Quotes About Independence

Just saying, you have to pull your own weight. A hot body and flirting will only get you so far.

You can stay out here and compare inches for the entire night, but I'm going inside.

My lords! I'm not a castle. You don't have to storm me.

You need someone to take care of you, Maud, whether you want to admit it or not.

People must make their own choices, no matter how wrong those choices are. Otherwise they can't be free.

So snarl all you want, princess. But you will marry me, because you have no choice. You won't win this fight with farmers. You need a cold ruthless bastard like me, and I'm the only one here.

No strong ties to other Houses, no patrons of great influence. It wasn't unusual. Many smaller Houses preferred to operate independently, unattached to a larger family. Powerful Houses had powerful enemies, and when you allied yourself to one, you inherited their friends and their rivals.

We make our own choices in life. Our actions shape our lives, and we alone are responsible for them." "When

I had many failings, and the overwhelming need to be in control of myself was one of them. I didn't care about controlling other people.

We make our own choices in life. Our actions shape our lives, and we alone are responsible for them.

I have never in my life needed you to loan me money. If I was dead, and the ferryman needed a coin to take me across the river to the afterlife, and you had the only quarter in existence, I'd tell you to stick it up your ass.

I don't come from money, Curran said. His voice rolled, filling the space. Everything I have I made with my own two hands, and I have to work hard every day for it. Even Daniels? another merc asked. That got some giggles. Curran cracked a smile. It was a bright, infectious smile. Especially Daniels. I work to keep her daily. Otherwise she wouldn't put up with me.

This inn cradled me as I took my first breath. No matter how hard you try, it will never be yours." I planted the broom into the floor.

If I wanted someone like Meli, I would have married a long time ago. I want you. My beautiful, lethal, precise ice dragon. One of a kind. That's a terrible pet name, she said. Ice dragon? Silver Shark? Captain Lethal? Slaughter Maiden?

Women usually respond well to drama and decisive declarations of lust." "I'm not that sort of a woman. Unfortunately for you, I'm not for sale.

He led her to a small silver shuttle, a six-seater. "Am I flying with you in your personal craft?" "Yes," he said. "Is that wise?" "I thought we established that I don't care about being wise.

She stared at him, stunned. He braced himself. "We need the guns, Elara." "And you just made that decision without me?" Her voice was so sharp, he wanted to check himself for cuts.

Arland looked at me as if seeing me for the first time. Yes, the princess you were expecting put on her armor and left to kill the dragon. So sorry.

We worked very hard to move out of House Rogan's shadow and I won't trade that independence for an easy paycheck.

Clothes don't have magic powers. They don't mystically protect you from three-inch claws, rapists, or murderers. If someone decides to hurt you, they will do so whether or not you have a thin layer of denim over your skin.

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another.

Enlightenment is man's release from his self incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Have courage to use your own reason that's the motto of enlightenment .