Particular Quotes

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular. (George Bernard Shaw)
I don't play against a particular team. I play against the idea of losing. View quote
Eric Cantona
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. View quote
Aristotle
A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens. View quote
John Updike
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament! View quote
Vladimir Lenin
The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts. View quote
Henry Moore
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. View quote
E. M. Forster
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. View quote
Iris Murdoch
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. View quote
Iris Murdoch
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. View quote
Iris Murdoch
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens. (Coretta Scott King)
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it. View quote
Gwendolyn Brooks
To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return. View quote
Bertrand Russell
National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience. View quote
Edward de Bono
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. View quote
Rumi
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. View quote
Denis Diderot
A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular. View quote
Mikhail Lermontov
A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. View quote
Milton Friedman
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. (Marie Curie)
Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages. View quote
Marcel Proust
In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building. View quote
Minoru Yamasaki
Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized. View quote
Ulrich Beck
On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement. View quote
Fredrik Bajer