Quotes About Independence

Because a rebel is just a guy who doesn't have the good sense to go the same way the crowd is going, and the composure to act like that was his idea all along.

Why allow other people to control your inner happiness?

When he was gone I blocked his number and then deleted it from my phone. When I say good bye I mean it.

Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.

The man who follows the crowd will get no farther than the crowd. A man who walks alone is likely to get places no one has ever been before.

Para una dictadura moderna, toda organización que sea independiente ya es política.

Deve farcela con le sue forze." "Può darsi che sia vero, ma questo non significa che debba restare solo.

For everyone you create to be dependent on you, you are equally dependent on them. Neither relationship is healthy.

Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.

neither money nor my work define me. I like them, they allow me to do many things I enjoy, but if I did not have them, I know I would be able to find something else to do, I would be able to survive, I could be happy. Sometimes

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting

She finally managed to free her fingers from his. "I know how to run without you holding my hand!

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

No one has a gun to your head. You are the primary agenda-setter in your life.

Como el señor Keats, el poeta, convertiría el vagar sola y pálida en virtud. Tendría que hacerse alguien, y no la esposa de alguien

Nobody has the right to tell you what books you can and can't read except your parents.

all of us at various times in our lives believe true things for poor reasons, and false things for good reasons, and that whatever we think we know, whether we're right or wrong, arises from our interactions with other human beings. Thinking independently, solitarily, "for ourselves," is not an option.

Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive... it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government...it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security." —THOMAS JEFFERSON The Declaration of Independence

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

Loners probably experience life at a more profound level than the self-consciously gregarious who know nothing of individuality, or who lack the courage to go their own way.

Bertie looked up from the comic he was reading. "It's OK," he said. "I can look after myself." It would be great not having a babysitter. Suzy was sleeping over at Bella's so he would have the house all to himself.

The independence of a nation springs from the independent spirit of its citizens

From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.