Quotes About Individuality

Meneer Portnoy,' zei ze terwijl ze haar knapzak optilde, 'u bent alleen maar een jood die een hekel heeft aan zichzelf.' 'Ah, maar Naomi, dat zijn misschien juist de beste.

Yes, alone we are, deeply alone, and always, in store for us, a layer of loneliness even deeper. There is nothing we can do to dispose of that. No, loneliness shouldn't surprise us, as astonishing to experience as it may be. You can try turning yourself inside out, but all you are then is inside out and lonely instead of inside in and lonely.

the time will come when we are people again, and not just Jews.

I know the kind of man I am and the kind of writer. I have my own kind of bravery, and please, let's leave it at that.

No aceptaría la tiranía del nosotros, la cháchara del nosotros y todo lo que el nosotros quiere volcarte encima.

Conflictul interior al evreilor care vor s? se confunde cu ceilalÈ›i È™i, în acelaÈ™i timp, s? ias? în eviden??, care insist? c? sînt diferiÈ›i È™i care insist? c? nu sînt cu nimic diferiÈ›i...

The big hair was red-gold and the skin peachy-tinged pale and arms freckled and zy-gomatics indescribable and her eyes an extra-natural HD green.

True unity is built upon freedom, not conformity

Paradoxically, as we become more and more like Christ we become more uniquely our own true self.

Mom is old-fashioned about babies. Maybe it's because she was born male, but changed so she could experience her own pregnancy with Jamie, and then with me. I asked her why she never changed back and she said she was having more fun this way, she said I should make up my own mind…

If I am a homosexual, then I am that way by choice.

I'm the only person who exists in my world—but isn't it that way for all of us?

Stop acting like a Terran. Be a Hellan.

If everybody else was going to say what was wrong, I wanted to be heard too.

You said something once, Charles, that has stayed in my head like a ball bearing bouncing around the inside of an empty steel drum. You said that it was your family too, and nobody ever asked you what you wanted. Well, this is me asking you. All of you.

It's a private thing, that even if it wasn't, I wouldn't talk about it because it makes people uncomfortable to know I have a super-power. That's what Jamie calls it. A super-power. I still call it the noise.

Alexei didn't bustle; he wore his madness like a badge.

In real life there is not, as there is in every jigsaw puzzle, one picture and one picture only, into which all the pieces will eventually fit," he wrote. "It is the totalitarian mind which thinks that there is one and only one picture.

There are people who follow a crowd and then there are people who follow a crowd and then there are people who follow a crowd.

I merely wish to point out that in the face of such a world you have only yourselves to rely on. You have only the decision you must make, each of you, alone. And will you contribute to the indifferent forces that ceaselessly conspire toward injustice? Or will you stand up against this endless tide and in the face of it be truly human?

We love you because you are you." "It is OK to like yourself." "Don't measure yourself by what others accomplish.

Conservatism does not have a party line. It is possible for conservatives to question virtually any position held by other conservatives including, evidently, the notion that they are conservatives at all, without risking excommunication, expulsion, or even a raised eyebrow.

Free will makes us the authors of our own choices, our own sins, our own fates—not other people, not classes or races or genders.

Vanda (as Dunayev): When she becomes herself--an individual. Thomas (as Kushemski): you only say that because you yourself are so individual. Vanda (as Dunayev): A man usually says that to a woman whose individuality he is about to undermine.