Quotes About Independence

I hope you make those decisions because you feel they are the right thing to do, not because of peer pressure or because you're trying to fit in.

For better or for worse—and too often it is for worse for so many of us—adulthood had arrived, whether I wanted it to or not.

Come the fall, I would be leaving for college and my mother would lose her little boy, and I would lose the person who had always been there for me, my fiercest advocate since the day I'd been born.

I'm just telling you that if you go and live alone on an island you won't find any answers. You'll just find yourself alone. Don't go to that island.

It was the conundrum of every parent with a boy becoming a young man—loving your child enough to let him make his own decisions and his own mistakes, and not stepping in to rescue him.

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die," he mumbled, through mashed lips. "But I'd like a flagon of wine.

When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die," he mumbled, through mashed lips. "But I'd like a flagon of wine. Conan- Rogues in the House

It's the loneliest feeling in the world-to find yourself standing up when everybody else is sitting down. To have everybody look at you and say, 'What's the matter with him?' I know. I know what it feels like. Walking down an empty street, listening to the sound of your own footsteps. Shutters closed, blinds drawn, doors locked against you. And you aren't sure whether you're walking toward something, or if you're just walking away.

I am A man, not a sponge! If god wished a sponge to think, A SPONGE WOULD THINK!

As the increasing number of Americans attempting to do business in China are discovering, the Chinese may move, but not in direct response to demands or on someone else's timetable. In the twenty-first century, China will be a formidable and staunchly independent force.

She was no pushover. That was for sure. She was strong, opinionated, easy to underestimate and misunderstand. She had her own ideas about duty and honor and she kept to her principles even with a gun at her back.

If Judaism was going to survive, the rabbis would have to take their religion into their own hands and shape it so that it could deal with the reality of exile. The same sense of independence helps explain why the rabbis adopted a high degree of tolerance for each other's opinions on the meaning of God's laws. If the rabbis could argue with God, as they sometimes did, they could certainly argue with other rabbis.

Let no man write my epitaph…. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then and not till then, let my epitaph be written.

A los árabes les prometieron independencia a cambio de una alianza árabe contra los turcos. A los judíos, lord Balfour les prometió el apoyo británico a una nación judía en la Palestina de mayoría árabe. Debido a estas traiciones hach Amin se convirtió en un nacionalista árabe y en un opositor inflexible a la inmigración judía hacia Palestina.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

All those who try to go it sole alone,Too proud to be beholden for relief,Are absolutely sure to come to grief.

The only certain freedom's in departure.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

Do not follow where the path may lead...Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Freedom lies in being bold.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.