Particular Quotes

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.

I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.

God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.

Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.

To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.

God has committed himself, ever since creation, to working through his creatures--in particular, through his image-bearing human beings--but they have all let Him down.

I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me

It seems that neither the Keynesian nor the Marxian prognosis of the future of capitalism is being fulfilled and we are left without any particular theory as to what will happen next.

Life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

In a bird's eye view you tend to survey everything and decide on a particular point, then you swoop down and pick it up. In a worms eye view you don't have that advantage of looking at everything.

I'm more concerned about the salvation of souls than I am in promoting a particular party.

I have a big collection of quotation programs...In particular, I like MCR Software's Wisdom of the Ages, which has the best selection of relevant quotes I know.

Parents will purchase the dot-com name for their baby. We have been aware of some instances where somebody didn't name their child a particular name because the dot-com wasn't available.

There is an emergent enlightenment appearing today, unique to no particular culture or ethnicity. Anyone who chooses to be, is its conduit.

In the particular lies the universal.

Somehow, the love of the islands, like the love of a woman, just happens. One cannot determine in advance to love a particular woman, nor can one so determine to love Hawaii.

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.

By ' patriotism ' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life , which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people.

For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator; as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose case is judged.

[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.

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.

It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.

Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people.

Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

Pride and reserve are not the only things in life; perhaps they are not even the best things. But if they happen to be your particular virtues you will go all to pieces if you let them go.

The man who wins is the average man, Not built on any particular plan; Not blessed with any particular luck

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.

All countries are particular and no models are perfect.

I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

Who are you?”, my answer would be: “Nothing in particular. Yet, I am.

I'm never sloppy, and I never wear jeans. I don't work one look in particular, but it's usually retro - I'm a flea-market freak. And detailed - I'm always very done, even at the gym.

I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.

People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.

Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.

I noticed long ago that Amin has the tendency to concentrate power in his own hands but I did not attach any particular significance to this. However, recently this tendency has become dangerous.

By voting for a candidate, we're not endorsing a particular lifestyle. We're simply voting on the issues.

Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.

25 years later, you know, I haven't really put too much emphasis on any kind of individual goal, other than trying to win any particular night, trying to find a way to do that.

I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.