Quotes About Independence

I don't see the purpose of cats. Dogs can protect you, can sniff out things, and can be your eyes if you're blind. Could you imagine a seeing-eye cat? The first person who walks by with an untied shoelace, and you're history.

Norma, 1930s. "Whores make good wives, but madams don't. When you're making money in a whorehouse, that makes you independent and hard to get along with as a wife in the first place.

Our work is a scream of freedom.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

And she shared the philosophy Jackie expressed when a friend of hers warned that by marrying Ari she would fall off her pedestal. "It's better," Jackie replied, "than freezing there.

Don't ever put your happiness in someone else's hands. They'll drop it. They'll drop it every time.

Non è che siamo degli emarginati, è che abbiamo imparato cos'è che non ci serve.

Your environment might help make you who you are, but what you do is all your own work.

I don't compromise in order to fit in, and I'm not giving in to any arsehole who wants to make me feel I don't belong wherever I put myself.

There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

There is only one success: to be able to spend life in your own way and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

It is important to note that in spite of all the anarchist slogans the program of the Makhnovists in practice was not much different from that of later peasant revolutions (like the Chinese), namely: redistribution of the land, more or less voluntary collectivization, and expulsion of the imperialists (national independence).

My dear Mother, I didn't knock myself down. Why Should I pick myself up?

jennet. Are you doing this to save me? thomas. You natter my powers, My sweet; you're too much a woman. But if you wish You can go down to the dinner of damnation On my arm. jennet. I dine elsewhere.

Whatever solace TJ Farrelly sought, he would have to find it on his own. She had racked her brain until she had realized the truth: she had none to give.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

I've always said that you were too smart to have a profession. Smart people are hopeless in the face of anything actual. They are terrible cooks. They cannot dress themselves. They are children who need guidance and protecting.

It's not like I'm this glamour diva who hands everything over and I just sit on my throne at home.

It was inevitable that Red China would invade Tibet, and then there would be no place for us two friends of Tibetan independence.

Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.

Well, I don't see any other ones around...