Quotes About Independence

I had chosen freedom, with all its insecurities, and nothing in the world would make me turn away from it.

Earlier in [2007] the [Prime Minister's Office] had also drawn criticism for trying to muzzle the judiciary. The reproach came from Antonio Lamer, the former chief justice of the Supreme Court....'I must say I was taken aback,' said Lamer, who sat on the Supreme Court for twenty years. 'The prime minister is going the wrong route as regards the independence of the judiciary. He's trying to interfere with the sentencing process.

The domestic cat seems to have greater confidence in itself than in anyone else.

If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.

I was an only child-- and so I became an only man." Joshua Bigg The Tenth Commandment

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

Honestly, orthodoxy concerns me about as much as it concerns your average jackrabbit. I only follow rules that take me where I want to go. If there aren't any rules, I make up my own (and follow them strictly).

It's not a weapon or a woman can make a man, or magery either, or any power, anything but himself.

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.

There was one person who greatly and directly benefited my career--my agent Virginia Kidd. From 1968 to the late nineties she represented all my work, in every field except poetry. I could send her an utterly indescribable story, and she'd sell it to Playboy or the Harvard Law Review or Weird Tales or The New Yorker--she knew where to take it. She never told me what to write or not write, she never told me, That won't sell, and she never meddled with my prose.

In the fall of the year I turned sixteen, I jumped out of my bedroom window and ran away. The night's black roads wound like long stretches of river. … The streets ribboned out in all directions. I lifted first one foot and then the other, ready to run down all of them

When it comes to 'Glee ' I feel like I've been in a relationship, and now I can mingle a bit.

I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don't try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go, just focus on you and your future.

Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, you're free, you can do what you want, you're the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him.

Every healthy person hungers. To know things for himself. Form his own questions, test his own ideas. Funny how a person's own family is often the first to punish him for that.

following the herd was not a good thing, that it was a terrible thing to do

But one thing she'd learned was that if a girl didn't ask, a girl wouldn't get.

Word of advice - don't let your father choose your wife. Choose your own. You have to live with her. Your father doesn't.

I'm going to make it very hard. I love you and I'm tired of being told what I should want and what I should do. You and I got married and I can stomp my foot and scream and rail at you because of the deal you made with my father, but the truth is I wouldn't have married you if I didn't want to". She took a deep breath. "And I don't think anyone. including my father, could have forced you to marry me. So, Mr. Megalos, consider yourself stuck with me.

It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.

Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful.

I despise followers of any kind, especially those who follow me.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.