Quotes About Individual

I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.

I don't give books as gifts. Books are extremely personal, and I would hate to give someone a book that they don't like or want, because it would break my heart if they didn't read it.

Nobody can change your religion unless you want to and God gives you the grace. It's between you and God alone. Nobody can force you.

That living specimen of gall and hatred, that individual.

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism - the individual - is mightier than any collective.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

The fight against drug trafficking is a wildfire that threatens to consume those fundamental rights of the individual deliberately enshrined in our Constitution.

Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about.

The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.

It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.

As tempting as it is, you can't put a naturally occurring phenomenon such as the life of a person or a country into discrete units.

grief is such a strange guest, making its home in a person like it's a new thing that no one has ever experienced before. It is different for every person.

Our minds and souls contain volumes inscribed by our experiences and emotions; each individual's consciousness is a collection of memories we've cataloged and stored inside us, a private library of a life lived. It is something that no one else can entirely share, one that burns down and disappears when we die.

to say his or her library has burned. When I first heard the phrase, I didn't understand it, but over time I came to realize it was perfect. Our minds and souls contain volumes inscribed by our experiences and emotions; each individual's consciousness is a collection of memories we've cataloged and stored inside us, a private library of a life lived. It is something that no one else can entirely share, one that burns down and disappears when we die.

Our minds and souls contain volumes inscribed by our experiences and emotions; each individual's consciousness is a collection of memories we've cataloged and stored inside us, a private library of a life lived.

Consistency- you can't buy it. It can only be created at the individual level in the moment, moment to moment through the law of compounding.

For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.

Peeta has asked to be coached separately.

The doctrine of Reincarnation says that each individual soul is potentially perfect and is gradually unfolding its powers and making them actual through the process of Evolution.

All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody's property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.

Circumstances can never be good or bad. Only the individual man can be good or bad.

If you want to be religious, enter not the gate of any organised religions. They do a hundred times more evil than good, because they stop the growth of each one's individual development.

We are anxious because we do not know what roles to pursue, what principles for action to believe in. Our individual anxiety, somewhat like that of the nation, is a basic confusion and bewilderment about where we are going.

Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't.