#independent

I've directed independent film. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#film #i #independent #independent film

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#cease #colonies #independent

I know something about how to build constituencies in an independent way. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#build #constituencies #how #i #independent

For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources. ↗

— Michael Rostovtzeff

#historical #illustrations #importance #independent #information

Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise. ↗

— William Whewell

#combined #consequence #constantly #constitution #exercise

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#bored #happiness #himself #independent #life

Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way. (Closing statement of the debate with William Dembski at Prestonwood Baptist Church, Plano, Texas, November 18, 2010) ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#critical-thinking #independent-thought #truth #wisdom #beauty

The open road is the school of doubt in which man learns faith in man. ↗

— Pico Iyer

#travel-essays #faith

You must have faith in yourself before you have faith in anyone else. ↗

— Ronnie Riggar

#inspirational #faith

Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I could burst forth and fly away and find my home. ↗

— Emme Rollins

#butterfly #chrysalis #dependence #dependency #dependency-growth