Quotes About Independence

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.

I fear feeling my heart break a second time, because I'm not sure I could survive it. I'd rather live alone than risk the pain.

I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.

I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.

I could live alone forever if I just had a view of the sea.

Moreover, if we move in the direction of making machines which learn and whose behavior is modified by experience, we must face the fact that every degree of independence we give the machine is a degree of possible defiance of our wishes. The genie in the bottle will not willingly go back in the bottle, nor have we any reason to expect them to be well disposed to us.

Self-reliance is the autonomy of individuals to navigate issues as they arise, control his or her own path, and sustain the resources to get there.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

the Entente Powers, far from aiding Poland, regarded her activities with irritation. Poland won her independence for twenty years by her own efforts under the leadership of Pi?sudski.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Trust your own eyes. Only you can determine what is happening in your life and what to do about it. The

Truth is discovered, not invented. It exists independent of anyone's knowledge of it. (Gravity existed prior to Newton.)

I insist on caprice as a necessary countermeasure to slavery. Otherwise, my own dictatorial mind must take -- unknown to me -- its instructions from a mastermind.

The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.

But while I remained ignorant of there never having been such a tiling as human self-effort or human independence, I had not realized that all my own efforts to live a victorious life were really Satan expressing himself as me.

A child had a right to be a child. Even in Mississippi a girl was a girl till her time came. White folks or no white folks. Nobody sent a little ol' thing out to take up for the whole damn race.

Jane didn't miss white folks, she didn't like white folks, she tried not to think about them. She kept her world as colored as she could. There was enough of it. From Langston Hughes to Sojourner Truth, her children's worlds were hardly deprived

When I die, I will not be guilty of having left a generation of girls behind thinking that anyone can tend to their emotional health other than themselves.

i want you to know this waz an experiment to see how selfish i cd be if i wd really carry on to snare a possible lover if i waz capable of debasin my self for the love of another if i cd stand not being wanted when i wanted to be wanted & i cannot so with no further assistance & no guidance from you i am endin this affair this note is attached to a plant i've been waterin since the day i met you you may water it yr damn self

She wondered then if she had ever been on the right track. She had been reticent all her life, because it turned out that her opinions were different from what others expected. 'That proves either that I am an exceptional idiot, or the reverse.

You have been going on about pride like it was a bad thing, and I disagree with you. A man's pride is about the only thing he has that's worth having, and is what sets him apart from the pack. We have argued this before, Judge, and I guess I will say this time that a man that doesn't have it is a pretty poor specimen and apt to take to whisky for the lack. For all whisky is, is pride you can pour in your belly.

En kötüsü, hay?r demeyi ö?renemedim. Yeme?e kal, dediler: kald?m. Oysa, kal?nmaz. Onlar biraz ?srar ederler; sen biraz nazlan?rs?n. Sonunda kalk?p gidilir. Her söylenileni ciddiye almak yok mu, ?u sözünün eri olmak yok mu; bitirdi, y?kt? beni.

Dünyada bir tane kahraman bulunmal?. Tek ba??na ya?ayanlara cesaret vermek için.