Particular Quotes · Page 29

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

— Ruth Benedict

Very well, Lord Maccon. If we are going to play this particular hand, would you be interested in becoming my...” “Mistress?

— Gail Carriger

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

— Tucker Max

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

— Charlie Hunter

It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular.

— Karl Kraus

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

— Denis Diderot

If you had to name one particular person to blame it would have to be one of the players

— Theo Foley

Those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!

— Ram Dass

What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently than I do. A good picture must be a…

— Alexey Brodovitch

I agree with the idea that there is a separation of church and state. That teachers should not be leading prayer -…

— Ken Buck

If there's a great story and great characters, then I can love a film in any genre, though crime thrillers and sci-fi…

— Ed Gass-Donnelly

I have abandoned all particular forms of devotion, all prayer techniques. My only prayer practice is attention. I carry on a habitual,…

— Brother Lawrence

Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it…

— Ramana Maharshi

In the bureaucracy, the identity of state interest and particular private aim is established in such a way that the state interest…

— Karl Marx

The particular feature of Berlin - well, all you need to do is look at the map: the geographical position of the…

— Markus Wolf

Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty…

— Howard Thurman

In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the…

— William Strunk, Jr

The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text…

— Don DeLillo

That strain of anti-monopoly crusading egalitarianism really runs throughout American history from [Tomas] Jefferson to Woodrow Wilson, that finds its apotheosis in…

— Jeffrey Rosen

The more you look into health and health inequalities, you realize that a lot of it is not due to a particular…

— Helene D. Gayle

Life is a continuous flux. Our nonhuman ancestors bred, generation after generation, and incrementally begat what we now deem to be the…

— Sam Harris

When political leaders fail to denounce anti-Semitic violence and slurs, the void is not only demoralizing to the victims, but silence actually…

— Chris Smith

But, as I understand it, your God is a universal God; He is God on all suns and all planets. Surely, then,…

— John Wyndham

It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be…

— Thomas Paine

I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.

— Anne Tyler

Laws are important. But they can only be effective if the people know about the particular laws.

— Waris Dirie

I have come to believe that the best kind of walk, or journey, is the one in which you have no particular…

— Ruskin Bond

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

The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common…

— Joel Miller

Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.

— Questlove

The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?

— Richard L. Evans

Let us reject the spirit of making proselytes to particular creeds by any other means than persuasion.

— Noah Webster

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

— Watchman Nee

Nic's Charlie is something very particular. You can't really put them together. It's a phantasm.

— Tilda Swinton

This particular world is not really a world, it's a perception that you are having at the moment.

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Sean Penn

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

— Keith Rothfus

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

— William James

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