Specific Quotes

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You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to. — Romola Garai
I think because we're ourselves, we tend to think we're unique. 'I have problems that are just specific to me.' Then you connect with one… — Chris Hardwick
Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny--he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be… — Rajneesh
Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted… — Pope John Paul II
We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the… — Vladimir Nabokov
My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no… — Frank O'Hara
Now, now," my father said. "Let's just get the bags." This was typical. My father, the lone male in our estrogen-heavy household, had always dealt… — Sarah Dessen
That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific-chair, eye, stone- but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they were… — Janet Fitch
Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person… — Erich Fromm
Jeeves, you really are a specific dream-rabbit." "Thank you, miss. I am glad to have given satisfaction. — P.G. Wodehouse
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity… — Woodrow Wilson
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the… — Orson Scott Card
Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve… — Thomas Merton
The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to… — Jack Zipes
Its important to have specific dreams. Dream Big. Dream without fear. — Randy Pausch
A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of… — Charles Baxter
You know what your trouble is? You're the kind who always reads the handbook. Anything people build, any kind of technology, it's going to have… — William Gibson
Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And… — George Carlin
This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated… — Elizabeth Gilbert
There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse… — Marilynne Robinson

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