Quotes About Autonomy

You should tell her how nice her outfit is because her outfit is her choice whereas her face isn't.

I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love.

And I could feel what he felt on the night when he realize that if he didn't leave, it would never be his life. It would be theirs.

I would die for you. But I won't live for you.

I would die for you. But I won't live for you." Something

I don't want to be just another thing mary elizabeth is in charge of

I would die for you. But I won't live for you." Something like that. I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people.

So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't we have the power to choose where we come from, we can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.

Abortions, gay marriage, legalized pot, all of that should be decided by the states. Whatever happened to the governmental powers reserved to the states? Let's declare ourselves independent, give the people of Oklahoma the right to decide which laws they want to live under, and tell Barry Soetoro where to go and what to do to himself when he gets there.

I have the power to choose my response.

Then Marshall leaned forward—Eisenhower recalled years later that he had "an eye that seemed to me awfully cold"—and declared, "Eisenhower, the Department is filled with able men who analyze their problems well but feel compelled always to bring them to me for final solution. I must have assistants who will solve their own problems and tell me later what they have done.

I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.

It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's.

My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.

Kill if you will, but command me nothing!

You don't have to live this way if you don't want to. You CAN, of course... but you don't have to.

No community is easier to govern than one that rejects the very concept of community.

I think we mostly live alone. By choice, like him, or just because that's the way the world was made.

A book can not control you when you are the writter.

Break the lockup of thoughts and live free.

No one has the ability to define who you are unless you give permission.

Another person's thoughts about you are outside of your jurisdiction

But I was done trying to wake her up, to make her see. To save her. The only person I could save was myself.

If you remain dependent on your parents all your life, do not carry a wrong pretence that you are even born.