Quotes About Independence

Why can't "They say" let every body settle their own affairs?

By way of conclusion, Luce said, I lived through it [the rape], so if you can't stand to hear it, you can take me home and go to hell. Men get so damn strange sometimes.

The road, they said, was a place apart, a country of its own ruled by no government but natural law, and its one characteristic was freedom.

But Luce takes the attitude, when you start fretting the day-by- day you lose track of the long view. And the long view is, they need to learn to speak for themselves and do the best they can. For now, if they bag their own lunch and it's pickles and prunes and they say the words, all you do is put both thumbs up and say, Good job.

Has the fellowship served to make the individual free, strong, and mature, or has it made him weak and dependent? Has it taken him by the hand for a while in order that he may learn again to walk by himself, or has it made him uneasy and unsure?" —LIFE TOGETHER

As long as you expect someone or something else to take responsibility for you, you're a child.

Shut up. Stand up. Put this on. That's right . . . if you were the kind of man who found it easy to do that kind of thing do you think I'd bother with you?" Her question takes him by surprise, rattling his introspective daze.

But the de-emphasized had the temerity to try to look after themselves in ways that resisted monetization. Their

But probability triumphs in the end. An important theorem known as the law of large numbers tells us that as the number of independent trials increases, the average of the outcomes will get closer and closer to its expected value.

and I was prepared to say blow off if you don't like this idea

I didn't come here to make friends.

The great thing about rejection is that it doesn't matter how many times you get rejected. All that needs to happen is if for one person to tell you 'yes' and then everybody else can go f*** themselves.

You should always speak your mind and be bold and obnoxious and do whatever you want and dont let anybody tell you to stop it

Yes, of course I want to get married, but does that mean I'm not allowed to go out and have a good time? Am I supposed to just marry any schmuck that comes along? And by the way, here's a newsflash, Hammertoes. Nobody wants to marry me, anyway.

We can kill our son's confidence by making things too easy for him, by hovering, overprotecting, and over-functioning.

Never run after a man or a bus, there's always another one in five minutes.

You're not the boss of me," she told him breathlessly. His chuckle sounded strangled. "Pretend I am for a while.

Eneke the bird was asked why he was always on the wing and he replied: 'Men have learnt to shoot without missing their mark and I have learnt to fly without perching on a twig.'

Ghana was a particularly relevant example for us subjects in the remaining colonies and dominions of the British Empire. There was a growing confidence, not just a feeling, that we would do just as well parting ways with Her Majesty's empire. If Ghana seemed more effective, as some of our people like to say, perhaps it was because she was smaller in size and neat, as if it was tied together more delicately by well-groomed, expert hands.

There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, that a Biafran plane landed in another African country, and the pilot and all of the crew came out, and there was not a white man among them. The people of this other country—which is a stooge of France—couldn't comprehend a plane being landed without any white people. They said, "Where is the pilot? Where are the white people?" They arrested the crew, presuming there had been a rebellion in the air!

Un coeur fier peut survivre à un échec général parce qu'un tel échec ne blesse pas son orgueil. C'est plus difficile et plus amer quand un homme échoue tout seul.

Children left their old parents at home and scattered in all directions in search of money. It was hard on an old woman with eight children. It was like having a river and yet washing one's hands with spittle.

I wouldn't put myself under the democratic dictatorship even of angels and archangels.

The fly that has no one to advise him follows the corpse into the ground.