Quotes About Particularities

When a nation starts to hug its own particularities to itself it is showing fear and it will soon cease having any characteristics worth saving.

We think in generalities, but we live in details.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

The good stuff is in the details.

Investigate the specifics.

I discovered in nature the same appeal I found in books. Both were engrossing, filled with the richness of particularities and yet mysteriously universal. Both were the stuff of perspective.

Watching crowds step off the escalators and onto the concourse, I thought it miraculous that in the midst of so many people, I should ever be able to find her--as well as testimony to the strange particularities of desire that it should be precisely she whom I needed to find.

Details are the only thing that separates one movie from another.

Nothing is what you imagine. Her mind hovered above this simple and alarming thought. The variables were too great, the particularities too distinct, life a flood of translations from the shadow-edged yearnings of the heart to the immutable aspects of the physical world.

Part of what makes the book bizzare is that Whitman, because he wants to stand for everyone, because he wants to be less a historical person than a marker for democratic personhood, can't really write a memoir full of a life's particularities.

It's the little things that count, hundreds of 'em.

Não se pode separar as particularidades da sua vida da política.

La experiencia no es nunca limitada, y no es jamás completa; es una sensibilidad inmensa, una especie de enorme tela de araña de los más finos hilos de seda suspendida en la cámara de la conciencia, y que capta en su tejido todas las particularidades llevadas por el aire.

Todo lo que vive es irrepetible. Es inconcebible que dos seres humanos, dos arbustos de rosa silvestre sean idénticos... La vida se extingue allí donde existe el empeño de borrar las diferencias y las particularidades por medio de la violencia.

Empiece por los detalles.

The difference was in the details.

It's the little things that count, hundreds of them.

It is ever the lot of children to accept their circumstances as universal, and their particularities as general.

It is the trivial little facts about anything that describe it the most effectively.