Quotes About Independence

Why, thank you for your permission, Tremaine." Tremaine made a derisive noise, unimpressed. "Somebody's got to give you permission, if you won't give it to yourself.

If you raise a daughter to be both independent and an excellent marksman, you have to accept the fact that your control over her actions is at an end.

Mensah underestimated my ability to ignore humans but I appreciated the thought.

I'm not the public library feed, Senior Officer, go do your own research. I said, "If I told you, then you might find all the bodies I've already disposed of.

No era el tipo de humano que preguntaba cosas que podía buscar por sí mismo en la red.

If people won't be shooting at me what will I be doing?" Maybe I could be her bodyguard. "I think you can learn to do anything you want." She smiled. "We'll talk about that when we get you home.

I was getting tired of being told what to do. Self-determination was a pain in the ass sometimes but it beat the alternative by a lot.

Pin-Lee had promised, "Don't worry, I'll preserve your right to wander off like an asshole anytime you like.")

It would never stop being novel to be around a bunch of humans in a relatively confined space and be able to close a door between me and them and not have to care what they were doing.

I don't know what I want. I said that at some point, I think. But it isn't that, it's that I don't want anyone to tell me what I want, or to make decisions for me.

I hate being carted around like equipment, even though technically I am actually equipment.

being in control of the situation was really important because otherwise it was in control of me

She trusts me to take care of myself, even when she doesn't want to. I can't be like a normal consort; I'll just cause trouble. Look what I did at Opal Night, and I wasn't even trying.

Ugh, self-determination sucks sometimes.

Children needed space more than overprotection. Parents who hovered were meeting their own needs, not their children's.

Introverted people who balance their energy have perseverance and the ability to think independently, focus deeply, and work creatively.

you must set her free. If you try to control her, she will hate you for it and you will lose her.

But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a soul, then there may dawn in him the presentiment of a world-wide dialogue with the world-happening that steps up to him even in his environment, which consists partially of things. Or do you seriously think that the giving and taking of signs halts on the threshold of that business where an honest and open spirit is found?

Use this advice to prod your thinking, but don't use it as a replacement for your thinking. In the end you have to make, and live with, the decisions yourself.

Indeed, in his view, being difficult – 'singular and reserved, or whatever you may be pleased to call it' – was actually a necessity for those who wanted to achieve remarkable things.

If a patient cannot clean his teeth, no dentist can clean them for him.

The small are always dependent on the great; they are "small" precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other "greats" and who can transform it in an original manner.

If most of the time they do and feel and think and watch and eat and drink precisely what everyone else does, are Americans really free? There

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.