Particular Quotes

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.

My rap comes from a sociological standpoint rather than picking a particular side or dogma or ideology. I just want people to be free to do what they want, as long as they don't harm others.

Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take.

Often when religious leaders come together, they talk about a particular sexual ethic, or an abstruse doctrine, as though this, rather than compassion, was the test of spiritual life.

Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.

It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.

Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want them to do.

Pure photography is a system of picture-making that describes more or less faithfully what might be seen through a rectangular frame from a particular vantage point at a given moment.

When we hold a World Championship for a particular sport, we invite teams from other countries to play as well.

You don't disarm any white community by confining yourself to any particular method. If you want freedom, then you should get freedom like Patrick Henry said, by whatever method is necessary.

The number of individuals employed under the Constitution of the United States will be much smaller than the number employed under the particular States.

In the particular is contained the universal.

I place myself in situations where a lot of people are going to be, and bring a particular body of work that reflects the people already there. You have to study your subject.

It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves.

There is a very particular feeling I get when I have the camera in my hand, looking at an actor talk, knowing that what I’m shooting will end up on the screen.

A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked.

It's more important to get the right writer and the right take than it is to do something in a particular timeframe.

Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if he knew everything.

The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.

I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

I think writing is really a process of communication. . . . It's the sense of being in contact with people who are part of a particular audience that really makes a difference to me in writing.

Usually when someone believes in a particular religion, his attitude becomes more and more a sharp angle pointing away from himself. In our way the point of the angle is always toward ourselves.

I don't play against any team in particular. I play to fight against defeat.

I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.

When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do.

The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods.

The creatures that inhabit this earth-be they human beings or animals-are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world.

Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually.

You cannot buy a bad automobile any more from any producer. We have to do more products not because we're looking at a particular segment, but because it's a great vehicle.

A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.

I don't write for a particular audience.

An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.

Lo, I am the most stupendous in the land at my particular profession.

I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

[With my photographs] you have a [single, forever fixed] moment and my particular angle of vision. My tyrannical condition, as it were, is that I prescribe your vision.

I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.

I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

The central banks cannot control interest rates. That's a mistake. They can control a particular rate, such as the Federal Funds rate, if they want to, but they can't control interest rates.

I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I'm a particular favourite with young men with earrings.

It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients - or their lack - and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.

The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject.

The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.

And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thing to find out how many men were killed at this particular action.

The option of quitting has long been undervalued and underused... Quitters must not be frightened by the potentially cataclysmic outcome of a particular quit.

I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent it did.