Particular Quotes - Page 7

• I thank Henry James for the scene in the hotel room, that I stole from Portrait Of A Lady… This particular scene is the most beautiful scene ever written.

  Leos Carax

  Beautiful, Portraits, Rooms

  "New York Film Festival - diary four" by Anne-Katrin Titze, www.eyeforfilm.co.uk. October 11, 2012.

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• By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse résumé to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he's ready-for nothing in particular.

  Peter Thiel

  College, May, Students

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.50, Crown Business

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• To concentrate is not to meditate, even though that is what most of you do, calling it meditation. And if concentration is not meditation, then what is? Surely, meditation is to understand every thought that comes into being, and not to dwell upon one particular thought; it is to invite all thoughts so that you understand the whole process of thinking.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Thinking, Meditation, Calling

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1956-1957, A light to yourself”, Krishnamurti Foundation of Amer

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• Because when an artist has to assert that her intended audience is all humans rather than those who happen to be of her particular gender or race, what she’s actually having to assert is the breadth and depth of her own humanity.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Artist, Race, Humanity

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• We have often had this particular exchange about climate and landscape and why we both feel so lonely here uprooted. It was what each of us had wanted of course.Besides wanting to experience a place we hated, we wanted to be insomniacs and loners, losers and drop-outs. To know the sky was the only location of meaning and joy left to us.

  Fanny Howe

  Lonely, Sky, Joy

  Fanny Howe (2000). “Indivisible”, Semiotext

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• Such debates [about the nature of Scripture], in my view, distract attention from the real point of what the Bible is there for. Squabbling over particular definitions of the qualities of the Bible is like a married couple squabbling over which of them loves the children more, when they should be getting on with bringing them up and setting them a good example. The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth.

  N. T. Wright

  Couple, Children, Real

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• I am called to listen to the sound of my own heart -- to write the story within myself that demands to be told at that particular point in my life. And if I do this faithfully, clothing that idea in the flesh of human experience and setting it in a true place, the sound from my heart will resound in the reader's heart.

  Katherine Paterson

  Writing, Heart, Ideas

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• The most fascinating women are those that can most enrich the every day moments of existence. In a particular and attaching sense, they are those that can partake our pleasures and our pains in the liveliest and most devoted manner. Beauty is little without this; with it she is triumphant.

  Leigh Hunt

  Pain, Littles, Moments

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings”, p.170

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• We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart.

  Helen Keller

  Heart, Acceptance, Thinking

  HELEN KELLER (1960). “MY RELIGION”

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• Certain streets have an atmosphere of their own, a sort of universal fame and the particular affection of their citizens. One of such streets is the Cannebiere, and the jest: "If Paris had a Cannebiere, it would be a little Marseilles" is the jocular expression of municipal pride. I, too, I have been under the spell. For me it has been a street leading into the unknown.

  Joseph Conrad

  Book, Pride, Paris

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “The Arrow of Gold”, p.7, Joseph Conrad

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• General rules will bear hard on particular cases.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Bears, Cases, Hard

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.206, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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