Cribbed Timber Quotes & Sayings

Or, if you want to go just a wee bit deeper, we could talk about the nature of freedom itself. Does freedom mean that you are allowed to do whatever you want to do? Or we could talk about all the limiting influences in your life that actively work against your freedom. Your family genetic heritage, your specific DNA, your metabolic uniqueness, the quantum stuff that is going on at a subatomic level where only I am the always-present observer. Or the intrusion of your soul's sickness that inhibits and binds you, or the social influences around you, or the habits that have created synaptic bonds and pathways in your brain. And then there's advertising, propaganda, and paradigms. Inside that confluences of multifaceted inhibitors," she sighed, "what is freedom really? — Wm. Paul Young

The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us. — Rene Descartes

Took me a long time to figure out that you was born to a man who could choose his life, but you wouldn't never be able to choose yours, and it seemed like you was born knowing that. — Yaa Gyasi

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live. — Alan Watts

Because here is the truth: If you want to have a chance at meeting somebody with whom you are genuinely compatible, never put your best foot forward. — Augusten Burroughs

If you want to make people dance, you need to follow certain rules. Build-ups and breaks and stuff. I like to be free. On top of it all, I never really felt that I'm good at making fat-sounding dance tracks. — Apparat

Second, we will give our fellow citizens the skills they need for the jobs of today and the careers of tomorrow. When it comes to the school your child will attend, every parent should have a choice, and every child should have a chance. — Mitt Romney

Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself. - W. H. AUDEN, — Mitch Albom

Balance is the secret of reaching the far places! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money. — Benjamin Franklin

breeches and a rough smock — Diana Gabaldon

But if there be an hereafter,And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'dAnd suffer'd to speak out, tells every man,Then must it be an awful thing to die;More horrid yet to die by one's own hand. — Robert Blair

Pride makes a god of self, covetousness makes a god of money, sensuality makes a god of the belly; whatever is esteemed or loved, feared or served, delighted in or depended on, more than God, that (whatever it is) we do in effect make a god of. — Matthew Henry