177 quotes found
“The Phoenix rises in the absence or need of witness.”
“He admired her for throwing off her aristocratic shackles -- his terms, that -- and making her own way in the world.He didn't realize that the truth was so much more complex, so much less impressiv...”
“I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.”
“If she took Po as her husband, she would be making promises about a future she couldn't yet see. For once she became his wife, she would be his forever. And, no matter how much freedom Po gave her,...”
“I don't want to have to save your life,' Chord says softly. 'Not when you can do it.”
“I am self-reliant, I am accountable, I am determined, I am strong, I am...the scarce minority.”
“We have more to fear from the opinions of our friends than the bayonets of our enemies." Politician turned Union General Nathaniel Banks, in plea he couldn't abandon an untenable position.”
“Thinking this is "The One" becomes an excuse to let your own life deteriorate.”
“I once asked her if she got bored living alone, and she said, 'To say one is bored to be alone is to admit that one has no inner resources.”
“I'll play your fucking game. But I don't have to play by your rules.”
“Powerlessness is such a lure, such a poisonous lure.”
“The only guide which I feel that I can follow is not the fluctuating dicta of those who are victors in the battle for popularity at a given moment, but my own understanding of the American traditio...”
“Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.”
“Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.”
“Independence is happiness.”
“The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.”
“Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.”
“I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for himself and God for us all.”
“Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self?”
“Voyager upon life's sea: - To yourself be true And whate'er your lot may be Paddle your own canoe.”
