#depend

I'd rather die my way than live yours. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#lena-holoway #self-determination #self-reliance #die

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not. ↗

— David Seabury

#against #conviction #courage #coward #depends

The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man. ↗

— Norma Shearer

#dead #economic #economic independence #exactly #footing

I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them. ↗

— William Shirley

#dependence #disposition #drawn #eastern #flatter

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#abuse of power #accountable #cannot #ethics #function

During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after World War I it became an independent national entity. ↗

— Georg Solti

#became #components #during #dynasty #empire

Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both. ↗

— Martin Frost

#both #delay #fears #fighters #i

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#attached #depends #love #object #quality

I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income. ↗

— George Stephen

#business #depend #developing #devoted #during

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#dreary #make #morals #wrong #you