177 quotes found
“I don't believe in miracles, but if the need is great, a girl might make her own miracle.”
“It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever attempts it, even with the best right, but without being OBLIGED to do so, proves that he is proba...”
“Seek out the company of those who will never ask you to jump," the earth advised.Bertie remembered the rush of feathers as she soared above the audience. "I can catch myself.""Of those whose love w...”
“I'll walk where my own nature would be leading. It vexes me to choose another guide.”
“She did not date. She did not have time for men. Men were never, ever worth a great amount of energy. She was the kind of woman that looked down on what she called settlers, women who chose love an...”
“You are your own refugeThere is no otherYou cannot save anotherYou can only save yourself.”
“I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.”
“she didn't need anyone. At Wheeler, even when she stood out with her pink hair and quilter army-surplus jacket and combat bots, she did this without apology. It was a great irony that the very fact...”
“I don't want to have to earn love by giving up my ability to make decisions that determine how I live.”
“If the light's not in you, you're in the dark.”
“Remember, Montag, we're the happiness boys. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought.”
“We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and national traditions is not legitimate. In ...”
“All my life, I thought I was this independent woman. I was on all the right committees, made speeches for all the right causes, traveled all over the world. I had my little part-time job, I made al...”
“...it was easy to get an incomplete picture of the world if one relied solely on experts, and how important is would be to further rely on oneself”
“Marry me, Lada. It is the perfect solution." Lada laughed. Mehmed's smile grew, until he realized her laugh was not a sweet breeze of delight, but a brutal desert wind carrying stinging sand in its...”
“But so few of us think clearly about our own private incomes, and admit that independent thoughts are in nine cases out of ten the result of independent means.”
“Independence is to have full control of your life to be able to make your own choices and design your destiny.”
“Elinor retreated to the terrace where the night air on her skin felt like a hot bath. She was hurt, it had been such an onslaught. All the things she'd achieved in the past four years, the independ...”
“I guess I've found that I'd rather be alone than with the wrong person.”
“We Kurd must do everything in our power to create structures which prevent the repeat of mass murder by our adversaries,And Its better to call for independence.”
