Riley Keough Quotes

You have to live through things. You can't have other people telling you to do that and do this. It's important to live through things.

I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted.

I'm not a control maniac.

Any time I wind up in the lane where you can't quickly turn off of it and it's turning into the freeway, I just start screaming until I'm off of it.

I tasted freedom and I really liked it.

My mom worked late, and I was at home a lot by myself. It was good for my imagination - and bad for it, too.

With a label, pressure is added. Being independent, you don't feel a lot of pressure.

Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.

I always had a very strong sense of independence.

It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.

There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.

Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.

I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient.

A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take risks, for godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - that is the right and privilege of any free American.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

A girl in want of a Leopard still has feet.

I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.

If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders. I must get off him first, that he may pursue his contemplations too.

Iran is independent and independence is not tolerated.

I live in a one bedroom apartment by myself which is cool. I like to have my stuff exactly where I want it, so living alone is good for me.

But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

My parents let me find my way and that's how they supported me the entire way.

Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.'