Glory is fleeting. Freedom is not free. They depend on efforts of citizens like you and me,
Harold Johnson
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
NAPOLEON Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
THOMAS MOORE The greatest Glory of a free-born People, Is to transmit that Freedom to their Children.
WILLIAM HAVARD Today our efforts have three fundamental objectives: free elections, freedom of speech, and free edu...
ALEXANDER MILINKEVICH Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my free...
KENNY LOGGINS Driving & examination are two of a kind.For they both don't depend on your efforts alone.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal...
SALLUST Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.
GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other ...
E.A. BUCCHIANERI Great relationships do not depend on who you find, they depend on who you are.
JEFFREY FRY Freedom of mind is the real freedom.
A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in c...
B.R. AMBEDKAR I want to suggest to you that citizens of free societies, democracies, do not preserve their freedom...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Pressure is showing on the BMC they want to ban a lot of things and bring down a lot of things. The ...
APURVA GAGLANI Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are...
JAMES BALDWIN You're like a half-tamed creature, still shy of the bridle. 'Except you enthrall me, never shall be ...
NENIA CAMPBELL Success is fine, but success is fleeting. Significance is lasting.
BETH BROOKE Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take and people...
JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
WALTER CRONKITE Be independent so you can be one who is free and get ahead. I’timad ‘ala nafsi, depend on yourse...
AHMAD FUADI Bondage is of the mind ; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God...
RAMAKRISHNA We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equa...
WILLIAM FAULKNER An attack on democracy, freedom and citizens' rights.
INTERIOR MINISTER Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are - they depend not upon these, but...
SAMUEL BUTLER This decision is a victory for free speech on the Internet. The Internet provides unique opportuniti...
KENT WILLIS To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN This is a very important protest, with thousands and thousands of citizens defending their freedom ....
ANGEL ACEBES Then the face of Big Brother faded away again and instead the three slogans of the Party stood out i...
GEORGE ORWELL Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of ...
RAMAKRISHNA Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT It is free program for the counties and free to the citizens.
ANDREW GOLDSCHMIDT There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER Szerzetesek, vannak tanulatlan, közönséges emberek, akik nem gondolnak a nemes dolgokkal, nem hal...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA És Brahmá, a Teremtő, felső ruháját fél vállán átvetve, összetett kézzel meghajolt a Mag...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to...
FERNANDO PESSOA Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of t...
THOMAS HUXLEY Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of t...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY I always think that reforms and turning China into a free country is a long and tortuous process. De...
LIU XIAOBO Freedom is not free sacrifice is the ultimate price and death is the final fee.
SHELDON HAYES I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI Indeed, the freedom with which Dr Johnson condemns whatever he disapproves is astonishing.
FANNY BURNEY Do not let your peace depend on the words of men. Their thinking well or badly of you does not make ...
THOMAS à KEMPIS The glory of the carpenter is the tables and chairs he manufactures; the glory of God is you and me ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Publicity does not come easily, profits do not come easily, and knowledge does not come easily.
RYAN HOLIDAY Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations....
VACLAV HAVEL We all want to trust someone ,but we all think that what we see is real and the truth but if we trul...
GARY F EVANS... Money is not everything.
BEN OAK This is the whole stupid thing about all these unblood relationships. They depend on people staying ...
MATT HAIG You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So...
RICHARD STALLMAN God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which ...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which ...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Sun shines on my back as I walk away
Sun shines on my chest and I return
The fall air is c...
BRENT M. JONES Hope is a good thing but not if you depend on it solely.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is onl...
JANE PORTER Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but i...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Anthony Johnson is a guy you can count on.
RICK CARLISLE Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
AYN RAND Free again, but it's just a feeling; freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to c...
PAULO COELHO Let's not overcharge our citizens. This is passed on to the citizens of Delaware. It's not passed on...
JIM MOORE I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other me...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Free. We are not free from bad experiences or mean people, but we are free on how to respond to thos...
JOHN B. BEJO Our greatest happiness in life does not depend on the condition of life in which
chance has placed u...
THOMAS JEFFERSON There is no ageism or 'youthism' when it comes to freedom of speech. We are all citizens.
JACQUES PARIZEAU We depend on the generosity of the citizens here to make the program the success it is today. We are...
AMY BRANSON Freedom does not mean free of charge.
TROY J. GAINEY The Christian is free from all other human beings. He does not have to live over against others, con...
JAY E. ADAMS Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. Glory belongs to the act of being constant...
JOHN MCCAIN They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN As we all know, freedom is not free. ... His goal was to see the Iraqi people live free.
TOM ROBINSON It's fun, competitive, I am good at it, and you don't need to depend on any sort of team like basket...
ERIC COOPER Writing is about freedom. It may become precious and fleeting at any time. Don't let anybody shackle...
B.A. GABRIELLE What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striv...
E. M. CIORAN People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the...
KAREN BLIXEN You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogic...
LEO TOLSTOY Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in ...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Freedom is being whole on my own and not needing somebody else to complete me.
CHRISTINA ENGELA Many people think that love represents chains, bondage, the opposite of freedom. But people who beli...
C. JOYBELL C. What exactly is the free world, anyway? I guess it would depend on what you consider the non-free wo...
GEORGE CARLIN There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her cit...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The purpose of empowerment is to urge you towards freedom, to help each of you to break free of all ...
STEVE MARABOLI Liberty is about being free and is granted by laws and conventions and government permissions. Freed...
BETH KEMPTON The flip side of freedom is this: When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.
LAUREN OLIVER In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, / With a glory in his bosom that transfi...
JULIA WARD HOWE If you think it's sad to ponder on past glory, just think about how sad it is to not have past glory...
DONALD LYNN FROST When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free...
EDITH HAMILTON When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility,
then Athens ceased to be free...
EDITH HAMILTON A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
AMIRI BARAKA A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
IMAMU AMIRI BARAKA Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they...
RICHARD PAUL EVANS The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens lik...
MIA LOVE How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I...
JIM MORRISON How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I...
JIM MORRISON In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost i...
MARGARET THATCHER So can you tell me exactly what 'freedom' means? If I am not free to be as twisted as I wanna be?
DISTURBED Regardless of who you are or who you like, love is love.
DAN FEUERRIEGEL When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
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HAROLD BLOOM But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we h...
HAROLD BLOOM Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
HAROLD BLOOM So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets h...
HAROLD ACTON Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
HAROLD KUSHNER The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and ...
HAROLD PINTER We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites. I am sure they do...
HAROLD MACMILLAN A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this...
HAROLD MACMILLAN My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel...
GALE HAROLD I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
GALE HAROLD You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally availa...
GALE HAROLD You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.
GALE HAROLD Some say that Jesus is the rock, or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. ...
GALE HAROLD My interests are not really with television, per se.
GALE HAROLD I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
GALE HAROLD I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in Londo...
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