Best 1663 quotes in «individual quotes» category

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.

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.'

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.

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

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

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 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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.

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

Loss of social standing is an ever-present threat for individuals whose social acceptance is based on behavioral traits rather than unconditional human value.

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.

love, which is a madness, and a scourge, and a fever, and a delusion, and a snare, is also a mystery, and very imperfectly understood by everyone except the individual sufferer who writhes under its tortures.

Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.

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

Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.

Man is a unique individual. He can never be put in a system where he becomes just another notch. Another nail.

Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much offended.

Man is basically an individual molecule of the God-Force.

Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other performs his.

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

Mankind is engaged in an eternal quest for that ‘something else' he hopes will bring him happiness, complete and unending.For those individual souls who have sought and found God, the search is over: He is that Something Else.

Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.

Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.

Many individuals and organization units contribute to every large decision, and the very problem of centralization and decentralization is a problem of arranging the complex system into an effective scheme.

Modern animated movies are the products not of anyone’s individual vision, but rather a scattered accumulation of compromises made out of fear by members of large committees.

Mel Gibson is a tremendously talented creative individual who, unfortunately, is also a conflicted personality. He himself would say that.

Ministry to an individual is as mighty an act of God as is ministry to the masses.

Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust.

Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women.

Moammar Gadhafi had more American blood on his hands than any individual other than Osama bin Laden.

Mister Dresden is a diplomatically challenged individual. He should be in a shelter for the tactless.

Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.

Most of my work involves slowing down rather than speeding up. I prefer to look at prints than scans, and I prefer to look at original silver prints rather than digital prints. I prefer to look at fewer images, but spend time with those individual images.

Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.

My biggest prediction for the future is that people are going to start looking after individual investors.

Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.

My focus is on a ring, and giving the best individual performance I can.

My hope has always been that each record could have its own audience. Of course, it's awesome to have a cumulative audience for more than one record, but I like the idea that there could be a record that an individual might like.

My look is a very individual look. I love Pink, but I don't really dress like Pink.