Quotes About Independence

Be that cat! she reminded herself. The one that stayed out of reach, and never - ever purred.

She looked like a girl who had made her choice. Had she? Everyone thought she had, which almost felt like the same thing. But it wasn't too late.

Ella era la diosa de... ella misma. Y no podía dejar de mirarla.

No es posible ayudar a las personas haciendo por ellas lo que ellas deberían hacer por sí mismas. Abraham Lincoln

Emily Dickinson, one could be certain, didn't have silly friends. She didn't need them.

Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

Perempuan jangan selalu merasa dirinya harus mengorbankan dirinya kepada laki-laki dengan gampang

Who puts the food in your mouth? Who goes to the bathroom for ya? You do. You came on this earth alone and you are going to leave alone. Think about it. If anything happens to Jack La Lanne good or bad, I made it happen. If anything happens to you good or bad, you made it happen -- right?

My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.

Education isn't something your professors make for you. It's something you make for yourself.

Don't do anything that someone else can do.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

You don't get to decide," she said, "where I go, or when." "I know." His voice was ragged. "I've always known that about you. I don't know why I had to fall in love with someone who's more stubborn than I am.

I should have warned her about your habit of never doing what you're told." Jace squinted at her. "Are those Isabelle's clothes? They look ridiculous on you." "I could point out that you burned my clothes." -Jace and Clary pg. 63

Isabella with her whip and boots and knives would chop anyone who tried to pen her up in a tower into pieces, build a bridge out of the remains, and walk carelessly to freedom, her hair looking fabulous the entire time.

And when I saw him[my father] lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might be not. Either way, we're on our own.

As long as everyone's wearing their own pants." "I see I have come in on a fascinating moment in the conversation.

Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love..

Good. Because I don't need protecting." "I knew you'd say that.But the thing is, sometimes you do. And sometimes I do. We're meant to protect each other, but not from everything. Not from the truth. That's what it means to love someone but let them be themselves.

Jace hated it when other people were worried on his behalf. It made him feel like maybe there really was something to worry about.

Unpleasant?" he finished for her. "Only on the days when my adoptive mother tosses me out of the house with instructions never to darken her door again. Usually, I'm remarkably good-natured. Try me on any day that doesn't end in y.

So you interrupted my date to make fun of me for still living with my parents. Couldn't you have done that on a night I didn't have a date? That's most nights, in case you're curious.

You can take your Law," she said in a measured tone, "and shove it right up your-