Quotes about Independence
No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.
— Mae West
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
— Mae West
I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone. Without men, who'd do up the zipper on the back of your dress?
— Mae West
I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
— Mae West
I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
— Mae West
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
— Mahatma Gandhi
There's nothing in this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
God does not need man nor his won works.
— John Milton
As to my blindness, I would rather have mine, if it be necessary, than either theirs, More or yours.
— John Milton
It therefore behoveth all those who may possibly be called to suffer for the truth in any season, or on any occasion, to assure their minds in this fundamental truth, that they may have in themselves a certain undeceiving understanding of the mind and will of God as revealed in the Scripture, independent on the authority of any church or persons whatsoever; the use of whose ministry herein we do yet freely and fully allow.
— John Owen
I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.
— Lady Gaga
I was too old for my father to (be protective), too young to be flattered.
— Catherine Marshall