Quotes of: Free-agency Keyword

A final word should be said concerning the status of free blacks. Before the American Revolution this status had been ambiguous, and the number of free blacks was insignificant. <...> A rash of new laws, similar to the later Black Codes of Reconstruc...

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

If I'm among men who don't agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself. A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts hones...

The Spinoza Problem

The Post is famous for its investigative journalism. It pours energy and investment and sweat and dollars into uncovering important stories. And then a bunch of websites summarize that [work] in about four minutes and readers can access that news for...

Jeff Bezos

Shifu: [sitting down to eat] After you, Panda. Po: What? Just like that? No sit-ups? No ten-mile hike? Shifu: I vowed to train you, and you have been trained. You are free to eat. [Po sits and picks up his chopsticks] Shifu: Enjoy. [Po lifts a dumpli...

Kung Fu Panda

In the 60's there was a look. In the 70's there was a look, and in the 80's. Now, it's a free-for-all.

Betsey Johnson

She tried to worry that something terrible had happened to him, but didn't believe it for a moment. Nothing terrible ever happened to him, though she was beginning to think that it was time it damn well did. If nothing terrible happened to him soon m...

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools.

Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I

You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoop...

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

We don't forget...Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousands of memories, smells of places, of little things that happened to us and which come back, unexpectedl...

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

About a year ago, an entire suburb in this man’s jurisdiction turned from the police and erected a substitute agency. To all intents and purposes, several thousand people here have severed their relationship with the South African Police Service. H...

Thin Blue: The Unwritten Rules of Policing South Africa

The truth was, neither the Central Intelligence Agency nor any of the other official and unofficial U.S. intelligence organizations have ever been some kind of all-seeing, all-knowing, global illuminati. For starters, we never hand that kind of fundi...

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

The National Security Agency’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter....

Frank Church

Worldly influences would hinder use of our agency afforded through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. But we are agents who can act, and that affects everything in terms of how we live the gospel in our daily lives. It affects how we pray, how we study t...

David A. Bednar

[last lines] Dr. Hill: Get on your radios and sound an all points alarm. Block all highways, stop all traffic, and call every law enforcement agency in the state. [on phone] Dr. Hill: Operator, get me the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Yes, it's an...

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Some say Edward Snowden is a hero and a patriot. Others say he's a fool and a traitor. The evidence is mounting that the guy who leaked the details about the National Security Agency's Internet-eavesdropping program may be something more sinister - n...

Arthur L. Herman

I do give them to you," he announced. "Of my free will. Because this is my sword." He laid a hand on Arisa's shoulder. "And Weasle is my shield. What you hold are only pieces of iron.

Crown of Earth

Alone is just another word for love.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

I dig art. With a shovel. In the cemetery.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

If I had to believe, I would. But I don’t, and I do.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

The decision to empty my mind was a no-brainer. 

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

Life insurance is a dying industry.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.