Best 1663 quotes in «individual quotes» category

I do think that how certain individuals gained notoriety in life and permanent historic places in death tells us a lot about the times in which they lived. The past always has valuable lessons to offer, if we're only willing to look for them.

I'd say that individuals are respected who stick to their convictions instead of doing whatever happens to be in fashion.

If anything is due to a corporation, it is not due to the individual members thereof, nor do the members individually owe what the corporation owes.

If as individuals we can improve the geography only slightly, if at all, perhaps the more appropriately scaled subject for reshaping is ourselves.

If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet.

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

I feel called to help individuals, to love each human being. I never think in terms of crowds in general but in terms of persons. Were I to think about crowds, I would never begin anything.

I feel I'm doing God's work switching people from group plans to individual insurance.

I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.

I felt like the last record was a real step forward for us. I was very pleased to see some people saying the same things - that it was a real departure, that it was much more individual, that it sort of a power of its own. I really did feel those things very strongly, it's our most realized record.

If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

If freedom led to wider inequality, I would prefer that to a world in which I got artificial equality at the expense of freedom. My objective, my god... is freedom of individuals to pursue their own values.

If globalization seeks to bring all of us together, but to do so respecting each person, each individual person's peculiarity, that globalization is good and makes us good and grow and leads to peace.

[If homes belongs to couples or roommates]: I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's.

If I'd wanted to be an individual, I'd have taken up tennis.

I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, "the press.

If I had to name the single characteristic shared by all truly successful individuals, I’d say it’s the ability to create and nurture a network of contacts.

If individuals can be born again, why can't cities, made up of many individuals, be born again?

If it is difficult to know yourself as an individual, it seems to be more complex as a couple. So if you say, "Oh I like a person who is like this and that," you might take away the possibility of seeing the only one that might be right for you.

If not just the brain but the quirks that made the individual were composed of recycled matter only, it was hard to be sure where the edges of one such being ended and another person began.

If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn, and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.

if sometimes we are bogged down in lines full of "corybulous", "hypogeum", "plangent", "irrefragably", "glozening", "tellurian", "conclamant", sometimes we are caught up in the soaring rapture of something unprecedented, absolutely individual.

If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.

If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.

If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.

If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.

If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.

If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers.

if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically.

If you are psychic you may see that the smiling faces aren't smiling at all, inside. You can eliminate those individuals from your life and cancel their effect.

If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life.

If you don't believe what I'm telling you, then ask yourself this: would any decent, kind-hearted individual become a writer? Of course not.

If you get discouraged about a section of a novel, that can be more catastrophic than getting discouraged about an individual story.

If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.

If you don't want to join a union, you're gonna have much more opportunity for individual expansion, individual expression of talent and achievement. But when you go to work at a place where salaries are predetermined not by your productivity and not by your talent and not by how much you work, but rather by what the union contract is, you're locked into that no matter how good a job you do. The only option you have is overtime to make more than what standard pay is.

If you have a system that says everybody who needs healthcare gets it and we're going to make sure that it gets paid for by raising your taxes and providing the requirements on individuals where they have the ability to pay, such as we determine as appropriate, then the insurance issue doesn't come up.

If you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was always encouraged to be a free-thinking individual.

I had a lot of maturing I had to go through. I consider myself a smart individual in seeing that this is not the road I want to take.

I had individuals in my life to help me make the right decisions because it wasn't about them accepting handouts. It was about them making the right decisions for me.

I have always regarded the development of the individual as the only legitimate goal of education.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

I have multiple personalities, but, being a fairly uncreative individual, they are all Thom Yorke.

I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual.

I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as an individual.

I have a lot of advantages: I'm not addicted to horrifying pills. I also have surrounded myself with far more caring and upright individuals. And I wasn't abused as a child, so I'm doing okay!