August Weismann Quotes

Every individual alive today, even the very highest, is to be derived in an unbroken line from the first and lowest forms.

August Weismann

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• An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Line
  • Advertisement
  • Epitaph

• Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Society
  • Individual
  • Early

• 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

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

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Way
  • Style
  • Individual

• Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Eyes
  • Line
  • Horizon

• I want to do a make-up line for men.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Up
  • Men
  • Want

• I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Thought
  • Cutting
  • Room

• I think the bottom line for Oregonians is that cleaner fuels mean cleaner air, and we need that, and we want that.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Think
  • Want
  • Air

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

  

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika
  • Individual
  • Dialogue

• Poitier opened the doors to so many artists, not just black artists. There is a line that goes from black to Latin to Asian with regards to roles.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Black
  • Artists
  • Latin

• Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Curiosity
  • Bravery
  • Forms

• 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

• I got a hat deal with Resistol, where I have my own line of cowboy hats.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Cowboy
  • Line
  • Hats

• Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Great
  • Character
  • Humans

• A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable - or at least deserving of support.

  

  E. B. White
  • Country
  • Man
  • Way

• You can only get discipline in the mass by discipline in the individual.

  

  Baden Powell
  • Wisdom
  • Discipline
  • Individual

• But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is natural in a state; and the farther it moves away from plurality towards unity, the less of a state it becomes and the more a household, and the household in turn an individual.

  

  Aristotle
  • Individual
  • Unity
  • State

• When we talk about 'reproductive rights' this is what we mean. It's the difference between people as objects, and people as agents: between regarding people as pawns on the policy chessboard and recognizing them as the players, the decision-makers, the drivers of policy; autonomous individuals intimately concerned with the direction of their own lives. Under these conditions women, especially, enjoy better health and live fuller lives.

  

  Nafis Sadik
  • People
  • Mean
  • Player

• Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Freedom
  • Individual
  • Inspiring

• We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.

  

  William Boyd
  • Individual
  • Form
  • Journal

• For me, as an actor, there is no commercial or independent or art cinema. For me, it's a character that is given by the director. And it is a task for me that I have to fulfill it to the best of my ability regardless of the kind of film that it is.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Art
  • Character
  • Best

• All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • Time
  • School
  • Friends

• I had utterly abandoned myself to Him. Could any choice be as wonderful as His will? Could any place be safer than the center of His will? Did not He assure me by His very presence that His thoughts toward us are good, and not evil? Death to my own plans and desires was almost deliriously delightful. Everything was laid at His nail-scarred feet, life or death, health or illness, appreciation by others or misunderstanding, success or failure as measured by human standards. Only He himself mattered.

  

  V. Raymond Edman
  • Evil
  • Appreciation
  • Feet

• Every individual alive today, even the very highest, is to be derived in an unbroken line from the first and lowest forms.

  

  August Weismann
  • Individual
  • Line
  • Forms