Quotes About Independence

Q: What is the best thing about being a hundred? A: No peer pressure.

If there was any American value worth adopting, it was a willingness to fight and die for freedom. More

At that moment I walked across the deck and, though many hands tried to hold me back, flung myself into the sea.

What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to piss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time?

We will not be used. We will not let them change us. They think we are property? They are mistaken.

Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.

SEAMUS: It's the civilians that suffer, when there's an ambush they don't know where to run. Shot in the back to save the British Empire. Shot in the breast to save the soul of Ireland. I believe in the freedom of Ireland and that England has no right to be here, but I draw the line when I hear the gunmen blowing about dying for the people when it's the people that are dying for the gunmen. With all due respect to the gunmen, I don't want them to die for me.

You lose more of yourself than you redeem doing the decent thing. Keep at a tangent When they make the circle wide, it's time to swim Out on your own and fill the element with signatures on your own frequency.

I trust contrariness. ... I simply rebelled at being commanded.

Be advised my passport's green. No glass of ours was ever raised to toast the Queen.

The essence of a degree of freedom is that it doesn't depend on anything else.

Time,--the most independent of all things.

I warn't never meant to be a lady, I know that now. I got streaks of wildness in me that trip me up every time, and just like streaks in clothes, there's some dirt that just won't wash out.

For the first time I feel really free.

Most of the time I do feel like I need someone else when I'm alone. But I can still get by with just my own company and that makes me a stronger person.

Leave the dishes unwashed and the demands on your time unanswered. Be ruthless and refuse to do what people ask of you.

In a nutshell-I fear authority but at the same time I resent it-the authority and my own fear. So I rebel.

Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.

If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late.

It's a thanksgiving to God. It's something I have wanted to do for a long time, but the record company wasn't ready for it. So I did it myself.

When you have somebody who takes their craft seriously, you don't have to babysit them and be there all the time.

Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.

I had to be alone for a little while, but I'm okay now." "All right. But next time, don't go where I can't find you.