Chrysippus Quotes

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

What someone else does or doesn't do has no effect on me and what I do.

Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.

I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together.

Why can't you and I let the world run itself its own way?

Freedom is not of use to those who do not know how to employ it.

The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

I never concerned myself with other people's decisions.

I think I'm mostly looking forward to the college life. I'm looking forward to more freedom. Here everything is really structured and scheduled, but in college you've got to be more responsible and you can get things done on your own time. I'm really looking forward to that.

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

What is nice about this sport is that I am responsible for most everything.

I lead my life as normal.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

I do what I do; I can't control who thinks what.

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.

If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.

For the most part, I get to do what I want to do. If I want to play poker, I can. If I don't want to play poker, I don't have to.

When you don't have anybody to take care of you, then you could go both ways: You could do whatever you want, or you could take charge and be your own parent.