As beings who cannot know the outcome of any particular action, it is difficult for us to act in a way that… — Andre Alexis Copy Share Image
The one theme of the Vedanta philosophy is the search after unity. The Hindu mind does not care for the particular; it… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important… — John Henry Carver Copy Share Image
Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
In a bird's eye view you tend to survey everything and decide on a particular point, then you swoop down and pick… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me. — William Landay Copy Share Image
No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions,… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
What we are determined to do is to take more people from Syria and that war-torn part of the world as a… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. The one differs from the other as the light from the dark. Yet both… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not);… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Don't feel that you have to tailor your literature a particular way to please any school of ideology. There will emerge in… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I had blackouts, fallen out, of course, the death threats, people showing up, putting guns to my wife's head with mask, and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Creating one single story often requires experimenting and planning and falling on your literary rear more than once before you find the… — Nancy Lam Copy Share Image
Growing up in Asia in a particular time period - the '50s and '60s - I attended a Catholic missionary school where… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The disciplinary power that inscribes femininity in the female body is everywhere and it is nowhere; the disciplinarian is everyone and yet… — Sandra Bartky Copy Share Image
Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science. — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Surrealism! What is Surrealism? In my opinion, it is above all a reawakening of the poetic idea in art, the reintroduction of… — Paul Delvaux Copy Share Image
We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
In this particular historical moment, the notion of conjuncture helps us to address theoretically how youth protests are largely related to a… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I can't tell you why a particular athlete would leave a certain coach, but I can tell you there could be many… — Alberto Salazar Copy Share Image
There is no reason why agreement on particular points should not be both possible and advantageous to the so-called neutrals and to… — Hjalmar Branting Copy Share Image
What surprised me about 'The Casual Vacancy' was not just how good it was, but the particular way in which it was… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
Another factor is that in terms of the original compositions, this is our strongest year yet. Everyone wrote a fantastic piece and… — Joshua Redman Copy Share Image
Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins? — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I try not to cover Sudan from afar. I feel really uncomfortable writing about Sudan when I'm not there. It always looks… — Rebecca Hamilton Copy Share Image
Most people respond to my paintings quite generously, but there have been cases where I think people - a few critics in… — April Gornik Copy Share Image
Call it stubborn, call it ignorant, call it what you want, but I don't think I have to join a particular faith… — Michael Rapaport Copy Share Image
How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I wasn't writing stories with the intention of creating a particular collection. I simply wrote stories, and then discovered common themes among… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
Since man's highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
I was thrilled to be rehired for the 1919 'Follies.' Mr. Ziegfeld himself hired me. To me, that particular 'Follies' was his… — Doris Eaton Travis Copy Share Image
Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don't want to put them in… — Michael Chertoff Copy Share Image
My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think. — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
This film [ Blue is the Warmest Color] actually is the result of me talking with my producer Vincent [Maraval]. I gave… — Abdellatif Kechiche Copy Share Image
I do not think that we should select judges based on a particular philosophy as opposed to temperament, commitment to judicial neutrality… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of going back and forth with my own writing, in particular translating my English language stuff into Ukrainian… — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image