Quotes About Independence

Please let us not interfere with the other's work or play, nor let the world see our private joys or disagreements. In this connection I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself, now and then, for I cannot guarantee to ensure at all times the confinement of even an attractive cage.

Please let us not interfere with the other's work or play, nor let the world see our private joys or disagreements. In this connection I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself, now and then, for I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinement of even an attractive cage.

It was generally called the "powder puff derby" and those who flew in it variously as "Ladybirds", "Angels" or "Sweethearts of the Air". (We are still trying to get ourselves called just "pilots".)

Man muss sich im Leben auch mal selbst ans Steuer wagen, statt immer nur Passagier zu bleiben

American girls never whimper.

But I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road, my country is the caravan, my life the most unexpected of voyages.

Someone other than I might have used the word "roots". It is not part of my vocabulary. I don't like the word, and I like even less the image it conveys. Roots burrow into the ground, twist in the mud, and thrive in darkness; they hold trees in captivity from their inception and nourish them at the price of blackmail: "Free yourself and you'll die

Doctrines are meant to serve man, not the other way around.

Olan biten seni ÅŸa??rtmamal? Ä°syan. Kendi kendine kardeÅŸinin sana göre bir üstünlüÄŸü olduÄŸunu tekrar et. +Nas?l bir üstünlük ? -O ,eski bir direniÅŸçinin kardeÅŸi ; sense eski bir kaçakç?n?n.

C'est que l'Occident ne veut pas qu'on lui ressemble, il veut seulement qu'on lui obéisse.

Au bout de tant d'années passées parmi les vêtements-Blancs, il avait réussi à se bâtir une solitude, cette chère et irremplaçable solitude dont il s'enveloppait comme d'une cotte de mailles. La partager, c'était la perdre. Chaque fois qu'il en avait le loisir, il aimait à retrouver son discret repaire, seul, sans un autre compagnon que lui même. Pourquoi encombrer ses oreilles d'un bourdonnement humain?

Bir kad?na ya da bir erkeÄŸe sayg? duymak demek, onunla her hakka sahip bir insan gibi, özgür ve yetiÅŸkin bir insan gibi konuÅŸmak demektir, yoksa onu, topraÄŸa ait bir serf gibi, içinde yaÅŸad??? topluluÄŸa ait olan, ba??ml? bir varl?k olarak görmek deÄŸil.

They were all on government scholarships - men and women chosen to lead the countries one day soon across the post-independence horizon towards a new Africa where they would design bridges, run schools, plan towns, drain swamps, build hospitals or, as likely become deskbound bureaucrats.

Do not acept whatever comes. Do not accept whatever goes. You have infinite power. Exercise your choice.

You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks.

Need is not transitive, one may need without oneself being needed.

He leaned down & he said, Michael, I will tell you honestly because you've been honest with me, that what you want is a holy human right, and you shouldn't just give it up. I humored him. I said, What right, Harry? The right to feel the burden of carrying your own life. Just you and your family and your boat. No crutches, no excuses.

If you want to be happy, be happy! No one cares if you're happy or not, so why wait for permission?

The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.

I have been lonely in my life but never when drinking strong coffee, wearing my fleecy slippers, and standing in my own kitchen.

My father quoted everyone, from Shakespeare to Emerson, on the subject of destiny, and then he'd point out that except for the Greeks, everyone agreed: The stars do fuck-all for us; you must make your own way.

She didn't believe, ever, that Jesus was going to deliver her to anything, anywhere. She said she absolutely did not believe that after two thousand years a white man was going to come back from his own lynching to help out Clara Williams or take her hand or be her friend.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.) The country had a leader. Hired girls had

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.)