Freelee Quotes & Sayings

I ask for nothing but to live in my suffering. — Roland Barthes

For as in nothing is a gentleman better to be discerned from a vulgar person, so in nothing is a gentle nation (such nations have been) better to be discerned from a mob, than in this, - that their feelings are constant and just, results of due contemplation, and of equal thought. You can talk a mob into anything; its feelings may be - usually are - on a whole, generous and right; but it has no foundation for them, no hold of them; you may tease or tickle it into any, at your pleasure; it thinks by infection, for the most part, catching an opinion like a cold, and there is nothing so little that it will not roar itself wild about, when the fit is on; nothing so great but it will forget in an hour, when the fit is past. — John Ruskin

People without a will are afraid of failure and failure is afraid of people with a will — Mohammed Sekouty

Yes. Fortunately, before I died, I put a plan into motion. I can't remember it, but I'm certain that it was brilliant."
"You know, I've said something similar myself on occasion, after a night of drinking." Kelsier rubbed his chin. "I'm free too. — Brandon Sanderson

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain. — James Russell Lowell

There is no better exercise than to study and devour a picture, and then, without looking at it again, to attempt the next day to reproduce it. — Winston Churchill

A human being is a naturally political [animal]. — Aristotle.

I tried not to dwell on the comparison; it was one thing to accept that New York was more wealthy than Lahore, but quite another to swallow the fact that Manila was as well. — Mohsin Hamid