Quotes of: Free-agency Keyword

If men were like ants, there would be no interest in human freedom. If individual men, like ants, were uniform, inter changeable, devoid of specific personality traits of their own, then who would care whether they were free or not? Who, indeed, woul...

Murray Rothbard

Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans even as I exclude myself from the community of sinners. But no one can be in the presence of the God of the crucified Messiah for long without overcoming this double exclu...

Miroslav Volf

If there’s a single idea I emphasize when people ask about writing, it’s that there’s no right way to produce a book. But I do think that whatever you do, you should do regularly, whether it’s waking up at midnight and drinking vodka or wakin...

Charles Finch

Mr. Incredible: [Everyone is trapped in Syndrome's containment unit] I'm sorry. I've been a lousy father, blind to what I have. So obsessed with being undervalued that I undervalued all of you. [while Bob is talking, Violet frees herself using her fo...

The Incredibles

Her lips curved up then, as if she liked his answer. “Are you working tomorrow?” Dax nodded. “Yeah. Training stuff.” He was running weapons-training exercises with three of his guys and a small team of DEA agents. They liked to do joint opera...

Chasing Danger

However, Hardy's relationship with nature is a dialectical one. While he indicates that he recognizes how human perception shapes nature, he nevertheless accepts nature as possessed of its own agency, as working through its cycle regardless of human ...

The Decline of the Goddess: Nature, Culture, and Women in Thomas Hardy's Fiction

The living cell is the most complex system of its size known to mankind. Its host of specialized molecules, many found nowhere else but within living material, are themselves already enormously complex. They execute a dance of exquisite fidelity, orc...

The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life

Together we'll make magic... Who had conjured whom? She seemed to remember Oliver suggesting this once before, but she hadn't really appreciated the importance of his question. Was she the dream? Was Nao the one writing her into being? Agency is a tr...

A Tale for the Time Being

It was important not to offend against the laws of magic. If a woman left you it was because you did not cast the right spell over her, or else because someone else cast a stronger enchantment than yours, or else because your marriage was cursed in s...

Salman Rushdie

There is history the way Tolstoy imagined it, as a great, slow-moving weather system in which even tsars and generals are just leaves before the storm. And there is history the way Hollywood imagines it, as a single story line in which the right move...

Louis Menand

All agree that, the first responsibility for the alleviation of poverty and distress and for the care of the victims of the depression rests upon the locality — its individuals, organizations and Government. It rests, first of all, perhaps, upon th...

Franklin D. Roosevelt

There are two influences ever present in the world. One is constructive and elevating and comes from our Heavenly Father; the other is destructive and debasing and comes from Lucifer. We have our agency and make our own choice in life subject to thes...

George Albert Smith

I spend a lot of time with young people now, bright, public-spirited kids from across the political spectrum who give me hope for the future...They want to have an impact, but they're not sure that politics is a viable path on which to do that. Congr...

David Axelrod

The free mind, unafraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.

Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist

So long as I remain in Day's life, I will hurt him. Any other alternative is impossible. Now, he is free.

Champion

To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

On Christian Liberty

All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

Candide

While sleeping, we’re free to be what we really are, nothing more, nothing less.

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

Reading is the spark to imagination. Ignite yours and live forever free.

The Circle of Six: Emily's Quest

Basketball Rule #4 If you miss enough of life's free throws you will pay in the end.

The Crossover

Science needs the light of free expression to flourish. It depends on the fearless questioning of authority, and the open exchange of ideas.

Cosmos