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship. Votes: 1 Fyodor Dostoevsky
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you free. Votes: 3 Swami Vivekananda
I'm a free spirit; more people should become free spirits. Votes: 4 Mark Roberts
Dancing inspires my music. Having your girlfriends all together and just being free and happy. Votes: 3 Bella Thorne
We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen. Votes: 1 Rebecca Solnit
Being young isn't about age, it's about being a free spirit. You can meet someone of 20 who's boring and old, or you can meet someone of 70 who's youthful and exciting. I met Fred Astaire when he was 72 and I was 21, and I fell in love with him. He certainly was a free spirit. Votes: 1 Twiggy
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. Votes: 2 Gilbert K. Chesterton
I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people. Votes: 1 Lucinda Williams
I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free. Votes: 5 Rachel Hunter
Release your majestic mind, embrace your untamed inner spirit. Break free from captivity, avoid society.. You were born to be free. Votes: 3 Melanie Muller
I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence. Votes: 7 Earl Browder
I'm praying that was my one little dip in the cancer pool. I hope never to have to revisit that, but I learned a lot, I'm cancer free with a bright and hopeful future. Votes: 6 Julie Gold
And check this out: If every American had one meat-free day per week, it would be the same as taking eight million cars off American roads in a year. Votes: 3 Kathy Freston
I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art. Votes: 1 Clara Schumann
I believe that artists should be paid for their creativity. There's no other industry where people can come in and take what you create for free and give it away for free and that's acceptable. Votes: 4 Mark Hoppus
Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances. Votes: 3 David Wilkerson
I just know that I'm a fan of all different kinds of genres. You're supposed to be free doing music, and that's how I feel. Votes: 1 Bruno Mars
Don't let anyone drain you of your happiness today. Be drama free. Rise above the petty stuff. Votes: 3 Trent Shelton
I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be. Votes: 2 Marion Jones
I am always floating around trying to tend to everyone and be free while at the same time enjoying some space. Votes: 1 Jenna Morasca
As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time. Votes: 4 Mary Chapin Carpenter
If you have the feeling of choice, if you feel free, you will be better off. And when I say better off I mean that if people feel they have control over their lives, they call in for fewer sick days from work. They have a lesser probability of having a heart attack or stroke. They live longer. They're happier. Votes: 1 Sheena Iyengar
To me, flying free is doing what I want to do, even if it's different from what everybody expects me to do. I'm flying free when I win the battle between me and the people who thought I should go down this road and I find my own road. Votes: 3 Crystal Waters
When I was a kid at first I wanted to own a candy shop. I guess every kid wants to - we just want to have access - free access. Votes: 2 Franka Potente
I was a spectator who had gotten free admission to a freak show. Votes: 3 Steven Ramirez
You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force. Votes: 3 Nate Berkus
You are free to choose what you want to make of your life. It's called free agency or free will, and it's your birthright. Votes: 2 Sean Covey
You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents. Votes: 4 Earl Weaver
Free Agents' was an awesome experience. I never play the glam girl in anything, so that was a new experience. I would walk into one of my trailers and it would be like Spanx, a spray-tan gun, and chicken cutlets. I would have hair extensions. It was hilarious. Every day felt like I was turning into an awesome drag queen. Votes: 4 Kathryn Hahn
I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me. Votes: 1 Joel Edgerton
I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free. Votes: 1 John Lydon
Margaret Sanger didn't just introduce the idea of birth control into our culture at large, she freed women from indenture to their bodies. Votes: 1 Roxane Gay
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Votes: 1 Charles Dickens
While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family's health insurance costs. Votes: 4 Ron Wyden
As soon as I go into a Starbucks I take off my sunglasses. I want to be recognised and I want free coffee. Votes: 3 Gerard Way
If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education. Votes: 5 John Malkovich
If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education. Votes: 3 John Malkovich
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country. Votes: 2 James Madison
While there is no quick fix for instant, pain-free creativity, creative recovery (or discovery) is a teachable, trackable spiritual process. Each of us is complex and highly individual, yet there are common recognizable denominators to the creative recovery process. Votes: 3 Julia Cameron
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. Votes: 1 Jules Renard
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth. Votes: 3 Thomas Huxley
The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity. Votes: 2 Benjamin Netanyahu
One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army. Votes: 4 John Lydon
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Votes: 2 Herbert Marcuse
Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections. Votes: 4 George Montgomery
No economic system is perfect. But the American Free Enterprise system has empowered millions of people in the past. I know, because I saw it with my own eyes. Votes: 4 Marco Rubio
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. Votes: 2 Milton Friedman
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth. Votes: 2 Liu Xiaobo
Cessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world. Votes: 3 Adyashanti
Public relations is at best promotion or manipulation, at worst evasion and outright deception. What it is never about is a free flow of information. Votes: 2 Heather Brooke
What I wanna do with Methods is keep that around as sorta my freak out, creative free for all- anything goes project. Votes: 3 Tommy Lee
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! Votes: 1 Marcus Garvey
I am a true winner not because my life is free from struggles, challenges and obstacles, but because I always believe that there are some effective solutions to my difficulties in life. Votes: 3 Edmond Mbiaka
While salvation is a free gift, the 'winning Christ' can only be through unreserved consecration and unquestioning obedience. Nor is this a hardship, but the highest privilege. Votes: 4 Hudson Taylor
In the garden of the soul, the virtues of faith, hope, and love form the centerpiece. Traditionally called theological virtues, they come as free gifts from God and draw us to God. We cannot earn these virtues; God has already freely planted them in our soul. Votes: 3 Robert Morneau
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it. Votes: 4 George Washington
Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist who gives away free healthcare. You're thinking of Jesus. Votes: 2 John Fugelsang
The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth. Votes: 1 Mason Cooley
Let's keep the Internet weird. Let's keep the Internet free. Votes: 3 Al Franken
I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do. Votes: 3 Brian Eno
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. Votes: 2 Jimmy Wales
It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house. Votes: 5 Warren E. Burger
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. Votes: 4 Epicurus
To feel free like a bird, some things on our minds must be left in the past. Votes: 3 Mehmet Murat ildan
The difference between the successful and the troubled is not error-free living; it is that by discovering and implementing a life calling, the successful stand on their pile of trash while the troubled sit under theirs. Votes: 3 Dan Miller
I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot. Votes: 1 Christopher Parker
Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Votes: 4 Emma Goldman
Gatewood Galbraith was a good friend, and a tireless advocate for the repeal of the ridiculous ban on hemp & marijuana. His book âThe Last Free Man Standing' says it all. Votes: 3 Willie Nelson
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. Votes: 4 Milton Friedman
The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business. Votes: 3 Fran Tarkenton
We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept is the idea that some folks won't even get a chance. Votes: 4 Julian Castro
This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty. Votes: 2 Ted Cruz
The stories of wine lords who trade wine on intimidation or food critics who trade free meals for reviews... those are the stories of my life. I am telling the stories of my life in a true way. Votes: 3 Joe Bastianich
Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again! Votes: 4 Terry Pratchett
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race. Votes: 5 E. M. Forster
There shouldn't be any violence in hip-hop. You're getting free clothes. Basically, it's free money. Votes: 4 DMX
The birds never needed passports... We always thought, the birds can go wherever they want, and we couldn't, really. The birds were very much the symbol of... free movement for me. Votes: 7 Peter Sis
I'm putting out this free music, constantly putting it out. Votes: 4 Kendrick Lamar
I was called Matt Dillon's brother my whole career basically until 'Entourage' broke me free of that and now people call me Johnny Drama instead. Votes: 1 Kevin Dillon
Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul. I want to get lost in the rock and roll, and drift away. Votes: 3 Dobie Gray
Water is free of charge. Why then do people drink Evian? Votes: 1 Richard Levin
Men's minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few. Votes: 2 Mary Barnett Gilson
It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism. Votes: 4 John Amery
The Republican Party and the conservative free market movement have been presidentially focused for too long. Votes: 2 Grover Norquist
Besides offering desirable products, the Free People brand continue to produce some of the most compelling imagery and customer engagement in the industry. Votes: 3 Richard Hayne
Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking. Votes: 2 Paul Ryan
The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history. Votes: 4 Chris Chocola
Since the 1970s, we have witnessed the forces of market fundamentalism strip education of its public values, critical content, and civic responsibilities as part of its broader goal of creating new subjects wedded to consumerism, risk-free relationships, and the destruction of the social state. Votes: 4 Henry Giroux
The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation of church and state so that the laws we live by our never guided by religious zeal. Votes: 3 Roxane Gay
If the president is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased to exist. Votes: 3 Steve Stockman
I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more. Votes: 3 Nolan Gould
Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction. Votes: 2 Salman Rushdie
Sometimes You Have to Pay a Heavy Price to Live in a Free Society Votes: 3 Chelsea Manning
While I personally believe strongly in the philosophy and ideology of the Free Software movement, you can't win people over just on philosophy; you have to have a better product, too. Votes: 4 Matt Mullenweg
Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be. Votes: 4 Ramakrishna
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. Votes: 4 Louis D. Brandeis
The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections. Votes: 1 Hank Johnson
If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.' Votes: 2 Robin Quivers
A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side - which is exactly what I felt like when I rode it down the street in a tie-dyed dress. Votes: 6 Drew Barrymore
Ulysses' is the greatest anti-racist text in the English language, and it challenges right from the beginning the vicious racism which lies near the foundations of the Irish Free State and of the Irish republic. Votes: 4 Tom Paulin
Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called 'culture of dependency' on welfare - welfare defined as 'free stuff' and food stamps for poor folks, not tax breaks for Big Oil or tax shelters for Bain executives. Votes: 3 Christine Pelosi
I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker. Votes: 4 Christopher Monckton
We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists. Votes: 3 Bill Maher
Nobody is going to be as bad for free thinking, right-minded individuals than George Bush. Votes: 4 David Cross
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate. Votes: 6 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter. Votes: 1 Dennis Rodman
You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws. Votes: 4 Don Meyer
Whenever I have free time, I love to just lay in my bed and watch YouTube videos, watch movies. Just basically do nothing. Votes: 2 Bethany Mota
A people free to choose will always choose peace. Votes: 4 Ronald Reagan
This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity. Votes: 6 Lech Walesa
Not only must we fight to end disastrous unfettered free trade agreements with China, Mexico, and other low wage countries, we must fight to fundamentally rewrite our trade agreements so that American products, not jobs, are our number one export. Votes: 3 Bernie Sanders
I'm proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It's a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition. Votes: 3 Lou Holtz
The essence of Vanderbilt is still learning, the essence of its outlook is still liberty, and liberty and learning will be and must be the touchstones of Vanderbilt University and of any free university in this country or the world. I say two touchstones, yet they are almost inseparable, inseparable if not indistinguishable, for liberty without learning is always in peril, and learning without liberty is always in vain. Votes: 3 John F. Kennedy
Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than 'open form' or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness. Votes: 2 James Fenton
If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable. Votes: 5 Robert Morgan
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. Votes: 4 Jawaharlal Nehru
There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream. Votes: 4 Jack Kemp
I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires. Votes: 4 Ron Kind
I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it. Votes: 3 Rachel Zucker
You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no. Votes: 3 Carl Lewis
The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on. Votes: 4 Tyler Perry
From the people who brought you "zero tolerance," I present the Gun-Free Zone! Yippee! Problem solved! Bam! Bam! Everybody down! Hey, how did that deranged loner get a gun into this Gun-Free Zone? Votes: 3 Ann Coulter
We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the practice of free-market capitalism. It will provide business and public policy with a powerful new tool for economic development, profitability, and the promotion of the public good. Votes: 2 Paul Hawken
We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action. Votes: 2 Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
There shouldn't be any violence in hip-hop. You're getting free clothes. Basically, it's free money. Votes: 4 DMX
I love getting into restaurants and getting free stuff - that part of fame I definitely enjoy! Votes: 3 Andy Cohen
When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously. Votes: 1 Daniel Clowes
I'm gluten free, but that still allows me some chocolate! Votes: 3 Erin Heatherton
Some people can very easily switch off and be guilt free, not that what I'm doing is about guilt, but they can completely disconnect and not care because it doesn't affect them. I've always really cared about what happens and felt a certain responsibility. Votes: 3 Douglas Booth
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny? Votes: 3 Jim Butcher
For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace. Votes: 2 King Hussein I
Dancing inspires my music. Having your girlfriends all together and just being free and happy. Votes: 3 Bella Thorne
That should be your town motto. It's all I ever hear. Like: New Hampshire, Live Free or Die. It should be: Despair, You Need To Leave Now. Votes: 3 Lee Child
Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law. Votes: 2 Will Durant
Faith, courage, and intelligent and uninterrupted awareness - these qualities are to be present whether one is wide awake, half asleep, or in deep slumber. An individual who lives like this performs his daily actions with a mind free from selfishness. This is poise in action. And this poise leads to that serenity which is in the truest sense a healthy mind in a healthy body. Votes: 3 B.K.S. Iyengar
I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work. Votes: 4 Lee Iacocca
When you're doing a Broadway show, you have no free time. Votes: 3 Maggie Grace
I mean, they call it Stockholm Syndrome and post traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will until I was separated from them for about two weeks. Votes: 4 Patty Hearst
Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted. Votes: 1 Kevin Kline
I really love stand-up. I'm more than happy to do it for nothing. I've come to America to do it for nothing. It's the American Dream: Work for free. Votes: 1 John Oliver
And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares. Votes: 1 Bodhidharma
For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories. Votes: 1 Kim Campbell
Our ultimate aim in life is not to be healthy, wealthy, prosperous, or problem free. Our ultimate aim in life is to bring glory to God. Votes: 3 Anne Graham Lotz
Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection. Votes: 1 Neal Boortz
Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of getting your music out there where folks can hear it risk-free. Votes: 1 David Byrne
Empty space eventually fills up with something. A void, cultivated in the aftermath of misfortune, begins to attract the wrong kind of attention. Marco knew it was time to leave when disagreeable spirits started roaming freely through the house, as if they owned the place. Votes: 3 Rahma Krambo
For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free. Votes: 4 Anatole France
I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a story, don't they? Votes: 4 Sara Pennypacker
If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only be setting someone free. Votes: 3 James A. Baldwin
The Secret to a long and healthy life is to be stress-free. Be grateful for everything you have, stay away from people who are negative stay smiling and keep running. Votes: 4 Fauja Singh
Tensions exist in any free society. But the freedom we enjoy rests on a foundation of individual liberty and shared moral values. Votes: 1 Tipper Gore
There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!' Votes: 3 Ralph Fiennes
We must be free, but to have real freedom, you must be wild and free yourself. Votes: 4 Bryant McGill
Kindness and freedom are not "has been" values in films and in life in general. And that we can still be young and free even if we are 70. Votes: 3 Danielle Arbid