Particular Quotes - Page 4

• A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.

  Albert Camus

  Acting, Nazism, Logic

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• Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.

  Adrienne Rich

  Children, Motherhood, Identity

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good; and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.

  Blaise Pascal

  Unique, Greatness, Class

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.147

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• Reading ... changes you. You aren't the same person after you've read a particular book as you were before, and you will read the next book, unless both are Harlequin Romances, in a slightly different way.

  Margaret Atwood

  Reading, Book, Romance

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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• Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Class, Arguing, Reason

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1822). “Works”, p.33

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• My True Name is so well known in the Records, or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old-Baily, and there are some things of such Consequence still depending there, relating to my particular Conduct, that it is not to be expected I should set my Name, or the Account of my Family to this Work; perhaps, after my Death it may be better known, at present it would not be proper, no, not tho' a general Pardon should be issued, even without Exceptions and reserve of Persons or Crimes.

  Daniel Defoe

  Book, Names, Records

  Daniel Defoe (1993). “Moll Flanders”, p.7, Wordsworth Editions

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• Superstition is believing that something means anything and that anything means something and that each thing means a particular thing and will mean a particular thing is coming. Oh yes it does.

  Gertrude Stein

  Believe, Mean, Doe

  Gertrude Stein, Richard Kostelanetz (2002). “The Gertrude Stein Reader: The Great American Pioneer of Avant-garde Letters”, p.88, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worthwhile to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

  Jane Austen

  Real, Opportunity, Thinking

  Letter, January 21, 1799.

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• One could count on one's fingers the number of scientists throughout the world with a general idea of the history and development of their particular science: there is none who is really competent as regards sciences other than his own. As science forms an indivisible whole, one may say that there are no longer, strictly speaking, scientists, but only drudges doing scientific work.

  Simone Weil

  Science, Ideas, Numbers

  Simone Weil (2013). “Oppression and Liberty”, p.12, Routledge

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• I am not famous for anything in particular. I am just famous.

  Iris Murdoch

  Iris Murdoch (1956). “The flight from the enchanter”, Viking Pr

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• You may think that all your happiness depends upon obtaining one particular thing in life; later on, you praise the Lord that you didn't get it.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Happiness, Thinking, Things In Life

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2009). “The Game of Life and How to Play It”, p.172, Penguin

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• I hate, loathe and despise schools.School is bad for you if you have any talent. You should be cultivating that talent in your own particular way.

  Maurice Sendak

  Hate, School, Way

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• If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.

  Andre Breton

  Discipline, Lines, Moral

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• Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective.

  Sheila Rowbotham

  Power, Reality, Hands

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• We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization. We must exercise our power. But we ought neither to believe that a nation is capable of perfect disinterestedness in its exercise, nor become complacent about a particular degree of interest and passion which corrupt the justice by which the exercise of power is legitimatized.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Believe, Passion, Exercise

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2010). “The Irony of American History”, p.5, University of Chicago Press

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• children once settled and confident can mostly be left, it seems, to manage their difficulties without us. Only what we must do, always and unalterably, is hold their hand firmly in general goodwill, then they themselves seem to deal with their own particular troubles far better than we can.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Children, Hands, Trouble

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• For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices.

  Hannah Arendt

  Choices, Being Different, Infinite

  Hannah Arendt (2000). “The Portable Hannah Arendt”, Penguin Group USA

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• Dublin ... is not only the capital of a nation, but the capital of an idea. The idea of Irishness is not universally beloved. Some people mock it, some hate it, some fear it. On the whole, though, I think it fair to say, the world interprets it chiefly as a particular kind of happiness, a happiness sometimes boozy and violent, but essentially innocent: and this ineradicable spirit of merriment informs the Dublin genius to this day.

  Jan Morris

  Hate, Thinking, Ideas

  Jan Morris (1976). “Travels”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• The brain and its satellite glands have now been probed to the point where no particular site remains that can reasonably be supposed to harbour a nonphysical mind.

  E. O. Wilson

  Brain, Mind, Religion

  "Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries?" by Marilynne Robinson, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2010.

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• Biblical higher criticism is preserved in the particular enclave of academic Christian scholarship and is thought to be too unfruitful to share with the average pew-sitter, for it raises more questions than the church can adequately answer. So the leaders of the church would protect the simple believers from concepts they were not trained to understand. In this way that ever-widening gap between academic Christians and the average pew-sitter made its first appearance.

  John Shelby Spong

  Christian, Biblical, Simple

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• If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry; I will find you another who will not agree with him.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Food, Wine, Sleep

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• Malcolm Fraser, in the marrow of his bones, despised racism. He despised people who discriminated against other people because they were different and in particular because of the colour of their skin, and I don't think there has been a time in Australian politics where there has been more attention to the importance of that value.

  George Brandis

  Thinking, Racism, People

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I don't want to restrict the life of a play to a particular production. The original actors might leave after the first six months, and I want the play to last 30 or 40 years. You write for the character, not the actor on the stage.

  Neil Simon

  Character, Writing, Years

  Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.

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• What we will not wait for is that particular nexus of terrorism, weapons of mass destruction that is extremism, and the technology to come together in a way that is harmful to the United States.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Technology, Mass Destruction, Waiting

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I personally believe it's really important for the students to experience a particular culture.

  Robert J. Dolan

  Believe, Important, Culture

  "Robert Dolan Innovates Michigan's MBA Program". bigthink.com.

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