Overly Independent Quotes

#1. She was wishing Adam was here.
Now wasn't that a scary realization to her inner, overly independent, I-am-woman-who-will-never-need-a-man-so-hear-me-roar, feminine badass self?" ~ Jenna

Jessie Lane

#2. Marshall's crime is to pretend to handle imperfect competition with tools only applicable to perfect competition.

Paul Samuelson

#3. To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.

Billie Burke

#4. Keeping a secret isn't always lying. Sometimes it's the only way to protect the person you love.

Jodi Picoult

#5. One of the greatest tragedies of our time, is this impression that has been created that science and religion have to be at war

Francis Collins

#6. I couldn't get along with the French.

Jerry Della Femina

#7. Fights aren't won in the octagon, they're won in the months leading up to them, in a near-empty gym, in the lost hours of a day, whether I feel like it or not.

Georges St-Pierre

#8. Movies which set out to be 'commercial' usually have an artificial look about them-a certain waxlike quality. They allow for no failure, no moment of mistake.

Nicolas Roeg

#9. Most survivors are cope-aholics, people who cope with whatever is thrown at them without reliance on others. They do not seek sympathy for their pain and feel undeserving if it is offered. They are especially adverse to sympathy from others.

Renee Fredrickson

#10. I'm not a good guitar player.

Adam Jones

#11. If you have enthusiasm, you should thank God for it. If you do not have it, you should get down on your knees and pray for it.

Michelle Moore

#12. Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful; not the graceful, but the fantastic; not the superior in the abstract, but the superior in the worst of all concretes,-the vulgar.

Leigh Hunt

#13. Now is the winter of our discontent.

William Shakespeare

#14. The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.

R. Lee Ermey