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Quotes About Independence

Pap he hadn't been seen for more than a year, and that was comfortable for me; I didn't want to see him no more. He used to always whale me when he was sober and could get his hands on me; though I used to take to the woods most of the time when he was around.
~ Mark Twain
Non è bello che tutti si debba pensare allo stesso modo, è la differenza di opinioni quella che rende possibili le corse dei cavalli.
~ Mark Twain
Uvjerio sam se, naime, o neoborivoj ?injenici da nijedan narod na svijetu, kraj svih ljubaznih, praznih rije?i, filozofiranja o protivnom, još nikada nije stekao svoju slobodu dobro?udnim brbljanjem i moralnim uvjeravanjem: nepromjenjivi je zakon da sve revolucije koje žele imati uspjeha moraju po?eti u krvi, bez obzira na to što ?e biti poslije.
~ Mark Twain
The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.
~ Mark Twain
Me estoy dando cuenta de que me da igual bañarme si nadie me lo prohíbe.
~ Mark Twain
Kendini çoÄŸunluÄŸun taraf?nda bulduÄŸun an, durup düÅŸünmenin vakti gelmiÅŸ demektir.
~ Mark Twain
Well, everybody does that way, Huck." "Tom, it don't make no difference. I ain't everybody, and I can't stand it. It's awful to be tied up so.
~ Mark Twain
I need to get in line,' I said. 'Should I walk up with you?' 'No,' I said, 'because we'll start this routine all over.' 'What if I want to?' 'I'd like that,' I said. 'But don't.
~ Mark Wallace
Shy from the sky. No answer lies there. It cannot care, especially for what it no longer knows. Treat that place as a thing unto itself, independent of all else, and confront it on those terms. You alone must find the way. No one else can help you. Every way is different. And if you do lose yourself at least take solace in the absolute certainty that you will perish
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be. I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something , till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.
~ Markus Zusak
So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, inside these walls of my life. Other people had their own worlds to worry about, and in the end, they had to fend for themselves, just like us.
~ Markus Zusak
Había una vez un hombre bajito y extraño que decidió tres cosas importantes acerca de su vida: 1. Que se haría la raya del pelo en el lado contrario a todos los demás. 2. Que se dejaría un pequeño y extraño bigote. 3. Que un día dominaría el mundo.
~ Markus Zusak
You should know it yourself- a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.
~ Markus Zusak
The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon.
~ Markus Zusak
See, I was never a guy who had a whole heap of friends to belong to. Besides Greg Fienni, I never really had friends. I kind of stayed on my own. I hated it, but I was proud of it too. Cameron Wolfe needed no one. He didn't need to be amongst a pack. Not all of us roam like that. No, all he needed was his instincts. All he needed was himself.
~ Markus Zusak
I wanted nothing for free. Nothing came for free at our place anyway.
~ Markus Zusak
It was then that he also took the opportunity to say he was sorry that the Hubermann's son had not come home, In response, Papa told him that such things were out of their control. After all, he said, you should know it yourself--a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.
~ Markus Zusak
He was into the skating culture now and I was into, well, I'm not sure what I was into. I was into roaming around on my own, and I enjoyed it.
~ Markus Zusak
he was exercising his God-given right to stupidity.
~ Markus Zusak
After all,' he said, 'you should know it yourself - a young man is still a , and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.
~ Markus Zusak
Sola como estaba, carecía de la disciplina necesaria para mantenerse convenientemente alejada.
~ Markus Zusak
Los jóvenes siguen siendo niños y los niños a veces tienen derecho a ser cabezotas.
~ Markus Zusak
He's the boy who refuses to fear the opposite sex, purely because everyone else embraces that particular fear, and he's the type who is unafraid to make a decision.
~ Markus Zusak
a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn
~ Markus Zusak