Quotes About Independence

Damn Dap and damn you too, sir, I know what I'm doing." "Do you?" "Better than anyone else." "Oh, that is obvious, since nobody else has the faintest idea what you're doing.

I much prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

Every woman is a rebel.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.

I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?

I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

If after I am free a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. I can be perfectly happy by myself. With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?

One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.

The Master said, "The gentleman does not serve as a vessel." (Analects 2.12)

Exige beaucoup de toi-même et attend peu des autres. Beaucoup d'ennuis te seront épargnés.

Virginia was working in the garden, and her husband Leonard called out for her to come inside, that Hitler was just about to speak on the radio. Virginia refused. "I am planting irises," she said, "and they will be here long after Hitler is gone." And they are. You can go see the irises at their house, still blooming.

I had gone off with a contemp and a complete stranger—to say nothing of the dog—and left my contact waiting on the station platform or the tracks or in a boathouse somewhere.

Well, at least she's asserting herself, and you don't have to worry about her having 'squelched girl syndrome,' " she said. Mary Clare ignored that.

unaffirmed people I have met often have an utter sense of helplessness because they believe there is nothing they themselves can do

Most translators, even if they work 40 hours a week or more, live a very self-directed lifestyle and can tailor their work day around other interests or commitments such as families.

Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.

By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.