(753 quotes found)
“Hawaii is a unique state. It is a small state. It is a state that is by itself. It is a -it is different from the other 49 states. Well, all states are different, but it's got a particularly unique situation.”
Dan Quayle
“Mom always tells me to celebrate everyone's uniqueness. I like the way that sounds.”
Hilary Duff
“We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.”
Deborah Tannen
“A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own.”
W. H. Auden
“It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.”
Henri Matisse
“Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.”
“In every concrete individual, there is a uniqueness that defies formulation. We can feel the touch of it and recognize its taste, so to speak, relishing or disliking, as the case may be, but we can give no ultimate account of it, and we have in the end simply to admire the Creator.”
William James
“I believe that the very effort to convert anybody is violence, it is interfering in his individuality, in his uniqueness, into his freedom. ”
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
“A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.”
Eileen Caddy
“Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.”
Margaret Laurence