Freedom Award Quotes

#1. There are a few people who genuinely see the best in everyone.

Katherine Parkinson

#2. Resentment was the hinge of her personality.

Colson Whitehead

#3. When the Great Tao (Way or Method) ceased to be observed, benevolence and righteousness came into vogue.

Lao-Tzu

#4. Sanctification is the work of the Holy Spirit in us whereby our inner being is progressively changed, freeing us more and more from sinful traits and developing within us over time the virtues of Christlike character.

Jerry Bridges

#5. The reason we're often not there for others - whether for our child or our mother or someone who is insulting us or someone who frightens us - is that we're not there for ourselves.

Pema Chodron

#6. The relationship between the student and teacher is ultimately important. In higher spirituality we don't study a subject as much as a person.

Frederick Lenz

#7. If you don't let things develop, it's like keeping something in a bag and not letting it out to fly

Earl Scruggs

#8. People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung.

Neil Peart

#9. Put me on the river, put me on the golf course, put me on the stage - I'm having fun.

Richie Furay

#10. Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.

Barry O'Farrell

#11. And if you jump for joy, you have a very good chance of experiencing a painful bump on the head, unless you make sure you are standing someplace with very high ceilings, which joyous people rarely do.

Lemony Snicket

#12. Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
[The One Un-American Act, Speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York, on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award (December 3, 1952)]

William O. Douglas

#13. First of all, from a spiritual perspective, I don't think anyone needs to be apologetic about being successful or having money. The more successful you are, the more job opportunities you create for other people.

Shilpa Shetty

#14. Everybody just gets on my nerves after like, 10 minutes, you know.

Mat Johnson

#15. It is mostly when we are very young that we take the greatest delight in the sad songs; those who have felt the real bitterness of sorrow are glad to bury it deeply away, and do not wish it wakened, as sailors' wives love a place best where they cannot hear the sound of the sea.

Angela Brazil