Independence Trait Quotes & Sayings

I believe any time you have the courage to stand for what is right, especially in situations where no one else is willing to do so, you are creating a holy place. — Ann M. Dibb

Give yourself wherever you can, whenever you can. You will have more to give and share again and again. — Debasish Mridha

I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon. — Philip Pullman

What your soul needs is a check up. — Henry R Brandt

Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly independence of thought, that often distinguished Americans in earlier times and that is invariably the preeminent trait of great characters wherever it exists. — Alexis De Tocqueville

There were fat cats and skinny cats. The long-tailed and the bobbed. The daring young leapers, and the old windowsill sleepers. Balls of waddling fluff, smooth-coated prowlers, and hairless ones that looked fragile and wise. The tiger-striped, the ring-tailed, and the ones with matching coloured socks and mittens. There were tabbies and calicos. Manx and Persians. Siamese and Bombay. Ragdolls and Birmans. Maine Coons and Russian Blues. There were Snowshoes and Somalis, Tonkinese and Turkish, and many, many more. Brown and beige and orange and grey and black and white and silver cats, each with gleaming eyes of emerald, or sapphire, or amber. A rainbow of precious stones. — Brooke Burgess

The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large. — Martin Van Buren

I loved a man who had opened up a world to me but hadn't loved me enough to stay in it. — Jojo Moyes

I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind. — Andrew Dickson White

The growing professional disciplines of medical ethics and bioethics have had a profound impact on researchers, bedside doctors, associations of physicians, and government. — Sherwin B. Nuland

Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience. — William Adams