Best 1663 quotes in «individual quotes» category

God is a spa-bath of water and we are all individual bubbles

God's eternal plan has always been to display his glory not just through individuals but through a corporate body.

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principle of individuation is matter.

Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.

[Gord] Downie has become more animated than the early days, but he's still the same charismatic performer. And as a whole, that band is really the result of each individual member. If one member was not a part of it, it wouldn't be the Hip. They're all crucial to the whole thing.

Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.

Government owes its birth to the necessity of preventing and repressing the injuries which the associated individuals had to fear from one another.

Government will no longer be run on the whims of individuals.

Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.

Guidance is everything, you have to accept that somebody is their own person, an individual.

Guerrilla marketing aims its message at individuals or, if it must be a group, the smaller the group, the better.

Gun control is part and parcel of the ongoing collectivist effort to eviscerate individual sovereignty and replace it with dependence upon and allegiance to the state.

Gym is a center of capitalist breakdown, and everything is focused on the individual.

Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment.

Happiness is not an individual matter. When you are able to bring relief, or bring back the smile to one person, not only that person profits, but you also profit.

Hard as it may appear in individual instances , dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.

Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.

Heaven is living in your hopes and Hell is living in your fears.  It's up to each individual which one he chooses.

Health is not an objective condition which can be understood by the methods of natural science alone. It is rather a condition related to the mental attitude by which the individual has to value what is essential for his life.

His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.

He who wishes to become a master of color must see, feel, and experience each individual color in its endless combinations with all other colors.

Historically, the court has been the forum to which individuals can turn when they believed their constitutional rights were violated. This has been especially noteworthy in the arena of civil rights.

History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.

How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.

Human beings are not like they are portrayed in Hollywood. They are individuals who are a mixture of good and bad.

How do you beat an individual who hasn't been beaten in 13 years? With the help of others.

Human health should now be thought of as a collective property of the human-associate d microbiota, as one group of researchers recently concluded in a landmark review article on microbial ecology - that is, as a function of the community, not the individual.

Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.

Human rights means that each individual should be treated with respect, dignity and equality.

I adore being hitched. It's so extraordinary to discover one unique individual you need to irritate for whatever remains of your life.

I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.

I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn't praise it.

I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

I am amazed by how many individuals mess up every new day with yesterday.

I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes.

I am not a representative of anything. When art historians or critics or the public put somebody in a drawer like this, it has a tranquilizing, paralyzing effect. Artists are individuals. They have ideas, and the conventions for one's self as an individual are not for a group. There are always those who follow the group, but they belong in the margins. I refuse to be placed within, or added to, one particular school.

I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject.

I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

I am for the people of the whole nation doing just as they please in all matters which concern the whole nation; for that of each part doing just as they choose in all matters which concern no other part; and for each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that.

I am pro-life, and I will be appointing pro-life judges, I would think that that will go back to the individual states.

I am portrayed as a dangerous individual who can be fought thanks to their ideas.

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.

I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed; I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold, And I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.

I became an artist because of the possibility it gave me to develop in another way, because I didn't want to follow the same lines the others around me did. I was educated in the former German Democratic Republic, which meant that an individual figure had to be... like a soldier in the army.

I believe my arrival was most welcome, not only to the Commander of the Fleet but almost to every individual in it.