Particular Quotes

That's just the business of boxing. Things just turned out that way. I don't think it was any particular reason. I had opportunities to fight in bigger fights, but things just didn't always work out.

I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.

There's a particular hierarchy in the prison - class distinctions, high-school cliques. You have to learn how to navigate.

How much trouble did the Democrats cause for a particular nominee on the way to actually being confirmed.And usually it's very little.

When I watch students make particular decisions about language, structure, and form, it sharpens my own thinking and my own development as a writer.

We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.

This particular school of Zen has always considered itself the Marines of the spiritual world, so it has a kind of bias against conceptual thinking in favor of a very rigorous physical life.

I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.

The mind reproduces itself by transmitting its symbols to other intermediaries, human and mechanical, than the particular brain that first assembled them.

I've got better things to do than to find my individuality in that particular area. But if it's important to me, I've got to seek my own path.

I’ve never heard that the sexual act requires any particular intelligence. From what I’ve observed, many stupid people are easily able to produce children.

I don't ascribe to any particular style or period.

When you get seen in one particular way, it can be paralyzing. You start to believe it's all you can do.

Lil Wayne is talented. He seems to be the dominant figure in this particular era of hip-hop. So you know, he's doing his thing.

History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.

Remember that the wit, humour, and jokes of most mixed companies are local. They thrive in that particular soil, but will not often bear transplanting.

One of the things that's driving films in a particular direction is that the after market value of them is dropping really fast and in many segments of it, not just DVDs. Pay television is dropping.

I think Nevada is going to really be the first true test of whether or not these candidates have particular strengths in particular demographics.

Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color.

Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.

Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.

When I was young, I remember having a particular pain about injustice. Suffering hurt me.

Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments.

All necessary steps needed to be taken to tackle terrorism will be adopted...but we will keep in mind that a particular religion or section of society does not face problems unnecessary

The GOP establishment, in particular, is facing a pick-your-poison kind of decision. Many establishment Republicans dislike [Ted] Cruz personally. He has no Senate endorsements.

Probably the biggest challenge is actors, no matter how talented the actor is they don't have the capability of being in more than one place than one particular time, which is very vexing.

All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.

Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular photographer-analyst.

The property of the estate owners (pomeshchiks) doesn't belong to any particular detachment, but to the people as a whole. Let the people take what they want.

I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men please themselves.

I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house.

Isabel sends her brother a look that could boil him in oil if she had that particular paranormal talent. A thought hits me: maybe she has. It will be fun to find out.

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation.

Limitation is a good discipline because it discourages inappropriate generalization, which distracts attention from the profound, particular complexity that characterizes anything at all.

A democratic state will protect the freedom to hold any beliefs other than those that harm others, such as racism. In particular, it will see to it that no one is harmed just because of her beliefs.

Patent law holds us back, in every which way, shape or form. There is place for it, in physical products, in pharmaceuticals, but in software in particular, there is no place for it.

Universities in general and my university in particular really has to reach out and find ways to engage more with a broader array of ideas and political thought.

Being from Baltimore, I'm a crab cake snob, and I'm very particular on where I eat my crab cakes.

Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.

A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.

I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.

I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they didn't follow this particular religion.

I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready.

When it's over I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real.

I don't write for any particular kind of person.

Erasures are interesting to me because they prove what particular sieves we all are.

I'd like to think I'm going upriver in talking about world-view topics rather than particular political or controversial topics.

Everybody has a theme. You talk to somebody awhile, and you realize they have one particular thing that rules them. The best you can do is a variation on the theme, but that's about it.

The key to success is not to seek for a particular key to success!

We are not heavenly destined for a particular road; every road is our destiny; every path and every passage is our fate.