Elizabeth Moon Quotes

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

Elizabeth Moon

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• I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Pretty
  • Know
  • Individual

• Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Society
  • Individual
  • Early

• What's really important? That I'm an individual, I guess. I am an individual - a strong one, too. I'm Natalie Cole. I gotta be me.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Important
  • Strong
  • Individual

• You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • People
  • Question
  • Individual

• I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Simple
  • Individual
  • Humility

• Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Way
  • Style
  • Individual

• Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Society
  • Individual
  • Down

• A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

  

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika
  • Individual
  • Dialogue

• Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Hollywood
  • Toward
  • Idiocy

• But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • History
  • Individual
  • Changes

• There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or the Cleopatras that we've seen on stage.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Knows
  • Doe
  • Roles

• Freedom and Liberty cannot exist without Individual Responsibilty. Failure to exercise Individual Responsibilty forfeits your right to self-governance and delivers it to Government which, through force, will set the parameters of your life.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Failure

• In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Die
  • Mean
  • Bible

• We still have to evolve, that's how we're created, we're created to evolve so you can believe in that the answer is in this book or in this one idea that the masses most believe in, each individual must evolve themselves, spiritually and consciously.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Believe
  • Book
  • Individual

• I'm good at what I do, but I wouldn't be so bold and arrogant as to say something disrespectful about, say, Eminem. He's talented and he's good at what he does.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Good
  • Doe
  • Bold

• How does [Mitt Romney] explain all of those terrible things he said, you know, that - to the Kellyanne [Conwey] point.

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • Said
  • Doe
  • Terrible

• Altruism demands that an individual serve others, but doesn’t stipulate whether those others should be one’s family, or the homeless, or society as a whole. Collectivism states that, in politics, society comes first and the individual must obey. Collectivism is the application of the altruist ethics to politics.

  

  Andrew Bernstein
  • Family
  • Society
  • Individual

• It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.

  

  Leonard Shlain
  • Reality
  • Individual
  • Perception

• It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable . . . There is all the room in the world for divergence of opinion about something that, so far as we can realistically perceive, does not exist.

  

  E. Haldeman-Julius
  • People
  • World
  • Opinion

• In the civil society, the individual is recognized and accepted as more than an abstract statistic or faceless member of some group; rather, he is a unique, spiritual being with a soul and a conscience.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Soul
  • Society
  • Spiritual

• I remember where I come from. I just see myself as someone who gets up and does what she loves every day - I'm not better or worse than anybody.

  

  Kate DeAraugo
  • Remember
  • Doe
  • Get Up

• I think mathematics is a vast territory. The outskirts of mathematics are the outskirts of mathematical civilization. There are certain subjects that people learn about and gather together. Then there is a sort of inevitable development in those fields. You get to the point where a certain theorem is bound to be proved, independent of any particular individual, because it is just in the path of development.

  

  William Thurston
  • People
  • Together
  • Independent

• It's hard any time people are sitting down and looking at you across a camera and saying, "I believe that you guys will tell my story faithfully." That's getting to the core principle of being a journalist or a documentarian where people trust you with their stories.

  

  Brian McGinn
  • Story
  • Guys
  • Camera

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

  

  Elizabeth Moon
  • Individual
  • Doe
  • Initiative