Particulars Quotes

84 Particulars quotes by 74 unique authors

When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being "Homo sapiens" was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious… — Nikki Giovanni
There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer. — Arthur Wing Pinero
The dead don't bother with particulars. — Flannery O'Connor
It's funny to see the finished product of a movie, stuff that's so beautiful, and to remember the particulars. — Amy Ryan
Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the… — Chad Smith
In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the Classical… — John Walford
It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times… — Francis Bacon
Whoever you are, be that person with all your might. Time goes by faster than we thought. It is a thief so quiet. You must… — Barry Hannah
The language of the poem is the language of particulars. — Mary Oliver
When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge. — Isaac Watts
All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small. — Henry Louis Gates
Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not. — William James
There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent… — Ayelet Waldman
For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone… — Aldous Huxley
That's just pain she said. It goes eventually. And when it's gone, there's no lasting memory. Not the worst of it anyway. It fades. Our… — Charles Frazier
A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound. — William Carlos Williams
Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is… — Epictetus
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach… — Hermann Hesse
Life on earth is a whole, yet it expresses itself in unique time-bound bodies, microscopic or visible, plant or animal, extinct or living. So there… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the… — Nikolai Gogol
Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.' 'I was at Scone College, Oxford, for… — Evelyn Waugh
By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most… — Wallace Stegner
You will be interested to hear, Hilary, that it [the drug] had a most remarkable effect — even on Selena after a very modest quantity.… — Sarah Caudwell
I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have the… — Edgar Allan Poe
How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have . . .… — William Wilberforce

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