Quotes About Independence

Write for yourself and yourself alone. Don't try to please anyone else, and don't be afraid of anyone.

Namque pauci libertatem, pars magna iustos dominos volunt. (Few men desire freedom, the greater part desire just masters.)

Helping your eldest to pick a college is one of the greatest educational experiences of life — for the parents. Next to trying to pick his bride, it's the best way to learn that your authority, if not entirely gone, is slipping fast.

Time is not my dictator," said the Queen Mother. "I dictate to time. I want to meet people.

It is vitally important for women to learn how to think biblically for themselves instead of being enslaved to other people's thoughts and opinions. To truly follow God with everything in our lives, we must learn to develop discernment.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'

El planeta Juniper lo localicé yo solo. Lo encontré en mi cabeza.

Psychologists suggest that when people are no longer in charge of basic elements of a situation (such as where they sit, or when they go to the restroom), they must give over some degree of control that they normally use to define their independence, and thus themselves.

His brows shot up. "You are very frank." She grinned. "It is one of the benefits of choosing spinsterhood.

I smoked, I drank, I skipped classes, I snuck out, I took drugs, I stole quarts of ice cream for my dorm by breaking into the kitchen storerooms, I made out with my boyfriends in the library basement, I hitchhiked into town and down I-91, and when caught, I weaseled out of all of it . . . There is no need to switch on the fog machine of ambiguity around these facts: I was still a problem child.

I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't bother me because I don't know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family.

If everyone approved, there'd be no point to it.

I noticed in the past, a lot of guys who like strong women, they really freak out if you're not strong 24/7. Or they complain about you being strong, then the moment you're not strong, they're like, 'Oh, no, no, no.'

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

All men are born equally free.

I have always been an anarchist and a monarchist.

Oslové by cht?li, abych dodržoval rady, které vyhlašuji pro ostatní. To je nemožné, já jsem totiž zcela odlišný.

He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.

It was strange, Sari thought, that girls' joy in their own freedom was so often the thing that made men want to turn them into wives.

I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.

Freedom is an inside job.

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'