Particular Quotes · Page 20

The particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer’s passivity.

— Watchman Nee

I don't believe any particular ethnic group is smarter than any other group.

— David Steinberg

You wouldn't be allowed to get on a particular bus, but you'd be asked to sign your autograph.

— Lena Horne

miss my daily Mass, and have a superstitious feeling that anything may happen on the days I don't go. However, nothing in…

— Rose Macaulay

There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on.

— Daphne Merkin

a greater evil than the restoration of the Bourbons to the world in general, and England in particular, can hardly happen.

— Charles James Fox

Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.

— William James

There are many nations that have perfected a particular room. You know, you have the French drawing-room, the Austrian ball room, the…

— Julian Fellowes

We're all more or less interested in the 'swinging sixties', of course, but that's not what I mean. I'm interested in the…

— Quentin S. Crisp

We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality. So the work is often…

— James Turrell

No matter how much utter disdain I have for the work of a particular artist, I would still rather that he had…

— Derek R. Audette

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…

— Debi Mazar

Returning to writing fiction after 13 years away from it. Returning to the rootstock of my whole life as a writer. It's…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I'm not necessarily a good actor, but once people start saying you are, you are. And I know that that's a truism,…

— Alexander Siddig

Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so we're just trying to get more visibility about this…

— Barry Manilow

I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg - I don't usually admit this publicly…

— Terry Gilliam

If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our…

— Margaret Mead

For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about…

— Alan Lightman

Most of the time, with voice-overs, you're recording before they've got the graphics, and you also don't get a whole script. I…

— Tricia Helfer

As women's leadership qualities come to play a more dominant role in the public sphere, their particular aptitudes for long-term negotiating, analytic…

— Sally Helgesen

We consider the beauty of nature and art with pleasure and satisfaction, without the slightest movement of desire. Instead, it appears to…

— Moses Mendelssohn

I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups (subway conductors, social…

— Ted Nelson

As well as might we say that a ship is built, loaded and manned for the sake of any particular pilot, instead…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

I don't have opinions. Only if it is necessary for a particular action, I make a judgment. Opinions are fetters for your…

— Jaggi Vasudev

I'm a transactional lawyer; I negotiate all types of things, but with a particular focus in software licenses.

— Keith Rothfus

I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.

— Sean Penn

My husband is pretty particular about his cars. In his opinion, the Mercedes are the best of the best.

— Lauren Lee Smith

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Yes. Do you know people who are really nice, but when they get together with somebody in particular, they become obnoxious jerks?

— Sheldon Siegel

Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.

— Witold Gombrowicz

Specialize in your particular field and try to know more about it than anyone else.

— Joseph Murphy

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

— Anthony Eden

That particular octopus committed suicide, didn't he? He stabbed himself with his own beak.

— Richard Madeley

It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me.

— Holly Black

Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons

— Pope John Paul II

If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

— Angela Davis

To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their (W/E Egg) dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald