Quotes About Independence

My mother was working a lot, so she was gone often. I would leave school and hitchhike to the beach. I can't believe I hitchhiked now. It scares me to death now.

I'll follow you, even to death—but I won't live with you any more.

You were free, you are free and you will be free.

Give me liberty or give me death.".]

That's how I want to go. Taking my own way out and totally pissing everybody off at the end.

Carmen will always be free.

When it came to life or death, or anything else important, the only one you could count on was yourself.

Hands on hips, she cast him a narrowed-eye gaze. "Move.""You're not leaving.""And you're not stopping me.

Old: Give me liberty or give me death. - New: Give me liberty or give me debt.

All of them with their own lives, untouched by mine. Or each other's.

Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge.

From beginning to end, we are all alone.

If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.

My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done. My country is now free and I have been honoured to be its first indigenous head of state. What more could one desire in life?

Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

There is no neediness in desire ... there is no caretaking in desire. Caretaking is mightily loving, [but] it's a powerful anti-aphrodisiac.

The desire to be self-supporting and financially independent is a divine desire

For years I've nursed a secret desire to spend the Fourth of July in a double hammock with a swingin' redheaded broad. But I could never find me a double hammock

A kung fu man lives without being dependant on the opinions of others, and a master, unlike the beginner, holds himself in reserve. He is quiet and unassuming, with no desire to show off.

The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.