Quotes about Independence
companionship thrives only when each individual remembers his individuality and does not identify himself with others.
- Carl Jung
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
- George Bernard Shaw
How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.
- Isabel Allende
So firm did Nivea's determination become that she wrote in her diary that she would give up marriage in order to devote herself completely to the struggle for women's suffrage. She was not aware that such a sacrifice would not be necessary, and that she would marry a man for love who would back her up in her political goals.
- Isabel Allende
She owed no one an explanation; if she had made mistakes she had been duly punished by giving up her family, suffering in the hold of the ship, losing her baby, and facing a future of total uncertainty.
- Isabel Allende
Chile with the purpose of finding her lover and becoming his slave forever, believing that was the way to extinguish her thirst to submit and her hidden wish for possession, but now she doubted that she could give up those new wings beginning to sprout on her shoulders.
- Isabel Allende
Exert some independence; you're not a little girl. You can't let anyone else decide things for you. You have to take care of yourself in this world," she said.
- Isabel Allende
Tell Larry I'm not going to the reception, and that he can't count on me for anything for the rest of my life.
- Isabel Allende
There's a difference between being old and being ancient. It doesn't have to do with age, but physical and mental health," Cathy explained. "Those who are old can remain independent, but those who are ancient need help and supervision; there comes a moment when they're like children again.
- Isabel Allende
They all agreed that under communism they had been just as poor, but at least there was food and security, whereas independence had brought them only ruin and abandonment.
- Isabel Allende
I'm a Zionist who believes that every person has to have a country of their own.
- Ruth Westheimer
In a zombie apocalypse movie, nobody's ever seen a zombie movie. Or in an alien invasion movie, nobody has ever seen an alien invasion movie, like 'Independence Day.'
- Ernest Cline