The Individual Quotes

As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let all of these slaughters continue without doing anything.

It takes a lot of pressure off you just to go out and play, and your talent sometimes shines even more when you don't worry about individual stuff.

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

The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.

Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters

Where did we get the idea of insultin' folks by pointin' out their age? ... It seems that we think youth is some special accomplishment brought about by the individual himself!

What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card contained the map of an individual’s soul.

History does not care about the suffering of the individual. Only the outcome of their struggles. -P 462 Master Tozay to Eona

As writers, the world is not about individual expression entirely because we are producing works of literature and getting them out into the world.

I'm just really interested in the interface of the individual with the collective. I think that's where the arts live.

I'm really interested in culture because it is such a powerful human force, particularly in America where we think it's all about the individual.

Sometimes it gets talked about as if life is all about the individual, and I don't think it is. I'm really interested in what writing can contribute to a kind of cultural intelligence.

Only after my father's death could I speak my own individual truths about him. In a sense, I had to turn him into a character, a figure I could control through language.

The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.

The market economy succeeds not because some people's interests are suppressed and other people are kept out of the market, but because people gain individual advantage from it.

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

We all begin much much much earlier. In fact, every one of us - every nation, every individual begins hundreds, perhaps thousands of years prior to the date that appears in the passport.

In fact, every one of us - every nation, every individual begins hundreds, perhaps thousands of years prior to the date that appears in the passport.

The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.

Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression.

In some subsequent episodes, certain individuals have certain knowledge of certain events that they wouldn't have, if they didn't have access to the future.

Dreaming is a phenomenon of purely individual consciousness, and consequently impossible to thoroughly deconstruct by a community of researchers. But dreaming matters.

You show me a great program and I'll show you a passionate individual somewhere behind it.

Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person.

I'm the type of individual that I enjoy watching any different cultural lives, and I see the common humanity even though the hair textures are different or the skin tones are varied.

Traditionally, the role of the individual was to conform to the organization. In the future the organization will have to conform to the needs of the individual.

An editor is bound to avoid the meshes of the law, which are always infinitely more costly to companies, or things, or institutions, than they are to individuals.

No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others.

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.

Coral is a very beautiful and unusual animal. Each coral head consists of thousand of individual polyps. These polyps are continually budding and branching into genetically identical neighbors.

It's an individual sport, but collectively everybody shares the same motto that Ironman stands for: anything is possible.

I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.

So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race.

The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.

Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of its death as a species.

It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.

The individual cannot exist on his/her own and the collectivism should respect freedom of conscience. My struggle is about the freedom of thought.

Whenever I write a part, I think there's this person somewhere in the world that this part is specifically for and all I have to do is go searching to find that particular individual.

Is there one specific source that determines correct morality and everybody should follow that? Or should individuals come up with following that source or not depending on their situation?

Mascara is my daily essential. I pile it on top and bottom lashes during the day. If I'm going out, I'll add the individual Eylure lashes at the outer corners for more drama.

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

As long as there is no law in Burma, any individual here can be arrested at any time.

A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him.

Any group or "collective", large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members.

My sons are my proudest 'accomplishments' in life and I get energised seeing their individual personalities develop as they grow up.

America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.

There is no individual salvation without collective salvation

[J]ust because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right.