Particular Quotes

In the bureaucracy, the identity of state interest and particular private aim is established in such a way that the state interest becomes a particular private aim over against other private aims.

In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.

I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.

Seen from the point of view of the particular group interests of the bureaucrats, every measure that makes the government's payroll swell is progress.

The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.

In class society everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of class.

The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bomb.

And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don't just set out to do a good job.

I hate, loathe and despise schools.School is bad for you if you have any talent. You should be cultivating that talent in your own particular way.

Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).

The things that can go wrong are particular to mediums and they make for qualities that really are of the medium.

Outstanding beauty, like outstanding gifts of any kind, tends to get in the way of normal emotional development, and thus of that particular success in life which we call happiness.

Every good historian is almost by definition a revisionist. He looks at the accepted view of a particular historic episode or period with a very critical eye.

I found at this point that effective acting wasn't what I wanted to do, that I didn't want to make effects, that I wanted, as it were, to leave an impression of a particular kind of human being.

God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.

Ill smoke anything anybody gives me, Im not particular.

If we are prepared to take the life of another being merely in order to satisfy our taste for a particular type of food, then that being is no more than a means to our end.

The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

Let us seek in particular to communicate the deepest joy, that of knowing God in Christ.

The original Upper Paleolithic people would, if they appeared among us today, be called Caucasoid, in the sense that they lacked the particular traits we associate with Negroid and Mongoloid types.

Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them.

Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.

A semantic definition of a particular set of command types, then, is a rule for constructing, for any command of one of these types, a verification condition on the antecedents and consequents.

Songs, stories are beyond value; they are the memory and wisdom of a people, the particular individual rivers of the sea of life which constitutes us all.

If I have any particular appeal to women, maybe it's because I listen more than other guys do and appreciate how they think and feel about things.

The disciplinary power that inscribes femininity in the female body is everywhere and it is nowhere; the disciplinarian is everyone and yet no one in particular.

I think that men of my generation - not me in particular - are among the most fortunate men in the universe.

The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.

Referees don't come down here with a particular flavoured shirt on.

Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture.

Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.

The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.

The best way to understand another person's religion is to listen to the story of what particular practices helped them to deepen and to embody their religion, especially its spirituality.

There are times in all of our lives when a reliance on gut or intuition just seems more appropriate - when a particular course of action just feels right.

I try to live [the Golden Rule] and I certainly expect it of some particular others. But I'll be damned if I want most folk out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

What a photograph shows us is how a particular thing could be seen, or could be made to look - at a specific moment, in a specific context, by a specific photographer employing specific tools.

Art can be a medium for people to discover universal spirit, with imagery not isolated to one particular wisdom path, but pointing to the underlying truth that they all transmit.

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.

You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a courageous decision that's unpopular.

What reason has one for existing other than to be involved with what is actually being created in your particular time?

One of the least impressive liberties is the liberty to starve. This particular liberty is freely accorded to authors.

18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.

I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head over the next ridge.

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.

a greater evil than the restoration of the Bourbons to the world in general, and England in particular, can hardly happen.

There must be areas in which a particular character does not represent you.

There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating a puzzle.

my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.