Independent Quotes

Maybe I can learn to live in a way that makes it worth writing about, and maybe I can actually become something more than this empty shell.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.

~ Bruce Robinson

I don't need anybody to handle my problems, only I am capable of solving them my self.

~ Britany Lopez

I seen women take this kind a' help from a man with a look a' relief on their faces. I wondered if these women knew how much easier their lives would be if they did all this stuff for themselves.

~ Beth Lewis

To be successfully independent, you must view life as if all of your love ones are dead and the world is against you.

~ John Yang Aka Private83

Imagine if you will:At the highly secretive, largely independent, inter-dimensional and (inevitably) clandestine organization called the Time Saving Agency, there is a saying that goes: ‘You can’t break an omelet without first making eggs’. While this may appear to be a rather flippant little idiom, there is – as is usually the case, far more to it than meets the eye.

~ Christina Engela

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.

~ Criss Jami

What would happen to the world without those who do, think, work, produce? Those are the egotists. You don’t think through another’s brain and you don’t work through another’s hands. When you suspend your faculty of independent judgment, you suspend consciousness. To stop consciousness is to stop life.

~ Ayn Rand

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 probably not only strong, but also daring beyond measure. He enters into a labyrinth, he multiplies a thousandfold the dangers which life in itself already brings with it; not the least of which is that no one can see how and where he loses his way, becomes isolated, and is torn piecemeal by some minotaur of conscience. Supposing such a one comes to grief, it is so far from the comprehension of men that they neither feel it, nor sympathize with it. And he cannot any longer go back! He cannot even go back again to the sympathy of men!

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The history of Kurdistan doesn’t just tell us why it hasn’t become independent so far. It also helps to make the case for Kurdistan’s independence. It is a desire founded, not just on some passing modern whim in that direction, or on spurious claims to natural and obvious borders, but on a sustained historical focus and desire by its people, on pre-existing promises, on the need for protection from the kind of atrocities that have historically been perpetrated against the Kurds, and on the rather artificial way in which Kurdistan has been denied its existence in the past.

~ Davan Yahya Khalil

Notice how they’ll accept anything except a man who stands alone. They recognize him at once...There’s a special, insidious kind of hatred for him. They forgive criminals. They admire dictators. Crime and violence are a tie. A form of mutual dependence. They need ties. They’ve got to force their miserable little personalities on every single person they meet. The independent man kills them—because they don’t exist within him and that’s the only form of existence they know. Notice the malignant kind of resentment against any idea that propounds independence. Notice the malice toward an independent man.

~ Ayn Rand

I'm independent and strong, but sometimes...just sometimes, it's nice to be taken case of. It's nice to be made to feel like a lady

~ Samantha Towle

Some people ask me whether I'm a mama's girl or a papa's girl. I'm *nobody's* girl. My brother clings to our parents; I'm the one shoving them out the door.

~ Hayden Panettiere

I sat with my toes buried in the warm yellow sand staring out towards the back door of The East. Pacific Ocean Blue was playing in the background and it had left me in a state of Bohemia as the waves crashed ashore, roaring as loud as lions.

~ David Louden

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

~ Edgar Fiedler

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

~ Norman Cousins

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

~ Carl Von Clausewitz

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

~ Ferdinand De Saussure

From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by causal relations that are independent of the subject and are placed in objective space and time.

~ Jean Piaget

As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt.

~ John Desmond Bernal

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

~ Susan Sontag

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.

~ Margaret J. Wheatley

A river is a river, independent of whether there are other rivers nearby. In science, we call things what they are based on their attributes, not what they're next to.

~ Alan Stern

The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.

~ James Cash Penney

Nothing is more important to national security and the making and conduct of good policy than timely, accurate, and relevant intelligence. Nothing is more critical to accurate and relevant intelligence than independent analysis.

~ Dennis C. Blair

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

~ Harold Pinter

The world is independent of my will.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

~ James Madison

In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges.

~ Andrew Jackson

In 1995, Russia virtually gave Chechnya de facto statehood and independence even though, de jure, it didn't recognize Chechnya as an independent state. And I would like to emphasize strongly that Russia withdrew all of its troops, we moved the prosecutors, we moved all the police, dismantled all the courts, completely, 100 percent.

~ Vladimir Putin

I want there to be another independence referendum at some stage. I want Scotland to be independent, but I wouldn't choose to have it happen because England votes to come out of the E.U.

~ Nicola Sturgeon

There's no such thing as an independent person.

~ Peter Jennings

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

~ William Cobbett

The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.

~ Kwame Nkrumah

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.

~ Maggie Gyllenhaal

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.

~ Carol P. Christ

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.

~ Louise Slaughter

There is something very independent about French balloons - you feel you couldn't make a pet of one.

~ Elizabeth Bibesco

I'm no one's pet, and I intend to be an independent voice in the U.S. Senate.

~ Chris Coons

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

~ Robert M. Pirsig