Freedman Quotes

#1. From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen.

Frederick Douglass

#2. I actually did Shakespeare when I was at North Carolina School of the Arts. I studied with Gerald Freedman and Mary Irwin - it was fun; I enjoyed it.

Billy Magnussen

#3. Passion, interest, or caprice, suggested daily motives for the dissolution of marriage; a word, a sign, a message, a letter, the mandate of a freedman, declared the separation; the most tender of human connections was degraded to a transient society of profit or pleasure.

Edward Gibbon

#4. impudicitia in ingenuo crimen est, in servo necessitas, in liberto officium ("to be the object of anal penetration is a crime in the freeborn, a necessity for a slave, a duty for a freedman").

David Graeber

#5. As recently as 1975, a basic American psychiatry textbook estimated that the frequency of all forms of incest as one case per million. [James Henderson, "Incest", in A. M. Freedman, H.I. Kaplan and B.J. Sadock, eds., Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 2nd ed. 1975 p. 1532.]

Judith Lewis Herman

#6. Freedman and Barnouin reveal the truth in Skinny Bitch, but they encase the truth in lies
women must be skinny to be attractive and being attractive should be a priority
via the typical verbiage of female disempowerment.

Kim Socha

#7. Character is not made in a crisis- it is only exhibited

Robert Freedman

#8. You see, the world is as big as an elephant or small as a grain of sand, depending on you. You can let it stomp you, gore you, swallow you up. Or you can let it slip into your shell and turn into a pearl." -- Benjamin East

Jonathan Freedman

#9. A sudden powerful transition to the offensive - the flashing sword of vengeance - is the greatest moment for the defense.

Lawrence Freedman

#10. I didn't learn Chinese to write 'Confucius.' That would've been a monumental task. I have three friends who can translate Chinese text for me; all three helped me with my research on Confucius. They are acknowledged in my acknowledgements in the book.

Russell Freedman

#11. I turned my face to the sky and laughed because the things you enjoy can't hurt you.

Benedict Freedman

#12. I'm afraid love may not exist the way I want it to.

Rory Freedman

#13. When we're confronted by reality that's less than our expectations, we go into a downward spiral of disappointment and frustration that can leave us even more stuck.

Joshua Freedman

#14. You can't be afraid of stepping on toes if you want to go dancing.

Lew Freedman

#15. Speaking the truth gets a little easier each time you do it.

Rory Freedman

#16. We are spiritual beings walking around in these crazy skin suits. Our insides are much more important than our outsides.

Rory Freedman

#17. You are what you eat. You are a human body comprised of organs, blood and guts, and other shit. The food you put into your body works its way through your organs and bloodstream and is actually part of who you are. So every time you put crap in your body, you are crap.

Rory Freedman

#18. When St Genesius, the patron saint of actors, refused to act in a Roman play that ridiculed Christianity, the legend goes, the producers executed him. It reminds some people of Broadway today.

Samuel G. Freedman

#19. We have a large circle - all of them anti-Hitler," one participant told Inge. "And each of these friends has his own separate circle which is anti-Hitler, and so on and so forth: a great underground network against Hitler. If only someone could get them to act collectively.

Russell Freedman

#20. Perhaps you have a lumpy ass because you are perserving your fat cells with diet soda

Rory Freedman

#21. So many people romanticize writing. And I get it. But I never once wanted to be a writer.

Rory Freedman

#22. If people learned what they were contributing to every time they ate meat, eggs, or dairy, surely they would be just as motivated as I was to change.

Rory Freedman

#23. Don't crop ears or tails or declaw cats; it's really painful. People think it's necessary, but it's painful for the animal, and it's completely unnecessary.

Rory Freedman

#24. I woke myself up to make sure I wasn't dreaming, that Mike was really beside me. I kissed the pillow close up near his cheek because I didn't want to wake him. He opened one eye and grinned at me. "Don't waste 'em, kitten.

Benedict Freedman

#25. Every time you consume factory-farmed chicken, beef, veal, pork, eggs, or dairy, you are eating antibiotics, pesticides, steroids, and hormones.

Rory Freedman

#26. A novelist who has to defend his creation by telling a reader *But that's what really happened*, is a novelist who has failed.

Samuel G. Freedman

#27. All kidding aside, if everyone did yoga, we would have world peace.

Rory Freedman

#28. Sometimes it's hard to tell where your instincts start and your baggage stops.

Rory Freedman

#29. You always want to know what happened before you. It's a human instinct to know where you came from and what preceded you.

Russell Freedman

#30. 41 Mishnah Avot 3.23. 4 The compilation of the Talmud Rabbi Tarfon said, The day is short and there is much work, the workman are lazy but the wages are high, and the master of the house is pressing.1 The academies in Babylon

Harry Freedman

#31. The first encounter was when the Vikings came across 10 Indians taking naps under their overturned canoes - and the Vikings killed them. That did not set up a very good mutual relationship.

Russell Freedman

#32. How can I find a way out
when I do not know how
to begin to resist?

Shalom Freedman

#33. Her expression shut faster than a poked clam. 'I'll just get a cardigan.'
He might not be a hellraiser anymore but Devin valued his reputation. 'Haven't you got anything sexy?'
'Yes,' said Rachel, 'my mind.

Karina Bliss

#34. Traveling is magical, inspiring, and life - changing.

Rory Freedman

#35. Parma is an amazing Parmesan cheese substitute made from walnuts. It tastes like a dream and is healthy, to boot!

Rory Freedman

#36. People in other cultures consume half the amount of protein that we do, yet they live longer, healthier lives.

Rory Freedman

#37. I think the best thing that could happen is that I'll live to be a lot older than my mother lived.

Samuel G. Freedman

#38. Laboratory scientists use formaldehyde as a disinfectant or preservative. They don't fucking drink it.

Rory Freedman

#39. He's a nice young lad. I'll keep putting him on ... as long as he doesn't tell me any lies. He's back focused and it's great to see. Let's hope he keeps going on from that.

Lee Freedman

#40. But death does not stand at the end of life, it is all through it. It is the fear of losing, the knowledge of losing that makes love tender.

Benedict Freedman

#41. Mike was right: the pattern of life isn't a straight line; it crosses and recrosses, drawing in and tying together other lives, as I do when I gather in the ends of my thread to make a knot.

Benedict Freedman

#42. One's character is determined not how she gets caught in the downpour of disappointment, but how she finds the hope to look for the rainbow.

Colette Freedman

#43. So your junk food has a shelf life of twenty-two years and will probably outlive your fat, sorry ass.

Rory Freedman

#44. I think readers nowadays are happy to have genres blurred. We're seeing that on screen too: The Pirates of the Caribbean mashes up history and fantasy, Cowboys and Aliens mixes the Western and the Science Fiction genres.

Colette Freedman

#45. I sensed that Confucius is an interesting character. This is someone who lived over 2,500 years ago and is still speaking to us. That people are still reading and repeating what he said so long ago is something I find quite fascinating.

Russell Freedman

#46. There is credible evidence that a Chinese fleet went as far as the coast of Africa, in present-day Kenya. It was the largest maritime fleet in the world, under the command of Zheng He, a favorite of the emperor.

Russell Freedman

#47. I like to write about things that fascinate me because I believe that they will also fascinate my readers as well.

Russell Freedman

#48. There's no standard career path to becoming a deconstructor of wrongness,

David H. Freedman

#49. She's a gray woman with gray sayings."
"A crape-hanger.

Benedict Freedman

#50. Whenever you see the words "fat free" or "low-fat," think of the words "chemical shit storm.

Rory Freedman

#51. My whole life growing up, both my parents told me not to swear like a sailor. After college, I recall there was finally a time where I swore, and neither one of them was correcting me, and I felt so relieved. I thought, finally; I can finally be myself and not get yelled at.

Rory Freedman

#52. I've been seeing more and more Gardein soy chicken and soy beef products lately, and they're pretty darn good.

Rory Freedman

#53. I've been writing plays since the third grade. The biggest difference now is that professionals act in them rather than eight year olds ... and the language is a bit more "colorful".

Colette Freedman

#54. When little things are so important, it's because there aren't any big ones.

Benedict Freedman

#55. With their survival as an institution and as individual human beings at stake, the Marines have had to ruthlessly and endlessly examine, discard, define, refine, and redefine their approaches to achieve the ultimate in rapid, effective response to dynamic challenges.

David A. Freedman

#56. Trying to restructure a perfectly structured script is like trying to fit in a size four jeans when you're a size ten.

Colette Freedman

#57. You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life.

Benedict Freedman

#58. I've been interested in China ever since I was a kid. When I was a kid, I grew up in San Francisco about a mile from China Beach.

Russell Freedman

#59. I use "equal worth" rather than equality because the latter term often assumes that men's historical experience - whether economic, political, or sexual - is the standard to which women should aspire.

Estelle B. Freedman

#60. We will ask two central questions throughout this course: 1. What difference does gender make? 2. For which women does it make a difference? Which women?

Estelle Freedman

#61. And when all feels hopeless, remember that you are in charge of what goes into your body, you don't answer to anyone, and you are allowed to eat anything you want. Often just knowing we can eat whatever we want is enough to keep us from eating whatever we want. We're so rebellious.

Rory Freedman

#62. I felt afraid. No one would know that, not Mother and not Mike. I'd keep the fear pushed down inside of me, and no one would know it was there. "I'm awfully happy," I wrote. I was. Awfully happy and awfully in love, and tomorrow I was marrying Mike.

Benedict Freedman

#63. Everywhere we look, the world urges us to turn on the radio or TV, to make a phone call, to see a movie. Many of us fear, worry, that if left alone with our thoughts and feelings, we may discover that we do not make very good company for ourselves.

James O. Freedman

#64. In the struggle for the soul of American Jewry, the Orthodox model has triumphed.

Samuel G. Freedman

#65. You're a sex symbol," she began.
"Thanks for noticing.

Karina Bliss

#66. The Rice Dream rice milk is like a savior in my life, and I couldn't live without it. The Earth Balance soy butter is so good you could eat it with a spoon.

Rory Freedman

#67. I'm always reading. I have four books on my nightstand right now. The same is true with writing, I tend to work on several varying projects at once.

Colette Freedman

#68. I hate writing. There are a million other things I'd rather be doing. I write because I have to. Because if I feel so strongly about what is happening to animals, and I don't do anything to help them, who will?

Rory Freedman

#69. A favorite cooking method? I'm a fan of all of them! Anything that gets a pile of random ingredients into a cruelty-free dish works for me!

Rory Freedman

#70. Milk = fat. Butter = fat. Cheese = fat. People who think these products can be low fat or fat free = fucking morons.

Rory Freedman

#71. Having a strategy suggests an ability to look up from the short term and the trivial to view the long term and the essential, to address causes rather than symptoms, to see woods rather than trees.

Lawrence Freedman

#72. He was cold. He was so little and so very cold. That same cold clamped around his adult bones as the trees fell away and The Ranch opened out around him.

S.M. Freedman

#73. I visited the archeological site at the northern tip of Newfoundland. There is no question about it. It has been definitely determined that the Vikings were there for about 10 years - specifically, Leif Erikson and his extended family.

Russell Freedman

#74. Being a writer is an amazing job, but we're all writers, most of us just forget to put our stories down on paper.

Colette Freedman