Quotes About Independence

They wish not to become adult—not to have to accept our kind of responsibility. And yet like all children, they want to be thought grown up, and free to do what they think are grown up things. And that leads sometimes to tragedy and sometimes to the aftermath of tragedy.

Nowadays young people seem to think they can just go about doing anything they choose.

Mademoiselle, se non è sposata, vuol dire che nessuno del mio sesso è stato abbastanza eloquente: per scelta e non per necessità, si resta nubili.

Georges, never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

should learn from another. Each individual should develop his own powers to the uttermost, not try to imitate those of someone else. I do not wish you to be a second and inferior Poirot. I wish you to be the supreme Hastings. And you are the supreme Hastings. In you, Hastings, I find the normal mind almost perfectly illustrated.

I refuse to have my character improved.

As a rich property owner says 'Bolsheviks' - as an earnest Communist says 'Capitalists! ' - as a good housewife says 'Blackbeetles' - so did Miss Williams say 'Men!' From her spinster's, governess's life, there rose up a blast of fierce feminism. Nobody hearing her speak could doubt that to Miss Williams Men were the Enemy!

Ser Justase, nekad je dovoljno da date ?oveku dovoljno konopca i pustite ga da se sam obesi.

I mind my own business and I expect other people to mind theirs. I don't listen to gossip and tittle-tattle.

I'd rather a man felt that he was enjoying himself looking after me than that he should feel I was a duty to be attended to

You shall know all that I know, but I would prefer that you should come at the truth by your own efforts — not by my leading you by the hand.

If entries in 'Who's Who' were strictly truthful, the entries concerning Lady Stranleigh might have ended as follows: hobbies: getting married. She had floated through life shedding husbands as she went. She had lost three by divorce and one by death.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.

How wonderful to simply do things instead of wondering if they are worth doing or discussing whether to do them or being told not to do them or listening to somebody else describe doing them.

The path less taken disinterests me while the path frequently taken appalls me. I'd rather find a path never taken before

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.

Don't be his story. Don't be anyone else's story. Be your own story. Protect yourself.

on 5th May, 1955, the Federal Republic became a fully sovereign state.

I'm self-taught. I didn't just become a man, it was a decision.

Liberté mon seul pirate.

The only thing worse for a woman than making herself dependent on a man—'" Nell finishes her sentence: "'—is to have a child dependent on her.

I'm my own boss and my boss is a total ass.