Quotes About Independence

She hated walls. For her, they had always been the jaws of a trap. Ferro frowned at the bed. She hated beds, and couches, and cushions. Soft things make you soft, and she did not need them.

You should get married." "So I can be ordered around by some idiot? Thank you, no." "Then don't marry an idiot. Marry a rich man who likes men. At least you'll have that in common.

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise up!

Help was for the weak, and the weak die, or are made slaves. Never hope for help and you can never be disappointed when it does not come.

The one thing she hated worse than being fussed over was being ignored.

If you're waiting for someone to make the world just right for you so you can succeed, you're on the road to nowhere.

I put the Fifth of November and the Fourth of July to shame. Who needs Roman candles when you've got me?

The girl worked the clutch and the gas and the brake expertly with her right foot, just as her father had taught her.

Ten pojeb chce, ?eby ka?dy dzie? by? Bo?ym Narodzeniem, ale ja mu, kurwa, urz?dz? Dzie? Niepodleg?o?ci.

When you had a set of wheels that could take you anywhere, you didn't walk away from it.

I think everybody needs a father of sorts. Somebody that they can talk to or lean on or cry on his shoulder once in a while. And I don't know who that person would be in my brother's case, after my father passed away. There was no one alive that would be an adequate substitute. If he was looking to me for guidance, he didn't see any, and so he went on his own.

America Where a man can say what he thinks, if he isn't afraid of his wife, his boss, his customer, his neighbors, or the government.

I like that. I'm all for being an empowered female badass, but I still need someone to lift heavy things off the top closet shelf.

Just as Churchill stood alone against Hitler's war machine in 1940, it would now be Harry Truman's government standing alone against Stalin's designs on Western Europe seven years later.

If there is one thing I have learned in my lifetime of struggle, it is this: freedom isn't free.

I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.

After more than 25 years of investing professionally and after 9 years of teaching at an Ivy League business school, I am convinced of at least two things: 1. If you really want to "beat the market," most professionals and academics can't help you, and 2. That leaves only one real alternative: You must do it yourself.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

Be the one to stand out in the crowd.

You don't need people's approval. You don't need their validation. The Most High God has approved you. He's the one that matters.

Be secure enough in who you are that you don't live to please people. As long as you're doing what God has put in your heart, you don't need to look to the left or the right. Stay focused on your goals, and God will get you where you're supposed to be.

Be wary of people who play up to your weaknesses as a way to convince you that you need them in your life. They'll try to make you think you're not smart enough on your own. You're not talented enough, and you need them to make up for what you're lacking. Don't believe those lies.

Lo que una persona diga de ti no define quién eres. Su opinión de ti no determina tu dignidad propia. Deja que eso te resbale como si fuera agua sobre el plumaje de un pato. Esa persona tiene todo el derecho a tener una opinión, y tú tienes todo el derecho a pasarla por alto.

If you allow it, people will run your life. They'll tell you what to do, where to go, how to dress, and how to spend your money. It's good to get free from addictions, free from anxiety, and free from depression, but one of the greatest freedoms is to get free from controlling people.