Independency Quotes

#1. True love transcends the unworthy object, and dwells and broods on the eternal, and when the poor interposed mask crumbles, it is not sad, but feels rid of so much earth, and feels its independency the surer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.

Adam Smith

#3. Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others.

Sir Fulke Greville

#4. I resolved to make a very rigid frugality supply my deficiency of fortune, to maintain unimpaired my independency, and to regard every object as contemptible except the improvement of my talents in literature.

David Hume

#5. Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

Benjamin Franklin

#6. It has been great portraying Gollum, but it will be great to see my face on screen for a change.

Andy Serkis

#7. Love is priceless,
but the righteous give it for free.
Hate is cheap,
but the wicked purchase it at high prices.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. The sound of pencils taking notes provided a low scrape and hum, almost like radio interference.

Sara Sheridan

#9. The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.

Rem Koolhaas

#10. I wasn't an alcoholic. I didn't drink every day, didn't often drink to excess or binge. And could leave it alone completely for large swaths of time. But I did drink to be social. To have fun with friends. Sometimes, to sleep. Sometimes, to forget.

Ellen Hopkins

#11. An independent attitude is only possible
when you are dependent.
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion of Blue Circle
September 28, 2016

Petra Hermans

#12. Other than motherhood, the eight years that I spent at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I have incredibly fond memories of. It's a beautiful place, with four seasons up in Wisconsin. And really wonderful people.

Laurel Clark

#13. Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

Nikola Tesla

#14. It must be remembered that even though the ego is the individual's inaccurate concept of him- or herself, it seems to be what the person is.

Fritz Kunkel

#15. Tell Daddy to turn off the broccoli! It's probably burned!" Casey shouts something back, maybe that the kitchen cabinets are on fire, but Yvette backs out onto the road and drives off.

Eva Pohler

#16. They say to just write about what's happening in your backyard because that's where you find the most creativity. It's in the DNA of the show. There's no question.

Mitchell Hurwitz

#17. Drawing is a form of probing. And the first generic impulse to draw derives from the human need to search, to plot points, to place things and to place oneself.

John Berger