Particular Quotes

#1. I have come to believe that the best kind of walk, or journey, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out.

Ruskin Bond

#2. When you start a new job or a particular journey, you really don't know what to expect. I mean, you hear about your name being on the bestsellers list, but it doesn't really mean anything. Like, really, what does that translate to?

Eric Jerome Dickey

#3. They were not the same eyes with which he had last looked at this particular scene, and the brain which interpreted the images the eyes resolved was not the same brain. There had been no surgery involved, just he continual wrenching of experience.

Douglas Adams

#4. That's what governors do, they wrestle with the issues, they find solutions and they move the agenda forward. At the appropriate time we'll talk about all of these issues, while remembering that our party is a big tent party. We lose when we try to become exclusive to one particular set of issues.

Jon Huntsman Jr.

#5. 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.

Joseph Butler

#6. I don't want to sound too Oprah-ish or anything like that, but I really believe that if you have the power to imagine particular things, you have the ability to transform them.

Rabindranath Maharaj

#7. No matter how much utter disdain I have for the work of a particular artist, I would still rather that he had created those works than hadn't

Derek R. Audette

#8. I happen to find this particular small, smart, sexy package very, very attractive.

Nalini Singh

#9. The motions of the comets are exceedingly regular, and they observe the same laws as the motions of the planets, but they differ from the motions of vortices in every particular and are often contrary to them.

Isaac Newton

#10. I feel like a lot of the portrayals of, in particular, younger minority ethnic characters on television, a lot of their dialogue, a lot of their characteristics, a lot of their personality in a writer's eyes, is kind of propelled through their ethnicity.

Corey Reynolds

#11. I don't believe in any particular definition of the afterlife, but I do believe we're spiritual creatures and more than our biology and that energy cannot be destroyed, but can change. I don't know what the afterlife is going to be, but I'm not afraid of it.

Alan Ball

#12. Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.

Patricia Briggs

#13. Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.

Friedrich August Von Hayek

#14. In the middle years of childhood, it is more important to keep alive and glowing the interest in finding out and to support this interest with skills and techniques related to the process of finding out than to specify any particular piece of subject matter as inviolate.

Dorothy H Cohen

#15. Tennessee Williams was so adept at portraying characters who are both fallible and vulnerable. Women were a huge influence in his life, his mother and sister in particular.

Kim Cattrall

#16. Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.

Questlove

#17. A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music.

Rafal Blechacz

#18. Because different cultures see a particular animal as representing a certain human virtue or vice, the use of animal imagery also allows for more colorful commentary on the human condition.

Larry Herzberg

#19. Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?

Kristin Cashore

#20. BIO'GRAPHER: A writer of lives; a relator not of the history of nations, but of the actions of particular persons.

Samuel Johnson

#21. Many people will admit that they made a mistake [putting money in dot-coms or telecoms at their peak] But that doesn't mean that they've changed their mind about anything in particular. It doesn't mean that they are now able to avoid that mistake.

Daniel Kahneman

#22. I believe every editor should stand to edit. That's just my particular soapbox. Some things are so delicate and depend on such fine, delicate work. One frame in one direction or another can make such a difference and it is, in that, like brain surgery.

Walter Murch

#23. You hear about bombings in other countries, or numbers like "10,000 people died" - you hear that number and you think, "Well, I saw that yesterday in a film, and that didn't look so bad." Younger viewers, in particular, lose perspective on reality.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#24. We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.

Douglas Bader

#25. Nominees [to Supreme Court] shouldn't be expected to pre-commit to ruling on certain issues in a certain way. Nor should senators ask nominees to pledge to rule on issues in a particular way.

Chuck Grassley

#26. There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

Lakhdar Brahimi

#27. My family has had a lot of trouble with cancer in particular. There are a lot of great causes out there but for me to pick one I would say anything that is cancer related.

Casey James

#28. If ignorance is bliss, than knowledge is blissful enlightenment or a serious pain in the butt - depends on how I feel on any particular day!

M.P. Sharma

#29. I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts from all my friends going, 'What's the matter with you?' But I haven't ever made a big attempt to have any particular image. And I don't really worry about it. If it's funny, I don't care.

Kate Beckinsale

#30. Twice a day, or at least once, make your particular examens. Be careful never to omit them. So live as to make more account of your own good conscience than you do of those of others; for he who is not good in regard to himself, how can he be good in regard to others?

James Martin

#31. I never hesitate to tell a man that I am bullish or bearish. But I do not tell people to buy or sell any particular stock. In a bear market all stocks go down and in a bull market they go up.

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

#32. In all the areas of life where people have sought and found consolation through forbidding their desires-sex in particular, and taste in general-the habit of judgment is now to be stamped out.

Roger Scruton

#33. Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#34. The best and noblest gifts of humanity cannot be the monopoly of a particular race or country; its scope may not be limited nor may it be regarded as the miser's hoard buried underground.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#35. I got tiger blood, man. My brain ... fires in a way that is - I don't know, maybe not from this particular terrestrial realm.

Charlie Sheen

#36. On the Contrary, to Aristotle the 'forms' were in the things because they were the particular characteristics of these things

Jostein Gaarder

#37. There wasn't any particular player I modeled my game after. I tried to learn from everyone and create my own style. I studied past players. Truth be told I never had a favorite player. It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people. I just go try to learn.

Magnus Carlsen

#38. All holy books are, above all, great stories whose plots deal with the basic aspects of human nature, setting them within a particular moral context and a particular framework of supernatural dogma.
-Andreas Corelli

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

Henry David Thoreau

#40. It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.

William Bennett

#41. We recycle everything in my house. I'm not into any particular organizations, but I'm doing my part and that makes me feel okay.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

#42. Now, what did "feel" really mean to a computer? Another very good question, but hardly one to be considered at that particular moment. Then,

Arthur C. Clarke

#43. This is a dynamic particular to encounters with male drivers, who seem to grow all the more indignant the more completely they are in the wrong. I think the emotional reasoning, if you can call it that, is transitive: You make me feel bad; feeling mad makes me mad; ergo, you make me mad.

Lionel Shriver

#44. It's not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing. Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn't. I always want the action to be witty. I don't want it to be merely routine.

Adrian Hodges

#45. Nullification is not a 'defense' recognized by law, but rather a mechanism that permits a jury, as community conscience, to disregard the strict requirements of law where it finds that those requirements cannot justly be applied in a particular case.

David L. Bazelon

#46. There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.

Floyd Abrams

#47. I think I have a particular logic of my own that has to do with sound and sampling sound, and there isn't a great deal of music out there in that field. Whereas, harmonically and melodically, there's loads.

Herbert

#48. Today, we think that each person must find his or her own way of being spiritual, something that is comfortable to that person; each spirituality is particular to each person.

David F. Wells

#49. I no longer believe I can save people. I've tried, and I've failed, and while I'm sure there are people out there in the world with that particular gift, I'm not one of them ... But books, on the other hand: I do still believe that books can save you.

Rebecca Makkai

#50. Barbara Stanwyck, in particular, was peerless in everything from high and low comedy to drama to musicals to film noir. She never took a false step.

Eve Golden

#51. An 'Employee of the Month' is a titled given to someone who best helped someone else actualize their dream - in that particular month.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#52. The greatest power over a man is his desire to please a particular woman.

Jeff Wheeler

#53. I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory.

George Saunders

#54. The United States in particular and the West in general should be feeling a little embarrassed about all that lecturing we did to the Third World.

Paul Krugman

#55. I try to do things positive on my throat, but a couple things are negative like smoking and drinking heavily. I really don't know. There's no particular thing that I do that's beneficial - it just kinda works. I guess I'd say warming up every day before a performance is the biggest thing.

Mitch Lucker

#56. Besides, when I look around me at the men, I feel that God never meant us women to be too particular.

Marie Jenney Howe

#57. I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science. All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.

Alan Lightman

#58. Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

Pope Benedict XVI

#59. It is as if I were made of stone, as if I were my own tombstone, there is no loophole for doubt or for faith, for love or repugnance, for courage or anxiety, in particular or in general, only a vague hope lives on, but no better than the inscriptions on tombstones.

Franz Kafka

#60. Organic grow-your-own-granola food is not my style. When a style or a trend wants to impose a way of behaving on me, I do the exact opposite; I might even develop a particular fondness for potassium sorbate and sodium erythorbate.

Jacques Poulin

#61. really great painting is fluid enough to work its way into the mind and heart through all kinds of different angles, in ways that are unique and very particular.

Donna Tartt

#62. My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem.

Rudolph A. Marcus

#63. Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal.

Bela Karolyi

#64. Not that he felt any particular love for himself, but his dislike of others induced him to make the best of his own company.

Umberto Eco

#65. Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way ... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle.

#66. I need to know who the audience are in any particular play. It's no good forgetting that they're there.

Donald Sinden

#67. If you do not like anything in a particular book, then sit and discuss it. Banning a book is not a solution. We have to tackle it ideologically.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#68. The alchemy that is friendship mixed with attraction is important. The alchemy that is two hearts, two minds, two lives, two particular laughs in silly melody is important.

And, it is yet unknown, as you are, to me.

Waylon H. Lewis

#69. Enough, I say. Our guests will be arriving shortly, and I would as lief they were left in the dark about this particular strain of insanity in the family that makes you two revert to childhood at the drop of a napkin.

Kasey Michaels

#70. I try to see what that person is thinking or feeling about that particular day. I just get more of a sense of what that person's like and hopefully it's more interesting than a normal conversation.

Joel Stein

#71. They're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it.

Dizzy Gillespie

#72. The king of the gods took away this man's family, everyone that he loved - and still this particular man did not surrender.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#73. I sighed and stared off without any particular focus. "I miss him so much."
"I'm sorry," she said.
"Will it ever get better?"
The question seemed to catch her by surprise. "I ... I don't know.

Richelle Mead

#74. Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.

George Washington

#75. How I would like to believe in tenderness
The face of the effigy, gentled by candles,
Bending, on me in particular, its mild eyes.

Sylvia Plath

#76. In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market.

Ruben Blades

#77. There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn't how we've approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

Mark Zuckerberg

#78. Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

Isaac D'Israeli

#79. We have to be cautious when we interpret animal behaviors, especially when we want a behavior to mean something in particular. Wanting is a drug, a hallucinogen.

Rebecca Skloot

#80. If I'm writing for a particular artist, I definitely think about their past records, pay attention to the type of tempos that they like. If I have the privilege of actually being in the session with the artist, I just like to have a conversation with them.

Sevyn Streeter

#81. I've learned to listen not to what peolpe have to say 4but how they say it. I watch them closly how they speak, in particular their eyes.Lips lie, but the eyes never do.

Patrick Jones

#82. That being in love can change almost anything: from your expectations and limitations to your very life plans. It's a completely unpredictable force. And how it operates within any particular relationship is a total mystery to anyone outside of that relationship.

Zack Love

#83. Clark liked to think he knew London but the truth was he'd spent most of his adult life in New York, secure within the confines of Manhattan's idiot-proof grid, and on this particular evening London's tangle of streets was inscrutable.

Emily St. John Mandel

#84. My music is not a particular genre. It's not bubblegum or cheese. It's just good songs, pop songs. It's just my songs.

Eliza Doolittle

#85. Nothing is more isolating than having a particular history.

Kevin Powers

#86. 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.

Charlotte Bunch

#87. Music is a language that doesn't speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it's in the bones, it's in the bones.

Keith Richards

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

Joyce Tenneson

#89. In particular, I wanted to help build a team behind Boris Johnson so that a politician who argued for leaving the European Union could lead us to a better future.

Michael Gove

#90. people cannot always predict the outcomes of maintaining or terminating a particular relationship. How can you make a decision without knowing the likely costs or benefits?

Frank Zhu

#91. A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return to the same space to write, the music providing both the walls and the pictures on the walls.

Aleksandar Hemon

#92. Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

Haruki Murakami

#93. A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

Richard Hell

#94. I stayed in Baghdad every summer until I was 14. My dad's sister is still there, but many of my relatives have managed to get out. People forget that there are still people there who are not radicalized in any particular direction, trying to live normal lives in a very difficult situation.

Andy Serkis

#95. If you roll dice, you know that the odds are one in six that the dice will come up on a particular side. So you can calculate the risk. But, in the stock market, such computations are bull - you don't even know how many sides the dice have!

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#96. But Dataran and the boy in the holograph both had pronounced cheekbones and slender frames that suggested a particular grace. And they had both made her fan sputter. What

Marissa Meyer

#97. I don't think aggression works like thirst or sleep. I think aggression is more elicited by particular situations. I think it can be mitigated.

Steven Pinker

#98. I deeply understood that there is no such thing as an isolated act. This particular act had looped and wrapped and folded in on itself and other acts, pushed forward, pulled a hidden past into the present, and placed it in front of me as if to say: Isn't this a fine moment? Who knew?

Patricia Florin

#99. Philosophy is like science and unlike history in that it seeks general truths rather than an account of particular events, either in the near or distant past.

Mortimer J. Adler

#100. The strangest thing of all for Milly was perhaps the uplifted assurance and indifference with which she could simply give back the particular bland stare that appeared in such cases to mark civilisation at its highest. It

Henry James