Particular Quotes

Since man's highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.

I have now reached the happy age of 23. No, happy is not quite the right word. At this particular moment I am certainly not happy.

The Pashtuns in particular are kind of trapped. They've never accepted the Durand Line nor has any Afghan government historically accepted it.

Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the forever gifts, and certainly visible.

The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him.

Every game is very difficult, no game is easy. All games are hard, but just different. So we just have to get ourselves prepared for every particular match because of the intensity and so on.

One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.

Each person should display her own particular gifts for study. For no one is safe who strives beyond her abilities; and thus it is safer to trust in reason than in men’s opinions.

Philosophy is an odd thing... There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don't offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.

I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it

When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements.

For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter.

I love vegan choices, raw food choices, and I’ll eat whatever I have to in order to get into whatever shape I need to get into for any one particular role.

... the possibility of one particular photographer's pictures lying around the corner is never realized until the photographer is there. It's one of the enigmas of photography.

Hate generalizes; love is particular.

I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.

There's a worldwide linking of environmental activists, developmental experts and human rights advocates. And they're using the two frameworks, in particular environmental standards and human rights.

Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted to each taste, to each particular constitution.

The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

Finally I got to the point where I said, I'd like to start a project where we can actually talk about race and poverty, not through the lens of a particular case, but much more broadly.

I think Muslims in particular are facing similar obstacles African Americans did, historically.

In that way, as an actor in particular, you're powerless. And so in that way as an actor in particular you can't make mistakes.

No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class.

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.

Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.

When you put off a task, you buy yourself time to engage in divergent thinking rather than foreclosing on one particular idea.

Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with TV news.

The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither

Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.

No matter what system the magician chooses, in order to make it work most effectively he or she must first become attuned to that system's particular way of viewing of the universe.

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.

If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities.

I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.

Christians, in particular, realize that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith.

I want each album to say something different and be accepted better than the last one but I don't have any point to outdo any particular album of mine.

It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust.

I pick what are my priorities and I limit those priorities to less than five in my life and really in those particular areas put in the energy to try to make good choices.

Fascism is a religious conception in which man is seen in his immanent relationship with a superior law and with an objective Will that transcends the particular individual.

Israel should withdraw from all the areas which it won from the Arabs in 1967, and in particular Israel should withdraw completely from the Golan Heights, from south Lebanon and from the West Bank.

The more obsessively we focus on what a particular food is going to do for us, the less healthy we've become. Simple pleasures become complicated.

I don't think we should proselytize a particular religion.

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

We need to teach people to refuse to install non-free plug-ins; we need to teach people to care more about their long-term interest of freedom than their immediate desire to view a particular site.

The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly.

But if I have once overcome my heart, and am contented through the grace of God in my heart, then this makes me content not only in one particular but in general, whatever befalls me.

I listen to music a lot, if I need to get into a particular space. I do stretching and breathing, and take time to mostly be quiet and find the stillness. I think that's important.

The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.