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" There are a few people who are, let's say, personality-challenged, who would like to set up a cult, but in large part they fail due to the innate stroppiness and independence of their fellow pagans. "

Liz Williams

People

Independence

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" I am so old-fashioned. I've never lived with a man. I am completely about the independence of paying my own rent. "

" A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy. "

" It's one of the things I respect about Time Warner and Turner: their understanding of CNN's independence. "

" If the world market believed that we were serious about energy independence and we were going to utilize all of our own existing resources, the speculators would stop speculating up they start speculating down as we get our own oil out of the ground. "

" When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit. "

" Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels. "

Natalie Massenet

Work

Life

" Without U.S. independence, North America would have remained a rural, non-industrial breadbasket. Blessed as it was with natural resources, agrarian North America would have supplied cotton and beef and lumber to industrial Britain. America would thus be more like Australia - a nice enough place to live, but no kind of world power. "

" The Labor party under my leadership is working to bring the Israeli people together from all nationalities in the spirit of the scroll of independence. "

" In America we tell our parents to bring their child home and put him or her in a crib; as they get older, children sleep in they own room not in Mom and Dad's room. What are we training them for? It's independence, because that's what being empowered is all about. "

" The world is independent of my will. "

" The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years. "

" I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence. "

" What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment. "

John Marshall

Judges

Independence

" A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence. "

" Scotland forms a crucial part of our Armed Forces which should not be jeopardised by rushed cuts or a rush to the exit from the U.K. Defence jobs are vital to the Scottish economy and yet independence puts thousands of jobs at risk. "

" In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges. "

Andrew Jackson

Independence

Good

" The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence. "

" The idea of the Songun revolution is an idea of giving importance and precedence to military affairs in implementing the masses' cause of independence, the socialist cause, and pushing ahead with the overall revolution and construction with the revolutionary army as the core force. "

" Fidel Castro represents the dignity of the South American continent against empires. He's a living legend: an icon of independence and freedom across the continent. "

" I will be vigilant to protect the independence and integrity of the Supreme Court, and I will work to ensure that it upholds the rule of law and safeguards those liberties that make this land one of endless possibilities for all Americans. "

" The independence once represented by the car has been replaced by cell phones and social networks, which are now at the forefront of people's expression of freedom and access. Once a symbol of 'coming of age,' many drivers are waiting longer to get their licenses. "

" We cannot forget that our flag received its first foreign salute from a Dutch officer, nor that the Province of Friesland gave to our independence its first formal recognition. "

" For me, spiritual practice is a lot closer to art than science. "

Liz Williams

Spiritual

Art

" I try really hard to give my kids as much independence as I can, caring mostly about their character: Are they kind? Generous? Do they work hard? "

" A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away. "

" The Arab Spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it. "

Kofi Annan

Spring

Process

" Work to me has become kind of a hobby. I was a part of something that gave me financial independence and the rent is paid. Now it's just about projects that turn me on. "

Matt LeBlanc

Independence

Work

" Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office. "

" A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness. "

" My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960. "