Individuals Quotes

Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
Abba Eban

Consensus, Chorus

I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.
Damian Lewis

Good, Eyes, Often

We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.
Guy Ritchie

Work, Humble, Together

You'll find individuals agreeing on this, but when they get into collective societies and larger groups they find it difficult to achieve group agreement.
Neale Donald Walsch

Find, Difficult, Group

One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller.
Nick Clegg

Politics, Insecure, Become

Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence.
Robert Teeter

Feeling, Another, Decisions

I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.
Daisaku Ikeda

History, Knowledge, Human

There is no such things as 'best' in the world of individuals.
Hosea Ballou

In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.
Terry Eagleton

Life, Power, End

Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.
Ella Maillart

Humanity, Different, Motives

It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.
Charles Schumer

Time, Remember, Liberty

There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.
Barbara Jordan

Decision, Law, American

Part-black generally means all-black in Americans' minds. Just as part-Asian or part-Hispanic or part-anything-else usually puts individuals in those minority-groups' camps.
Jeffrey Kluger

Minds, Means, Camps

It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.
William Pollard

Leadership, Contribute, Provide

At the end of the day, though, the band members have to be strong. It's down to the individuals in the unit. Listen to me, I'm talking like I'm in the army and this is my squadron.
Shirley Manson

Strong, End, Down

Let me say this: I believe closing Guantanamo is in our Nation's national security interest. Guantanamo is used not only by al-Qaida, but also by other nations, governments, and individuals - people good and bad - as a symbol of America's abuse of Muslims, and it is fanning the flames of anti-Americanism around the world.
Dianne Feinstein

Good, Bad, America

A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'
Joyce Carol Oates

High, Memories, Fiction

The best part is seeing my kids grow and become individuals, and the fact that they're happy and well-adjusted.
Martina McBride

Best, Happy, Become

I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.
Tim Robbins

Love, True, Whatever

Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.
Mercedes Ruehl

Nature, Choose, Chooses

I think the record speaks for itself. These are two individuals who have been for the war when the headlines were good and against it when their poll ratings were bad.
Dick Cheney

Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.
Tom Cruise

True, Real, Decide

So, what we do as individuals matters. It adds up.
Maurice Strong

I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.
Christine Gregoire

Work, Heart, Means

I feel that each and every one of us as individuals has a responsibility to one another. None of us would be here without the help of someone else - whether it be guardians, teachers, parents, relatives, etc. - someone contributed to your well being as a person. We're all connected in so many different ways.
Alonzo Mourning

Parents, Help, Someone

Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.
Herbert Simon

Nature, Put, Rather

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.
Tim O'Reilly

Work, End, Small

Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.
Maria Mitchell

Small, Large, Aids

Now we have technology where we can modify the genomics of individuals by gene transfer and genetic meddling, we may find that people will want to modify their children, enhance their intelligence, their strength and their beauty and all the other so-called desirable characteristics.
Robert Winston

Beauty, Strength, Technology

How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
Maimonides

Power, Same, Cannot

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