Don't be ridiculous, please.' The most insulting words in the world! - L M Montgomery Behind the fury, he was tired. He was tired of being hauled around and shoved into a little room. He was tired of trying for me and failing. And to have Minias know it, to be carted off under his leash...It was almost insulting. Maybe, if I gave Al a night of peace to lick his wounds and his pride, he would grant that same courtesy to me? - Kim Harrison I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation. - Dustin Hoffman

The sight of a sullen teenager is common no matter where you go. Teenagers want things so powerfully and can never seen to get them, and to add insult to injury, people make light of your feelings because you are a teenager. They say time will mend a broken heart and they're often right. But not where my feelings for Hardy were concerned. - Lisa Kleypas I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge. - Robert Purvis To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury. - Benjamin Tucker

In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves. - Aberjhani One of the characteristics that laymen find most odd about zoologists is their insatiable enthusiasm for animal droppings. I can understand, of course, that the droppings yield a great deal of information about the habits and diets of the animals concerned, but nothing quite explains the sheer glee that the actual objects seem to inspire. - Douglas Adams Just the same way I'd say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention. - Rick Allen I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future. - Tadao Ando Why is man man? As longas we ha...

In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves. - Aberjhani It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than to achieve themselves. Indirectly, by means of tact and a spotless name, a lady could accomplish much. But if she rushed into the fray herself she would be first censured, then despised, and finally ignored. - E M Forster First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to he...

Why is man man? As longas we have had minds to think with, stars to ponder upon, dreams to disturb us, curiosity to inspire us, hours free for meditation, words to place our thoughts in order, the question like a restless ghost has prowled the cellars of our consciousness. - Robert Ardrey Why is man man? As long as we have had minds to think with, stars to ponder upon, dreams to disturb us, curiosity to inspire us, hours free for meditation, words to place our thoughts in order, the question like a restless ghost has prowled the cellars of our consciousness. - Robert Ardrey Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out. - Oscar Wilde There is psychological pleasure in this takeoff, too, for the swiftness of the plane's ascent is an exemplary symbol of transformation. The display of power can inspire us to imagine analogous, decisive shifts in our own lives, to imagine that we, too, might on...

I think it's important for fans to know that but if I'm doing something that inspires me musically then I think it will inspire someone else too. - Chris Cornell I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop. - Christopher Darden The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative. - Joseph Gordonlevitt Today is not just another ordinary day. It is an opportunity to do, or say, something that just might inspire someone to greater becoming...especially a wayward youth. - T F Hodge If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good. - Parminder Nagra

In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves. - Aberjhani If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. - John Quincy Adams When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves. - Steve Maraboli It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than to achieve themselves. Indirectly, by means of tact and a spotless name, a lady could accomplish much. But if she rushed into the fray herself she would be first censured, then despised, and finally ignored. - E M Forster First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and g...

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate. - Harvey Fierstein I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential. - Denise Morrison

The definition of insanity is to do the something over and over again and expect a different outcome. - Albert Einstein Do you know what Albert Einstein's definition of insanity was?" "No." "Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. - Christian Cantrell I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tenancy to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results. - Stephen F Lynch

Reality is always controlled by the people who are the most insane. - Scott Adams I have never said this to anyone before." Leo's voice was like ragged velvet. "But the idea of you with child is the most insanely arousing thing I've ever imagined. Your belly all swollen, your breasts heavy, the funny little way you would walk ... I would worship you. I would take care of your every need. And everyone would know that I'd made you that way, that you belonged to me. - Lisa Kleypas I like men who are very cool but who are also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits - men who would be flipping burgers if they hadn't found an outlet for their brilliant mind-sets. - Jolene Blalock When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously unti...

Surely my macking on some guy in an insane asylum wouldn't hurt him. He'd been living with his stalker, for heaven's sake. - Darynda Jones I, myself, spent 9 years in an insane asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies, but I know that every conversation I had with a psychiatrist during the morning visit made me long to hang myself because I was aware that I could not slit his throat. - Antonin Artaud I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. - Antonin Artaud Earth is the insane asylum of the universe. - Albert Einstein If there's life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe's insane asylum. - Voltaire Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to l...

Oh, I still want to strangle you. But I'm insane. You're crazy. Maybe that's why. We just make crazy together. - Jennifer L Armentrout Daemon pressed his forehead against mine. Oh, I still want to strangle you. But I'm insane. You're crazy. Maybe that's why. We just make crazy together. - Jennifer L Armentrout But I'm insane. You're crazy. Maybe that's why. We just make crazy together. - Jennifer L Armentrout Who says I'm insane?" "Oh you're sane alright. You're so sane, you scare me. You're so sane, it's insane. - Neal Shusterman I'm insane, not forgetful. - Rachel Caine I'm insanely optimistic. For odd, weird reasons, things always work out. - Richard Jefferson I think about you much more than any self-respecting man would like to admit, and I'm insanely jealous of Tucker - something I never thought I'd say. Moving on after you is impossible. No other girl can keep me on my toes the way you can. ...

Not only will you sleep with me, but you will say 'please.'" I stared at him, shocked. The smile widened. "You will say 'please' before and 'thank you' after." Nervous laughter bubbled up. "You've gone insane. All that peroxide in your hair finally did your brain in, Goldilocks. - Ilona Andrews I could feel the blood draining from my face again as I saw him standing there. He was a hallucination. I had gone insane! "That's very thoughtful of you," the nurse responded to David's comment. "You see him too?" I sat agape. - Nely Cab This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Marsthey would think the country has gone insane. - Noam Chomsky The whole family is a bunch of dangerous freaks...Most are ex-cons or junkies or deranged from inbreeding. Five have died violently, three are back in prison, two have gone insane from untreated venereal disease, and one writes book reviews....

The world going insane and evil letting slip the birds of war is no excuse for sloppy vocabulary. - P C Cast I really feel like I'm going insane and want to rip my hair out of my head to cancel out the pain in my heart. - Kristin R Campbell I am going insane. Yes. That is what's happening. Good. Insane. - Suzanne Finnamore I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane. - Waylon Jennings [Jack] checked his watch, then returned to studying her back. damn if she didn't have a nice back, too - smooth, unblemished skin, nicely shaped vertebrae- He pulled himself up short. Nicely shaped vertebrae? Was he going insane? - Sarah Mayberry Maybe you're going insane." Maybe," agreed Kernel. I was joking." I wasn't. - Darren Shan It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to be able to see it. Breathing, waking and sleeping: our liv...

The best men tell you the truth because they think you can take it; the worst men either try to preserve you in some innocent state with their false protection, or are 'brutally honest.' When someone tells, lets you think for yourself, experience your own emotions, he is treating you as a true equal, a friend...And the best men cook for you. - Whitney Otto I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face. - May Sarton

I am an American, Chicago born Chicago, that somber city and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. But a man's character is his fate, says Heraclitus, and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles. - Saul Bellow Time for bed. I held my fist out. One by one, my flock stacked theirs on top, and then we headed up into the trees to sleep the sleep of the innocent. Well, okay, maybe not so innocent. But the sleep of the much less guilty than others, for sure. - James Patterson One of the most fundamental questions people have about defense attorneys is, 'How can you do that? How can you go to bat everyday for a person that you may not know is guilty but you have a pretty good idea that he's not so innocent?' It's a question that defense attorn...

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent. - Ronald Reagan Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries. - Kenzaburo Oe

I'm innocent. I've done nothing. I'm a nice guy. - Coolio I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty. - Puff Daddy You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job. - Richard M Nixon It looks as if I was thinking what you were thinking." "Actually, you weren't. I was really thinking I needed to ask you a question." "What was that?" "Do you think we should ask Goatee Guy how to find the caterer?" I smiled at him innocently as his eyebrows pratically met above his nose. "I am never going to share my pet peeves with you again." - Jennifer Rardin

I am not guilty, I am innocent. - Saddam Hussein I am innocent! But only because the opportunity to partake in an activity that would render me guilty has not presented itself. - Jarod Kintz I am innocent of the blood of this just person; see ye to it. - Pontius Pilate I want you to know that I am innocent - and that I will fight to clear my name. - Martha Stewart

My brother is undoubtedly arrogant," Tyrion Lannister replied. "My father is the soul of avarice, and my sweet sister Cersei lusts for power with every waking breath. I, however, am innocent as a little lamb. Shall I bleat for you? - George R R Martin I am not guilty, I am innocent. - Saddam Hussein I am innocent! But only because the opportunity to partake in an activity that would render me guilty has not presented itself. - Jarod Kintz I am innocent of the blood of this just person; see ye to it. - Pontius Pilate I want you to know that I am innocent - and that I will fight to clear my name. - Martha Stewart

An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty. - Dmx People are entitled to the presumption of innocence. - Barney Frank But I rather thought--I mean, I heard you'd killed Balder the Fair." "I never did," snapped Loki crossly. "Well, no one ever proved I did. What happened to the presumption of innocence? Besides, he was supposed to be invulnerable. Was it my fault that he wasn't? - Joanne Harris This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave. - Dee Dee Myers

Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship. - Bruce Coville Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin. - Eason Jordan Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information. - Ian Mcewan

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. - Oscar Wilde So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information. - George Orwell I am not able, and I do not want, completely to abandon the world-view that I acquired in childhood. So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information. - George Orwell Who knew Lenny was an encyclopedia for useless information? - Simone Elkeles I had to cast out a good many lines, though, before I got what I wanted, and when I landed the fish I did not for a moment suppose it was my fish. But I listened to what I was told out of a constitutional liking for useless information, and I found myself in possession of a very curious story, though,...

Magnus sighed. "Alexander, I've been alive for hundreds of years. I've been with men, been with women - with faeries and warlocks and vampires, and even a djinn or two." He looked sideways at Maryse, who looked mildly horrified. "Too much information? - Cassandra Clare Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information. - Peter Bart Our live set's become increasingly complex recently; we've been doing stuff that's been vastly too much information for most people to deal with and I think it's quite interesting watching how people behave in those situations, under those circumstances. - Sean Booth Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already. - Tucker Carlson Big Jim - Take a good look, pal - this is what incompetency, false hope, and too much informations gets you. They're just unhappy and disappointed now, but...

Don't be one of those who don't want others to be empowered. Share information. Try to make the next person, smarter. - Steve Maraboli I think moms need to share information on a regular, intimate basis. - Susie Bright To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnership of several countries that will share information and samples, but it is important to remember a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere. - Michael Burgess Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding what terrorists might be planning and to prevent their attacks. - Chris Chocola I enjoy what Twitter is because I can really connect with the fans and it's a great way to share information with them and it's also a great way to entertain. I like being able to put a smile on people's faces and letting them know what I'm doing. - Pet...

One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with. - Marshall Mcluhan We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation. - James Gleick In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed. - Patrick Ness What about confusing clutter? Information overload? Doesn't data have to be "boiled down" and "simplified"? These common questions miss the point, for the quantity of detail is an issue completely separate from the difficulty of reading. Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information . - Edward Tufte

One of the characteristics that laymen find most odd about zoologists is their insatiable enthusiasm for animal droppings. I can understand, of course, that the droppings yield a great deal of information about the habits and diets of the animals concerned, but nothing quite explains the sheer glee that the actual objects seem to inspire. - Douglas Adams We proceed in this society of ours on the possibly valid but untrue assumption that the public knows what it wants-- indeed, that it is given sufficient information about what is available to make such a judgment. And then we jump, irresponsibly and absurdly, to the notion that there is a valid relationship between what the public wants and what it should want. - Edward Albee I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking. - Steve Ballmer There's information about everything from poetry to pills, from picture frames ...

Dennis Hutch had stepped up into the top seat when its founder had died of a lethal overdose of brick wall, taken while under the influence of a Ferrari and a bottle of tequila. - Douglas Adams Do It Under the Influence Yourself! That's what we're shooting for! Get drunk and make your dreams come true. - Aziz Ansari Ths visions of the mind have a debt to reality that it is hard to get the mind to pay when it is under the influence of its visions. - Wendell Berry IN PERSIA I SAW that poetry is meant to be set to music & chanted or sung--for one reason alone--because it works. A right combination of image & tune plunges the audience into a hal (something between emotional/aesthetic mood & trance of hyperawareness), outbursts of weeping, fits of dancing--measurable physical response to art. For us the link between poetry & body died with the bardic era--we read under the influence of a cartesian anaesthetic gas. - Hakim Bey When I listen to what I did under th...

Bling is not an indication of riches. It is a product of value-based spending, to enrich the pockets of those outside of ones sphere of influence...the haves' bleeding the have-nots'. - T F Hodge My explanation remains the same: It was an attempt to make the point that anyone who opposed the war can achieve their objective by working within their sphere of influence, whether their political party or community of faith. - James P Moran An artist's sphere of influence is the world. - Carl Maria Von Weber

By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others. - Fredrik Bajer We ought always to try to influence others for good. - L M Montgomery Reformation of the world begins with reformation of self. We cannot hope to influence others in the direction of moral virtue unless we live lives of virtue. The example of our virtuous living will carry a greater influence than will all the preaching, postulating, and theorizing in which we might indulge. We cannot expect to lift others unless we are standing on higher ground. - Gordon B Hinckley

I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children. - Diane Abbott Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot. - Debbie Allen It has to be because unemployment problems in northwest Indiana are similar to those in southeast Chicago. - Richard M Daley Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music. - Georgie Fame While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself. - Roland Gift

It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was an old Indian site. Bu Indians didn't use that kind of buildings and houses. - Helge Ingstad How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken? - Malcolm Lowry I had heard the old Indian legend about the red fern. How a little Indian boy and girl were lost in a blizzard and had frozen to death. In the spring, when they were found, a beautiful red fern had grown up between their two bodies. The story went on to say that only an angel could plant the seeds of a red fern, and that they never died; where one grew, that spot was sacred. - Wilson Rawls Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter. - Andy Rooney

The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations. - Martin Van Buren Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government. - Jim Costa Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population. - Jared Diamond The Statue of Liberty, that frequently malevolent bitch, has an enormous tumor in her gut that has spread to her brain and eyes. With regard to the Native Americans she has Alzheimer's or mad cow disease and can't remember her past, and her blind eyes can't see the terrifying plight of most of the Indian tribes. Meanwhile she blows China and stomps Cuba to death, choosing to forget the Native cultures she has already destroy...

I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful. - Anish Kapoor She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply say I am without adding a this, or a that, without saying I am Indian, Guyanese, English, or anything else in the world. - Sharon Maas

It was lunchtime and I was standing outside by the weird sculpture that was supposed to be an Indian. I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an idiot. - Sherman Alexie I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian, and who happened to write about Indians. - James Welch

Everyone makes their own path, and I must make mine. The Bhagavad Gita - and ancient Indian Yogic text - says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life perfectly. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly. It is mine. - Elizabeth Gilbert The Bhagavad Gitathat ancient Indian Yogic textsays that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly. - Elizabeth Gilbert The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. - Elizabeth Gilbert As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience...

Yes, I know, if the American Indians had enforced such a policy none of us pale-faced honkies would be here. But the Indians were foolish, and divided, and failed to keep our WASP ancestors out. They've regretted it ever since. - Edward Abbey Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience. - Edward Abbey In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people. - H Rap Brown We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the A...

I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc. - Hans Blix Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level. - Norman Borlaug Well, first of all, we now have everybody with the exception of India, Pakistan, and Israel, and I don't think these three countries are going to join by simply providing them an incentive, in terms of technology. - Mohamed Elbaradei You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious prob...

That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty. - Sherman Alexie My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror. - Sherman Alexie Then he asked me to tell him some stories about India, about America, about Italy, about my family. That's when I realized that I am not Ketut Liyer's English teacher, nor am I exactly his theological student, but I am the merest and simplest of pleasures for this old medicine man- I am his company. I'm somebody he can talk to because he enjoys hearing about the world and he hasn't had much of a chance to see it. - Elizabeth Gilbert The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere. - Danny Boyle People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way. - Anita Desai Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a...

Leave home? It's quite a scary thought. I'm not the most independent person and that's the result. When you're always surrounded by people it becomes quite normal. - Rupert Grint I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security. - Patricia Heaton There's no such thing as an independent person. - Peter Jennings The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality. - Herbert Read You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true. - Herbert Read

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. - William Cobbett Whether he loved her or not didn't change how she felt about him. She loved him independent and regardless of whether he loved her. - Sarah Beth Durst I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone. - Adriana Lima Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous. - Thomas Szasz 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

I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent. - Charles Evers So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments. - Uri Geller There's a problem with political polling in that you have so much pressure to do what your client wants you to do and say what your client wants you to say. I've never felt that pressure. I am independent of the political parties. - Frank Luntz I voted against my party with some frequency, because of my independence. I've just got to remind Missourians that I am independent and that I try to call them like I see them, and sometimes my party is wrong on some things. - Claire Mccaskill

Jo's breath gave out here, and wrapping her head in the paper, she bedewed her little story with a few natural tears, for to be independent and earn the praise of those she loved were the dearest wishes of her heart, and this seemed to be the first step toward that happy end. - Louisa May Alcott I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all. - Lauren Bacall To reason with the non-Christian in a fashion purporting to be independent of God or independent of reliance upon revelation is to honor the unregenerate's notions of "evidence" and "verification" as legitimate and correct. However, for the Christian, it is Scripture that governs *every* aspect of his life, even his concept of "evidence" and the way he reasons with skeptics. - Greg L Bahnsen Th...