Quotes About Independence

Real women didn't wait for their dragon slayers to come save them.

I'd rather be alone." She pivoted around again. "I'm getting tired of crying in front of an audience.

She didn't have to go to these things. And she could wear her damn diamonds in her bathrobe and be perfectly happy.

Jane studied him for the longest time. "What you did or didn't do doesn't matter to me. Because as far as I'm concerned, you're a free male as of right now.

La vida es lo que tú decides que sea; independientemente de dónde te coloca el destino, la lógica y el libre albedrío significan que cada persona puede hacer lo que quiera con su vida.

I've never really liked directing. I became a director because I didn't like directors telling me how to edit, and I became a writer because I had to write something in order to be able to direct something. So I did everything out of necessity, but what I really like is editing.

Loving someone gave them power over you, and she wasn't ready to do that just yet.

You put your life on hold for me. And really, I get that. I appreciate that. But I'm not a baby anymore. Let go, Mom.

I always thought I was thought and independent, that I could do everything alone. Turns out I'm not as tough as I'd like to think I am.

You're a stubborn woman, Evelyn.

I was content before you came into it and I'll be content after you're gone.

I think you can do whatever you want to with me.

I don't like taking orders.

I've purposely set up my life to be alone so I won't get hurt.

I don't like being told what to do.

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

Nobody has to care anymore, we can even leave the whole scene to itself with Japanese fornicating machines fornicating chemical dolls on and on, with Robot Hospitals and Calculator Machine Crematories and just go off and be free in the Universe!

Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.

All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.

I felt free and therefore I was free.

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. Learning for instance, to eat when he's hungry and sleep when he's sleepy.

The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to grow.

but I should have known from her original announcement of independence to believe in the sincerity of her distaste for involvement, instead hurling on at her as if and because in fact I wanted to be hurt and 'lacerate' myself

He doesn't need any money , all he needs is his rucksack with those little plastic bags of dried food and a good pair of shoes and off he goes and enjoys the privileges of a millionaire in surroundings like this.