Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth Copy Share Image
The government should help and guide the weak and small racial groups within its national boundaries toward self-determination and self-government. It should… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
We are what we are because of the hard work, insights and achievements of countless others. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Our country has suffered from an on-again, off-again energy policy that has failed to get us to energy independence. As President Obama… — Ken Salazar Copy Share Image
According to Adams, Jefferson proposed that he, Adams, do the writing [pf the Declaration of Independence], but that he declined, telling Jefferson… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
“People will always walk their own road and you cannot drag them onto yours. But, if you happen to wander into the… — Ava Ayers Copy Share Image
Declaration of Independence, mankind was divided into nations by ethnicities and tribes. — Chad Wolf Copy Share Image
Every time a colony wants independence, the questions on the agenda are: a) how do you get the imperialists out, and b)… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence is so lucid were afraid of it today. It scares the hell out of every modern bureaucrat, because… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I am an explorer,' she whispered, 'setting courageously off into the wild unknown.' It was not a daydream she'd ever had before,… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
In retrospect, I have come to recognise just how astounding my mother was during our childhood. She kept a woodwork shop and… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The principle that a central bank, charged with controlling inflation, should be independent from the government is unassailable. It may also be… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie… — Joyce Stranger Copy Share Image
One by one, drops fell from my eyes like they were on an assembly line - gather, fall, slide...gather, fall, slide...each one… — Lisi Harrison Copy Share Image
The Arabs were Germany's natural friends...They were therefore prepared to cooperate with Germany with all their hearts and stood ready to participate… — Haj Amin al-Husseini Copy Share Image
Whatever we do toward energy independence has to be done in the context of using less resources. — Alan Mulally Copy Share Image
Today, on this day of possibility, we stand in the shadow of a lanky, raw-boned man with little formal education who once… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In the late afternoons and early evenings, the crowd is easily over 1 million. That many people simply can't fit in Independence… — Bob Schaffer Copy Share Image
The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
