Particular Quotes

If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.

Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).

Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain.

To accept with unquestioning faith, or to refuse to reconsider any particular view held by the Church in the past, is as unreasonable as it is unsafe. The faith of the Church is a progressive affair.

I think my own bias is that there may be something wrong with the timing and the connectivity between regions rather than pointing to one particular spot in the brain.

The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of guts, you know.

Superstition is believing that something means anything and that anything means something and that each thing means a particular thing and will mean a particular thing is coming. Oh yes it does.

Positive response from some of our exporters and holders of free funds in response to some of the turnaround initiatives ... in particular the favourable exchange rate policies.

I think as an actor, or any artist, you move with your moods and you express what's going on for you, and you answer to that voice within that's calling for particular things.

I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.

It's remarkable how many couples can precisely describe their particular pattern of painful fighting, and claim to be helpless to change it.

Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.

The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular; those which we make at home are general and significant. The further off, the nearer the surface. The nearer home, the deeper.

How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a slight outrage against universal laws.

Students, in particular, now find themselves in a world in which heightened expectations have been replaced by dashed hopes.

If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice , in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify.

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.

All the arts are based on the senses. What they do for the person who practices them, and also the persons interested in them, is make that particular sense more active and more acute.

The greatest danger we face is not any particular kind of thought. The greatest danger we face is absence of thought.

It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present the universal aspects of a particular event.

I'm very particular about the pizza that I eat. Godfather's is still a premium-quality product, and I cannot always find that. It's got to be as good as Godfather's or I won't eat it.

It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me.

Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.

My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad.

My dad's main client was the World Bank, and he spent most of his time traveling to Third World countries. His particular interest lay in the eradication of poverty through development and business.

Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing.

Well," he sighed to no one in particular, and looked up into yet another alien sky. "Here we are again.

Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves.

She loved him, though not at this particular moment.

I didnt have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

I am not famous for anything in particular. I am just famous.

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

I don't think anybody can be held accountable or responsible for anyone's behaviors expect the individual. This goes beyond that particular situation.

I most resemble Benjamin Button. I evolve. I attach myself to the heartbeat of whatever is going on at that particular time, or I just chart a new path.

Never forget that every living thing has a particular and needed job to do in the universal Plan and Purpose.

Holy is the Bible word for all that makes God different from us, in particular his awesome power and purity.

As a means of supporting experiential element in film, once I begin to work on a particular movie I consider myself to be the tool of the director.

In the real world there's an after-effect of disappointment if you lose an argument. But if, to begin with, you're set up not to have this particular autonomy, then you're not disappointed.

People make fools out of themselves in all sorts of ways. No particular qualifications or particular criteria are necessary.

New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but to the United States.

In a small cathedral town where changes are few, there are always people who remember who used to live in a particular house, what happened to them there and afterwards, and so on.

For what purpose could the enumeration of particular powers be inserted, if these and all others were meant to be included in the preceding general power?

Maybe, so Donald Trump didn't start the fire at this particular Chicago protest, but fanning the flames is a problem.

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

I don't wear particular designers. I wear whoever fits me well.

There's been a 40-year effort on the far right to build up think tanks, academic programs, advocacy groups, to push a particular ideology. That's really where the impact is that people don't see.

Men in particular need to speak more about their personal reasons for wanting diversity in the workplace.

Maddy: "Um.....William?" she said, driving up the narrow dirt road. "Is there a particular reason you keep a sword behind your backseat?" William: "Because I don't own a gun yet

We have not looked at any particular movies [in creating War Horse], but again, it's hard not to see the similarities between those movies [because of those filmmakers' influence on the industry].