Quotes About Independence

God was alone when He made His decrees, and His determinations were influenced by no external cause. He was free to decree or not to decree, and to decree one thing and not another. This liberty we must ascribe to Him who is Supreme, Independent, and Sovereign in all His doings.

Were it in anywise possible for something to occur apart from either the direct agency or permission of God, then that something would be independent of Him, and He would at once cease to be Supreme. Now

When, that evening, Vatanen slowly ski'd back from Vittumainen Ghyll to Laahkima Gorge, accompanied by his hare, he no longer thought about Kaartinen's strange world. There was a half-moon, and the stars were glimmering faintly in the frozen evening. He had his own world, this one, and it was fine to be here, living alone in one's own way. The hare ambled silently along the trail ahead of the skier, like a pathfinder. Vatanen sang to it.

Før avreisen advarte obersten alle mot å forsøke å begå selvmord mens han var borte. Og ingen måtte dra til Nordkapp på egen hånd. Obersten sa at han begynte å få nok av selvtektstendensene i gruppa.

He had his own world, this one, and it was fine to be here, living alone, in his own way. The hare ambled silently along the trail ahead of the skier, like a pathfinder. Vatanen sang to it.

The work was heavy, but Vatanen liked that. He knew he was getting stronger, and he wasn't weighed down by the thought of having to do this work till the end of his life.

Creo que en el mundo de hoy la única libertad posible es la indiferencia. Por eso seguiré viviendo con mi sable y mi caballo.

Que a perro flaco todo son pulgas, y los españoles no necesitamos a nadie para arruinarnos, pues siempre dominamos bien sobrados el finibusterre de hacerlo solos

Paco Montegrifo was the sort of man who decides, as soon as he's old enough to make such decisions, that black socks are strictly for chauffeurs and waiters and opts instead for socks of only the darkest navy blue.

Flowers just keep growing, detached and sure of themselves, she had once said,. We're the fragile ones.

Quien sólo se interesa por los libros no necesita a nadie, y eso me da miedo —

Lo hermoso es enseñar a volar a un gorrioncillo, porque en su libertad va implícita tu renuncia...

Houve um tempo em que havia homens livres. Havia desertos, estepes, bosques, campos, lugares onde o ser humano podia ser dono de si mesmo. Hoje, a televisão por satélite, o telemóvel, as telecomunicações, a Internet, mataram o homem livre. -- Entrevista ao Expresso, publicada em 29/01/2021 na Edição nº 2518 da Revista

el principio es cierto: la debilidad sienta bien a una mujer, y nosotras lo sabemos. Nos interesa parecer delicadas y necesitadas del hombre.

Es poco lo que se teme cuando es poco lo que se espera, más allá de una misma. Cuando, en caso necesario, la vida cabe en una maleta con la que poder alejarse de cualquier paisaje sin necesidad de mirar atrás.

Siempre fuiste de esos que creen saber cuándo llegará el momento de dejar de beber, dejar a una mujer o dejar la vida...

el nacionalismo catalán jugaba fuerte para conseguir una autonomía propia (la primera pitada al himno nacional tuvo lugar en 1925 en el campo del F. C. Barcelona, con el resultado inmediato —eran tiempos de menos mamoneo y paños calientes que ahora— del cierre temporal del estadio).

MIRANDA: No quiero el amarillo de España. Quiero la independencia de mi tierra. A nadie traiciono. Quiero la independencia de mi tierra. Tengo que salir. Tengo que vivir. Me llaman muchos.

When you hear her say, 'What else can an old woman do on hills as wretched as these?' You look right at the sky, Clear through the bullet holes she has for eyes. And you look on the cracks that begin around her eyes spread beyond her skin And the hills crack. And the temples crack. And the sky falls with a plateglass clatter around the shatter proof crone who stands alone. And you are reduced to so much small change in her hand.

I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.

The best thing a teacher can do is to transform the student into his own teacher. So that the student in the end only needs his teacher for a second opinion.

Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.

When I was 15, I worked at a dry cleaner because I wanted Abercrombie & Fitch jeans. My mom told me I could have $20 jeans, not $70 jeans, unless I was willing to work for them. So I did!

I'm lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And that's important because I want to know that I don't have to take an acting job for two or three years if I don't want to and that I'll still be able to make my house and car payments and buy food for my dogs.