Quotes About Independence

The idea of art as "access to independence and happiness" is a notion that speaks to my own experience. In art, you can find voices that channel your own life story better than you could ever express it yourself. And you can also find voices that introduce you to worlds you would never have otherwise visited. In a diverse republic such as ours, both of these inspirations are especially important.

It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.

We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like, I can do any job I want - but I do think chivalry has been lost a little bit.

I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.

I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything.

autonomy without clarity is ultimately a disaster.

Two of our number now commenced work as tailors in the village of Independence," wrote Parley P. Pratt, "while the others crossed the frontier line and commenced a mission among the Lamanites.

Part of what I love about traveling was the idea of vanishing from the radar for a while, even if it was just for an hour in the airport, the idea being that if I couldn't be found, then neither could my troubles find me.

He glanced around, his eyes widening a little when he looked toward her bedroom. She winced, but resisted the urge to jump and close the door. He was staring at the poster above her bed, an image of Annie Oakley with the quote "I ain't afraid to love a man. I ain't afraid to shoot him either.

When I turned fifty, I was divorced, my son was grown up, and I realized I still had decades to go. It was the oddest thing—just as the culture began to lose interest in me, just as the world decided I was irrelevant, I began to feel more myself than ever. Louder, smarter, stronger. It felt truly adolescent, like I wanted to take drugs and drive fast and shave my head.

She raised her head again. "Aren't you supposed to come over all manly man and forbid the little lady from taking such risks with her fragile self?" "I like my balls right where they are," he said, and she laughed and put her head back down on his chest. Kate Shugak to Jim Chopin Though Not Dead

That's some f***ing doorman you've got there, Ms. Shugak.

Little House on the Prairie.

And now you are coddling me, Andrew. Just like Lucien and Charles and to a smaller extent, Gareth… I may be the baby sister, but I can assure you that I am not fragile. I get tired of the coddling, Andrew. I am not an egg." He just looked at her. "Egg?" "Coddled? Egg?" He stared at her blankly, too distracted by the impending demonstration to match wits with her. "Oh, never mind," she said with a frustrated sigh.

Grown women didn't cry; tough, hardened, pirate queens didn't cry. Damn her eyes, what the hell was wrong with her? Her lover stirred—and Maeve froze. Dark azure eyes opened, and he looked lazily up at her through his lashes. "There now, what's this? Did I do something wrong?" He sat up, and tried to reach for her. "Say something wrong?" But she only leapt up and off the bed, putting distance between them.

Speaking of excitement, how's that fine bit of muslin who saved your life, eh, Gareth?" "Yes, have you made a suitable impression upon her yet?" Gareth grinned. "I am working on it." "Ha! I can imagine what your despot of a brother thinks about that!" "Who gives a damn what he thinks? Lucien may be Blackheath's master, but he sure as hell isn't mine. Now come, let's go. The evening waits, and I simply cannot abide being in this place another minute." ~~~~

Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.

Afghan villages traditionally ran their own affairs, each valley a law unto itself. Afghanistan never enjoyed much of a central government.

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. —Thomas Carruthers

Having one person tell other people what to do is not a reliable way to make good decisions.

Make the Leader Occasionally Disappear: Several leaders of successful groups have the habit of leaving the group alone at key moments.

Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.

Stop worrying about what others think of you. Base your thoughts, your decisions, and your goals on what you want and what is important in your life.