Specific Quotes

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. (Hannah Arendt)
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature. View quote
Edmund Burke
I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific. View quote
Lily Tomlin
It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. View quote
Peter Drucker
Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're doing every day. View quote
Marcus Buckingham
I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific. View quote
Jane Wagner
I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration. View quote
Timothy Leary
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 to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love. View quote
Erich Fromm
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
The emblem of a philosophy is not that it contains a set of specific thoughts, but that it generates a way of thinking. (Samuel R. Delany)
God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty. View quote
Peter Marshall
Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings. View quote
Quintus Tullius Cicero
I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of cancer. I decided nobody should suffer that much. View quote
Gertrude B. Elion
As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box. View quote
Adrian Belew
What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years? View quote
Brian Ferneyhough
If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. View quote
Kathryn Bigelow
By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There's no specific line, as you know. View quote
Leo Ornstein
I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific. View quote
Lynn Redgrave
I was doing Hamlet in the off-season, and I had a specific idea in my mind about what I wanted that character to look like, and because it's going to lead into the next year, I knew that it was going to have to be established somewhere in the show. View quote
Michael Shanks
If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: "The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,” I would hide my head in a bag. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie. (Antonin Scalia)
I was a mere tourist with no part whatever in this great conflict; but it was my rare privilege, through an unusual train of circumstances, to witness the moving scenes that I have resolved to describe. In these pages I give only my personal impressions; so my readers should not look here for specific details, nor for information on strategic matters; these things have their place in other writings. View quote
Henry Dunant
The starting point is the recognition that throughout history, religion has been a cause of bloodshed, and it remains so today. Because religion has contributed to the world's problems, it must develop specific and practical ways to help solve those problems. View quote
John Danforth
On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by maintaining such a balance between produce and consumption as will give the greatest exchangeable value to the results of the national industry. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense. View quote
Herbert Spencer