Particularly Quotes
1950 quotes by 1551 authors
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The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of…
— Eric Hoffer
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If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will always exaggerate. Then…
— Mark Twain
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A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men…
— Charles Dickens
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Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart.
— Stephanie Mills
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You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product, but if your bottom line goes bust, then that's it.
— Mukesh Ambani
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Regulation is necessary, particularly in a sector, like the banking sector, which exposes countries and people to a risk.
— Christine Lagarde
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I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page as an artist…
— Neil Gaiman
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My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions, these…
— Diana Trilling
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Getting fired can produce a particularly bountiful payday for a CEO. Indeed, he can 'earn' more in that single day, while cleaning out his desk,…
— Warren Buffett
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Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.
— David Hockney
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While you're meditating, all kinds of thoughts arise... You don't find your thoughts threatening or particularly helpful. They just become the general gossip of your…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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If you look back at history or you look at any place in the world where religious groups or ethnic groups or racial groups or…
— Pema Chodron
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What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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On the rock bound coast of New Brunswick the waves break incessantly. Every now and then comes a particularly dangerous wave that breaks viciously into…
— Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
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With 28 million children eating lunch at school every day in the United States, I believe government has an obligation to ensure parents have some…
— Rosa DeLauro
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There are tons of things in your home and life that you don't use, need, or even particularly want. They just came into your life…
— Tim Ferriss
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It's not enough to shelve your own competitive streak. You have to try, consciously, to help others succeed. Some people feel this is like shooting…
— Chris Hadfield
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Perhaps the most important ingredient in my work... is my brain - particularly the right brain... the free spontaneous side, and the left brain, which…
— Brian Johnson
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If our intelligence is either manipulated or if it's shaded or if in some way it is exaggerated, it is very, very dangerous for us,…
— Carl Levin
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Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.
— Ernst Mayr
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