Quotes About Independence In Relationships

#1. Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed.

Tiffany Madison

#2. If he survived Roaming Rock, he kept telling himself, death would have lost its sting.

Walter Moers

#3. I need someone who is willing to watch me brave the ocean and then dare me not to drown.

Colleen Hoover

#4. Me! And here in the wild I have you: two halflings, and a host of men at my call, and the Ring of Rings. A pretty stroke of fortune! A chance for Faramir, Captain of Gondor, to show his quality!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#5. West Germany's Briegel hasn't been able to get past anyone yet - that's his trademark.

John Helm

#6. A good relationship does not celebrate dependence; it nurtures the spirit of independence. Fall in love with yourself and commit to your goals, dreams and desires, that's the most important relationship you can be in.

Malti Bhojwani

#7. The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.

Frank Church

#8. Because two people in love don't make a hive mind. Neither should they want to be a hive mind, to think the same, to know the same. It's about being separate and still loving each other, being distinct from each other. One is the violin string one is the bow.

Graham Joyce

#9. I burned by bridges so the devil couldn't follow me.

L.M. Browning

#10. Regardless of whatever "rights" we think we may have, giving the Lord a bad testimony will never be one of them.5

Lennie Spitale

#11. I didn't want to be the woman who gave herself over willingly to the first man to notice her. I didn't want to be the stupid girl in every novel who loved without question and entered relationships that didn't make sense.

Destinee Hardwick

#12. If someone does not expect or is not expected to achieve, then they never will.

Martin Pistorius

#13. The desire for freedom and independence becomes more of an issue for many men in relationships, whereas interdependence and connection become more of an issue for many women.

Deborah Tannen

#14. People will always walk their own road and you cannot drag them onto yours. But, if you happen to wander into the path of a good person, you best take your mask off and shine or I promise, they will just walk on by.

Ava Ayers

#15. When we stop looking for someone to complete us, we find completion in ourselves.

Vironika Tugaleva

#16. I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk.

Criss Jami

#17. I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.

John Slattery

#18. The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues.

Mick Taylor