Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I don't paint so that people will understand me, I paint to show what a particular scene looks like. — J. M. W. Turner Copy Share Image
I think Nevada is going to really be the first true test of whether or not these candidates have particular strengths in… — Lucy Flores Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
That's an area of particular satisfaction, where we made a difference? — Ken Paulson Copy Share Image
Morality, then, is not a set of arbitrary regulations dictated by a vengeful deity and written down in a book; nor is… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
All I'm saying is that there is a price to be paid at the sharp end.. environmentally and everywhere else.. for the… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
It is with honesty in one particular as with wealth,--those that have the thing care less about the credit of it than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The particular source of frustration of women observing their own self-study and measuring their worth as women by the distance they kept… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
The English language lacks the words 'to mourn an absence.' For the loss of a parent, grandparent, spouse, child or friend we… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
In some traditional African dances, people wear masks in order to become the embodiments of particular spirits. I have heard that they… — Justin Adams Copy Share Image
The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry... every reader making out… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
The subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
When I put the camera back to my eye, I noticed a particular guardsman pointing at me. I said, "I'll get a… — John Filo Copy Share Image
I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
One of my complaints with American TV characters is that they all have a particular schtick, a hook. — Kevin McKidd Copy Share Image
When I use a direct manipulation system whether for text editing, drawing pictures, or creating and playing games I do think of… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
You know, when you can play with the greatest players of that particular era, you look forward to going to the ballpark.… — Johnny Bench Copy Share Image
Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Part a of scene from 'Bitterblue' between Madlen (Bitterblue's medicine woman) and Bitterblue: Madlen came to sit beside her [Bitterblue] on the… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling… — Ernest Belfort Bax Copy Share Image
Skeptics question the validity of a particular claim by calling for evidence to prove or disprove it. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy, Canada is like an intelligent, 35… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence.… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
