Set Them Free Quotes

#1. His lips were soft, warm and felt overwhelmingly right against mine. I fell into it, oblivious to anything other than the safety in his touch. One by one, the senses flowed from me as he pulled them away and set them free. It must have hurt him. The senses hurt the hell out of me..

Jessica Shirvington

#2. I don't keep diaries; I consider them like birds; I set them free and let them fly to the depths of the past where they belong!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. If you love someone, set them free.

Sting

#4. People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free.

Michael Specter

#5. If you love somebody set them free- it also works equally well if you hate somebody

Josh Stern

#6. The thing was, though, the ridiculous, pansy-ass saying was right: If you loved someone, you set them free.

J.R. Ward

#7. If Russia wants to use energy as a weapon against our friends and allies, let's use our resources to set them free.

Kevin McCarthy

#8. The Protestants believe in the higher power through the truth they derive from the word of God. They got to know the truth and that truth set them free and they took the truth to the society and set their whole generation free.

Sunday Adelaja

#9. Let's get rid of those fucking ghosts once and for all, Proph. We tried burying them, but that never works. So how about we just set them free?"
"And let them go into the light, Carol Anne?"
"And just like that, you're a goddamned bastard again." But Tom was smiling as he said it.

S.E. Jakes

#10. Mortals building things the same in the hope that conformity will set them free.

Kate Griffin

#11. My name is Valentin Belrov. I have a sister called Inessa Belrov. I have a love called Zoya Kostava. They are being held captive. I have to set them free!

Tillie Cole

#12. When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#13. If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.

Paulo Coelho

#14. For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the way we look at them that may set them free.

Amin Maalouf

#15. Self is not liberated. It was never bound. What gets liberated are the demons as well as gods of your mind. Set them free. You are sick of playing with the game. Be willing to not play the game. This takes huge resolve.

Gangaji

#16. Mother's particular devils had remained mysterious to me for decades. So had her past. Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truth's direction, even those who believe that such a journey might axiomatically set them free.

Mary Karr

#17. Open the curtains of your mind, my friend; let the world know who you are! Do not hide your ideas; set them free, let them free! Open the curtains! Feel no fear! If there is truth in your ideas, you become invincible!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. If any of the numbers people were arrested, Willard and Mariah Redd carried the money to set them free. Being arrested with policy slips or other numbers paraphernalia was a misdemeanour with a fine of $50.

John W. Harshaw

#19. She recognized her emerging impulses, unchecked and capable of surprising anyone, but she needed help to awaken them and set them free. When flirting with men, she tested their courage in hopes that their shameless gaze would help her find something deep within herself.

Vadim Babenko

#20. Stories are like genies ... They can carry us into and though our sorrows. Sometimes they burn, sometimes they dance, sometimes they weep, sometimes they sing. Like genies, everyone has one. Like genies, sometimes we forget that we do.
Our stories can set us free ... When we set them free.

Francesca Lia Block

#21. For when ideas flutter in haze, we collaborate without notice and collect them as butterflies only to set them free into the world.

Shawn Lukas

#22. Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery.

Pope John Paul II

#23. Know one or two families, at least, in this town, who, for nearly a generation, have been wishing to sell their houses in the outskirts and move into the village, but have not been able to accomplish it, and only death will set them free.

Henry David Thoreau

#24. Much to my surprise, as I set them free, I was able to forgive myself for the judgments I had made about them. I now hold them in a loving space in my heart and honor them as my ancestors who love me and guide me each day.

Iyanla Vanzant

#25. With love, don't desire to tie someone down but to set them free.

Debasish Mridha

#26. If you love someone, set them free. If they don't come back, text them when you're drunk.

Brooke Bida

#27. And I didn't know if the forgiveness itself was light, glittery stuff that showered down and absolved a person and set them free, or if, instead, it was heavy, cumbersome, a new debt, a currency that was continuously renewed no matter how much was paid out.

Jane Hamilton

#28. Don't keep your Muse locked up in the closet. Set them free to dance across the page and what they create will be a masterpiece.

Michelle C. Hillstrom

#29. If you love somebody, set them free.

Sting

#30. Dan wanted me to stay. I wanted Elf to stay. Everyone in the whole world was fighting with somebody to stay. When Richard Bach wrote "If you love someone, set them free" he can't have been directing his advice at human beings.

Miriam Toews

#31. They might ignore me immediately.
In my moon suit and funeral veil.
I am no source of honey
So why should they turn on me?
Tomorrow I will be sweet God, I will set them free.

Sylvia Plath

#32. People are terrified to be set free - they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their security ... How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?

Jim Morrison

#33. Millions of people in the world's poorest countries remain enslaved by the chains of poverty. It is time to set them free.

Nelson Mandela

#34. Adjust your doctrine - or just minimize doctrine - to attract the world, and in the very process of attracting them, lose the radical truth that alone can set them free.

John Piper

#35. People no longer need enemies--in this millennium their great dream is to become victims. Only their psychopathies can set them free...

J.G. Ballard

#36. We need imagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity. Television is filled with creative, imaginative people. You must strive to set them free.

Newton N. Minow

#37. We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.

William H. Seward

#38. That's how you keep someone tied to you, not set them free. You say no to a man and don't give him the peace of repayment.

Erri De Luca

#39. A golden drop, the third of three, bears the power to set them free.'

~The Prophecy of Myst~

E.M. McIntyre

#40. Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.

Samuel Johnson

#41. There's a saying, cited in popular song, that if you love someone you must set them free. Well, that's just nonsense. If you love someone, you bind them to you with heavy metal chains.

David Nicholls

#42. Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

Frank Herbert

#43. The mind will enchain yourself, others or both. Your heart will set you / them free

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#44. The challenge is trying to set people free, and help them be 'successful' in the world, which are almost always opposite objectives.

Bryant McGill

#45. Sometimes the things we think will set us free ... only make more chains. You either wear them or break them, and I ... well, I don't want to wear them.

Karen Marie Moning

#46. The Israelites' slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free.

Joyce Meyer

#47. I guess we'll never know exactly what ... the reasons behind the losses we experience in this life. But being angry doesn't make them any less devastating. It only robs us of the happiness and love we can experience. Only forgiveness can set us free.

Christene Houston

#48. Beware of her fair hair, for she excels
All women in the magic of her locks;
And when she winds them round a young man's neck,
She will not ever set him free again.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#49. Life is supposedly filled with paths that enable unlimited choices, but that is a blatant lie. No one has free will until they are an adult, and by then the choices made for them have already set them on a passage that limits the choices they have yet to make.

J.D. Stroube

#50. We have let Eros mean slavery, but Eros also has the power to set us free. We must demand the right to depict women's lives as we know them, not as we might like them to be. We must stop applying political prescriptions to creativity.

Erica Jong

#51. There is no free lunch, so if you're playing with the big train set - on big movies - it's a lot of money they're entrusting you with, and you have to get that money back for them. I don't take that responsibility lightly.

Jon Favreau

#52. I never expect appreciation. I always set a deadline for the things I have to do to be a successful person, when I complete them, I give myself a piece of candy, a glass of tea and some free time to enjoy- that is how I honor my hardworking and appreciate my struggles.

M.F. Moonzajer

#53. Christ came to set the captive free - no matter what kind of yoke binds them. He came to bind up the brokenhearted - no matter what broke the heart. He came to open the eyes of the blind - no matter what veiled their vision.

Beth Moore

#54. There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.

Franz Kafka

#55. Show them to me
Show them to me
Unclasp your bra and
set those puppies free

Rodney Carrington

#56. And that was the thing about truths and secrets. Sometimes the truth didn't need to be known. The lie was healthier than the truth and, while some secrets could set people free, other secrets could destroy them.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#57. But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man's best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.

Mark Twain

#58. Their minds were crying out to be set free, but they refused to unbind them.

Kerri Maniscalco

#59. Do you feel trapped by the limitations in your life? Remember, you hold the key to the freedom you seek. You can unlock those limitations and set yourself free! There is always a way, there is always another open door or unlocked door. Try them all ... .

James A. Murphy

#60. No one has free will until they are an adult, and by then the choices that were made for them, have already set them on a course that gives limited freedom in the choices to be made.

J.D. Stroube

#61. Most people live life on the path we set for them. Too afraid to explore any other. But once in a while people like you come along and knock down all the obstacles we put in your way. People who realize free will is a gift, you'll never know how to use until you fight for it.

The Adjustment Bureau

#62. The truth has always been far too dangerous for the public to know. The truth didn't usually set people free, it just got them crazier. Most people just couldn't handle the truth.

James Patterson

#63. You have to set somebody free for them to return

Candice Night

#64. ... the unimaginable age of the mountains and the fine mesh of living things that lay across them would remind him that he was part of this order and insignificant within it, and he would be set free.

Ian McEwan

#65. I believe our attitude to our problems ultimately determines how we resolve them. If we truly want to be set free, the first thing we need to deal with is our attitude. If you don't get your attitude right, then your life is never going to change.

Corallie Buchanan

#66. [Jesus said] If you abide in My word [hold fast to My teachings and live in accordance with them], you are truly My disciples. And You will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free. - JOHN 8:31B-32

Joyce Meyer

#67. No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.

Assata Shakur

#68. When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor. What we call "white" is a rainbow of colored rays packed into a small space. The prism sets them free. Love is the white light of emotion.

Diane Ackerman

#69. The right side of the screen then shows a close-up of the protestors. There are only about thirty of them, but Gods bless them they're energetic. And they have catchy picket signs, like: "Set the dragon-people free!" and "Dragons are people, too!" and "End Racial Segregation! Again!

Sarah Nicolas

#70. Resentment is when you allow what's eating you to eat you up. Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist. Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter. And mercy is the choice that can set them all free.

Max Lucado

#71. Because there is liberating power in each and every truth, the one who walks in the truth in all his ways will be set free. A lie, no matter how "little," gives the powers of darkness an opening for attack, but the truth chases them far away.

Johan Oscar Smith