Specifies Quotes

#1. The holiday specifies that everyone recline during the meal. It is a symbolic gesture showing that Jews can eat with leisure because they have been freed from bondage.

Karl Katz

#2. Hate generalizes, love specifies.

Robin Morgan

#3. Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification.

Robin Morgan

#4. It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of 'there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties'), thereof one must be silent. It must on the contrary be named.

Alain Badiou

#5. When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette.

Tia Carrere

#6. Hate generalises, love specifies

Robin Morgan

#7. The particular verbal freedom of SF, coupled with the corrective process that allows the whole range of the physically explainable universe, can produce the most violent leaps of imagery. For not only does it throw us worlds away, it specifies how we got there.

Samuel R. Delany

#8. People tend to be exquisitely precise when describing pain. We don't just say it hurts, we say it throbs or aches; it's a burning, wrenching, gnawing sensation; it's sharp or dull; it chafes; it stings. But where pain specifies, joy generalizes. It was great! we say. Terrific! Beautiful! Fantastic!

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#9. As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, "Hate generalizes, love specifies". Thats what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies.

Gloria Steinem

#10. Your personal brand must exude who you are, what you stand for, specifies your target market, what value you intend to add to them and the unique offering through which you will do that.

Archibald Marwizi

#11. Each distinct cipher can be considered in terms of a general encrypting method, known as the algorithm, and a key, which specifies the exact details of a particular encryption.

Simon Singh

#12. Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption, or what Bacon calls the reign of the Idols.

Marshall McLuhan

#13. We've had drive-by shootings. I've been spat on, slapped, shot at. One guy tried to stab me with a broken beer bottle. But the way we look at it, if people do the worst they can, we'll still wake up in glory.

Troy Perry

#14. I'm up early 'cuz ain't enough light in the daytime

Pimp C

#15. This is the heart I need. And if I have this - and a little schmaltz - I dont need anything else in the world

Alice Clayton

#16. If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

Abraham Lincoln

#17. My dad told me something long before I was in politics, and when your dad gives you advice every single day, eventually one or two of the things stick in your mind. And he said, don't believe what people say, believe what they do.

Mick Mulvaney

#18. The majority of the people in the country don't care what color I am.

Herman Cain

#19. The trick to saying the word cock, is to do it like you have one in your mouth.

Geoffrey Knight