Quotes About Independence

I really had no control over my cat. Hell, who actually had control over any cat?

The one silver lining of our sad political reality in 2018 is that we're learning to rely less on the powers that be and more on ourselves to make change.

Deep down in his heart the genuine Englishman has a rugged distaste for seeing his country invaded by a foreign army. People were asking themselves by what right these aliens had overrun British soil. An ever-growing feeling of annoyance had begun to lay hold of the nation.

I wish people wouldn't tell me I can't do things.

I don't know anything that braces one up like finding you haven't got to get married after all.

Lord Emsworth belonged to the people-who-like-to-be-left-alone- to-amuse-themselves-when-they-come-to-a-place school of hosts.

A man, I felt, who could stay indoors cataloguing vases while his fiancée wandered in the moonlight with explorers deserved all that was coming to him.

This is peculiarly an age of young men starting out in business for themselves; of rare, unfettered spirits chafing at the bonds of employment and refusing to spend their lives working forty-eight weeks in the year for a salary.

Lady Jane held the English view that visitors like to be left to themselves.

The gods are business-like. They sell; they do not give. And for what they sell they demand a heavy price. We may buy life of them in many ways; with our honour, our health, our independence, our happiness; with our brains or with our hands. But somehow or other, in whatever currency we may choose to pay it, the price must be paid.

You must never, never subordinate your hero

And that's why i have to go back to so many places there to find myself and constantly examine myself with no witness but the moon and then whistle with joy, ambling over rocks and clods of earth, with no task but to live, with no family but the road.

I should like to sleep like a cat, with all the fur of time, with a tongue rough as flint, with the dry sex of fire; and after speaking to no one, stretch myself over the world, over roofs and landscapes, with a passionate desire to hunt the rats in my dreams.

I am not jealous of what came before me. Come with a man on your shoulders, come with a hundred men in your hair, come with a thousand men between your breasts and your feet, come like a river full of drowned men which flows down to the wild sea, to the eternal surf, to Time! Bring them all to where I am waiting for you; we shall always be alone, we shall always be you and I alone on earth, to start our life!

Para mi corazón basta tu pecho, para tu libertad bastan mis alas.»

How did the abandoned bicycle win its freedom?

Para mi corazón basta tu pecho, para tu libertad bastan mis alas.

My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Sin una gran soledad ningún trabajo serio es posible

Un hombre grande y terrible concibió la colosal tentativa de la alianza entre las Repúblicas recién nacidas, y era el único capaz de encaminarla a su arduo fin. Monteagudo fue ese hombre. Muerto él, la idea de la Confederación Americana que había brotado en su poderoso cerebro se desvirtuó por sí sola".

The main thing is: Don't take any shit. That's the main thing. The unmain thing is: You are not going to figure anything out except how to get other people to take shit, so forget about everything except not taking any yourself.

The close proximity in which people lived in India was in stark contrast to my independent existence in America.

She had so little control over her own life. Yet she took control, out of thin air for herself, when she could. I

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.