#fr

I tried to contain myself... but I escaped! ↗

— Gary Paulsen

#humor #life #freedom

Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won't run. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#women #freedom

I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#humor #humor

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority. ↗

— George Bancroft

#best #development #few #free #government

You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions. ↗

— Karen Blixen

#africa #life #life

Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could not have heaved at Tolkin? You have been born into a narrative, you have been given freedom. Act, and act well until you reach your final scene. ↗

— N. D. Wilson

#inspirational #life #tolkien #freedom

It's better to die free than live life in a cage. ↗

— Jordan Dane

#life

Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front, turn around, and look at the light from the screen reflected on the upturned faces of the members of the audience. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#audiences #beauty #cinema #experience #film

The world is full of 'friends' of suicide victims thinking 'if I had only made that drive over there, I could have done something. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#save-a-life #suicide #life

In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#motivation #reason #life