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Quotes About Particular

The Gift-Bringer has ceased to be Dutch or Catholic or, indeed, of any particular ethnic or religious affiliation, owing no allegiance to Europe, the pope, or the past.
~ Gerry Bowler
For the reason, or maxim, is inevitably a proposition of some generality. It cannot embody specifications to fit every detail of the particular state of affairs.
~ Gilbert Ryle
Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.
~ Goethe Johann Wolfgang von
In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
~ Bernard Shaw
There's all the others, but not the one. And having that one is special.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
A good idea is not enough. It must be the fit of a particular idea for a particular entrepreneur and, ideally, unfair advantages in why said particular entrepreneur is going to address said particular idea.
~ Andy Dunn
England's is a very solid squad, but I can't name a particular player; a team is all the players, and they're good.
~ Gabriel Batistuta
Since man's highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.
~ Salvador Dali
To explain why a man slipped on a banana peel, we do not need a general theory of slipping.
~ Sidney Morgenbesser
Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!
~ Robert Browning
He's the kind of man who picks his friends - to pieces.
~ Mae West
known to humankind through the creation that surrounds them, God exposes that early generation's unthankfulness and points an omniscient finger of guilt toward their idolatrous betrayal, the particular
~ Terry James
Empirical reality becomes nature when we view it with respect to its universal characteristics; it becomes history when we view it as particular and individual.
~ Terry Nardin
It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.
~ Thomas Brooks
I happen to like dark, and I like the fact that 'Arrow' is a pretty dark show, particularly for a network show.
~ Marc Guggenheim
If you're trying to get into the sports business, you really have to find a niche.
~ Phil Knight
Sometimes we have to be judged by our one-offs.
~ Nick Hornsby, How To Be Good
It also noted that the test for reasonableness … "is not capable of precise definition or mechanical application," and therefore the test's "proper application requires careful attention to the facts and circumstances of each particular case.
~ Nick Selby
Evil is never abstract. It is always concrete, always particular and always vested in individuals. To deny monsters as individuals the right to speak, to actually state their case, is perverse - because I want to hear the Devil speak. I like the idea that a point of view can be made by the dark side.
~ Clive Barker
De modo que la logoterapia considera que la esencia de la existencia consiste en la capacidad del ser humano para responder responsablemente a las demandas que la vida le plantea en cada situación particular.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
If you could refresh my recollection on that matter I might be able to recall what you want me to recall, but at this particular time I do not recall the particulars of that particular matter.
~ Charles Brandt
He had a particular pride in the phrase eminently practical, which was considered to have a special application to him.
~ Charles Dickens
Everyone had to carve a life out of the same legacy: half universal, half particular; half sharpened by relentless natural selection, half softened by the freedom of chance.
~ Greg Egan
The characteristics of the reasoning of crowds are the association of dissimilar things possessing a merely apparent connection between each other, and the immediate generalisation of particular cases. It is arguments of this kind that are always presented to crowds by those who know how to manage them.
~ Gustave Le Bon