Quotes About Independence

There were two things a girl learned to do simultaneously at a very young age: knee a guy in the crotch and scream at the top of her lungs.

She said she was going to do it. She said it was the only way she would ever be free.

Sometimes you're better off without what you thought you needed.

I am an old punk.

Perhaps the current state of my health should have raised a bright red caution flag, but instead it fired me up. I wanted to do what I wanted. I didn't care if hefting plywood and climbing ladders weren't on my doctor's recommended list of activities, or if I was foolhardy to think I could lift a fifty-pound roll of tar paper into and then out of my car. I was going to do it because it sounded like a blast, like the best possible way to have fun.

Fine. You're Lucious Landrum and I'm Annie Oakley. Can I go now?

I love it that I'm standing alone, it doesn't bother me, actually I prefer it, actually I don't give a shit. I am a superior being in an alien world. No, in a world of red-faced aliens. That thought tickled her, but only for a minute. Mainly she longed to feel that she wasn't invisible.

and held on to it. "Because I'm not looking for a wife

Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.

I give my mind the liberty to follow the first wise or foolish idea that presents itself, just as in the avenue de Foy our dissolute youths follow close on the heels of some strumpet, then leave her to pursue another, attacking all of them and attaching themselves to none. My thoughts are my strumpets.

Omul nu va fi liber pân? când ultimul rege va fi spânzurat cu intestinele ultimului preot.

The eternal companions of all clever women are mistrust and scorn.

You don't have a partner, Marshal, You came here alone.

all he wanted was to not be alone, but he knew there was no getting rescued from that

Hospitals strip a lot from you—your independence, your confidence, sometimes your will to live. But pettiness too. Pettiness is the first casualty of the ICU waiting room. No one has the energy for it.

We're not our brother's keeper, Joseph. In fact, it's an insult to our brother to presume he can't take care of himself.

His father was gone. He was no longer a son. He was a man without history or expectation. A blank slate, beholden to none. He felt like a pilgrim who'd pushed off from the shore of a homeland he'd never see again, crossed a black sea under a black sky, and landed in the new world, which waited, unformed, as if it had always been waiting. For him. To give the country a name, to remake it in his image so it could espouse his values and export them across the globe.

It's the process, how you become a man. Boys cling; men leave.

That when a woman moves on, she doesn't look back, and I'm that woman.

He gave me the same shrug and I saw that his mind wasn't for the changing. People like Mulkern are used to creating the facts on their own, then letting the rest of us in.

Goal 6: That each child be competent to provide for his or her own family's financial needs within reasonable hours

Yielding to a parent's control is the path to self-control; and self-control alone is liberty.

In one case, you're hoping someone else will do the right thing. In the other case, you're directing your own life, even if someone else does something stupid. Guess which path is going to be more successful.

America was founded on a yearning for liberty, but people yearn for many things more than liberty.