Quotes about Freed

The first time I went to New York, I met Alan Freed. Votes: 3

I had written a script called Freed, which I had wanted to direct. Votes: 3

Abraham Lincoln got shot and died, Freed the slaves so they put him on the five. Votes: 3

Freedom of speech means setting words free. Imprisoned and freed words are consequential. All words have consequences. Votes: 3

Freedom of speech means setting words free. Imprisoned and freed words are consequential. All words have consequences. Restrain and release words with respect for their consequentialness. Votes: 3

Freed from the pressure of haste, the tyranny of film, and now the restraint of clothes, I found myself looking more closely at what went on around me. Votes: 3

Now that I'm out and I'm shouting in doorways Freed from a love more like murder I should be singing but in liberation Feel like a ship with no rudder. Votes: 3

Freed from the thoughts of winning, I instantly play better. I stop thinking, start feeling. My shots become a half-second quicker, my decisions become the product of instinct rather than logic. Votes: 3

Your sexuality is the engine of your humanness. Freed of your self, it is an engine of movement. It isn't there to move your experience, but to move your being into your experience, bringing your being into the physicality of your self. Votes: 3

Mentally, I write myself a little story. Of course, sometimes you have a song that says, "Do that." My best example is Singin' in the Rain. Arthur Freed had insisted that the song should be in the picture, but he was very anxious about it. Votes: 3

It was beguiling to live in a country, Scotland, that didn't look enough like itself to be a location for its own movies... I remember consulting a film book and discovering that Arthur Freed decided to shoot Brigadoon in Hollywood because nowhere in Scotland looked Scottish enough. Votes: 3

Freed from the boundaries of time and space, I co-ordinate any and all points of the universe, wherever I want them to be. My way leads towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I explain in a new way the world unknown to you. Votes: 3

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another. Votes: 2

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. Votes: 2

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness. Votes: 2

Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could. Votes: 2

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. Votes: 2

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves. Votes: 2

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves. Votes: 2

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: 2

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all. Votes: 2

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 freed. Votes: 2

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. Votes: 2

I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it. Votes: 2

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine. Votes: 2

I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour. America, he said, had dictated to other nations. No Mr. President, America has freed other nations from dictators. Votes: 2

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours? Votes: 2

In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction. Votes: 2

I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican. Votes: 2

May God be with me! May Heaven bless this New Year. May it be a year of fruitfulness, of peace and prosperity; may it be a year of peace and unity for all mankind; may the world be freed of cholera. Votes: 2

We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us. Votes: 2

The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine. Votes: 2

Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today. Votes: 2

All human beings are the same. In the United States, people come from all over the world, all races, all backgrounds. And they're all doing what they want, many scoring huge successes. When I saw that, I became more open. It freed my soul. Votes: 2

Leisure time is only leisure time when it is earned; otherwise, leisure time devolves into soul-killing lassitude. There's a reason so many new retirees, freed from the treadmill of work, promptly keel over on the golf course: Work fulfills us. It keeps us going. Votes: 2

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves. Votes: 2

I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle. Votes: 2

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. Votes: 2

My laptop has freed me to travel. Votes: 0

Chanel freed women, and I empowered them. Votes: 0

My mother raised me, and then freed me, Votes: 0

It is the foregiver who is freed in foregiving. Votes: 0

Writing has freed me from the despair of living. Votes: 0

No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger. Votes: 0

Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me. Votes: 0

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death. Votes: 0

It's patriarchal society that has freed me as a woman. Votes: 0

When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world. Votes: 0

Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave. Votes: 0

Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness. Votes: 0

If the 70's freed our inhibitions, what good did it do? Votes: 0

Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself. Votes: 0

Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. Votes: 0

Blessed are the peacemakers, For they have freed themselves from sinful wrath. Votes: 0

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge. Votes: 0

Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics. Votes: 0

Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits. Votes: 0

No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine. Votes: 0

America has not dictated to other nations. We have freed other nations from dictators. Votes: 0

Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance. Votes: 0

Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave. Votes: 0

Based on my experience, I can say that India country can be freed of corruption. Votes: 0

Images have enormous power, and images freed from deep within ourselves can change us profoundly. Votes: 0

If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come 'Lincolnesque' just means tall? Votes: 0

Happiness is a powerful thing. It freed me to do what I always wanted to do. Votes: 0

When I accept myself, I am freed from the burden of needing you to accept me. Votes: 0

I eventually shifted to video. Video opened up new conditions, or freed me from old conditions ... Votes: 0

Acting from the appropriateness of the heart, we are freed from the neediness of the mind. Votes: 0

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception. Votes: 0

For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit. Votes: 0

I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament. Votes: 0

We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices. Votes: 0

If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more. Votes: 0

If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change. Votes: 0

I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans. Votes: 0

Outlets for the freed blacks are alone wanted for the erasure of the blot from our Republican character. Votes: 0

As soon as you are willing to say 'it's not for you', you're freed up to make art. Votes: 0

Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are. Votes: 0

Industrial agriculture freed many people to pursue lives their parents and grandparents could never have. It made America modern. Votes: 0

Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding. Votes: 0

Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it. Votes: 0

When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life. Votes: 0

I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves. Votes: 0

Jaws' freed me to discover that a successful movie didn't make a damn bit of difference to my life. Votes: 0

He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men. Votes: 0

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. Votes: 0

When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives. Votes: 0

The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave. Votes: 0

When we realize that we are both wretched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way. Votes: 0

People who accomplish a great many things are people who have freed themselves from biases. These are the creative people. Votes: 0

Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed. Votes: 0

From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear? Votes: 0

The grace that has freed us from bondage to sin is desperately needed to free us from our bondage to materialism. Votes: 0

It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters. Votes: 0

He was no more, freed from being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start. Votes: 0

Hitler decided that Mussolini must be freed from the Italian Partisans because Benito was his friend and had acted in good faith. Votes: 0

No Blame: The most liberating and empowering day of my life was the day I freed myself from my own self-destructive nonsense. Votes: 0

From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear. Votes: 0

The Bible is the only force known to history that has freed enitre nations from corruption while simultaneously giving them political freedom. Votes: 0

Senator John Stennis: The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul. Votes: 0

Journey over, sorrowless, freed in every way, and with all bonds broken - for such a man there is no more distress. Votes: 0

From that day on it was as if Ren freed me from gravity. I was floating in the sky. Higher. Higher. Higher. Votes: 0

The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low. Votes: 0

Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling. Votes: 0

One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin. Votes: 0

If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world. Votes: 0

A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated - this is the greatest blessing. Votes: 0

As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight. Votes: 0

Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations. Votes: 0

Now the [smartphone] has freed everybody, and so everybody gets better. No matter what you say, people will check you out on their phone. Votes: 0

I wanted to show painting paintings first, then the plate paintings; now I can show that I've sort of freed myself from stylistic inhibitions. Votes: 0

The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths. Votes: 0

'Ordinary Grace' freed me. I don't have to write only Cork O'Connor novels now. I'm liberated. I can write whatever I want to write. Votes: 0

If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries. Votes: 0

Whoever has done harmful actions but later covers them up with good is like the moon which, freed from clouds, lights up the world. Votes: 0

If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility Votes: 0

When you understand dharma, when you see its perfect perfection, shining both in and beyond all things, you will be freed from all misunderstandings. Votes: 0

He in whom all this is destroyed, and taken out with the very root, he, when freed from hatred and wise, is called respectable. Votes: 0

Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first. Votes: 0

They had the same fears that you have, the same aggressive tendencies and the same attachments, but they were freed in time because they believed. Votes: 0

The amount of power freed by telling yourself you no longer choose to put energy into something can be remarkable. Be prepared for extra energy. Votes: 0

His body and his mind went about their different businesses. The former, freed from conscious instruction, breathed, rolled, sweated, and digested. The latter went dreaming. Votes: 0

When evangelizers rise from prayer, their hearts are more open; freed of self-absorption, they are desirous of doing good and sharing their lives with others. Votes: 0

You yourself must make an effort. Buddhas are only show the way. The thoughtful who enter the way are freed from the bondage of defilements. Votes: 0

I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the greatest of miracles. Votes: 0

I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me, I did not leave him, he did not leave me, I freed him, he freed me. Votes: 0

A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him! Votes: 0

The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint; the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me, drew me to him Votes: 0

A tremendous amount of energy is freed up when you feel that your vision is actually respected and cared for by the people you're working with. Votes: 0

Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. Votes: 0

I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be. Votes: 0

Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure. Votes: 0

By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. ... He who asserts with strong conviction: "I am not bound, I am free," becomes free. Votes: 0

When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation. Votes: 0

For he who has died has been freed from sin...14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace. Votes: 0

I feel like the Internet has really freed everything up to an extent, hasn't it? That radio maybe doesn't have quite the power that it had before. Votes: 0

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another. Votes: 0

The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of the body. Votes: 0

Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy. Votes: 0

McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've rationalized becoming stupid and watching television. Votes: 0

Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion; But regard it not a pearl of price--it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds. Votes: 0

They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby. Votes: 0

Everyone has the perfect gift to give the world-and if each of us is freed up to give our unique gift, the world will be in total harmony. Votes: 0

Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another. Votes: 0

I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions. Votes: 0

By His Resurrection, Christ conquered sin and death, destroyed Satan's dark kingdom, freed the enslaved human race and broke the seal on the greatest mysteries of God and man. Votes: 0

On Mardi Gras, she got his soul back and freed him. (Wulf) Oh man, that sucks. Now he's going to have to join Kyrian on the geriatric patrol. (Chris) Votes: 0

The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this knowledge freed me up to accomplish absolutely anything. Votes: 0

Within the body there is played Music unending, though without stringed instruments That music of the Word pervades the entire creation Who listens to it is freed from all illusion Votes: 0

Sanctification means more than being freed from sin. It means the deliberate commitment of myself to the God of my salvation, and being willing to pay whatever it may cost. Votes: 0

The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin. Votes: 0

Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to me." That could be the motto of literature! Votes: 0

Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own team his paternal acres, freed from all thought of usury. Votes: 0

It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is impossible to receive forgiveness before confessing his trespasses... Votes: 0

As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards ("marcher vers", Fr.) the accomplishment of its true destinies. Votes: 0

Isn't it time that, in love, we freed ourselves from the loved one and, trembling, endured:as the arrow endures the string, collecting itselfto be more than itself as it shoots? Votes: 0

I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it. Votes: 0

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine Votes: 0

That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the childcatcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang." Votes: 0

When the intensity it takes to extricate one from a negative state is equal to or greater than the intensity that perpetuated the state, then the person can be freed of that state Votes: 0

The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. Votes: 0

Photographs freed from the scientific bias can, and indeed usually do, have double meanings, implied meanings, unintended meanings, can hint and insinuate, and may even mean the opposite of what they apparently mean. Votes: 0

We live in a world of breathtaking material plenty. That has freed hundreds of millions of people from day-to-day struggles and liberated us to pursue more significant desires: purpose, transcendence, and spiritual fulfillment. Votes: 0

I know now: I do not hope for anything. I do not fear anything, I have freed myself from both the mind and the heart, I have mounted much higher, I am free . Votes: 0

It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents. Votes: 0

My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find my way into my story and my characters through research. Votes: 0

Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost. Votes: 0

After 15 years of work I have achieved, as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower, the unity of the German nation, and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles. Votes: 0

Progress has always been achieved by probing well-entrenched and well-founded forms of life with unpopular and unfounded values. This is how man gradually freed himself from fear and from the tyranny of unexamined systems. Votes: 0

The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution. Votes: 0

Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet. Votes: 0

There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgment. Votes: 0

Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves. Votes: 0

To stop thought, you have to go above it. We are collecting energy. When it is freed, it is like a flood and the water will rise and we are in altered states of attention. Votes: 0

Because we are intelligent creatures-meaning that we are freed from instinctive and patterned behavior to a degree unparalleled in the animal kingdom-we are capable of, and dependent on, using rational choice to decide our futures. Votes: 0