The Individual Quotes

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

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

Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.

There's a difference between a mistake or even a crime that's been committed by an individual, and between a policy of crime that's been implemented or adopted by a government.

. . . woman is a being dominated by the creative urge and . . . no understanding of her as an individual can be gained unless the significance and effects of that great fact can be grasped.

I as an artist, as an individual, I have a certain affect on people.

Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can't do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.

Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God's sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.

Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.

We have to enforce the individual mandate. We're losing a lot of money that is not coming into the system.

We have two and half million individual campaign contributions, more than any campaign in history.

Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.

The evolution of our spirit is blazed on the dark background of eternity by our individual wakes. Every person can, if he/she wishes, leave a more or less brilliant wake behind them.

The emerging whole manifests locally. It manifests in particular communities, groups, and, ultimately, in us as individuals.

Traditionalists like me believe the USA has become strong because of its core values, the freedom, individual responsibility and institutions like traditional marriage, which foster common goals.

He (God) doesn't need me, but He desires me.

We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title books), and you have time to do more than that during the school year.

The healthy life is hardly one marked by an absence of crises. In fact, an individual's psychological health is distinguished by how early he or she can meet crisis.

If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.

In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

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.

The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.

The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes.

Psychology is the science of psychic states both as to content and form, regarded from an objective standpoint, and brought in relation to the living corporeal individual.

I think being individual in the show business is what gives you life and longevity.

You ought to know that the Lord loves you. He will make that known to you, and it will be a very private and individual experience, something you cannot explain to anyone else.

In every other aspect of their life, we have entertainment that is crafted almost to an individual. So they expect that from stand-up as well.

As I said before, I'm prepared to be prepared and I think that remains the same, you know there's no way to really know what it's going to feel like. I think for each individual it's different.

As we form our individual opinions of our fellow man, let us base them on our similarities and not our differences.

Genius is individual, scenius is communal.

A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.

As a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols.

All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the three original TV networks.

When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.

For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him.

Worship is of fundamental significance to the life of the individual and to the corporate life of the church, yet we rarely hear it taught as a discipline or practice in the gathering of believers.

Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum.

First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members.

But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there is one universal element: the union of consciousness and movement, breath and awareness.

Each individual in a society is a nexus where innumerable relationships of this character intersect.

It is easier to confront a threat as a mass, a group, not individuals who must be evaluated one by one.

Style is a very personal thing and women should develop their own individual look.

Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination.

If, instead of playing the horses, an individual chooses to play the market, that is his own affair. Only he must understand that speculating in stocks is gambling, not investing.

I think racism is a terrible thing. I think we should all learn to hate each other on a individual basis.

The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.

Circumstances beyond my individual control.

The sobering thought is that individuals and societies are not, in the end, remembered for how they made their money, but for how they spent it.

There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.