Quotes About Independence

Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.

I was never a keeper of sheep

The Tejo runs down from Spain And the Tejo goes into the sea in Portugal. Everybody knows that. But not many people know the river of my village And where it comes from And where it's going. And so, because it belongs to less people, The river of my village is freer and greater.

Es cierto que uno quizás sea más excéntrico - mañoso - autista que los demás, pero uno está en su derecho.

The bird of youth flies away and doesn't come back. Fly, boy, fly!

En aquellos días descubrí por qué hay tantas solteronas resolviendo misterios: es lo más entretenido cuando no follas.

Never did we plan the morrow, for we had learned that in the wilderness some new and irresistible distraction is sure to turn up each day before breakfast. Like the river, we were free to wander.

What the youth needs to be told is that a ship is a-building in his own mental dry dock, a ship with freedom of the seas.

Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become "one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions": a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have ---Greatness.

Nada más peligroso, cuando se necesita ayuda, que recibir ayuda.

Yo necesito estar sola de alguien. Esto es: estar sola de nadie. Luego, no estoy sola.

Ella no te necesita. Tiene tu recuerdo, que vale mas que tù.

Solas? —pregunta a nadie. Pasan unos segundos. El mar rompe ahora con más fuerza contra las rocas, más abajo. Mamá habla de nuevo sin girarse. Al mar. A Helena. —Enfermas sí. Desquiciadas también. Y rotas. Los cirros se deslizan sobre el solo poniente. La luz es naranja, granate, preciosa. —Solas no. Al menos hasta que yo muera, niñas. No quiero volver a oíros decir eso nunca más. A ninguna. Nunca —termina con firmeza.

What you see is what you see, but that is never everything. Sarajavo is Sarajevo whatever you see or don't see. America is America. The past and future exist without you. And what you don't know about me is still my life. What I don't know about you is still your life. Nothing at all depends on you seeing it or not seeing it. I mean, who are you? You don't have to see or know everything.

was. He wasn't so much jealous as he wanted Kimiko to confess that she experienced lust independent of him—the thought of her sovereign lechery turned him on, because it frightened him.

Muista, että parempi tippuvan räystään alla kuin yhteenliitettynä häijyn ämmän kanssa.

Quit dwelling on other people's stories and make up some of your own.

Then quit dwelling on other people's stories and make up some of your own.

Which makes us. . ." ". . . blessedly unrelated," Rumbold finished.