Particular Quotes · Page 22

If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.

— P. D. James

The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

— Claire Messud

I don't do films because they tell a particular kind of story, I do films with stories that touch me.

— Aamir Khan

Safety is knowing that when this particular life form is finished, what it has served remains...

— Gangaji

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

— Voltaire

What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.

— Anonymous

Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments.

— Malcolm Gladwell

I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to…

— Heston Blumenthal

After realizing a principle, unless you learn it with your body you cannot expect to get true understanding. Scholars in particular tend…

— Koichi Tohei

Belief in liberal freedom and democracy is always belief in it in a particular place, in a national home with histories that…

— Michael Ignatieff

Its not a story in which the characters grow up, but a story in which they draw on something already inside them,…

— Hayao Miyazaki

Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices,…

— Patti Smith

If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to the hard work and…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in…

— Saffron Burrows

My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to…

— Georges Cuvier

I hope that this man can be won over by your bearing charitably with him, advising him prudently, and praying for him.…

— Vincent de Paul

Scholars have found that references to Christ in Josephus were deliberately planted in the translation long after it was written, and the…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Another factor is that in terms of the original compositions, this is our strongest year yet. Everyone wrote a fantastic piece and…

— Joshua Redman

When we feel pressured to have achieved certain things by a particular age, it could ultimately hinder us. It's great to have…

— Soledad O'Brien

One could count on one's fingers the number of scientists throughout the world with a general idea of the history and development…

— Simone Weil

I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts…

— Kate Beckinsale

The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Buying a particular vintage because everyone tips it and then waiting for it to mature is like gambling. The thrill is in…

— Kenneth Cranham

I hate the idea that I have to represent any particular section of society; I just write good telly, that's all.

— Russell T Davies

Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.

— Charles Mingus

Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes.

— Preet Bharara

By voting for a candidate, we're not endorsing a particular lifestyle. We're simply voting on the issues.

— Robert Jeffress

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

— Anonymous

I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect.

— Nick Cave

I'm very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing, and it would be the same way about the…

— Jason Aldean

When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good…

— Philippe Petit

I watch golf, just looking at the pros, and I'm in awe of how they play. Not one particular player - maybe…

— Masahiro Tanaka

It is music that, being the universal language, has no need to learn any particular language of the world.

— Sri Chinmoy

Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.

— Ruth Benedict

I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do.

— Alexis Korner

I'm not psychic. I cannot know what is in the mind of particular public figures.

— John Bercow

A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if he knew everything.

— Sei Shonagon

Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment, not forcing any particular style.

— Charlie Hunter

Usually, whatever people's particular political leaning is, they either think I'm just like them or the opposite.

— Tucker Max