Quotes About Independence

It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it.

wanted his freedom. But then you could

A girl doesn't need a guy in her life in order to act like a complete idiot. Certainly I, at least, never have.

You scare them, Ma," Isaac says. Why? Because I made them all sign confidentiality agreements? Because I speak my mind and know exactly what I want? Why should I pretend people are doing me a favor when I'm paying them? I have no use for that sort of nonsense. Once

The design is about expectations. Everybody wants something from beautiful people. From beautiful women, especially. But I think they're most stunning when they refuse to give anyone anything.

If the lion knew his true strength it were hard for any man rule him.

You're only responsible for yourself, Jess. And that's the only person you can control. Other people will either get it or they won't but you can't define yourself by their opinions.

That"s because we don"t have any weaknesses. We"re perfect." She rolled her eyes. "Give me a break. If you"re so perfect, how come your gender hasn"t figured out a way to have children on yourown. Then you could free yourself from the weaker sex.

Where's Lori?" he asked when he saw the nurse wasn't there. "She's not avoiding me, is she?" His grandmother slipped off her glasses, put down her book and stared at him. "Amazingly enough, the whole world doesn't revolve around you, Reid. Lori's sister is sick and Lori took her to the doctor. She'll be back in an hour or so. Can you survive on your own until then, or should I call 9-1-1 for emergency assistance?

Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.

The whole point of becoming an adult is to achieve self-reliance.

She would be a tough one to win over. He saw it in the way she quickly hooded her feelings, snatching them in whenever they wandered. She didn't trust easily and depended only on herself

People who are free to choose will choose the best use for whatever it is they possess. Wealth and prosperity begin with the freedom to choose.

I don't want my destiny handed to me. I want to choose it.

The key is to never let someone else tell you what to think.

After what I had been through, I needed something far steadier than love.

Tinhas ar de quem não precisava de ninguém, disse ela. Mas são esses os que mais precisam, retorquiu ele. Então não sabes disso? Agora já sei, disse ela. Tarde de mais. O saber nunca vem tarde de mais!, exclamou ele. Talvez não, respondeu ela. Mas pode vir tarde de mais para nos servir para alguma coisa.

A free spirit's just an idiot who doesn't want to face reality.

The library might have been the first place I was ever given autonomy.

Victorian women were forbidden from owning orchids because the shapes of the flowers were considered too sexually suggestive for their shy constitutions, and anyway the expense and danger and independence of collecting in the tropics were beyond any Victorian woman's ken.

People who have been single for a long time tend to be independent. That's not necessarily bad, but you need to remember you're half of a team now.

Your parents didn't particularly care if you wanted to carpool with someone else to swimming lessons; it was convenient for you and Amanda Hammels to travel together, even if you never talked to each other in school, so, by god, that was the way it was going to be.

Because I have willed it. And I am not a fairy tale.

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.