Quotes About Independence

I was never really obsessed with the whole guy thing to begin with.

When working on your own, you can make a choice and find out six months later that you made a bad choice. But when you work with people you trust, who understand your obsessions, you can take risks.

The idea of the damsel in distress is fast becoming obsolete.

We want to galvanize people's imaginations. With enough political will and investment, we could make wheelchairs obsolete.

The Serbian people certainly will never be an obstacle for the Montenegrins to have their own country.

Unusually for an Indian man of his generation, my father, being aware of my mother's intellectual abilities, encouraged her to go abroad by herself to obtain a Ph.D.

I was good at math and science, and it was expected that I would attend the University of Washington in Seattle and become an engineer. But by the time I was seventeen, I was ready to leave home, a decision my parents agreed to support if I could obtain a scholarship. MIT did not grant me one, but the University of Chicago did.

Football was the best route to obtain my independence.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

Be an individual. I mean, obviously it's hard for a brand, for a corporation, to have a huge following.

I like living on my own. I'm happy for a man to come over. I'll cook for him; he can spend the night occasionally, but then I want him to leave. I'm too independent.

The way I see it, a clever cat prowls but calls home occasionally.

What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can. I've been criticized on many, many occasions, because of - acquaintances, and what have you.

Our main goal as Iraqi people is to drive the occupation out in any way.

And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.

France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.

Sometimes all you have left to win with is the knowledge of why you're taking the beating and the realization that nobody else is going to save you from it.

Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.

We are grown stiff with the ramrod of convention down our backs. ???? ?????, ????? ??????????? ???????? ???????? ???????????, ????? ???????????. (O. Henry, The Green Door)

Sentirse solo no es sentirse inferior, sino distinto. El sentimiento de soledad no es una ilusión —como a veces lo es el de inferioridad— sino la expresión de un hecho real: somos, de verdad, distintos. Y, de verdad, estamos solos.

Self discovery is above all the realization that we are alone

La historia del amor es inseparable de la historia de la libertad de la mujer.

El sentimiento de soledad, por otra parte, no es una ilusión —como a veces lo es el de inferioridad— sino la expresión de un hecho real: somos, de verdad, distintos. Y, de verdad, estamos solos.

El amor es una apuesta, insensata, por la libertad. No la mía, la ajena.