Particularist Culture Quotes

#1. He pinched the remaining chapters' pages delicately between his fingers and sighed. He always hated reaching the end of a good book.

David S.E. Zapanta

#2. Let go of your plans. The first hour of your morning belongs to God. Tackle the day's work that he charges you with, and he will give you the power to accomplish it.

Edith Stein

#3. If it hadn't been for Grandma, we'd have had no ethnic tone at all.

Edith Konecky

#4. Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually producing the stuff worth reading.

Craig Johnson

#5. Words are just words. The evidence is in how you act, how you react.

Maya Banks

#6. The general goodness, which is nourished in noble hearts makes every one think that strength of virtue to be in another whereof they find assured foundation in themselves.

Philip Sidney

#7. Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more.

Annie Dillard

#8. I feel like a cup of tea with no milk. I just had one. It was disgusting.

Paul Colman

#9. Please understand. When I look at you as if you're crazy, it's not that I judge you for your insanity.

Marie Rutkoski

#10. We need to push the reset button on climate change.

Judith Curry

#11. I feel even less patience with transsexuals

Julie Burchill

#12. Right then, in that moment, Dex The Dick grinned. Grinned. And sweet mother of God, it was devastating. So completely catastrophic I just stood there and absorbed the nuclear bomb going off in front of me, defenseless.

Mariana Zapata

#13. Service
I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages.

Rabia el-Adawia.

Idries Shah

#14. Many police departments still use DNA evidence the way they have used fingerprints and tire tracks: to determine whether a suspect committed the crime.

Bill Dedman

#15. The universalist approach is roughly: 'What is good and right can be defined and always applies.' In particularist cultures far greater attention is given to the obligations of relationships and unique circumstances.

Fons Trompenaars

#16. The poorest people are the sweetest people.

Denzel Washington