Quotes About Autonomy

You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get there. Raspberry Jam

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish. It is the simplest thing in the world to decide what you want to do – or, rather, what you don't want to do – and just to act on that.

Fortunately, common sense asserted itself and I vowed that I should never wait for anyone again.

You have no idea how promising the world begins to looks once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish. It is the simplest thing in the world to decide what you want to do - or, rather, what you don't want to do - and just to act on that.

Dorothy is th cool type of temperament who quite frequently thinks that two is a crowd.

To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.

I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.

If there's one thing I've learned in all this, it's that you have to stand up for yourself. Nobody else is going to do it for you, least of all the people you ought to be able to depend on." - Ann B. Ross, Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind

We're not the sort of couple who lives in each other's pockets. We live our own lives. It means we have something to say to each other when we finally get together.

I've not hidden and I'll never hide the fact that I want Scotland to be an independent country. But as long as we're part of the Westminster system, it's really important to people in Scotland that we get good decisions coming out of Westminster. So we've got a vested interest in being a constructive participant.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

At this point, I just do whatever... I want, to my detriment.

I was an only child so, at home, I'm turnt up by myself, doing whatever I wanna do.

Whatever I do, I do it because I want to do it and because it's completely, 100% me.

Now I do whatever I want.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.' Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be, and that's not for me to do for him. Or vice versa.

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

I get on all right with my parents. But I don't see them very much. They split up when I was eight. I stayed with my mum, but I felt it was a bit soft with her. I could do whatever I liked, and I wasn't getting nowhere, so I went to stay with my dad.

I live my life exactly the way I want to. Nothing stops me from going out or being anywhere that I want to be. I am doing whatever I want to do. I do not live my life according to any restrictions whatsoever!

I like to call myself a voluntaryist. That means that I think that all human interaction should be on a voluntary basis. And that nobody should be able to use force or fraud in any human interaction whatsoever.