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• For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.

  Yves Klein

  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Individual

• If you move up, you’re going to pay a price. I wouldn’t be against giving up a package for a certain individual who you think is an incredible player, a difference-maker. But the people who go up to do something like that probably think, ‘We’re a player away from a world championship.’ I don’t know if we’re there yet.

  A. J. Smith

  Topics in Sports

  Tags in Price, Individual, Incredible, Probably

• Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liberty, Individual, Begin, Cease

• The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humankind, Individual, Theory, Unerring, Universe, Miscellaneous

• In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

  Theodor W. Adorno

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Brief, Individual, State, Time, Complete

• And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Survival, Fittest, Ensures, Department, Individual, Because, May, Best, Hard, Every, Race, While, Sometimes, Law, Competition

• And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

  Unknown

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Survival, Fittest, Ensures, Department, Individual, Because, May, Best, Hard, Every, Race, While, Sometimes, Law, Competition

• The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.

  Angelus Silesius

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Than, Individual, Ahead, Good, Even, More, Still, Remains, Spark, Mankind

• I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Individual, Believe, Ignorance

• Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you’re with an individual who isn’t moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain’t going to work.

  Usher Raymond

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Individual, Natural, Breaking

• It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Individual, Bottom

• Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

  Thomas John Watson, Sr.

  Topics in Business, Progress, Success

  Tags in Whenever, Individual, Decides, Attained, Been, Stops

• In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for “finding himself.” If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

  Thomas Merton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Individual, Analysis, Own, Responsibility, Find, Person

• Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Individual, Every, Fail, Will

• At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction.

  William Banting

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Subject, Individual, Kindly, Reflection, Insignificant, Publish, Noticed

• Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Individual, Evil, Behavior

• When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Individual, Appear, Behavior

• In the age of the individual’s liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

  Theodor W. Adorno

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Individuality, Individual, Raised, Must

• Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Individual, Corporation, Device, Ingenious, Obtaining, Without, Responsibility, Profit

• God enters by a private door into every individual.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in God

  Tags in Individual, Door, Private