Particular Quotes

The three filters [against folly] operate through these particular questions: Literacy: What are the words? Numeracy: What are the numbers? Ecolacy: And then what?

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.

What happens whenever we convert a writer into a symbol is that we lose the writer himself in all his indefeasible singularity, his particular inimitable genius.

Choosing the right mask helps you... We went through many masks. It was very particular leather that as soon as you smudged it, you had to get a new one. We went through about 55 masks.

Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others. They do not belong to particular persons any more than the sun, moon and stars.

Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.

I can't say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction only lasts five minutes.

It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.

A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth.

On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.

I'm very particular who I work with. I'm not interested in portraying women with a cliched, generic look. I'm interested in a model who I can take a portrait of.

It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.

25 years later, you know, I haven't really put too much emphasis on any kind of individual goal, other than trying to win any particular night, trying to find a way to do that.

I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.

Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.

I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.

Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.

Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications of definite particular things.

By voting for a candidate, we're not endorsing a particular lifestyle. We're simply voting on the issues.

I noticed long ago that Amin has the tendency to concentrate power in his own hands but I did not attach any particular significance to this. However, recently this tendency has become dangerous.

What's the go of that? What's the particular go of that?

It isn't about singing a particular hymn or reciting a prayer – it's about a relationship with your Heavenly Father who loves and cares for you.

Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.

Drew Callahan is my absolute weakness. Like a drug I can't get enough of. He's my addiction and if I'm honest with myself, I'm not looking to kick that particular habit anytime soon.

Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so.

Most Achievers I Know Are People Who Have Made A Strong And Deep Dedication to Pursuing A Particular Goal. That Dedication Took A Tremendous Amount Of Effort.

We don't have a particular organization, but we all want to make a world in which justice is given to each one of us.

Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!

India, in particular, is looking to develop nuclear power for domestic, commercial use, and we should work with them. This is a good deal for both countries.

Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.

Young people in particular, I appeal to you: bear witness to your faith through the digital world.

Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes.

Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.

Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.

There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.

There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.

In order to find balance, I feel very strongly about two things in particular in terms of routine. Work out, and eat well.

I am not a book collector, and I am not fussy about particular editions. As long as the words are there I don't mind.

What I like is not a particular genre, it's storytelling. There's a lot of great storytelling in jazz, and in folk and in country music.

I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming and particular and interesting cities. I live in one now, Charleston.

The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.

In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.

There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.

A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world. Losing it meant losing my ties to all those things too.

Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.