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Quotes About Individuality

Any man that walks the mead In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find, According as his humors lead, A meaning suited to his mind.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life really boils down to is getting a decent cup of coffee and room to stretch out in?
~ Alice Munro
Strive not for singularity in dress; Fools have the more and men of sense the less. To look original is not worth while, But be in mind a little out of style.
~ Ambrose Bierce
He's worth fighting for, but I won't change who I am for any man. No more than he should alter himself to suit me.
~ Ann Aguirre
No man can prophesy with another's parable.
~ Anna Julia Cooper
I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
~ Anthony Trollope
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
~ Antonio Porchia
A man is at his best when he is simply not like the rest in all his life's test.
~ Anuj
Each man has his fancy.
~ Aulus Persius Flaccus
Come on, man, I got a full beard!
~ Aziz Ansari
You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those years later, was still wanting me to be someone I wasn't.
~ Barbara Delinsky
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
You can't please everybody, man.
~ Beck
I believe there's a huge distinction between un macho and a real man. I don't think you have to be one to be another.
~ Benjamin Bratt
Let not a man's self be to him all in all.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
~ Bill Nighy
I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.
~ Bill Wyman
All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised?
~ Blaise Pascal
There's danger in this open world where men strive to be free, and to me the greatest danger was in society.
~ Bob Dylan
Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road.
~ Bob Dylan
Slowly you become your own man.
~ Bob Weir
I can do anything. In GQ, I appeared as a man.
~ Boy George
To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.
~ C. S. Lewis