The Individual Quotes

In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals.

Individual peace is the unit of world peace.

I doubt if there is any single individual within the scientific community who could cope with the full range of [creationist] arguments without the help of an army of consultants in special fields.

The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration.

Today, as never before, the issue is clearly defined-liberty and freedom of choice, or oppression and subjugation for the individual and for nations.

Just as words in their proper places form sentences, each individual strike must be done in the proper order to get the desired result: a flat stone blade.

It is your soul's journey to enroll the ego in the quest for the ultimate victory - the evolution of your own individual consciousness.

It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.

Naming a center after a person who is still alive can make it seem that an individual somehow on their own was able to accomplish what he accomplished.

When a woman becomes her individual most effective close friend existence is simpler.

I'm concerned about the role the court will play in protecting individual rights in this and the next century.

In going too far, they [presidents] have taken away the individual rights of American citizens.

Liberty (individual freedom) is the prize, responsibility the price.

Tennis is such an individual and competitive sport, but it is great being part of a team and getting to know the girls outside of tennis - even though we are all competing for the same thing!

I think it goes hand in hand because if you discipline yourself on the floor, as you become an older player or a more seasoned individual, it adds structure in your life.

Every writer is working from his own individual world view, and that can become as characteristic as a fingerprint.

A lot of luck, and being prepared when the opportunity came. There are talented individuals out there who didn't get the break that I got. Or when the break came, they weren't ready for it.

Be thankful not only that you are an individual but also that others are different. The world needs all kinds, but it also needs to respect and use that individuality.

The establishment of our new lawful immigration system then and only then will we be in a position to consider the appropriate disposition of those individuals who remain.

You can go through the process. You can also change. You can do both. Uh, you can do one, the other, or both. And I think it depends on the individual.

Work as hard as you can to become as good an individual player as you can to help your team win

I think individual people are interesting, not really groups of people.

From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.

The supreme belief of our society is the dignity and freedom of the individual. To the respect of that dignity, to the defense of that freedom, all effort is pledged.

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

Nations consist of individuals. It is for every individual to bring in a different quality - the quality of awakened consciousness - into their lives.

The Third Way is simply a different route to the same destination. Ultimately, the choice is always between individual human liberty and the power of government to control our lives.

As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God.

Inspiration, it is well recognized, rarely comes unless an individual has immersed himself in the subject. He must have a rich background of knowledge and experience in it.

We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.

Peace among the nations, like happiness for the individual, is not an end, but a by-product that usually comes when you live right.

Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.

I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.

These activities can be misconstrued, misinterpreted, and used to harm you as an individual even without the government having any intent to do you wrong.

There is no true liberty for the individual except as he finds it in the liberty of all. There is no true security for the individual except as he finds it in the security for all.

Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to the deepest, moat earnest humor.

Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.

Opportunities for education should be within the reach of every individual, not for the lucky few.

Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire

I don't think it makes any sense for an individual to invest in common stocks unless they know the company, work at the company, and so on.

If you think individual, that's how you're going to come off. I've always given 'team' a chance.

So, as much as it is about this continuing war, the reinstated draft, and their individual views, it's really sort of a deeply human tale, and a character study as well.

old grudges and bitterness always hurt the individual more than the one whom he believes injured him.

It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us.

No experience in this world has ever been cathartic without the willing participation of the individual. Life does not automatically bestow wisdom or growth upon anyone just for showing up.

Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.

If humanity does not evolve spiritually - each one of us and collectively - our species won't make it. So following that back to each individual - every day you are faced with choices.

This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.

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.

An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.