Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emmeline Pankhurst

I want to say to you who think women cannot succeed, we have brought the government of England to this position, that it has to face this alternative: either women are to be killed or women are to have the vote

James Cook

Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

James Cash Penney

The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.

James Black

Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prototype. They trusted themselves.

Henry Rollins

I have watched independent record stores evaporate all over America and Europe. That's why I go into as many as I can and buy records whenever possible. If we lose the independent record store, we lose big. Every time you buy your records at one of these places, it's a blow to the empire.

Henry Rollins

I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza.

Heather Wilson

I've got a bit of an independent streak. I'm not afraid of bipartisan compromise on issues that are important to the nation.

Henry David Thoreau

There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.

Henry Ford

If you hope to be independent when there is money, you'll never reach it. On this world, humans can only safely have the knowledge, experience and ability

Mary Tyler Moore

There are certain things about me that I will never tell to anyone because I am a very private person. But basically, what you see is who I am. I'm independent, I do like to be liked, I do look for the good side of life and people. I'm positive, I'm disciplined, I like my life in order, and I'm neat as a pin.

Patricia Clarkson

The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.

Patricia Heaton

I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security

Plautus

Confidence begets confidence. Courage, an independent spark from heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone. Courage in danger is half the battle.

Ledisi

So in every sense, from an independent artist to a major label artist, you just have to have great product, great faith and great people, they all go together.

Lech Walesa

What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.

James K. Polk

There are four great measures for my administration - a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and acquisition of California.

Leslie White

The technology is the independent variable, the social system the dependent variable. Social, systems are therefore determined by systems of technology; as the latter change, so do the former.

Friedrich August von Hayek

It is because every individual knows little and, in particular, because we rarely know which of us knows best best that we trust the independent and competitive efforts of many to induce the emergence of what we shall want when we see it.

Friedrich August von Hayek

It is not difficult to deprive the great majority of independent thought. But the minority who will retain an inclination to criticize must also be silenced....Public criticism or even expressions of doubt must be suppressed because they tend to weaken pubic support....When the doubt or fear expressed concerns not the success of a particular enterprise but of the whole social plan, it must be treated even more as sabotage.

Friedrich August von Hayek

The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. The ideal of democracy rests on the belief that the view which will direct government emerges from an independent and spontaneous process. It requires, therefore, the existence of a large sphere independent of majority control in which the opinions of the individuals are formed.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Discipline provides a constancy which is independent of what kind of day you had yesterday and what kind of day you anticipate today.

Lynn Shelton

I'd always wanted to work in television once I found out that they started to hire independent filmmakers to direct.

Luc de Clapiers

In order to protect himself from force, man was obliged to submit to justice. Justice or force: he was compelled to choose between the two masters, so little are we made to be independent.

Sherry Argov

The more independent you are of him, the more interested he will be.

Nicolas Cage

I came out of independent film, that's my roots.

Nicolas Cage

I came out of independent film, that's my roots. I used my independent film as a laboratory, and used what I could discover in that laboratory.

Nicolas Cage

I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent.

Nick Stahl

Sometimes you find that there is better material in small and more independent movies. There's more risk-taking.

Niels Bohr

Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying human experience. In this respect our task must be to account for such experience in a manner independent of individual subjective judgement and therefore objective in the sense that it can be unambiguously communicated in ordinary human language.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It is much harder to become independent if you are wealthy than to become wealthy if you are independent.