Quotes About Particular

Conscience is the internal perception of the reaction of a particular wish operating within us

Language, after all, is impersonal and personal, particular and general, both inside us and outside us, and James writes with a profound awareness of this fact. Words are where the public and private intersect.

I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.

'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them

a priori knowledge such as mathematics or logic is general, whereas all experience is particular.

One of my big beliefs about Washington is that we highly overstate the power of individuals and highly underrate seeing Washington as a system, in general, but, in particular, we highly underrate the power of Congress.

That's it really, at the moment I wouldn't say I was influenced by any one thing in particular.

We discuss things, rather than ideas; we exchange information, not theories; we keep ourselves steady by thinking about the particular. The general is frightening.

Emotions weren't created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I've got a sense of the clock ticking. We have to feel all those things to the maximum. Like, I don't eat a lot but I really love eating. And I like being precise and particular. There is a certain respect in that. If you can do your day depending on how you feel, and enjoy things as well.

Actually, after many years on the campaign trail, there is not a particular food that I've come across that I would avoid.

Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian.

The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal.

I don't know a single actor who is not picky.

My main object is to write, to keep learning. I always try to perfect my composition. But I do like writing film and opera music. I believe that it fulfills the needs of particular situations.

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

I know that sometimes politics creates situations in which people want to say particular things for political reasons.

Hatred isgeneralized, but love is for the particular.

I think people love it when anybody acts bad; its not particular to me.

And if he were really to do good he would have needed in addition to his principles, a heart capable of violating them - a heart which knows only of particular not of general cases and which achieves greatness in little actions.

We aim at experience in the particular centres in which alone it is evil. We avoid classification. We do not deny it. But when a man is classified something is lost.

Because the particular has no language. One thinks to escape

By definition, a Special Counsel is charged with investigating particular potential crimes, not all potential crimes wherever they may be found.

I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad.