Why, why, when one writes, does a sort of shackle bind one's imagination? I become conscious of a deadening mediocrity, perhaps a… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
The circumstances that endanger the safety of nations are infinite, and for this reason no constitutional shackles can wisely be imposed on… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Elvis is the king of rock and roll, who made white kids shake their shackle. — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and… — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
Don't you long to shout to those youths who are bustling around you: Fools! Leave those worldly things that shackle the heart… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
If you play without the shackles and burdens, then you play like you did when you were a kid. — Robert Green Copy Share Image
Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay. — Esther Williams Copy Share Image
A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I suppose the more established one gets, you have what's called a reputation, and so you want to protect that and preserve… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
It’s time to write dangerous music. It’s time to take risks. It’s time to wear your heart on your sleeve, and sing… — John Mark McMillan Copy Share Image
The power of art can break the shackles that bind and divide human beings. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
I live in a country where we put children in shackles and in concrete cells. Working together, with righteousness and hope, we… — Lateefah Simon Copy Share Image
...in their millenial and long-lived patience they knew quite well how, in a hundred years, or a thousand years' time, or else,… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
