Quotes About Independent

I'm not sure why I like cats so much. I mean, they're really cute obviously. They are both wild and domestic at the same time.

Indies are always an extra challenge. The time is shorter because you have less money to spend and fewer days to shoot.

I didn't fill it up with movies every time because I was trying to just film one damn movie, but that's the heartache of independent films.

You speak your mind, don't you...? A rare find in a woman.

But you're the toughest son of a b!&€# i've ever seen.You never let anybody get near you.You never let anybody know what you really think.

New York mayor Mike Bloomberg, qualified for the label -- but he was a divorced, pro-choice, pro-gay, anti-gun, Jewish plutocrat who had switched his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican to Independent as nonchalantly as if he'd been changing his loafers.

He is bound by none of the ordinary rules of mankind.

For none of the others can exist independently: substance alone is independent: for everything is predicated of substance as subject.

He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.

I am a kind of stray cat, aren't I?

That's what's so wonderful about you, you're so self-sufficient that I feel that you've created your own self.

I'm still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman.

The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.

Along with such things as free and regular elections and an independent judiciary empowered to interpret the constitution (not necessarily written), civil disobedience used with due restraint and sound judgment helps to maintain and strengthen just institutions.

Who can compute what the world loses in the multitude of promising intellects combined with timid characters, who dare not follow out any bold, vigorous, independent train of thought, lest it should land them in something which would admit of being considered irreligious or immoral?

To possess character is to be useful, and to be useful is to be independent, and to be useful and independent, is to be happy, even in the midst of sorrow; for sorrow is not necessarily unhappiness.

remind yourself that you are a very fulfilled person—stable, functional, and happy—with a career, friends, and hobbies, and that you are perfectly capable of living with or without him. You are not an empty vessel waiting for him to fill you up, support you, or give you a life. You are alive and enthusiastic, engaged in work and in living fully on your own.

Entirely independent of our intellectual system, death, like every individual experience, can be confronted only by knowledge without information

I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.

We ... have humanity divided into an indefinite number of foreign states, all hostile and threatened by each other. There is no common right, no social contract of any kind between them; otherwise they would cease to be independent states and become the federated members of one great state. But unless this great state were to embrace all of humanity, it would be confronted with other great states, each federated within, each maintaining the same posture of inevitable hostility.

I like to verify things independently. It's not like any of us are infallible.

An acquaintance with the laws of nature does not always, nor even commonly, carry with it the means of controlling them. Knowledge is seldom power. And a sociologist so coldly independent of the social forces among which he lived as thoroughly to understand them, would, in all probability, be as impotent to guide the evolution of a community as an astronomer to modify the orbit of a comet.

Friendship is the bond between a pair of kindred souls, united in their strength, and yet independent. Let us be friends and comrades to bear jointly the burden of life.

I get to travel, see the world, meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.