Particular Quotes · Page 61

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation.

— Marilynne Robinson

You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity.

— Judith Butler

Those who are nothing particular are noble people. Don't strive - just be ordinary.

— Linji Yixuan

The true person is Not anyone in particular; But like the deep blue color Of the limitless sky, It is everyone, Everywhere…

— Dogen

When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a…

— Edward Thorndike

In brief, nationalism is a theory of political legitimacy, which requires the ethnic boundaries should not be cut across political ones, and,…

— Ernest Gellner

Lawyers have a way of seeing that sets them apart from the rest of us. In some way this special vision makes…

— Thane Rosenbaum

I wouldn't necessarily assume that because Capricornia has traditionally been a Labor seat, that it'll go back to the Labor Party this…

— George Brandis

My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in…

— Zaha Hadid

Big Pharma needs sick people to prosper. Patients, not healthy people, are their customers. If everybody was cured of a particular illness…

— James Morcan

The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is…

— Frank Herbert

Acting in particular is a fun job when you have a good script. I don't know about acting when you don't have…

— Bob Odenkirk

I want to offer particular congratulations to Andrea Leadsom on her stunning achievement. She is now well placed to win and replace…

— Boris Johnson

I am interested in people living in the margins of society, and I do have a mission to tell the stories of…

— Lynn Nottage

Choosing the right mask helps you... We went through many masks. It was very particular leather that as soon as you smudged…

— Gerard Butler

Airport security is a particular bugbear. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, while I can see that averting…

— James Purefoy

My particular passion for Lincoln dates back from my earliest memories of politics.

— Barack Obama

I knew there was something about 'Sun Medallion,' in particular, because I just had to record it the second I wrote it.

— King Tuff

An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.

— Anatole Broyard

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

— Brother Lawrence

I hope that at this moment you are thinking of yourself as a human being rather than as an American, Asian, European,…

— Dalai Lama

In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.

— Caroline Kennedy

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the…

— Claude Monet

It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education…

— Paulo Freire

Men's stories are seen as universal, women's as particular. What women are up against is the battle to not be marginalized.

— Cheryl Strayed

During the campaign [Donald Trump] talked about reaching out to African- American voters in particular. He talked about inner cities in a…

— Anderson Cooper

I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things…

— Arthur C. Clarke

I'm essentially the result of other people's imagination. And that's fine. Because of other people's imagination, I've played parts I would never…

— John Hurt

What I like about 'Paper Girls' in particular is that, because we're approaching it more from a female perspective, we're able to…

— Cliff Chiang

... People are still disturbingly vague about the treatment of animals. People still seem to believe that meat is a particular substance…

— Anonymous

It is dangerous for a spiritual master to accept almost any aspirant. Although it is an aspect of mercy, it is dangerous.…

— Bhakti Tirtha Swami

The line is a whole, an identity, for a particular place and time.

— Fred Sandback

The creatures that inhabit this earth--be they human beings or animals--are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the…

— Anonymous

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

— Lena Horne

And many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem cause the science doesn't back them up. And in particular,…

— Ted Cruz

We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is…

— Aldous Huxley

If we could sufficiently understand the order of the universe, we should find that it exceeds all the desires of the wisest…

— Gottfried Leibniz

The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

— Susan Sontag

As actors, you live in doubt; that's one of the truths of the particular job.

— Freddie Fox