Particulars Quotes

84 Particulars quotes by 74 unique authors

Adoption is rewarding. But the process, as we have already detailed in some particulars, can be expensive, exhausting, and hard to sustain on a dream,… — Scott Simon
A child is an eager observer and is particularly attracted by the actions of the adults and wants to imitate them. In this regard an… — Maria Montessori
I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there… — Aime Cesaire
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! — Anton Chekhov
Experience is of particulars only. — Abraham Kaplan
Realism sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract from these their… — George Parsons Lathrop
Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason… — Aristotle
There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life's solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring… — Stephen Nachmanovitch
Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave. — William Blake
The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers - Homer, Dante,… — William Strunk, Jr.
Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down — Elaine Scarry
We feel the beauty of nature because we are part of nature and because we know that however much in our separate domains we abstract… — Unknown Author
Knowing her we will know that we are her divine children in a relationship of complete, unconditionally loving intimacy; we will know that nature is… — Andrew Harvey
For many years now I have listened to the stories of people with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses as their counselor. From them I have… — Rachel Naomi Remen
DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another. — Ambrose Bierce
He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent… — James Russell Lowell
He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars. — William Blake
In India there was a sense of time that does not tick with modern clocks, just as there is a knowledge that is not gained… — Huston Smith
If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until… — Chauncey Wright
I shall omit former particulars, and begin with informing the Reader, that, in 1792, I was strangely visited, by day and night, concerning what was… — Joanna Southcott
Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and… — Richard Mitchell
Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank traced end… — Jack Kerouac
Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be… — Andrew Weil
I believe not only that religious faith will be victorious, but that it is vital to humankind that it shall be. We may differ in… — Herbert Hoover
I don't think I'm romantic at all. I have a lot of faith in the right thing happening. I don't really hope for a lot… — Juliana Hatfield

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