Particular Quotes

Most people think that to meditate, I should feel a particular special something, and if I don't, then I must be doing something wrong.

One of the things that really drove me crazy was the way in which college kids, in particular, are educated to think that ideology is dangerous and bad.

I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now? I don't want these particular species to disappear.

Maybe other people are like mirrors that we see ourselves in; versions of ourselves that vary dramatically depending on the particular cut of glass.

Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts.

We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.

The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.

I debated whether or not to pin the setting down to a particular date but in the end I decided to leave things vague. It depends how fast technology improves.

But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.

We have in England a particular bashfulness in every thing that regards religion.

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.

The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written.

Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.

The most brutal form of domestic violence is the violence against unborn children, and this particular bill would prohibit abortions after the fetus feels pain, which is 20 weeks and older.

You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is pretty unspeakable.

Each film is difficult, in its own particular way. There's a unique set of challenges on every movie.

If I wrote what I really think, I would be so sad all the time. We create to fill a gap - not just to avoid the idea of dying, it's to fill some particular gap in ourselves.

We need narrative; it feeds us in a particular way, and deconstructing it completely before you've actually experienced it, I think it leaves us unfed.

I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.

I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me.

Throughout the series [Narcos], I appear younger and younger - I don't know why that is particular to Netflix, to show the evolution of Pablo Escobar's children in that manner.

Income tax in particular in the United States is concentrated on the top half of the income distribution, and very heavily skewed towards the top 10 or even top 1 percent.

Blakes Hotel in South Kensington was a particular favourite of mine during what I affectionately think of as my Restless Years.

Nicole Kidman in particular seems to bring out the butt-kisser in the sassiest of hackettes, as they ceaselessly strive to portray her as some sort of cross between Mother Teresa and Marilyn Monroe.

My mother says that some books are good no matter when you read them, and some are good at a particular moment; they come into your life at just the right time.

What's scary is that Donald Trump has his own sordid history when it comes to discrimination - in housing, in particular.

Legislation that names a specific private organization to defund (rather than all organizations that engage in a particular activity) is improper and arguably unconstitutional.

I don't have a particular go-to political blog.

What I like about electronic music is you don't really need to be that learned or educated in any particular context. You can just make sound, noise even, whatever it may be.

And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way.

No particular theory may ever be regarded as absolutely certain.... No scientific theory is sacrosanct.

Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.

There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down the road, so you don't worry for that character.

Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.

I'm not that conservative. I do feel - I guess I'm more of a Democrat at heart, although I've never affiliated myself with a particular party.

Oftentimes Westerners don't really understand fully the values of this particular culture. And I think the jury is still out as to whether democracy can really thrive in Iraq.

When I moved to New York, the reputation just followed me, and I am regularly invited to play in home games, by writers in particular, though finance folk also invite me on occasion.

Im a transactional lawyer; I negotiate all types of things, but with a particular focus in software licenses.

The corporate income tax, in particular, is a tax that puts American corporations at a disadvantage.

That's an area of particular satisfaction, where we made a difference?

I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable.

One of my complaints with American TV characters is that they all have a particular schtick, a hook.

I think people love it when anybody acts bad; its not particular to me.

I've never heard of a situation where, because somebody had a particular political belief, they didn't get a part. I think it's a bit of a myth.

In the interest of not pissing you off anymore tonight, let's not select that particular playlist.

This particular type of human carries weapons slightly more lethal than your beloved pink monstrosity

My focus is always on the conditions that create social problems, not just a particular person.

But still at that particular level of commercialism I listen to those projects I still hear some stagnation in a lot of the stuff.

The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years.

I don't dress any particular way to impress anyone or market myself for my music. It's actually who I am.