Freestanding Quotes

#1. Despite all their faults, campaigns are based on the fact that every vote counts, and therefore every person counts. As freestanding societies, they are more open than academia, more idealistic than corporations, more unifying than religions, and more accessible than government itself.

Gloria Steinem

#2. In Asia, Free People, along with World Co., Ltd. of Japan, will launch a shop in Shinjuku and a freestanding store and wholesale showroom in Harajuku.

Richard Hayne

#3. One doesn't do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.

Irvin D. Yalom

#4. Here is the deeply unnerving thing: The heart, cut from the chest, keeps beating on its own. Did Poe know this when he wrote "The Tell-Tale Heart"? So animated are these freestanding hearts that surgeons have been known to drop them. "We wash them off and they do just fine,

Anonymous

#5. His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.

David Levithan

#6. 2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution in the name of public safety, after 2008, authorities went in the other direction.

Matt Taibbi

#7. In Ireland, I don't get asked out much. English boys are a lot more flirty.

Georgia Salpa

#8. One of the reasons I didn't ever pursue a career - in the music world if you're black or mixed, you need to be able to belt a song or else you're not a singer, you know?

Carmen Ejogo

#9. Life is all about looking for an opportunity to do something good.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#10. I was always the tallest girl in my class, and it made me have really bad posture because I wanted to seem shorter than I really was. It really reflected how I felt about myself. I spent most of my youth in school feeling really insecure about the way I looked because I was different.

Katherine Webb

#11. 'Yes, we rather condemn people for eternity without the courtesy of informing them.'

Matthew Pearl

#12. We do not naturally care about people we don't know ... If we tried to feel sorry for every death, our little hearts would explode ... I don't have any physical reaction to the news. And there's no reason I should. I don't know them and the news has no effect on my life.

John Elder Robison

#13. Love is but a flitting shadow, a lure, a gimcrack, a kickshaw.

Nathanael West

#14. I'd probably go to see Saturn first-thing and see as close to those rings as I can get and see if I can fly by one of them and try and put one of my hands through them.

Adam Young

#15. Just remember that if you're not working at your game to the utmost of your ability, there will be someone out there somewhere with equal ability. And one day you'll play each other, and he'll have the advantage.

John C. Maxwell

#16. Life can be swamped by sex very easily if sex is not normally satisfied.

Walter Lippmann

#17. A long time ago a boy climbed a beanstalk, and he came down a thief. Now a thief is climbing a beanstalk. And who knows what will come down?

P.W. Catanese

#18. I grew up in what my mom will always dispute as 'the hood.' She just doesn't like the name. But it had its similarities to any neighborhood like that. The all-black neighbors and the all-black problems and the all-black happiness. And I really loved it.

Jerrod Carmichael

#19. There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve.

Nelson DeMille

#20. We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Thomas Gilovich