Quotes About Independence

Good; and what of him? ALEXANDER They say he is a very man per se, And stands alone. CRESSIDA So do all men, unless they are drunk, sick, or have no legs.

Que ella que con su muerte le dice a nuestro César: Me conquisté yo misma.

Think you I am no stronger than my own sex being so father'd and husbanded?

Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it Without a prompter.—

That I chose Independence Day as the moment to strike was of course a piece of deliberate irony.

I was so completely dependent on him, you see, and that was not a healthy thing.

Would he ever, he wondered, escape from people who banged on the doors he locked to demand his egress?

We can make a strong unconditional commitment to ourselves to take care of our deepest needs, no matter what other people do or don't do.

The less dependent we feel on others to satisfy our needs for happiness, the more mature and truly satisfying our relationships with others are likely to be. The less needy we feel, the less conflict there will be and the easier it will be for us to get to Yes in challenging situations.

I been packin' iron for so long that if I don't have one on me somewheres, I walk slant-wise.

can go for weeks without hearin' the sound of a human voice. And I love it, Melody. I love it. I don't need people the way you do. Hell, I don't even like most people.

I can go for weeks without hearin' the sound of a human voice. And I love it, Melody. I love it. I don't need people the way you do. Hell, I don't even like most people.

saying something in German, then at the mountain man's

by Matt Jensen, who had himself

I was born to be a spinster, and, by God, I'm going to spin.

Clever? who said that we all had to be clever? But we have to have courage. The whole position of women is what it is to-day, because so many of us have followed the line of least resistance, and have sat down placidly in a little provincial town, waiting to get married. No wonder that the men have thought that this is all that we are good for.

Go therefore, and do that which is within you to do. Take no heed of gestures that beckon you aside. Ask of no man permission to perform.

Look here,' she began, 'you can't go on like that, you know. If you are really keen on a thing, and it's a good thing, you ought to go and do it. It is no use waiting till people tell you that you may go. Asking permission is a coward's way of shifting responsibility on to some one else.

Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

2. We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.

Love to learn—hate to be taught.

He wondered if the real world was that one in which men fought for policies and principles and died or lived gloriously - or more often miserably - for the sake of an abstract word like patriotism or independence, or if reality belonged to the humble people and the common land.

But when his mother died, even while he was crying, something within him had risen up, a barrier to shield off his weakness and tenderness and frailty. He had thought, All right, then, I've lost her and I'm alone. All right then. The adult impulse followed the childish.