Particular Quotes
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I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.
Socrates
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I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to have a reason to write a particular song.
Neil Diamond
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Romance is very particular to each individual and a very personalised thing.
Shailene Woodley
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In a field like acting, there is pressure of all kinds, and it becomes tricky to navigate this space. There isn't a particular path laid out to get what you want; you have to figure out ways to get there on your own. And yet, there is no guarantee of getting what you want. At times, you don't know whom to listen to or whose advice to follow.
Radhika Apte
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The day will put a particular emphasis on educating people of all ages about the lessons to be learnt from genocide.
Jack Straw
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When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do.
Caitlin Thomas
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If (a U.S.citizen) has really been out of the country for a long while and really has no particular connection there, they will probably still have to file a tax return,
John Whiting
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And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within...
Jimmy Buffett
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I think people love it when anybody acts bad; its not particular to me.
Kevin Spacey
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The best way to understand another person's religion is to listen to the story of what particular practices helped them to deepen and to embody their religion, especially its spirituality.
Thomas Keating
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With this particular series The Cursed Wheel I'm going farther in that direction than I've tried before in terms of the elasticity of the mythology.
Scott Snyder
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I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings.
Koren Zailckas
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China in particular is a very important market.
Brian Perkins
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The major break in the understanding of manliness is not between, say, the nineteenth century and any particular preceding era but between my generation of Baby Boomers and the entire proceeding complex of teachings. In some ways, TR and Churchill have more in common with Homer and Shakespeare than they do with us.
Waller R Newell
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I think that men of my generation - not me in particular - are among the most fortunate men in the universe.
Sergio Leone
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People have always had a fascination with the supernatural going back to the beginning of time and with vampires in particular. This phenomenon is not new.
Richelle Mead
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I think I’m dying to get to know a particular guy. Then he opens his mouth and ruins it.
Elizabeth Chandler
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I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.
Virginia Woolf
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I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.
Sela Ward
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Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.
George Washington
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The chemist, whose science is immediately concerned with the combinations of atoms, has rarely found it necessary to discuss their shapes, and gives them no particular forms in his diagrams. That does not mean that the shapes are unimportant, but rather that the older methods could not define them.
William Henry Bragg
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
William James
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Overall, I think Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in any particular sport. He dominated the game for the Chicago Bulls and brought the NBA to its greatest peak of popularity.
Will McDonough