Individual Quotes
-
I think that life is incredibly violent and that individual people are incredibly violent on one level or another. I don't try to change life to suit my writing; in a certain way I'm a naturalist of the nineteenth century school.
Richard Grossman
-
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
William James
-
The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
William James
-
People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.
Helen McCrory
-
To me, the essence of keeping the soul nourished is obedience to one's conscience. I don't think that the soul can be nourished unless people have a strong sense of conscience that they have educated and developed and soaked in the universal and timeless principles of integrity and service. This way, the individual's soul becomes part of the universal soul of service, contribution, and making a difference.
Stephen Covey
-
I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.
Joseph Heller
-
No matter how old an individual may be, no matter if he is young or old, if he thinks in accordance with the times he is immortal.
Nnamdi Azikiwe
-
Timothy Batten is an individual of high integrity and has given many years of service to Georgia and to the United States, .. His common sense dedication to the rule of law, intellect and experience make him a solid candidate for the federal bench in North Georgia.
Saxby Chambliss
-
Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
Carlo M. Cipolla
-
Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.
Willa Cather
-
When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all the things that are important outside our individual lives. To express spirituality, the architect has to think of the original material of architecture, space and light.
Richard Meier
-
If the team is doing well, there are more chances to win individual prizes.
Isco
-
There's good stuff and bad stuff, but you continue on. I'm not prescriptive - I cannot tell anyone else what to do with their lives, and I'm a deeply flawed individual - but this is it. We're all just living it and... bless us all.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
-
To my mind by far the greatest danger in scholarship...is not that the individual may fail to master the thought of a school but that a school may succeed in mastering the thought of the individual.
Geoffrey Sampson
-
Believe that you can even as a single individual, you can change the world.
Evan Tanner
-
I mean, these are kids that are getting on rail cars, riding the top of rail cars all the way up through Mexico. I mean, the danger that they're put in, the sexual assaults that are occurring - I mean, all of this is a great consternation, I think, for any of us. But when they come here and then they're dumped on our cities and our counties and our state is expected to pick up the costs, there's a point in time where you say, 'Quit giving these individuals incentives to come up and then be resettled in the United States'. That's the real issue for me.
Rick Perry
-
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
Virginia Satir
-
If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it would be, I think a cow.
William Lyon Phelps
-
There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture . . .
Charles A. Reich
-
The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
George Washington
-
He really meant to tell them that the big money was not in the individual fluctuations but in the main movements that is, not in reading the tape but in sizing up the entire market and its trend.
Jesse Livermore
-
Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all.
Nikita Khrushchev
-
Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear, you have to taste the madeleine, and while you are seemingly passive in your chair, you have to travel.
Hilary Mantel
-
The Thanksgiving tradition is, we gorge. Hey, what about at Thanksgiving we simply consume a considerable measure? However we do that consistently! Goodness. Imagine a scenario where we consume a ton with individuals who pester the heck out of us.
Jim Gaffigan