Sarah Fielding Quotes

Today it is only the rich who are "free". They employ their time wisely or foolishly as they choose. They ask no one's permission and seek no one's advice whether they shall squander their substance in riotous living or devote themselves to good works. What they do with their time is their own affair. In the future such freedom would be open to everybody.

Defy the crowd. The crowd isn’t always wise. It can also lead you down a path of silliness, sub-optimal choices, and downright destruction. Enchantment is as necessary for people to diverge from a crowd as it is to get people to join one.

You need your freedom. You need to be able to do what you want to do as a journalist, as a person who's speaking for other women as you speak for yourself, and you make a choice. You have to be tough enough to take the consequences of that choice.

I´m not a wandering slave, I am a woman of choice

I do believe in choice, the freedom of choice and carving out your own happiness.

Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

A wise man does nothing by constraint.

Did you hear? You are free." Yessss. Choice. It is a fine thing. And I choose to take you back, Most High.

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.

One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.

As long as you're not hurting anyone, your choices are your choices.

Democracy is the right choice and is the greatest form of government ever created.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.

My life story is something obviously that belongs to me very personally. And the fact of the matter is that I had choices and chances and opportunities that were provided to me, based on the way I was able to direct my own decision-making. And what I'm working to fight for is to make sure that all women have the ability to do that.

My idea of a true feminist is a woman who feels free enough to do whatever she wants.

Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.

Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.

There is always a choice, even if the alternatives don't appear to be equal.

I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was easy. -Lukas Jessen-Petersen

Money gives you the freedom to do with your time what you want to do with it

Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned to their masters, why so many emancipated women are only too glad to give up the racket and settle down. For between announcing that you will live your own life, and the living of it lie the real difficulties of any awakening.

The real dividing line between things we call work and the things we call leisure is that in leisure, however active we may be, we make our own choices and our own decisions. We feel for the time being that our life is our own.

I'm pro-choice. I'm pro-gay rights.