Best 1663 quotes in «individual quotes» category

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.

It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus.

I've got nothing against any individual American, except that there aren't any. They're always Irish-American, African-American... There's never an American-American you can blame.

I've got to take a bit of a break from science fiction. As much as I've loved this stuff, I'm ready for a different century or a different time period as an actor, as an individual. Something that's, what's the word, something that's not involved with spaceships.

I've got a soft spot for true individuals.

I've got a reason for living. When I wake up, there are individuals who are counting on me to be my best and live my maximum life.

I've never been a cocky individual, but I am very confident.

I've never been an individual guy. I never cared about the accolades. I've always been driven by the competition and the learning process.

I've observed that if individuals who prevail in a highly competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is failure—and their ability to overcome it.

I was not allowed to be an individual. I was black and I was a woman - and I was a black woman.

I wanted individuals who were clearly themselves and I just got to put some clothes on them, but they basically came "done," you know? How they feel comfortable. I just wanted them to walk down the streets of New York and I said, "You know what? Don't even pose, just walk and we'll take pictures.

I want people to do what they want to do because when they feel comfortable it seems to translate better on screen. It is when you put people in a straitjacket that it doesn't seem to translate very well at all. The individuals I work with are usually people I know.

I will support a low, flat tax for businesses and individuals so that we fix the tax base and grow the economy.

I will never surrender the rights of the individual - the complete rights of the individual - to any "ism" whatever.

I would like to be remembered as one of the individuals who founded, ideologically and practically, cognitive behavior therapy and who pioneered multimodal or integrated therapy.

I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female.

I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism.

I would quarrel with both parties, and with every individual of each, before I would subjugate my understanding, or prostitute my tongue or pen to either.

Just because an individual in his 30s hasn't found true love and, yes, there are opportunities to date but it also forces you to be more particular. In so many ways, you become more adamant about finding that right person and not allowing yourself to open up to just anybody.

Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals.

Judgements like "right" and "wrong"; only build barriers and encourage shame within individuals.

Jump off. You are a protected individual. Do not fear.

Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual freedom, so also the individual's freedom to choose his own creed is the counterpart of his right to refrain from accepting the creed established by the majority.

Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.

Keep in mind that your individual vote doesn't mean anything.

Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.

Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships.

Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms 'public health,' 'public good,' 'public welfare,' and the like. It has no legal meaning, except when used to describe the separate, private, individual rights of a greater or less number of individuals.

Learning by example is valid, but when you have the information to know that turning in a certain direction can lead you to a very wrong place, most of the "blame" is on the individual.

Legacy doesn't mean a lot because once you have left, even if you are one of the biggest individual shareholders it only means [a small amount of influence]. But it's something I'm very pleased about.

Laws and systems of polity always begin by recognizing the relations they find already existing between individuals.

Legally speaking, there are no such things as 'public rights,' as distinguished from individual rights. Legally speaking, there is no such creature or thing as 'the public.'

Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right.

Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.

Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.

Liberty, then, is the SOVEREIGNTY OF THE INDIVIDUAL.

Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.

Life is too small a container for certain individuals. Some of them, such as Alobar, huff and puff and try to expand the container. Others, such as Kudra, seek to pry the lid off and hop out.

Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.

Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.

Life is a republic where the individuals are for the most part unconscious that while they are working for themselves they are also working for the public good.

Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured; unless the shadows of individual existence came and went against a background that held together.

Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the deaf.

Looking at the individuals who suffered the most during the hurricane, you could see that those with underlying medical problems were at greater risk.

Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.

Luminosity is a quality dependent as much on technique as on the physical properties of individual pigments.

Love descends upon our souls by the will of God and not by the demand or the plea of the individual.

Love is individual to each person and I don’t think you can define it before experiencing it because it isn’t going to be the same for everybody.

Love surrounds you like steam in the shower. You can't see the individual drops, but you get warm. And wet. And clean.