Particular Quotes · Page 24

I am getting much more political as I get older. It's the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back…

— Jeanette Winterson

We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.

— Anonymous

I liked being able to portray a woman at this particular age and at this point in her life.

— Parker Posey

A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must…be undaunted when the going gets tough.

— Ronald Reagan

There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in…

— Rene Descartes

It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves.

— Henry David Thoreau

Look, we're living in a crazy time right now. There's a lot of craziness going on in the world and in the…

— Mike Jackson

Many comics stay in one city and develop their acts for that particular audience.

— Judy Gold

Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of…

— Gaston Bachelard

We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at…

— Grandmaster Flash

He had a certain air of being a handsome man-which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man-which…

— Charles Dickens

Often when religious leaders come together, they talk about a particular sexual ethic, or an abstruse doctrine, as though this, rather than…

— Karen Armstrong

The whole Haley-Nathan marriage deal was a pretty good twist huh? I hope we got all of you with it. That particular…

— James Lafferty

I think there is something so compelling about the truth that whether you're a lawyer or judge or an actor, when you…

— Sarah Jones

There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at…

— Jock Sturges

For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer…

— Hannah Arendt

What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about…

— John Connolly

Love has a particular trait: far from being indulgent or fickle, it has a task or purpose to fulfil: to abide. By…

— Pope Benedict XVI

the sudden violent dispossession accompanying a refugee flight is much more than the loss of a permanent home and a traditional occupation,…

— Dervla Murphy

I was on Batman with "Superheavy" or "Zero Year" where there was a lot of fun and bombast, but it was also…

— Scott Snyder

Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the…

— Robert M. Pirsig

The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must reach a high standard in several different directions and must combine…

— John Maynard Keynes

I cannot afford to believe that freedom from intolerance is the right of only one particular group. And I cannot afford to…

— Audre Lorde

Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some are born definite…

— Gregory Maguire

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

— Samuel Johnson

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.

— Errol Morris

What's scary is that Donald Trump has his own sordid history when it comes to discrimination - in housing, in particular.

— Jumaane Williams

Meanings generating meanings - the process has backed us into a particular corner, a kind of cave, where sunlight seldom enters.

— Tarthang Tulku

There's always a bit of suspense about the particular way in which a given school year will get off to a bad…

— Frank Portman

Erasures are interesting to me because they prove what particular sieves we all are.

— Matthea Harvey

'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been…

— Audre Lorde

Medicare in particular will run out of money, and we will not be able to sustain that program no matter how much…

— Barack Obama

You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I…

— Arshile Gorky

I had no name for that particular hue of orange, other than unfortunate.

— Rachel Caine

It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is…

— Thomas Brooks

Spirituality is recognizing the divine light that is within us all. It doesn't belong to any particular religion; it belongs to everyone

— Muhammad Ali

The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

— Duane Michals

There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose?

— Garry Wills

“But there is one strategy in particular that I would like to share with you.”

— Robin S. Sharma