Being Particular Quotes

Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking. — Terry Eagleton

While I like people, I do also like being alone in a room and seeing what you can do with a particular theme or subject. — Dean Koontz

I couldn't imagine being from a country where all the pressure is on a particular player. — Lindsay Davenport

The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years. — Kwame Kilpatrick

A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must ... be undaunted when the going gets tough. — Ronald Reagan

You see, the problem with being a bully is that on the flipside of that particular coin, you'll find the imprint of a coward. — Jeffrey Archer

A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked. — H.G.Wells

I'd no particular ambitions beyond being either widely admired or stealthily influential - I was torn between the two. — Karen Joy Fowler

I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of particular importance. — David Massengill

No one enjoys being talked down to, but I have a particular aversion to it. — Patrick Rothfuss

My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arrest ... I did a lot of walking in Montgomery. — Rosa Parks

Being the only person with a particular view point doesn't make one wrong. — Steven Redhead

In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems. — Benoit Mandelbrot

There was no particular point at which I stopped being promising. — Donald Barthelme

Being from Baltimore, I'm a crab cake snob, and I'm very particular on where I eat my crab cakes. — Mark Teixeira

Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I cannot imagine being happy anywhere else in the world but in Cape Town - South Africa in general, but Cape Town in particular. — Christoffel Wiese

I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really. — Hugh Grant

Not any particular religion or school of religion, but being an artist, you have to be spiritual, in a way. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

I started at GM knowing very little about that particular business. Not being an expert means you have to learn everything, starting from the basics. — Edward Whitacre Jr.

Being shot at for years by men of a particular nationality will tend to impact negatively upon one's view of them. — John Connolly

I like being organized and super particular. — Rob Zombie

Just being with Nakajima made me feel as if we were detached from history, and had no particular age. — Banana Yoshimoto

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. — William Ralph Inge

Charlotte, Will's being
vexing.'
'And the sun has come up in the east,'
said Jem, to no one in particular. — Cassandra Clare

What reason has one for existing other than to be involved with what is actually being created in your particular time? — Antony Pay

I love being in real life, and in particular, I like being with young people. — Beeban Kidron

We can no longer create the feeling of an era ... of time being particular to one spot in time. — Douglas Coupland

The people who believe that their soul is being crushed by playing a particular role need to take a vacation or check into the looney bin for awhile. — Anson Mount

I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to have a reason to write a particular song. — Neil Diamond

That man seems to have a particular talent for being on the spot whenever there is something picturesque to be done. — Joseph Conrad

It is music that, being the universal language, has no need to learn any particular language of the world. — Sri Chinmoy

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift. — Billy Joel

Remember: You are the only human being in the world who can help this particular customer at this particular moment in time. — Tom Peters

Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts. — Jonathan Lynn

Perhaps I finally understood that being was only possible when you can accept that it doesn't entail being anything in particular. — Lars Muhl

There is a dialectic between common humanity and particular ways of being human. — Howard Morphy

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice — Mortimer J. Adler