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Quotes About Individuals

On the other side sit we — the errand boy from around the corner, the unruly playwright William Shakespeare, the barber who tells stories, the schoolmaster John Milton, the shop assistant, the vagabond Dante Alighieri, those whom death either forgets or consecrates and whom life forgot and never consecrated.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Reality is made up of what is common and shared. That's why we as individuals only exist in the spurious part of our sensations.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Asemeni tuturor indivizilor cu o mare mobilitate mental?,am o iubire organic? ?i fatal? pentru fixitate.Detest orice via?? nou? ?i orice loc necunoscut.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Homo homini lupus é uma das tristes certezas da vida. A tese, com efeito, pode ser alargada, e aplicada não só ao egoísmo nacional como também ao egoísmo dos indivíduos. (...)Só a paz é infecunda, só a concórdia é improfícua, só o humanitarismo é anti-humanitário. E assim morre, ante a análise sociológica, o último dos falsos princípios da Democracia moderna.
~ Fernando Pessoa
creo que el Estado es para los individuos, no los individuos para el Estado.
~ Fernando Savater
Quienes son respetables son las personas, no las creencias. Las opiniones no son todas respetables. Si así hubiese sido, la humanidad no habría podido avanzar un solo paso.
~ Fernando Savater
It can be argued that Advent, more than any other season of the church year, is immediately relevant to our concrete lives as individuals, to the concrete life of the church under stress, and to the concrete headlines in the newspaper.
~ Fleming Rutledge
There's so many different people that I'm fascinated by. Different kinds of characters that I meet in, like, everyday life, that I'm like, 'I don't know how you exist. Like, you're so fascinating.'
~ Tatiana Maslany
The strength of 'The Gift' is that the people featured and their stories are given the space to speak for themselves.
~ Mel Giedroyc
As an environmental engineer I spent many years cleaning up PCB contamination, and I know firsthand the costs these efforts can place on individuals and communities.
~ Chris Sununu
If the kids like it, my fans like it - whoever this music pertains to, if they like it, it's for them. That's what this art is for.
~ Rich the Kid
Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude - all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
It is the Band which unites the Interests of Individuals; it secures to them their respective Rights, and preserves them from Injuries; it is the Source of numberless Blessings, which are interrupted, or wholly vanish, the Moment it is disturbed.
~ Charles Inglis
I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.
~ Helen Dunmore
America is a mosaic not of groups but of individuals, each of whom carries a host of cultural influences, some chosen, some inherited, some absorbed by osmosis. That mosaic is held together by the pursuit of happiness, the most powerful mortar ever conceived. Left alone, it will long endure.
~ Virginia Postrel
Those are just some of the people whom we interviewed in the documentary, but that should provide you with a good sense of the credibility of the individuals who bolster the case that this administration lied us into a war.
~ Robert Greenwald
History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state.
~ Mike Simpson
It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say.
~ Arthur Herzog
In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.
~ Martin Van Buren
Mergers are like marriages. They are the bringing together of two individuals. If you wouldn't marry someone for the 'operational efficiencies' they offer in the running of a household, then why would you combine two companies with unique cultures and identities for that reason?
~ Simon Sinek
I don't know why anyone would want businesses and families and individuals nationwide to suffer. But by voting against tax reform, Democrats showed that was exactly what they stand for: less money for families and more money into Washington, D.C.
~ Matt Gaetz
I feel that 'Person of Interest' is the same quality as 'Brotherhood.' I think it's one of the smartest network television shows on the air today. The audience is a wide range of individuals.
~ Kevin Chapman
My brother and I have both dated a wide range of girls and not all of them have been posh.
~ Spencer Matthews
Health coverage in the form of short-term, limited-duration plans has long been widely available to individuals in circumstances where they are unable to access traditional coverage, such as those between jobs or students taking a semester off from school.
~ Alex Azar